AK Pero
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Dispatches from the imperial shatterzone.
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The reactions to this are all either about switching leaders or policy. Are those really the most relevant variables for a party? What about: launching a TV channel, a newspaper, starting a union, opening its own community centres, training centres for its activists, internal governance reform, etc?
My god, what does the NDP do now?
March 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The reactions to this are all either about switching leaders or policy. Are those really the most relevant variables for a party? What about: launching a TV channel, a newspaper, starting a union, opening its own community centres, training centres for its activists, internal governance reform, etc?
Amazing things are happening in the Iranian diaspora.
March 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Amazing things are happening in the Iranian diaspora.
Liberals are mostly responsible for this death spiral and, unfortunately, they seem incapable of smartening up or shutting up.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Liberals are mostly responsible for this death spiral and, unfortunately, they seem incapable of smartening up or shutting up.
Unnoticed by most on the left but it is strategically significant if 'shareholder rights' becomes materially progressive.
The Trump presidency is cementing the shift of corporate power from shareholders to corporate insiders.
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
March 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Unnoticed by most on the left but it is strategically significant if 'shareholder rights' becomes materially progressive.
The Trump presidency is cementing the shift of corporate power from shareholders to corporate insiders.
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
March 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Trump presidency is cementing the shift of corporate power from shareholders to corporate insiders.
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
Maybe the most important development in Trump 2.0.
www.ft.com/content/85ec...
The small biz bit is funny but the scary undercurrent is how everyone’s horizon for political action is either protests, consumer boycotts, or posting insta stories — all with heavy doses of moralist appeals.
March 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The small biz bit is funny but the scary undercurrent is how everyone’s horizon for political action is either protests, consumer boycotts, or posting insta stories — all with heavy doses of moralist appeals.
What a crossover: Ignattief + Hobsbawm! One forgets that Ignattief had a career beyond being humiliated by Jack Layton.
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March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What a crossover: Ignattief + Hobsbawm! One forgets that Ignattief had a career beyond being humiliated by Jack Layton.
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Being on Twitter these days is like watching, from an elevation, the frothing waves of fascist grifters, barely literate conspiracists and porn bots move steadily inland — but it’s STILL much preferable to this warren of smug liberal conformity and humourlessness. It’s like a blob day-care centre.
February 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Being on Twitter these days is like watching, from an elevation, the frothing waves of fascist grifters, barely literate conspiracists and porn bots move steadily inland — but it’s STILL much preferable to this warren of smug liberal conformity and humourlessness. It’s like a blob day-care centre.
One of the major failures of abolitionism is its flattening of all policing as ontologically evil. It's paralyzed a generation of progressives from understanding the very weird & unique things happening to police in North America.
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February 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
One of the major failures of abolitionism is its flattening of all policing as ontologically evil. It's paralyzed a generation of progressives from understanding the very weird & unique things happening to police in North America.
x.com/marissenmark...
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Anglo media loves to make these insinuations against the Mexican government — while ignoring Morena as a revolution *against* traditional cartel-linked elites.
www.ft.com/content/ad53...
www.ft.com/content/ad53...
February 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Anglo media loves to make these insinuations against the Mexican government — while ignoring Morena as a revolution *against* traditional cartel-linked elites.
www.ft.com/content/ad53...
www.ft.com/content/ad53...
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We’re gonna look back on black box social media like we look back now on lead pipes.
February 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We’re gonna look back on black box social media like we look back now on lead pipes.
Reactions to this are proof that a weird proportion of American leftists are committed to being losers.
No one should have to face capitalism alone ❤️
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February 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reactions to this are proof that a weird proportion of American leftists are committed to being losers.
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What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds
January 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds
It's terrifying but important to realize that this isn't true. The worst genocide of the 21st century (so far) has *maybe* ceased because of insider politics in the highest halls of power — not because of the Palestinian resistance.
