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Verso Maoism. Not a fan of journalists. 🇵🇸.

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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As a Nixonhead this has been happening for about a decade both in ironic centrist circles but also arch conservative white supremacists, it's just increased in intensity of late. The lead of Third Way jumped into my DMs years ago to talk about Nixon but I slowly found out he was a huge fan.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
BABYLON TRACKER DOT NET Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh) Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh) Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh) Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh) Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh) Babylon has NOT fallen yet (clicks refresh)
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Important reading 👇👇👇
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Act IV Scene III of Julius Caesar
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I decided to catch up with some YouTubers I like for the first time in a while and I have to ask; why are all the ads on YouTube now AI generated and about IQ tests?
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
By 2032 Britain will have the same number of petit nationalist parties, all calling each other Jews, as Nepal has Communist Parties.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Reading a bit of Giovanni Arrighi as a part of some dissertation work and I’ve come to understand a lot, not so much about interstate relations and where we’re headed, but about why a lot of people of a certain position get politics so wrong.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Keir Starmer once again upping migration figures with the move to ban Twitter forcing British users to go elsewhere.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
William Dalrymple is something of an inspirational figure in the white boy orientalist canon, and the one of the few still living!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit

December 9, 2025

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.

During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.

Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.

Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth.

What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda.

When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic.

Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image.

America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Odd looking duck
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“Tom Nairn predicted all of this y’know”
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Drunk driving test where they ask you to draw a perfectly fine border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The BBC was better when it was more paternalistic. People act like it’s problems come from some elitism rather than the fact it’s always chasing the lowest common denominator and what the type of person at the BBC perceives to be public trends under the guise of balance.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Everything I hear on that book on Marx’s Republicanism makes it sound like it hasn’t really considered anything beyond American borders and is purely written from some admiration from historical radicalism rather than anything that could be helpful in the modern day.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Im doing an MA just for the free FT subscription atp. And because otherwise I’d be unemployed.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I’m very attracted to the Catholic use of Latin as a liturgical language that transcends borders and nationalitu. I realise it’s probably more complicated than that and that there’s deeper politics to Latin but just looking at it from the outside it seems cool. I want secular Latin.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thinking about how my A-level economics teacher would’ve been playing clips of Milei every lesson were I in his class just a couple years after.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I thought I could out wait the impact on graduate recruiting that AI and the Trump Tariffs have had only for it to be a bubble potentially waiting to wipe out the economy anyway.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I was complaining to my 53 year old Hong Konger course mate about the labour market rn while he nodded sagely, following up my diatribe with “when I graduated during the East Asian financial crisis…” and I reacted the same way you would to someone getting kicked in the nuts.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
My favourite tidbit to think about is that J Sakai has read Sally Rooney and has strong opinions on her.
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Glen Greenwald
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
the bit about Africans being active in the slave trade is telling. it’s something that is only relevant if you think the point of discussing slavery is to disburse racial blame rather than understanding history.
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julia @eatthedocument.bsky.social · 25/07/2023
just realized i’m about to be the first person on this new social media site to call robbie robertson baby girl. #trailblazing #pioneer #womeninstem
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I was about to start worrying about Political and Economic state of the world rn but then I remembered The Inevitable March of Progress and put those thoughts to bed :)
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Been thinking about the castrating sex criminals policy proposal it’s the type of thing you’d expect to see “Brexit Rob” to be ranting about in the replies to a BBC article and not in serious politics.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Headline doesn’t even get at how bad this was: it seems to have been to prevent them testifying about war crimes
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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Anyone need something? I’m going to the brutalist KFC for lunch

Soviet era brutalist KFC Minsk
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Morgzoi @theshehergayguy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
They should add a bookmark feature here so I can abuse the fuck out of it
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Final book haul at Uni
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It’s a common enough belief amongst middle class people that being racist makes you a working class whisperer
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Have to say using bluesky is a bit like Twitter from when I first started using it to just read the news. It feels clean.
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Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
*Guy who thinks Stanley Tucci is gay voice* Noticing a disappointing lack of cum eaten in this!!
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
You have to all come back to Twitter for the ads
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I’m like the most vindicated man from my Sixth Form politics class #AnotherVulgarMarxistWin
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My friends brother is an investor type guy talking to me about how I have to buy at the dip like dude it’s over 😂
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
In an old episode of Trash Future and in reference to a libertarian’s book they talked about the destruction of state institutions and reinvention of state institutions as they suddenly understand what they were for and I couldn’t help but think of what’s happening in the US rn.
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agnest @agnostic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
hanging around the grocery store lowkey the best place to pick up trans women because that's where they go to buy food
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
FDR was kinda the Liberal Sulla
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The JFK Files just revealed that the F stands for FRAUD
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Lumpen Literati🌺 @zemillionaire.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Ok man
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