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When talking about Occupy as a precedent for this wave of action I think it's worth distinguishing between Occupy Wall Street and the wave of student occupations that preceded it
I was excited for this from @phenomenalworld but ended up really disappointed in the conversation, which didn't get at the book's real insights at all youtu.be/-gZg1SVDbpg?si…
The idea that these Palestine protests are racist is idiotic and anyone who's repeating it is a blockhead or unbelievably cynical or both.
There are too many students and they are too strong!
Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin
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6K Followers 1K Following my brain lives rent free in my head / poet & artist / currently a stegner fellow at stanford!“The Vietnam protest—-“ Were followed by Nixon becoming president, victory of Vietnamese national liberation forces, same neoliberal rev that happened around world, and same Third Way turn that happened in other center-left parties Sounds like protests weren’t that causal?
“The Vietnam protest—-“ Were followed by Richard Nixon becoming President, Republicans dominating politics until the 1990’s, and Democrats shifting towards hard on crime policies. Y’all want to talk about history but don’t want to talk about how it fits together. 1968-1992.
This is BS because cannabis should be declassified period
Report: DEA Plans to Reclassify Cannabis as Less Dangerous dlvr.it/T6F3nn
This is true, but recently I was reading an old Orwell article on publishing and he made the same calculations back in the 40s: that the average person buys only 3 books a year. Some things never change I guess?
In Slate, Lincoln Michel corrects some of the misleading statistics in that viral post about low book sales. But the bottom line hasn't changed: Most people rarely buy books. Even selling 900 million books per year, that's still fewer than 3 per American. slate.com/culture/2024/0…
Say what you will about it, but having a red line that if crossed would stop you from voting for someone isn't nihilism. It's kind of the opposite? Most people would have a red line like this somewhere, it'd be nihilist not to have one!
crazy that a child was murdered and his mother stabbed and also three young men were shot, all because they are palestinian and that’s not even in the conversation about who is safe in america right now
@DWaldstreicher @BigMeanInternet Clear that time is on the side of university administration. Wait and negotiate is a tried and true defuser. Instead they are panicking in the face of to political pressure to crackdown, from outside and from within their boards…
@BigMeanInternet This interview offers some more sage advice on the dos and donts and reasons and ways universities made mistakes.
Excellent, eloquent, nuanced, sensible remarks from a prominent former college president, and Jewish academic, on CNN: cnn.com/videos/us/2024…
just saw a dude walk out of the bougie cafe w a parrot on his shoulder and the parrot NODDED at me
A lot of people tried to dunk on this (none of them bothered to read the second sentence) but 9 days later things have only escalated at Columbia and have spread to dozens of other top schools, and it's still unclear how any of it will resolve.
This might be hyperbolic but how exactly does Columbia survive this? I’m sure there will be a university called Columbia in Morningside Heights when this is over but I’m not sure it will be recognizable.
Municipalize Columbia. Turn it into an adjunct campus of CCNY CUNY. Seize the endowment for universal pre-k, from birth.
In response, @Columbia has fully locked down campus. We can’t get in to offices, students can’t get in to take exams. It’s clear that Columbia’s own measures are doing the most to disrupt student life right now.
the thing about runners i respect is... how much they gatekeep running.... and are like “running? You think you can just run to get into running? oh you saw people run for fun and you thought that looks like fun ill run too? well were gonna get you fired from your job.”
@BigMeanInternet You put out didacticstatements like this: “I believe the protesters should also consider that an encampment, with all the etymological connections of the word to military origins, is a way of using force of a kind rather than reason to persuade others.” Chicago being Chicago.
I've stopped calling myself Sober with a capital s because it's not reality and that was really hard for me for a long time, figuring out my alcoholism with my continued weed usage + occasional poppers (are those drugs really?) but I think I've got a handle on it now.
THIS FRIDAY!!! Featuring me, @alybatt @selfactingmule @rafkhach @chrisokane_nyc & Jasmine Chorley-Schulz, & moderated by @NSSRNews econ PhD student Michael Tedesco. IMPORTANT: non-New School attendees MUST register before Friday to enter the building: event.newschool.edu/marxismandthec…
certainly feels like this rn
@profdavidharvey …the phase of systemic chaos (Figure 8) when the limits to accumulation have been pushed to correspond to high values of the bifurcation parameter. 8/
@BigMeanInternet Malcolm gets accused of "hating the working class" in 3...2...1...
You have to have zero experience in the world to think that both everyone getting arrested is going to have charges filed against them and then that having an unlawful assembly charge is going to ruin your life. Do you call your boss crying when you get a speeding ticket? Grow up