michael michaels

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@JoshMosh138 I'm 59. I lived in the USSR for a year in 1986. People I knew were in their 20s when the USSR dissolved. Trained, educated, some married, formed by the USSR. WTF are you talking about? Can you even count?

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@bat020 When did class acquire its current meaning? Did it exist before the word?

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@MarkDiStef Yeah it's like Trump's gold elevator! Boy that really....uh...

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@EVERALDATLARGE Maybe they support One Nation for its ideas, not as a reaction to other parties.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@Thejimpenman Tiresome. Blocked.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@ygzgzot @Tupacisoverit @CollegeBard Marx wanted to get away from metaphysics 'humans are of essence X'. Put forward an overly open idea of human self transformation thru human activity. Our behaviours, desires, sociations, are less unfixed that Marxists suggest. In turn, this means Communism is utopian, after all

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@BlkNaCl @bat020 It is where I am. I've got a public role. Im in the fight, challenging and changing the overuse of autism as identity.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@BlkNaCl @bat020 Nah, it's a way of seeking self branding to create secure identity in most cases. This guy's not autistic.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@BlkNaCl @bat020 He's a Marxist, he should be tough enough to handle it. Critique is freedom.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@Tupacisoverit @CollegeBard @ygzgzot We are bounded by a non-trivial human nature which has limits at many levels of ontology. That's the material aspect of historical materialism. The Communist version has a pseudo-religious belief in infinite human self-transformation, which postgrads like.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@Grossmanite Labour-capitalism is in trouble. But if automation replaces labour, why not give everyone money leave Amazon, Exxon in place, competing for demand? Investment still has a return. Most of the point of above-subsistence wages is for workers to be consumers. Argue the point against

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@bat020 @BlkNaCl No, and I very much doubt you are in any significant way. Having met you several times, and seen you as an effective political figure, I think, like many Trots, you've had a collapse of morale and purpose, and succumbed to medicalisation. Nothing human is alien to me. Be that.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@BlkNaCl @bat020 It is. But a lot of what is called autism isn't it. Going to the cinema alone isn't autism for chrissake. It's not a superpower

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@bat020 @BlkNaCl That's not autism that's just self possession. Yr a Marxist. Stop using autism as the comfort of a brand identity - 'as a Pepsi, I'm good at pattern recognition' - and try and act as, and be, as much of a full human as you can. A lot of this autism stuff is elitism.

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@izzy_valentine Yr a man, always will be. Work deeply on radical self acceptance of what is given about you...

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@SanazRaji It's using the laws the trans lobby backed

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@cloudysprinkles That's sad about yr party, but seems to happen these days. Everyone assumes everyone else will go, people don't keep to commitments. Don't take it personally. I've found it's necessary to create small group events with definite commitment, build outwards from there

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@nickschadegg No, his family's American. Name is from way back as 'the fifth' indicates

[michael michaels @michaelm071130]

@Peter_Fitz Calwell was first to call Vietnam a 'racist, imperialist war', which hurt him in '66 election. Wong/White joke was about an MP named White. Pioneered the 'New Australian' programme. Consoled the mother of the kid who tried to kill him. Complex man. Yr a historian. Do your job