Daniel Bey

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” Words in @asiatimesonline @Diplomat_APAC

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The same week that @RupertLowe10 put out his bullshit ‘rape gang report’ falsely claiming Muslims raped 250,000 white girls & same week @elonmusk amplified it on here, this happens. Is anyone surprised?

They’re inciting violence against Muslims and emboldening extremists.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is disturbing. And it accords with my own experience, where Western pundits will pronounce very strong opinions about China's political system, with great certainty, but when you ask them even basic questions like "how do NPC elections work", "how do CPC elections work", or "what is the CPPCC", they have nothing to say, they literally don't know.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is partly correct. But the manner in which the CPC operates goes beyond capitalist logic, and in fact draws deliberately on models of central planning. It's important not to gloss over this fact.

State ownership in key sectors, heavy control over the financial sector, public ownership of land, formal limits to the political power of the capitalist class, and five-year plans — all of these point to a system drawing on Marxism and Leninism.

It is, of course, no coincidence that the ruling party is called the Communist Party of China and that they refer to its economy as a "socialist market economy."

[Media Lens @medialens]

When they want your vote: working class, 'ordinary' people, 'local' people, football, everyone together, a pie and a pint.

When they've got your vote: national security, terror threat, big business, fiscal responsibility, Israel, 'the door is open, you can leave'.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is critical work not only because it blocks the arteries of genocide, but also because it reveals the extent to which Zionism is underwritten by imperialism. Zionism would not survive without the North-Atlantic axis. Every NATO state is in some way complicit.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Israel flunkie Jonathan Freedland of the Guardian interviews Israel flunkie László Nemes, and in an extraordinarily surprising and unexpected development they conclude, “There’s an orgy of antisemitism, an absolute, shameless orgy of antisemitism, overtaking the west.”

Hollywood, that infamous Hamas stronghold where Jews have always been persecuted and are still required to wear a yellow star, is singled out for particular criticism.

The main evidence, according to Nemes? the BDS movement.

Because if people really cared about human rights and this wasn't just about hating and killing Jews, those falsely claiming to oppose genocide would first need to hold a decade of demonstrations about Syria, then Yemen, then Sudan, then every country, and of course also for the millipede with the broken leg in Vanuatu.
https://t.co/VnW1m3qhS0

[npj @TiltingatM3]

For context, Larry's 280lbs, addicted to steroids, and has set multiple powerlifting world records

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

It’s kind of amazing that Democrats scarcely seem to even realize they’ve been manoeuvred into being hawks on China, which is based on bad analysis, out of step with what’s popular, and puts Dems on the side of everything wrong with America’s worker-cannibalizing economy

[Daniel Bey @dabcule]

“A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. The oligarchs are not just a class enemy but, as they have always been, a societal enemy…” https://t.co/RIkiR2Ru6n

[Daniel Bey @dabcule]

Few points have been less divorced from geopolitical reality recently than the idea the new Munroe doctrine marks a pivot away from rivalry with China to a sole focus on the western hemisphere
https://t.co/XUmTC9tynw

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

How ‘free markets’ work in practice.

Very rare to see the thinking of the ‘political west’, aka American empire, spelt out so clearly.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

It turns out Chinese “overcapacity” is the world’s largest buffer stock against a crisis like the one we face.

This is no coincidence. Chinese statecraft is built on state market participation and managed redundancy in essentials — a system designed to buffer market shocks. The ancient Ever Normal Granary is the archetype but the logic extends way beyond grain.

I derive the logic of stabilization through reserves tracing statecraft thinking from ancient times via the civil war to the Mao era and finally the logic of market reforms in my book How China Escaped Shock Therapy. Link below.

[Daniel Bey @dabcule]

In contrast to the United States where scientists are castigated, science is dismissed and a conspiratorial loon overseas public health. https://t.co/h4jgAQIrTs

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Peter Thiel’s upbringing in apartheid South Africa & what is today Namibia clearly had enormous influence on his thinking: racist white supremacy, geneticism, glorification of South Africa’s closest ally the ethno-nationalist Israeli state, an almost psychopathic indifference to human suffering. And his company, which reflects these terrifying views, is being handed the British state on a platter by Starmer, Streeting, Mandelson, et al

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

A company like this should be talking about its ethical duty toward artificial intelligence and respect for the central role of the human species.

Instead, it puts forward a series of assumptions based on its own convictions that reveal its power and ambition have no limits whatsoever.

It sounds like a Terminator AI holding a press conference on how it is reorganizing society to fit its militaristic armament project, and one that speaks about religion in a pre-programmed way.