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Tad DeLay
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Author of FUTURE OF DENIAL: The Ideologies of Climate Change (Verso 2024) plus several others on religion and psychoanalysis | philosophy prof Views don’t represent employer taddelay.com
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · Jun 20
The Guardian’s article on my book.

“Elaborate yet accessible…Future of Denial is an eloquent, forthright text about the realities of the crisis and where it’s heading.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘What if there just is no solution?’ How we are all in denial about the climate crisis
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 2d
Others have said it but it’s kindof funny how well the Greeks understood the exposure of democracies to a shameless moron. “Desire of the masses for fascism” type stuff 2400 years ago
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 2d
Told my 5 yr old I was teaching political philosophy today. “What’s that?” It’s about whether we should be fair to people or unfair. “I think we should be fair to everyone,” she said
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s class is in The Republic where democracy slides into tyranny when a shameless idler and liar abuses the courts to persecute enemies, makes big promises about how rich everyone will be while impoverishing all, and stirs up war to consolidate power. It’s weird how things used to be back then!
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s class is in The Republic where democracy slides into tyranny when a shameless idler and liar abuses the courts to persecute enemies, makes big promises about how rich everyone will be while impoverishing all, and stirs up war to consolidate power. It’s weird how things used to be back then!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 5d
Isn’t the AOC photo when she was sad at seeing a concentration camp full of kids? Just like Satan
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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5d
Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 6d
I’ll explain the Lacanian theory of desire or Marx’s definition of capitalism, and some immediately forget while for others it will lurk in their minds for the rest of their lives, and that’s just how it goes. Similar thing happens with writing
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 6d
A strange dynamic of teaching is the back and forth between wondering if students are hearing any point you drive home and, OTOH, frequent realizations that students remember some obscure offhand comment and treat it as the unquestionably true Word of God
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 6d
Adorno said Hitler imposed a new categorical imperative on the world: never again. We must organize thoughts and actions to prevent another relapse into barbarism. But it turns out liquidating unwanted people groups is still so popular, with broad support among leadership that could stop this today
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 6d
I don’t know what can be done. I research and teach. I’ve written critically about the genocide in a book and article. It’s a topic in my classes while dealing with a health crisis that puts me at some risk, but it’s very minimal. It feels like raising awareness isn’t working, maybe, I don’t know
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 6d
It looks like Colston was among those abducted by Israel yesterday. Ordinary people are capable of such bravery. I don’t know what to say
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12d
I don’t know Alex Colston well, but he was my editor on my article last summer on Palestine and apocalypticism. He’s one of the courageous people on the flotilla, reporting for Drop Site.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13d
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
That story brought to you by @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s Revolutions podcast, which you should be listening to. I’ve been working again through the whole catalogue on my long commutes to make better sense of Verso’s massive volume of Marx’s political writings. Makes for good class content too
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
Before the February revolution in 1848, a woman in Paris said she knew revolution was approaching because the people were singing. She saw a worker run by with five loaves of bread. Enough for three days, he explained. “We always do these things in three days”

I can’t imagine such optimism.
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
I’m no historian but you see three common results when troops are ordered into cities:
1. refuse to fire on citizens, exposes loss of control, may lead to monarch’s abdication
2. They do fire, groundswell of opposition, monarch abdicates or is deposed
3. There’s a massacre, new unbearable normal
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
These options are common in the metropole, not the colonies, so you know, how racists view Portland versus Baltimore or Chicago is like a “results may vary”
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
I’m no historian but you see three common results when troops are ordered into cities:
1. refuse to fire on citizens, exposes loss of control, may lead to monarch’s abdication
2. They do fire, groundswell of opposition, monarch abdicates or is deposed
3. There’s a massacre, new unbearable normal
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
It would be less humiliating to get an academic-style head down reading a dense paper: we know civilians account for 85-90% of war casualties; this paper builds on a growing body of evidence to ague we increase yields to 99%
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 8d
Even fascists now mimic the weird speaking cadence and stilted hand gestures from a TED talk or mega church sermon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 9d
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 9d
Just as “concentration camp” closed meaning after WWII death camps, such that prisons for civilians based on who they are rather than what they’ve done no longer figure in people’s minds as concentration camps that they are, it’s like we try not to call something genocide unless it’s done one way
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 9d
It’s so bizarre to see a genocide characterized as a war, or even a “genocidal war” among outlets sympathetic to the Palestinian people. You don’t have to call it a war if conducted with bombs and bullets (that’s how most are done!)
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 12d
I don’t know Alex Colston well, but he was my editor on my article last summer on Palestine and apocalypticism. He’s one of the courageous people on the flotilla, reporting for Drop Site.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13d
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 13d
Good. The people with that flotilla are some of the bravest people in the world
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13d
BREAKING | Four U.S. Senators demand protection for Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla

U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey, Jeffrey A. Merkley, Chris Van Hollen, and Elizabeth Warren have urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to act after reports of Israeli drone attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla...
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 13d
Thing is, I’m sympathetic to saying white evangelicalism is a perfected form of Protestantism, not a perversion. Take a set of normally half-hearted ideas and push them to a coherent conclusion. Believe you are saved/chosen, and all other life is expendable (same way god sees it)
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 13d
At the time, saying they’d drop any doctrine felt intuitive, if a stretch. Now we data shows a fifth of atheist republicans and a third of agnostic Rs calling themselves evangelicals—evangelicals who don’t believe in god!—because to be evangelical is to believe in trump, love the violence, etc
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 13d
A few years ago, I wrote a book on fascist tendencies in US white evangelicalism. It’s strange to look back now. At the time plenty of people told me I was blowing things out of proportion. Now I think I wasn’t harsh enough.

Excerpt here:
christiansocialism.com/2020/08/14/w...
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 14d
Wild to think the crowd wanting unrestricted access to guns used in school shootings also must have kids crying themselves to sleep with fear, but it I guess just doesn’t matter that much
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Tad DeLay @taddelay.bsky.social · 14d
My kindergartener had her first lockdown drill today. We talked about it. But all evening she kept repeating the quiet/hide message they send over the alarm, kept talking about “the bad man”. She cried herself to sleep. This fucking country
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