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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

No context reminder: resentment of normies is intellectually lazy and politically corrosive.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The Islamic Rep is at a point where surviving this war and surviving its aftermath at home are the same thing.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It's hard to focus on Israel's airstrikes in Lebanon due to Israel's invasion of Syria, which is hard to focus on due to Israel's atrocities in the West Bank, which are hard to focus on due to Israel's genocide in Gaza, which is hard to focus on due to Israel's war on Iran.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"Abundance" is the new "PMC"

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

IMO Israel's objective isn't to neutralize Iran's nuclear program or ballistic capabilities. It's ultimately to degrade its industrial capacity and economy to the point of destabilizing it as a nation state.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The notion of "male loneliness epidemic" is rhetorical and lends itself to masculinist rationalizations for shitty behavior. But the sociological trend depicted here is more than rhetorical fodder. We need a politics that can at least offramp young men from the manosphere (from acct in other app)

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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Essential reading. A mass movement is rooted in solidarity not social affiliation - an important lesson at a time when people across society are radicalizing in contradictory ways, but open to collective projects resisting domination. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review

Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Now people realize, from daily exposure to him, that Musk happily lies when it suits his interests, they have much more reason to be sceptical about robot maids and robot taxis and AI powered this and that. Tesla makes cars and it should be valued as such 4/x

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Lest we forget: "US workers–including some who may have voted for Trump–are not our enemy. In most cases, they are reeling from 40 years of neoliberalism and a worsening cost-of-living crisis."

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Perhaps it's a stretch, but Zelensky might benefit from the fiasco by adding momentum to Europe's break with US foreign policy and military dependence.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I aspire to write like this:

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Do we think that the word "fascist" is over-used in American politics? Has its force diminished?

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

"The 1979 anti-disco bonfire in Comiskey Park can serve as a cultural window into today's anti-DEI purges, helping us to understand..." someone run with this and cite me as a co-author.

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Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Just to underline - the US voted with Russia and North Korea on a UN resolution on Ukraine. China abstained

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I know this political crisis extends from more enduring structural crises. But the sheer impulsiveness and megalomania of Musk and Trump makes this connection harder to see (and to sell). I feel like the notion of "flooding the zone" doesn't quite capture this.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

As a socialist working in tech, I should have an answer for you...but I'm behind on my readings. Out of curiosity, what are some examples of the rejectionist view that you don't find convincing?

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

As a worker in tech, I approve of this message.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Is there a way leftists can harness the upswell of Canadian nationalism?

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This also happened at Twitter when Musk arrived and started to decimate its staff.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On the flipside, perhaps it can also be harnessed as a platform for a popular front counter politics?

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

DEI is now a 'cumulative target' that represents any social arrangements not overtly organized around white /male supremacy as objects for attack.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Meta has suffered numerous leaks at the hands of its employees. I don't buy the bravado, and I bet their employees don't either.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/02/2025

“We should not have to prove our citizenship. We are the original people in this country, but we’re in a scary time right now, and I don’t want any American Indian to get lost in the system. [ICE] ‘lost’ children the last time they did this. It’s just like the boarding school experience.”

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Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling

Many are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of Native people being stopped and questioned.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I found this helpful! I especially appreciate the range of scenarios it lays out. I wonder where a mass movement and push back by organized labour might fit in though.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The book "The Rebel Sell" wasn't this, but all my lefty grad friends hated it so I guess it's the proof of concept.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"leftists should explain, not scold" - chef's kiss.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Ever since the Freedom Convoy (2022) flying the Canadian flag on your car was code for "fuck Trudeau." And all of a sudden it's code for "fuck Trump." Progress I guess.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I hear you, but an "empty calorie cupcake" sounds pretty good right about now.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Had a convo with a Canadian vet (Afghanistan) who tells me that vets are livid at Trump, repeatedly calling the US "imperialist." I dunno man, seems like a paradigm shift with possibilities for radicalizing ppl - in one direction or another.

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Mani Moksha @manimoksha.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

SNL skit where Iranian officials are using back channels to console CIA officials and reminisce together.

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