January 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's terrifying but important to realize that this isn't true. The worst genocide of the 21st century (so far) has *maybe* ceased because of insider politics in the highest halls of power — not because of the Palestinian resistance.
An odd aspect of campus politics today (especially visible with pro/anti Palestine groups) is the weird discursive competition to be weaker & more oppressed. Every day is a ceaseless struggle to present their own side as more marginalized on campus.
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
An odd aspect of campus politics today (especially visible with pro/anti Palestine groups) is the weird discursive competition to be weaker & more oppressed. Every day is a ceaseless struggle to present their own side as more marginalized on campus.
Damn, definitely not buying a new condo in Tehran anytime soon.
HYPOTHETICAL IMAGINATION ZONE ABOUT BAD THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T DO:
Gotta imagine that timers & shelf stable explosives have come a long since the 80s too. Someone who knew what they were doing could probably smuggle a bomb into a building under construction and have it go off years later
Gotta imagine that timers & shelf stable explosives have come a long since the 80s too. Someone who knew what they were doing could probably smuggle a bomb into a building under construction and have it go off years later
December 19, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Damn, definitely not buying a new condo in Tehran anytime soon.
It's not the 20th century anymore. Once you break a state — it's unlikely it will ever be rebuilt.
Many of the reactions to Syria seem to be ignoring this fundamental underlying reality.
Many of the reactions to Syria seem to be ignoring this fundamental underlying reality.
December 8, 2024 at 10:18 PM
It's not the 20th century anymore. Once you break a state — it's unlikely it will ever be rebuilt.
Many of the reactions to Syria seem to be ignoring this fundamental underlying reality.
Many of the reactions to Syria seem to be ignoring this fundamental underlying reality.
FT's access to Iranian elites is curious. Could be that Bozorgmehr is a very talented journalist (no doubt) — but I wonder if there's anyone within the power circles that is sharp enough to realize that FT is a more serious paper. If so, probably someone in the Larijani-verse!
Important report from Najmeh Bozorgmehr on how Iranian leaders began to “lose faith” in Assad over the last year. They determined it wasn’t worth trying to save a regime that was crumbling so quickly, even if it meant losing their hard-won foothold in Syria.
www.ft.com/content/0311...
www.ft.com/content/0311...
Iran ‘lost faith’ in Assad before his fall
Insider says Tehran declined to provide more military support for now-deposed Syrian leader
www.ft.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:16 PM
FT's access to Iranian elites is curious. Could be that Bozorgmehr is a very talented journalist (no doubt) — but I wonder if there's anyone within the power circles that is sharp enough to realize that FT is a more serious paper. If so, probably someone in the Larijani-verse!
The Levant is slowly drifting into a scenario where the ethnic cleansing of Lebanese Shia is a real possibility.
December 5, 2024 at 11:11 PM
The Levant is slowly drifting into a scenario where the ethnic cleansing of Lebanese Shia is a real possibility.
Finally reading Perry Mehrling's Kindleberger bio — had no idea that he got caught up in the Red Scare.
Besides a chapter in Baltzell's 'Protestant Establishment,' has anyone written on McCarthyism as an anti-WASP purge?
Besides a chapter in Baltzell's 'Protestant Establishment,' has anyone written on McCarthyism as an anti-WASP purge?
December 3, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Finally reading Perry Mehrling's Kindleberger bio — had no idea that he got caught up in the Red Scare.
Besides a chapter in Baltzell's 'Protestant Establishment,' has anyone written on McCarthyism as an anti-WASP purge?
Besides a chapter in Baltzell's 'Protestant Establishment,' has anyone written on McCarthyism as an anti-WASP purge?
One of the benefits of reading the FT is noticing when it feels the need to tow the party line. Like here, on the challenges that President Sheinbaum faces:
December 2, 2024 at 5:15 PM
One of the benefits of reading the FT is noticing when it feels the need to tow the party line. Like here, on the challenges that President Sheinbaum faces: