#  @Leigh_Phillips Leigh Phillips 🇨🇦 Leigh Phillips 🇨🇦 posts on X about hamas, canada, netanyahu, in the the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::36918513/interactions)  ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::36918513/posts_active)  ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::36918513/followers)  ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::36918513/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) [gaming](/list/gaming) **Social topic influence** [hamas](/topic/hamas), [canada](/topic/canada), [netanyahu](/topic/netanyahu), [in the](/topic/in-the), [israel](/topic/israel), [germany](/topic/germany), [book](/topic/book), [palestine](/topic/palestine), [countries](/topic/countries), [france](/topic/france) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@matthuber78](/creator/undefined) [@benburgis](/creator/undefined) [@esennesh](/creator/undefined) [@aaronbastani](/creator/undefined) [@ericlevitz](/creator/undefined) [@alex1789](/creator/undefined) [@fredstaffordcs](/creator/undefined) [@elvanderjonas](/creator/undefined) [@opendemocracy](/creator/undefined) [@danieldriscoll](/creator/undefined) [@davidgriscom](/creator/undefined) [@michalrozworski](/creator/undefined) [@rojasrjuand](/creator/undefined) [@simonmair](/creator/undefined) [@joelliambuehler](/creator/undefined) [@dock_currie](/creator/undefined) [@doughenwood](/creator/undefined) [@symonsjon](/creator/undefined) [@meadwaj](/creator/undefined) [@djenebajalan](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Civic (CVC)](/topic/civic) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [GrokCoin (GROKCOIN)](/topic/grok) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "THE FACTS: Germany has not dragged its heels at all and instead will have spent over half a trillion euros (520bn) on its Energiewende (energy turn). Meanwhile France spent [---] bn francs or [---] bn on its Messmer Plan public-sector buildout of its nuclear fleet" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1580820548623683585) 2022-10-14T07:19Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements "Great short thread on the frustrations of arguing with those who suffer from postmodern epistemic relativism a crippling and incurable brain injury. One quibble: its not unique to the left; postmodernism has long since escaped the academy and injured many other sorts of brains there's a rhetorical move i see occasionally from certain leftists. you ask a direct question about a matter of fact--"where will the money for public housing come from" say. and they respond with "this question valorizes white ways of knowing in problematic ways." a thread. there's a rhetorical move i see occasionally" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1586018122083233794) 2022-10-28T15:32Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@ElvanderJonas @openDemocracy @Matthuber78 @danieldriscoll @DavidGriscom @FredStafford @marcusbarnett_ @michalrozworski @AaronBastani @DougHenwood @symons_jon @Jonas_Thiel_ @rojasrjuand @EricLevitz @fredstaffordcs @euobs Oh and this one of mine in the New Statesman (2023) on why climate change would actually have been worse had the 20th Century been socialist as industrial modernity would presumably have spread to the whole world (and this would be A Good Thing) https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/07/global-warming-socialism-capitalism" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1782584074223444296) 2024-04-23T01:35Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Hear hear. ICE cant function without the private sectors services and those services cant function without its workers. Labor outreach to those workers is thus essential. In the 1980s Liverpool dockers refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa. The same can happen again. As Pete Seeger sang: without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. ICE cant function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping. https://t.co/1nTaqXY7GK ICE cant function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2009771232162648512) 2026-01-09T23:36Z 15.4K followers, [----] engagements "@NiallGlynn Im a bit less cynical (and certainly less misanthropic) than EO Wilson. Id say we have Enlightenment institutions and modes of thought not medieval ones and therein lies the hope: a revival of humanism contra all antagonists" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2019059528956821751) 2026-02-04T14:44Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Tyler_A_Harper @DouthatNYT Thanks Tyler. :) And Holy cow Its uncanny how youve been thinking these same sort of things even down to writing about Todd May and the Voluntary Human Extinction movement profile in the Times This was my piece along similar lines in [----]. https://www.compactmag.com/article/hurrah-for-8-billion-humans/ https://www.compactmag.com/article/hurrah-for-8-billion-humans/" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2021689909174776292) 2026-02-11T20:56Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@jerometenk Ooh fascinating. I presume youve been following @wang_seavers work on similar topics" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2021705061748080654) 2026-02-11T21:57Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Thanks for your interest Alex. As I was saying to a close friend of mine who is Anglican taking about the book while I am an atheist I suspect the book will find a warm reception amongst those of faith. Certainly already I have found that believers instinctively get the radical distinctiveness of humanity that I am arguing for even though I make the case from a secular scientific POV. Id be very keen to read the essays on AI that youll be publishing. Please let me know when they go out. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013802888528027 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013802888528027" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022013802888528027) 2026-02-12T18:23Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@Dock_Currie Work camps really dont. Not a lick of evidence for your bigoted claim. IDpol myth-making. All you are doing is exposing your middle-class contempt for blue-collar men (while just completely erasing blue-collar women)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022414551552270788) 2026-02-13T20:56Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@Dock_Currie Sorry how exactly*do* you have modernity without petrochemicals" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022415069750124573) 2026-02-13T20:58Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@Dock_Currie Critical Geographies lololol. An activist-scholar journal is your source for epidemiological assessment Lets actually look at the evidence shall we: @tboyblues @pey_are It doesnt surprise me that you only took five seconds to investigate as that essay does not actually provide any evidence itself for the claim that remote camps cause the rape of indigenous women and girls in Canada but cites two sources to support this claim. And when we https://t.co/mfiDm0sV1Q @tboyblues @pey_are It doesnt surprise me that you only took five seconds to investigate as that essay does not actually" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022418040823165395) 2026-02-13T21:10Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@Dock_Currie I mean sorry dude but if the shoe fits You are precisely one of these petty bourgeois activism studies wastrels that has taken over what used to be the party of labour" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022433754132914313) 2026-02-13T22:12Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "I mean this is kind of hilarious: you believe in the absence of any evidence that remote work camps cause rape and murder and so want them shut down thereby bringing modernity to a crashing halt but have nothing to say about the thoroughly documented role that alcohol genuinely does play in sexualized violence https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437848054399006 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437848054399006" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022437848054399006) 2026-02-13T22:28Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "When I say that calling blue-collar workers rapists and murderers is showing contempt for the working class is no more saying that blue-collar workers are the only real workers than calling Hillarys basket of deplorables comment about rustbelt workers equally contemptuous of the working class is saying rustbelt workers are the only real workers. But Im done here. You have shown yourself uninterested in evidence in what blue-collar workers think or even in the electoral prospects of the NDP and only interested in performing your radicalism for your PMC in-group regardless of outcome. Whatever." [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022444096305176680) 2026-02-13T22:53Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@Heavenly_Armed Both the AirBnB lobbyists who live in the Annex and that surrounded Jagmeet and the green NGO staffers who also live in the Annex who surround Avi are two different sides of the same professional managerial class who are utterly cut off from the realities of working class life" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022403950138527958) 2026-02-13T20:14Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@danielyoung1000 I dont think theres much of a voice for labour at all in this parliament" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022414746381893714) 2026-02-13T20:57Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Whatever. Ive explained how there is no evidence but because you are more interested in moral performance than facts you are indifferent to whether the claim is true or not. Look in the next election the Tories and likely the Grits too will deploy that big manly mancamp comment over and over again just like the Republicans did with Hillarys basket-of-deplorables comment and the party will be wiped out. I await your consumption of a massive helping of humble pie. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022421768238211205 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022421768238211205" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022421768238211205) 2026-02-13T21:24Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "As I said its indicative of a far broader problem: a left that represents only the eco-austerity and IDpol fantasias of a class of MANGOs (media academia NGO staff) and no longer the working class. If you want a more in-depth version of this critique than I can mount on Twitter feel free to read my related essay here: https://jacobin.com/2024/10/social-democracy-workers-ndp-election https://jacobin.com/2024/10/social-democracy-workers-ndp-election" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022426682498658719) 2026-02-13T21:44Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@EnglerYves Ahh so youre not just an antisemitic Hamasnik monster undermining the Palestine solidarity movement but youre also a malthusian loon Good to know" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022470652129874388) 2026-02-14T00:39Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@Dock_Currie This you Lolololol. Youre calling resource extraction workers violent yet youre actually the one threatening journalists with violence for lemme get this right disagreeing with you about resource extraction" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022473809107054927) 2026-02-14T00:51Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "So you admit that you lied when you apologized for the comments You actually did want to break the jaw of a reporter Its good to know what a strong supporter of freedom of the press you are. But I guess thats to be expected from an actual real-life tankie someone who apologizes for Stalins atrocities and eradication of civil liberties in the USSR. Btw can I ask how come youre working at a liquor store despite getting your JD https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477311745098025 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477311745098025" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2022477311745098025) 2026-02-14T01:05Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Ive just this week landed a deal for my third book a radical defense of humanity as the most precious thing in the universe contra the misanthropy of the green left (We are the virus) and the tech right (We are the beta test for AI). The book aims to construct a secular version of the Judeo-Christian Imago Dei doctrine. In place of revealed truth my attempt at an objective scientific argument for human dignity and value draws on geology evolutionary biology comparative cognition and the history and philosophy of our understanding of ourselves. I want to re-affirm our Promethean pioneering" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021667381383508228) 2026-02-11T19:27Z 15.5K followers, 21.3K engagements "Excellent work from Ryan at the @thebti deflating Elons hype about near-term space-based data centres: Elon Musk claims that in [--] yrs launching data centers into space will be more economical than building them on Earth. Dont listen to him. 🧵 https://t.co/HaS4NPbYFh Elon Musk claims that in [--] yrs launching data centers into space will be more economical than building them on Earth. Dont listen to him. 🧵 https://t.co/HaS4NPbYFh" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023928476055859648) 2026-02-18T01:12Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "RT @Matthuber78: We will no longer provide/maintain the social infrastructure of an electricity grid so you're best best is privatized sola" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020901088489001449) 2026-02-09T16:42Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Left Abundance intensifies. In a city that moves a mile a minute it shouldnt take two years to get an affordable home through environmental review Watch @NYCMayor stand with @GovKathyHochul to support streamlining state SEQR rules so we can deliver homes to New Yorkers faster & drive housing costs down. https://t.co/tqMFgHWx3B In a city that moves a mile a minute it shouldnt take two years to get an affordable home through environmental review Watch @NYCMayor stand with @GovKathyHochul to support streamlining state SEQR rules so we can deliver homes to New Yorkers faster & drive housing costs" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021383917530660875) 2026-02-11T00:40Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @buffsoldier_96: Class. That's the explanation" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2021384228533891113) 2026-02-11T00:42Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "There has been a minor flutter on here about Matt Bruenigs instant LLM-authored labor-law book not least from the anti-AI left. I find this project fascinating not because it replaces human agency (in the way that say an LLM-authored novel would an anti-humanist endeavor that we should indeed shun) but because it showcases the opposite: what we might call technological humanism augmenting human capability rather than substituting for human agency and meaning-making. As Matt points out this work which he intends as a vital aid to workers and labor lawyers engaged in struggle against injustice" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021390211264164242) 2026-02-11T01:05Z 15.5K followers, 74.6K engagements "I should add: I am incredibly proud to have landed this deal with Beacon Press out of Boston a publisher of moral giants like James Baldwin and Cornel West and with Swift Press in the UK whose own list reveals a similar moral seriousness" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021669648283152457) 2026-02-11T19:36Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Remarkable timing: @DouthatNYT just yesterday begged progressives to mount a better analysis of the AI conundrum asking whether the left is still capable of mounting a defence of human exceptionalism. He suspects not not least because the environmentalist left has already cast humans as a cancer on the planet disrupting the harmonies of nature. One cannot very well suddenly rediscover the virtues of anthropocentrism after decades of denouncing it on behalf of the whales and the redwoods. It seems Im not the only one to have noticed the parallelism of green-left and tech-right misanthropy or" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021678573254500637) 2026-02-11T20:11Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "RT @atrembath: As I wrote a few years ago "Anthropocentrism is one of the primary characteristics distinguishing ecomodernism from convent" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021702400864923687) 2026-02-11T21:46Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "I am no Qubec sovereigntist but I have always really really liked Yves-Franois Blanchet (and would gladly vote for him were I in his riding). Il est profondment ironique que lorsque Trump a menac d'annexer le Canada Blanchet a dfendu avec plus de vigueur le sens du Canada quun nombre de fdralistes. Et une fois de plus mme s'il ne l'exprime pas exactement ainsi il dmontre qu'il est un grand Canadien. Heartfelt and eloquent tributes by @MarkJCarney & @PierrePoilievre but I was especially touched hearing @yfblanchet: "I hope you will allow me to make an exception today so that I can speak" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021769610958426518) 2026-02-12T02:13Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "No if the degrowther Avi Lewis who attacked blue-collar workers at what he called big manly remote work man camps that have intense horrifying impacts on indigenous women and girls basically calling all these workers racists rapists and murderers it will be the final nail in the coffin for working-class support for the NDP. That comment will go down as the NDPs version of Hillary Clintons basket of deplorables moment. What he said was definitely noticed in these camps (where I work as a geologist as it happens) not least by indigenous workers. And you just know that the Tories were quietly" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022390310630993947) 2026-02-13T19:19Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "RT @fredstaffordcs: Bummer that Bernie offers little political guidance in this pivotal moment. Not that I'm aware of anyone else on (democ" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022422181620367446) 2026-02-13T21:26Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Degrowth supremo Jason Hickel stumbled across the defense of abundance written by me (whom he blocked a long time ago) @Matthuber78 and @fredstaffordcs and he unsurprisingly hates it saying his neo-Malthusian ideology doesnt actually posit that there is already enough wealth and we just need to redistribute it but instead that there is already enough *productive capacity* and we just need to *redirect* it. But in the very screencap he posts he seems to have not noticed that we say expressly that no there is *not* yet enough productive capacity in the world for everyone to have a good life." [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/2023494963854758118) 2026-02-16T20:29Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "The piece Hickel is referring to here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-left-has-always-fought-for-abundance https://catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-left-has-always-fought-for-abundance" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023495387106226497) 2026-02-16T20:31Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "RT @b_judah: This will be an important book. I kept on noticing the @j_amesmarriott thesis working in politics. At the peak of mass deep" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023937991090086195) 2026-02-18T01:49Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@StupidpolX @BungaCast @michalrozworski @VersoBooks @jacobinmag We wanted to compare Walmart to a planned economy on the scale of the USSR in the middle of the Cold War prior to 70s economic crisis. In [----] Soviet GDP clocked in at $433.4bn in todays money then the second largest economy in the world; Walmarts [----] revenue was $485bn" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1088219891709050881) 2019-01-23T23:40Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair They certainly dont believe in the scale of intervention that social democrats do. Otherwise you are saying there is no difference between social democrats and free marketeers" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168580219671916548) 2019-09-02T17:43Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair If you think the public sector is some fairy tale manna from heaven arent you rather as much of a capitalist realist as your alleged capitalist opponents I thought socialists were supposed to defend the democratically organized public sector" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168581827302477829) 2019-09-02T17:49Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy Ive responded to the individual points you make in tweets further up the thread. But in conclusion degrowth is an anti-humanist Proudhonian ideology of penury alien to the left. Better to spend your time working to legislate the technology shifts we need" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168584279808466944) 2019-09-02T17:59Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair You are equating social democracy with the CBI Lol" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168925178082025472) 2019-09-03T16:34Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair My argument is against Mcafees idea that the normal operation of markets are responsible for decoupling. I argue that it has primarily been state intervention. Thats not a defence of the state as it currently stands" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168926276599652354) 2019-09-03T16:38Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy Morris made some lovely wallpaper but he really fits more in the camp Engels described as utopian rather than scientific. You could have mentioned Proudhon as well. Basically: middle-class hippie communes where everyone dies of dysentery vs egalitarian modernity" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168927762280849409) 2019-09-03T16:44Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy And as for a belief human exceptionalism again I hold my hand up and plead guilty. Im very glad humans exterminated smallpox. Not all species are equal. We humans are the only moral subject" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168928375198703622) 2019-09-03T16:46Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@crisortunity @simon_mair @_ourEconomy Where are the straw men Where have I misrepresented arguments" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1168928882503901187) 2019-09-03T16:48Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "Howdy Calgary Youve got a real cute mini CN Tower there" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1174112469406683136) 2019-09-18T00:06Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements "@JKSteinberger If youre a socialist and in favour of censorship then youre not much of the first" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1303022168440070144) 2020-09-07T17:27Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@KaiHeron Investment in the Global South makes up a tiny proportion of total investment. So its not possible for profits from so-called super-exploitation in the South to subsidize any bribing of workers in the Global North. If anything the South suffers from insufficient exploitation" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1423066915304448006) 2021-08-04T23:42Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@DTCochrane @KaiHeron Did I say there wasnt exploitation in the Global South No i said the fiscal flows to and from the south were far too small to be able to buy off workers in the Global North. Both North and south workers have a common interest in ending exploitation. They are not antagonists" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1443413100225466372) 2021-09-30T03:11Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@EliSennesh The tweet is not the best prcis of his talk. The talk is very good on key parts of on-the-job-training that get blocked by AI ie eliminating a key part of training. Have a watch. Its very good" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1458154451554869250) 2021-11-09T19:28Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Good piece from @danielyergin on little known uses of oil and gas and their ramifications for the clean transition such as the need for petrochemicals for North Face garments or the lipids used in mRNA vaccines. Even Tylenol is a petroleum product () https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/11/energy-shock-transition/620813/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/11/energy-shock-transition/620813/" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1465510907279069184) 2021-11-30T02:40Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@ceburnacct @DTCochrane @DanielYergin Oh I think a lot of environmentalists not realizing the many uses of petrochemicals want there to be no petrochemical industry like yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1465520199499542541) 2021-11-30T03:16Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@Hezbolsonaro @Nate_Housley So only white people are miners. And all indigenous people want an end to mining Perhaps youd like to speak to some actual miners and actual indigenous people before you toss off such racial essentialism" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1557574648551784448) 2022-08-11T03:48Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "@KieranSuckling Here you go again blaming mining qua mining rather than the *social relations around mining*. There is nothing wrong with mining. Theres a lot wrong with the social relations around mining but also around farming pharmaceuticals theatre bookbinding balloon animals" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1557584568470777857) 2022-08-11T04:27Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements "Thats not the end if the story of course not least with respect to microplastics and endocrine disrupting impacts but it does complicate the simplistic synthetic polymers evil; natural polymers good narrativeanother case of the appeal-to-nature fallacy" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1599921915451564033) 2022-12-06T00:21Z 16K followers, [--] engagements "@jameskwantes @nanoxplore Cool beans. Just gave them a follow" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1599924428879847424) 2022-12-06T00:31Z 16K followers, [--] engagements "When I lived in the Netherlands the Indonesian dude in this wacky chart was how I felt going to gigs. I could never see the band. My German mate Jens and I half-joked about starting a business renting out stools for non-Dutch to stand on at concerts" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1612832882363609091) 2023-01-10T15:24Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements "@superdupler @cafreiman If a libertarian is embracing Norways 76% state ownership that makes me happy. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/14/the-state-owns-76-of-norways-non-home-wealth/ https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/14/the-state-owns-76-of-norways-non-home-wealth/" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1612913201448091648) 2023-01-10T20:44Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "This isnt some naive romantic workerism but a realistic appraisal of how the formal & tacit knowledge of these systems by the women and men who built and operate them profoundly adds to societys understanding the feasibility & equity of different decarbonization proposals" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1661824674823811072) 2023-05-25T20:00Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "Decarbonization would frankly happen much faster and more equitably if the eco-austerity-enamoured green NGO-academia-media complex got out of the way and we put labour in the climate-policy drivers seat instead" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1661824952897802240) 2023-05-25T20:01Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "If avg global income were that of eg an upper middle-class Norwegian at that point Id say the sufficiency talk of the limits to growth folks might have some merit. Not much merit as human needs are unbounded but at least it wouldnt be loony. But were so far from even that" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1661832171563405313) 2023-06-29T20:41Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "@Unpop_Science Flippant You galloping hypocrite. You literally said it would be cool and cathartic if orcas killed people. Outside your misanthropic deep-green bubble most people think it awful when humans are killed or maimed by other organisms" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1667979853860343814) 2023-06-11T19:39Z 15.7K followers, [---] engagements "This report is pure conspiracism confabulating a vast new right-wing (and far-right) nuclear lobby bankrolled by industry. The reality is that most contemporary nuclear advocates come from the left & climate activism & quite deliberately dont take a penny from industry" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674525279874850821) 2023-06-29T21:14Z 14.6K followers, 52.9K engagements "If anything its the other way round: the nuclear industry until recently has largely been scared of its own tail more focussed on decommissioning and had grimly accepted what it thought was a society-wide consensus that nuclear was a dead end" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674526719078977538) 2023-06-29T21:17Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "In fact its the science-focussed evidence-based climate activists who discovered on their own the fibs of Greenpeace the German Green Partys Heinrich Boell Foundation etc and have woken the nuclear industry up" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674527222491914240) 2023-06-29T21:17Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "Once upon a time Greenpeace served a purpose: raising awareness of urgent environmental challenges. Today its a gargantuan multinational that acts a block on effective climate action little different to Exxons misinformation campaigns or Volkswagens dieselgate" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674532489220734977) 2023-06-29T21:37Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "The labour movement too which recognizes the need for nuclear associated industries and how this delivers good paying family supporting jobs in the clean transition is shaking off its chains and beginning to push back against green NGO eco-austerity" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674536745927593989) 2023-06-29T21:57Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "So the conspiracist donation-obsessed unscientific dinosaurs of Greenpeace the Heinrich Boell Foundation and co are right to be scared. An evidence-based labour-backed young-climate-activist-shaped asteroid is coming for them" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674537354600812545) 2023-06-29T22:13Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "@AaronBastani But even there nuclears teeny weeny land footprint just cant be beat. Mine from a couple years ago on the challenge of land-intensity of different low-carbon options:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674550402392662016) 2023-06-29T23:03Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements "@AaronBastani And on top of that theres decarbonizing industrial process heat and remote extraction. I dont see many other options than SMRs for this" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674552768064020480) 2023-06-29T23:03Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "@weaselx86 Sure Heres a good backgrounder on the subject from my friend Nick:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1674553178703167490) 2023-06-29T23:14Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@weaselx86 Could also recycle it as is done in France. Also what are your plans for disposal of the heavy-metal waste from solar panels To be consistent I presume youre pushing for solar panel manufacturers to be responsible for its permanent disposal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1674556987974250498) 2023-06-29T23:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Massive state-led build of large-scale nuclear & SMRs to power the clean transition with strong union support delivering perhaps a century of 1000s of good union jobsin effect the Green New Deal & Just Transition the left wants. Social democracy announced by *Tories*" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1677846565954932736) 2023-07-09T01:07Z 14.4K followers, 48.5K engagements "Theres something either shabbily dishonest and disloyal about Murray here or just ignorant. His good friend Christopher Hitchens was a socialist and certainly a public intellectual as was George Orwell whose warnings he has repeatedly marked out as evergreen" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1678561615309058048) 2023-07-11T00:36Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "So either Murray didnt know Hitchens & Orwell were socialists which suggests a very light reading of their works or knows all too well that they were but is happy to toss off such silly remarks for the sake of the likes indifferent to the grave slander of his late friend" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1678563521754451968) 2023-07-11T00:45Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "Its also just absurd to suggest socialists have never made any great art or music. One cannot study the literature music painting dance film or architecture of the 20th Century without repeatedly stumbling across socialists. They are as common as eggs in a box of eggs" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1678566011262611456) 2023-07-11T00:45Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Alex__1789 What an odd piece of shadow boxing. Who exactly wants to cement over the whole of the world or exterminate river otters" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1679215414331740165) 2023-07-12T19:53Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Alex__1789 My argument isnt against nature parks or even re-wilding. It is that parks only exist for humans. A fortiori they *can* only exist for humans because there is no set way for nature to be no direction or purpose to evolution" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1679216693393108992) 2023-07-12T19:53Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@humble_humboldt @willshetterly @Matthuber78 Is that really Phillips conception That he never inquires into the conditions of extraction our resources Could it instead be you who is utterly disconnected from the industrial workers who do this Lets see what Phillips actually writes:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1680735744871239682) 2023-07-17T00:36Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "They can have per week one cabbage one loaf bread and one bottle vodka. Everything else unneeded luxury" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1681085851978313728) 2023-07-17T23:37Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@JWMason1 The mass global consumption of bananas (a good thing) and the spread of SUVs (not a great thing but also its complicated) are very different phenomena not at all comparable" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1681745486259302402) 2023-07-20T00:51Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "A great way to view the precision manufacturing that supplies nuclear is as a catalyst or attractant for other industries that require precision manufacturingincluding many other sectors of the clean transition. (This is what happened with hydro dams in Quebec for eg)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1681753060757078016) 2023-07-20T01:40Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "(I expect those who denounced the piece before reading it will now of course apologize. Ha)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1683601883435511810) 2023-07-24T22:58Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "With Ontario going full tilt for new nuclear Qubec maybe reopening its mothballed nuke plant Ottawa pivoting to full-throated support for nukes & Alberta Sask & New Brunswick backing SMRs British Columbia risks losing out with its irrational ban on nuclear and uranium mining" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1690074649080791040) 2023-08-11T18:56Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "Very poor reporting here. Should be in the opinion pages not the news pages. One of the two environmental experts doing the criticizing may be an EU climate advisor but hes also a long-standing anti-nuclear campaigner and the other is an eNGO activist" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1690503892600258560) 2023-08-12T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@KaiHeron Theres no rejection of limits. Theres a rejection that we must accept being bounded by them. We are at all times surrounded by limits on what we can do and human progress is defined by the overcoming of those limits. Thats what freedom *is*" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1692278759838368134) 2023-08-17T20:54Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "@PaulNolandhm The only hard limits of nature are logic and the laws of physics. But its not a matter of respecting or rejecting those particular limits as referenced in Kais original tweet; we have no choice but to abide by them" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1692309993956229386) 2023-08-17T22:58Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "is writing about the dastardly EC ploughing ahead w free trade negotiations with Colombia despite mass human rights abuses. cha cha cha" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1694579554) 2009-05-04T10:15Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "Billions would die if we stopped heating homes. Many more if there were no shipping Also he forgot: - we stop building homes hospitals schools & infrastructure (bc cement & steel) The curea genocide that would make Hitler blushis worse than the disease" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1694730906899194130) 2023-08-24T15:18Z 14.6K followers, 10.6K engagements "@Eaterofsun @DanVisioni Indeed. My initial thought was Ah Club of Rome guy; this is his programme not least because there ARE so many around these days who in all seriousness demand an end to aviation an elimination of industrial agriculture and an immediate halt to all fossil fuel use" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1694776630554808803) 2023-08-24T18:20Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@ryankatzrosene Fred Pearce is great. Ive been quite frustrated with how at times the excessive focus on the (completely real) role of climate in many disasters we are letting off the hook things like neoliberal cuts to state capacity" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1696195061946671168) 2023-08-28T16:16Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "Very best of luck to her. This is the future of the climate movement a movement that recognizes that modernity is the solution not the enemy" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1696659966415790130) 2023-08-29T23:03Z 14.6K followers, 21.7K engagements "@GrahamWalkerNRG It is ridiculous to equate the UK and USfor all their democratic deficitswith Spanish fascism" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1696773338780323899) 2023-08-30T06:34Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "Jacobin no Enough with the Fukushima-water fearmongering It contains [---] becquerels of tritium per litre well below the WHO limit of *10000* becquerels for drinking water. If you drank [--] litres of it (8 gallons) youd still only receive the radiation = to eating a banana" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1697766258937356438) 2023-09-02T00:19Z 14.4K followers, 25.8K engagements "@Matthuber78 This in passing is also part of the socialist planners critique of market socialism and social democracy regardless of the *feasibility* of planning at scale:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1702053909286862963) 2023-09-13T20:17Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Matthuber78 So long as there are any market actors there will continue to be incentives to delay problem solving in that infinitude of future as yet-unknown sectors where problems have been solved only to throw up new problems" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1702054078262739194) 2023-09-13T20:18Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "@Matthuber78 But thats a tangent from the main traditional socialist/ecomodern left argument against degrowthers: Which is" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1702054304549683460) 2023-09-13T20:19Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Matthuber78 So long as such democratic interventions to speed up technology switching can enable absolute decoupling (not merely relative decoupling) of resource inputs from production there is no reason why economic growth cannot continue indefinitely on and beyond this planet" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1702054331904835767) 2023-09-13T20:19Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "The worst scenario imaginable would be if we found a new source of clean and infinite energy for example nuclear fusion. It would be a total catastrophe. This was precisely why the anti-nuclear movement originally got going except against fission" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1702506036169707918) 2023-09-15T02:14Z 14.6K followers, 31.5K engagements "Great short piece from @paul_prescod on Trumps instinctive anti-unionism and on how Biden needs to do better to tie clean tech subsidies to labor protections" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1703518140209270843) 2023-09-17T21:15Z 14.6K followers, 15.6K engagements "This game written by my friend @JonasKyratzes looks humanist enough to tempt me into getting into gaming. What a thoughtful interview too alighting upon how repetitive dystopian sci-fi has becomeand why" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704667294855774655) 2023-09-21T01:22Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Dystopian fiction has become entirely the opposite of subversive. Its also become just very boring" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704668232295272592) 2023-09-21T01:25Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "No major political party has addressed climate. So form a new party and if you win implement your favoured solutions. But if your response to repeatedly not winning elections is to break the law to impose your minority position on the majority thats anti-democratic" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704956994892054581) 2023-09-21T20:33Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis In any case it looks like its you who hasnt read Saito as he declares it necessary that the development of open technologies to start from scratch in many cases. In other words he doesnt see many technologies developed by capitalism to be usable" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704976202904269145) 2023-09-21T21:49Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis And the productivity advances needed to deliver a four-day work week with no loss in standard of living (while delivering a decent standard of living to everyone in the world) manifestly would entail economic growth" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704977066691879112) 2023-09-21T21:53Z 14.5K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Under democratic coordination we can decide ourselves: do we increase the amount of widgets for the given time or decreased work time for a given amount of widgets. In both latter cases there has been an increase in use-value" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704984837168521358) 2023-09-21T22:23Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Any increase in use-value is ipso facto economic growth" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704985063115694108) 2023-09-21T22:24Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis My point is precisely that the concept is so vague as to be unhelpful. I dont think its even feasible or beneficial to come up with such an index. The components of Zyklon B can be used as a pesticide as a soil for Bonsai trees or to commit judeocide" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704990950215561511) 2023-09-21T22:48Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis I would argue that to think systematically about technology is to consider the social relations that surround them rather than to fetishize technologies (ie to believe that the social relation is inherent to the physical item itself)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704993782775902215) 2023-09-21T22:59Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis lets ask instead: What changes to social relations do we need to make so that we can switch to/develop a technology that retains the enormous benefit of coal plants while excluding the harm" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704996106659348771) 2023-09-21T23:08Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Im rejecting the notion of open and locking tech. But look to the Zyklon B example for your answer about nuclear technology. It can be used to produce reactors to deliver abundant cheap clean energy (and medical isotopes) or to produce civilization-destroying weapons" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1704999317029974449) 2023-09-21T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "Really great guardedly optimistic talk by Hannah about environmental decoupling and green growth. Key message: humans have never been sustainable so there can be no turning back but now for the first time we are becoming so alongside (indeed because of) a good life for all" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1705274717383557454) 2023-09-22T17:35Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "It says something about Canadas history education standards that not a single MP appears to have thought: Hold on. doesnt fighting Russia in WW2 mean that you were on the wrong side This really is elementary (school) stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1706367577168154716) 2023-09-25T17:58Z 14.6K followers, 14K engagements "I back cellular agriculture for potential climate nutrition cost & taste benefits it will provide & strong animal welfare protections as exist in some jurisdictions. But nature is red in tooth and claw killing orders of magnitude more animals than we do often eaten alive" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1706825970353860741) 2023-09-27T00:19Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Vox reporter sympathetic to degrowth here @NoelKing argues she fees that we all in the developed world have enough maybe too much. We all must include UAW workers. It follows then they must not win the 40% raise theyre asking for for this would exceed that enough Odd Lots looks at the degrowth movement and why the idea is attracting more and more fans https://t.co/WrT9rS23vM Odd Lots looks at the degrowth movement and why the idea is attracting more and more fans https://t.co/WrT9rS23vM" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1707144411438891487) 2023-09-27T21:25Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements "Are we not supposed to decarbonize data centres Or do you think there should just not be data centres Im which case why are you still tweeting if you dont think there should be data centres" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1707195664927797264) 2023-09-28T00:48Z 14.6K followers, 19.9K engagements "It blows my mind that there were people who dont have a minds eye. When they read novels is all thats in their head just words What are their dreams like And John Greens a novelist When he writes doesnt he visualize what hes writing" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1708719138930409948) 2023-10-02T05:42Z 14.6K followers, 16.9K engagements "I remember producing a policy note on the Norwegian EV success story for the director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions in [----] explaining how theyd been able to achieve an impressive 25% market share. Cant believe how fast its happened. Now at 87% Incredible" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1709011918558818801) 2023-10-03T01:06Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "If one opposes the far-right Israeli govt attacks on and pogroms of Palestinian civilians one must also oppose Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians. Meanwhile Ukrainian resistance to Putins occupation fights military targets not civilians. Its Putin that targets civilians" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1710733479321964640) 2023-10-07T19:07Z 14.4K followers, 36.5K engagements "I have a lot of time for Novara Media but this is the same vile cheerleading for terror as when the day after 9/11 left-wing academic Ward Churchill called the al-Qaeda attacks chickens coming home to roost and the victims in the Twin Towers little Eichmanns" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1710738999340589229) 2023-10-07T19:28Z 14.4K followers, 171.4K engagements "A fine piece from an Israeli journalist that manages to contextualize Hamas terror in regional geopolitics while rigorously condemning it and also to condemn the far-right Israeli governments backing of anti-Pal pogroms. Would that others could walk & chew gum in the same way" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1710754131949068744) 2023-10-07T20:29Z 14.6K followers, 24K engagements "Heres the thing: when Netanyahu wreaks his own atrocities in the coming hours as he surely will I dont doubt Bernie will unreservedly condemn those too. This is what a principled left foreign policy position looks like: condemning injustice NO MATTER WHO is responsible" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1710800217057145273) 2023-10-07T23:32Z 14.6K followers, 13.9K engagements "2% Event industry experts. 3% trade unions. In a *Labour* party" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1710840792833732979) 2023-10-08T02:13Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements "Rescue crews recovered [---] bodies from the Supernova festival in southern Israel. Terrorists sprayed gunfire randomly shooting those fleeing. Worse than the Bataclan massacre in Paris. And leftists are holding rallies in solidarity with these monsters" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1711126927820668952) 2023-10-08T21:10Z 14.4K followers, 58K engagements "Varoufakis compares Hamas to the ANCs armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) which also killed innocent civilians. This completely misreads history: MK almost exclusively attacked police military & govt targets & always tried to avoid harming civilians" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1711259331201782212) 2023-10-09T05:56Z 14.4K followers, 189.1K engagements "Vile exterminationist racism no different to chants of gas the Jews on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. But because over the past [--] hours the left has destroyed any moral standing we had theres now nothing we can do as Netanyahu razes Gaza. Not a soul will listen to us" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1711959341715308959) 2023-10-11T04:18Z 14.4K followers, 30.4K engagements "Pop quiz: Is this a Ukrainian street after Putins bombardment or a Gazan street after Netanyahus" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1711976228486537474) 2023-10-11T05:25Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Avi and I are on opposite sides of many intra-left fights over extraction infrastructure & economic development but I agree 100% with his thread here on how hes appalled at both the Netanyahu regimes rampage of revenge & sections of the lefts celebration of Hamas atrocity" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1711990443746205965) 2023-10-11T06:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Excellent furious rejoinder from @joshualeifer to @gabrielwinants ghoulish apologia for Hamas apologists" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713303253428146470) 2023-10-14T21:18Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@YiorgosVa @joshualeifer @gabrielwinant You mean all the tweets and retweets Ive done condemning the Israeli massacring of civilians eclipsing the number of Israeli dead We can walk and chew gum Yiorgos" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713314007439049198) 2023-10-14T22:01Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "Even if they had voted for Hamas killing Palestinian civilians is no different to Hamas killing Israeli civilians for voting for Netanyahu & co" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713322634845593889) 2023-10-14T22:35Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "There are 500-600 US citizens in Gaza according to US and Israeli officials and many more other foreign nationals including NGO staff UN workers and journalists that Washington (but not Brussels or Oslo) appears to have abandoned" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713351415635357998) 2023-10-15T00:29Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "EU foreign affairs high representative Josep Borrell has said Israels actions breach international law and Norwegian foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt has also condemned the siege as unacceptable" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713352895486456220) 2023-10-15T00:35Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "Very cool that environmental protests outside Greenpeace offices are popping up around the world against the organizations anti-nuclear climate vandalism" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1713412252836286898) 2023-10-15T04:31Z 14.6K followers, 11.1K engagements "Yanis Varoufakiswho said Hamas was no different to the ANCwas the left-wing finance minister of Greece (who I looked up to) and founded the Progressive International. This is not crazy fringe shit you find on Twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1714163811937341617) 2023-10-17T06:17Z 14.4K followers, 34.5K engagements "@emcnally96 Youre doing a politics PhD at Oxford yet seem unaware that during the Cold War the vast majority of socialists in the West denounced the show trials gulag Holodomor and other horrors of the USSR while also denouncing the horrors of capitalism. Enough with the binary thinking" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1714365497565986907) 2023-10-17T19:39Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements "I should have done a better job here. I took the claims of the Gaza Health Ministry at face value. Many lines of evidence independent of both Gazan and Israeli authorities appear to demonstrate other than what I suggested yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1714703189562585094) 2023-10-18T18:01Z 14.4K followers, 21.7K engagements "@Meshugga_Daddy Fair. Though to allow a modicum of defence I wrongly assumed that the AP NBC CNN and others who reported the body count had done their due diligence on the ground. A good thread here on how newsrooms need to up their OSINT game:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1714715876010979750) 2023-10-18T18:51Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "Sad words from Harold Meyerson a 48-years-long veteran of Democratic Socialists of America and its precursors now quitting the org. It must be frustrating to see recent events in a group that had refused to side with Washington or Moscow in the Cold War" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1714723259365945505) 2023-10-18T19:20Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Another excellent piece from Eric. The collective punishment of the siege and bombardments are already crime enough. Theres no need to vomit on the turd (the inverse of gilding the lily). There is no reason for advocates of the Palestinian cause to dig in on a factual debate about a single incident rather than focusing on making their moral case against the present war. https://t.co/mdmuIz26k5 https://t.co/QZ7giOZ4xW There is no reason for advocates of the Palestinian cause to dig in on a factual debate about a single incident rather than focusing on making their moral case against the" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715070671552934105) 2023-10-19T18:21Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements "To be consistent anyone rightly condemning French and German bans on Palestine solidarity protests must condemn UK police obstructing Israel solidarity protests too. Otherwise everyone is just defending the speech acts of their team not freedom of speech" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715101296817246344) 2023-10-19T20:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Those of us who have been defending free speech from attacks from the left in recent years are today also critical of France and Germanys ban on Palestine protests. Meanwhile the freeze peach brigade have only now suddenly discovered they do like free speech after all" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715196370154607077) 2023-10-20T02:40Z 14.4K followers, 12.9K engagements "My own [----] piece in Jacobin during laffaire Harpers on the cancel culture threat to free speech and civil liberties had many many paragraphs about how left undermining of free expression norms was *already* a threat to Palestine solidarity groups" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715205109561643151) 2023-10-20T03:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Crucial thread. The majority of these young people Im sure think the chant just means wishing for everyone in the Levant to live in freedom and equality and not the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Also this generation has only ever known the Forever War. Its reasonable for" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715458960160092243) 2023-10-20T20:04Z 14.4K followers, 26.9K engagements "Not true. Net zero done right will give us a cheaper greater bounty of energythe wellspring of wealth; quieter less polluting vehicles; more convivial cities; more extensive public transport; more wilderness to marvel at; more access to aircon; more nutritious meat etc etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715624046552023057) 2023-10-21T07:00Z 14.4K followers, 10.1K engagements "Cancel culture indifference or antipathy toward free speech was always going to come back and bite the left in the butt" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1715843171354349726) 2023-10-21T21:31Z 14.3K followers, 192.1K engagements "The response to this heartbroken lament by the biographer of DSA co-founder Michael Harrington and a member for [--] decades has been vicious and just really sad denouncing him as a liar an apologist for ethnic cleansing & an old-fart paper-member liberal Zionist who needs a nap" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1716680812853375090) 2023-10-24T04:59Z 14.4K followers, 93.1K engagements "I dont even understand what the goal of removing posters of hostages is. Is it that these censor-litterbugs think the press & Israel are lying about there being hostages Do they worry that seeing pictures of the kidnapped might evoke sympathy for them" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1716961677693087821) 2023-10-24T23:35Z 14.4K followers, 48.3K engagements "Brother keeps nailing it. This is the left we need. Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. Im calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. Im calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717329692418810181) 2023-10-25T23:57Z 15.9K followers, 13.6K engagements "Theres an error here thinking indecency unique to the far left. Bernies stridently anti-Hamas. There were Cold War anti-Stalinist socialists like Orwell Trotsky Hitchens and Judt. There were liberal opponents of the Vietnam War and liberals like LBJ who gave us that war" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717401877946740916) 2023-10-26T04:44Z 14.4K followers, 15K engagements "And even on the right: I may disagree with 1980s Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroneys neoliberal economics but he was also a fervent opponent of apartheid South Africa when Thatcher & Reagan & even liberal Pierre Trudeau had winked at Pretoria" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717403856957735406) 2023-10-26T04:52Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "So no sorry Matt Horseshoe Theory doesnt work here at all. Thats just liberals exploiting the (very real and abominable) Hamas apologism in parts of the left to denigrate the whole of the left" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717405992982581456) 2023-10-26T05:01Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "But the best people the very best were those Cold War democratic socialists who walked picket lines of striking miners one week and fundraised to support Eastern Europe dissidents the next. Opposed both CIA-backed Central American death squads AND Castros one-party state" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717408918991999121) 2023-10-26T05:12Z 14.4K followers, 13.7K engagements "Saying Palestine is gonna be eviscerated and were gonna turn it into a parking lot shortly receives no demand for censure but a call for ceasefire and condemnation of the killing of civilians on both sides does" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717669242722816271) 2023-10-26T22:27Z 14.4K followers, 41.1K engagements "@TRAILSANDWAYS @Env_Pol I cant find anything on this lack of flexibility. Could you provide a link Also the backup for w&s would then have to be gas thus *increasing* emissions. So this smacks of anti-nuclear campaigning not climate" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717723232550465982) 2023-10-27T02:01Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "@james_d_hoff Thats utter BS. There have been dozens of celebrations of the resistance from performative radical IDpol loons. Tons of video of these rallies and actions myriad decolonial claptrap statements. It should be ABCs for Marxists to take a strong stance against such ghouls" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717969285736534122) 2023-10-27T18:19Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "Gotta love ordinary Americans bone-deep belief in free speech and hatred of censorship: This is a free country You can wave your Palestine flag and shout Death to the Jews or America or whatever you want but we can put up f*ckin signs" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1717983477071778032) 2023-10-27T19:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "All of us who were staggered by the demonic actions of Hamas & stunned at the apologetics shown in some quarters for such atrocity must now to be consistent stand against Netanyahus delivery to Gaza of pitiless death from above. Find a local protest. Bring both flags" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718184728828989581) 2023-10-28T08:35Z 14.4K followers, 24.9K engagements "@MjjHollinshead Im sorry I must have missed that time when Ukraine slaughtered music festival goers shot up and slit the throats of grannies at bus stops beheaded Thai farmworkers tied parents and their children together and then burnt them alive. Get your moral compass fixed Matt" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718188597520793791) 2023-10-28T08:50Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements "@mwalimujulius77 There *can* be an Israel without occupation; there could not be an apartheid South Africa without apartheid. Or do you reject the very existence of Israel" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718320633162186767) 2023-10-28T17:35Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "Centrist self-congratulation that ignores bitter divisions on the left between class-focussed classical socialists horrified at the ultra-left identitarian performative radicalsand the role liberals play in propagation of anti-universalist ideology that underpins the phenomenon" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718708337255338132) 2023-10-29T19:16Z 14.4K followers, 23.2K engagements "The Tankies and campists who support China and Russia (Iran etc) are minuscule and online-only. The Hamas apologetics are lamentably very widespread but decolonial identitarianism reaches into the heart of elite liberal institutions from the Ivy League to corporate HR depts" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718709285751083187) 2023-10-29T19:20Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "The solution is a return to Enlightenment universalism whose logical conclusion is the lefts critique of class society extending liberal democratic principle to the whole of the economy not a retreat from the left to the center" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718710881385902363) 2023-10-29T19:26Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "It wasnt Joe Bernie-supporter who wants public healthcare or some UAW member on a picket line who wants a decent contract who apologized for Hamas but Harvard grad students and NYU film studies professors" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718713296214450469) 2023-10-29T19:35Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@David_Jamieson7 Read the rest of the thread" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1718714566203605201) 2023-10-29T19:40Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "No exaggeration to call this ethnic cleansing. Note the ministry wants the govt to convince Western powers to back the plan with Canada Spain & Greece identified as possible recipients of the permanently expelled Gazans. @JustinTrudeau needs to make clear Canada wont abet this" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719071341624840402) 2023-10-30T19:18Z 14.4K followers, 33.9K engagements "@JamesConran1 @karpmj Honest question: what do you think the difference is between ceasefire and pause To my mind hostilities could restart after either as neither is a call for an end to hostilities" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719072820595159497) 2023-10-30T19:24Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "If by the term ceasefire its meant zero military action vs Hamas then no thats unreasonable. But surely theres a space between no military response and responding by carpet bombing refugee camps. There was that space after Munich 1972" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719484683929395494) 2023-10-31T22:41Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements "The left when its in power is still stuck with those root causes having happened. We dont have a time machine. So the response cannot be: We just would not have perpetrated those root causes. So: what do we propose after a 9/11 a 7/10 a Bataclan a Charlie Hebdo etc etc" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719488255769407802) 2023-10-31T22:55Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "(This of course is the inverted mirror image of the debate over the distinction between the ANC and Hamas; resistance to oppression does not have to indeed must not take the form of atrocity.)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719489522390503833) 2023-10-31T23:00Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Sierra Club and NRDC monomaniacally focussed in closing down Californias low-carbon Diablo Canyon nuclear plant while largely ignoring the coal plant that delivers 20% of LAs power" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1719759179903275119) 2023-11-01T16:51Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Not only is this a lie as there are many many groups and individuals who are able to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinians but it repeats the very lie put about by Israeli President Isaac Herzog a few days ago that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1722828219098054746) 2023-11-10T04:07Z 14.4K followers, 19K engagements "Canada the US Israel Hungary and three Pacific islands vs the world" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1723389013380481082) 2023-11-11T17:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "@occupyirtheory 3) One of your guests also says you have to pick sides. Really Do you Between Islamo-fascism and Judeo-fascism We didnt have to pick between Stalinism and capitalism during the Cold War" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1723773431010021868) 2023-11-12T18:43Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements "@occupyirtheory 4) Just have one of these great disappointments on your show and ask us directly about all this. Id DM you about it but apparently I have to pay Elon Musk to do that now" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1723773515269034359) 2023-11-12T18:43Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "The Dutch election is as much about the decline of the left as a contender across Europe as about hard-right breakthrough. In a 150-seat house the combined left got just [--] (34 incl. [--] ethnic parties) while the centre-right to far right got [--] (100 incl. agrarian interest BBB)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1727758299729432895) 2023-11-23T18:37Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "@YodaAged @dlondonwortel @simonjhix Oops sorry Heres the link:" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1727890956622688728) 2023-11-24T03:24Z 14.3K followers, [--] engagements "@jdcmedlock A decrease because it is less democratic and enhances market incentive. Turning CVS Health Corp into CVS Health Workerss Co-op wouldnt solve the injustice of lack of access to adequate healthcare" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1728489677865541687) 2023-11-25T19:03Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements "@jdcmedlock Worker ownership keeps decision-making restricted to just shareholders (who are now the workers) who must still govern in service of profit (in order to continue as a business) not in service of those societal goals" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1728490439077138673) 2023-11-25T19:06Z 14.3K followers, [--] engagements "@jdcmedlock Worker ownership *is* more socialist than boss-ownership as it eliminates domination by another class and extraction of surplus value but less socialist than public ownership so long as public ownership is genuinely democratic" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1728490465283227659) 2023-11-25T19:06Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements "@Matthuber78 Eco-austerity is a species of capitalist realism: even as they demand radical anti-industrial transformation (which wouldnt solve climate change anyway) the embrace of movementism & antagonism toward organized labor results from the unimaginability of a revival of W/C power" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729286602621608373) 2023-11-27T23:50Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "@its_mccarthy Centrality to accelerating decarbonization and ensuring it is effective (actually works contra the myriad eco-austerity climate policies that are bad or often bananas) and just (energy/transport/industry workers dont get shafted)" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729358155635949788) 2023-11-28T04:34Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "@its_mccarthy Sorry - didnt mean for that to come across as snarky. I genuinely think it obvious like organizing around healthcare with healthcare workers but that may not be obvious for others" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729362719189717361) 2023-11-28T04:52Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "@its_mccarthy When I read what the relevant unions call for with respect to climate change I often think: Yeah that pretty much gets it right on the tech and policy. When I read what eNGOs & eco-socialist/climate left activists call for I often think: Thats bonkers" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729364564033360019) 2023-11-28T05:00Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements "Useful explainer on the technical challenges of decarbonizing alumin(i)um. But what can I do personally in my life to fight climate change Become an electrochemical engineer" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729582388710175139) 2023-11-28T19:25Z 14.5K followers, 26.6K engagements "@Revkin Interesting paper. I presume that if there is local/enviro opposition it will centre on increased seismicity" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729604074172031391) 2023-11-28T20:52Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements "If Bernie freaking Sanders who has repeatedly condemned Netanyahus bombing campaign now counts as a genocidaire as an analog of Adolf Eichmann then plainly that word has become untethered from any real meaning. These people are unhinged" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729635697567412640) 2023-11-28T22:57Z 14.5K followers, 50.2K engagements "@BenBurgis If Hamas had restricted themselves to the many military targets they successfully captured Oct [--] thats fair game. Same now. Is it likely that a group like Hamas would do so No. But that is different from saying Palestinians have no right to militarily respond to occupation" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729667444828934398) 2023-11-29T01:03Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements "The pro-hang-glider left is clearly not just fringe. It keeps happening. Something is very very broken here. It undermines peace protests isolates the anti-occupation Israeli left & anti-Hamas Palestinian left & threatens everything the left is trying to do far beyond I/P. Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction https://t.co/r7aTb2mkrQ Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729693468044247112) 2023-11-29T02:47Z 15.8K followers, 433.7K engagements "@barrylovesbagel I thought that Owen Jones and @michaeljswalker had condemned the Oct [--] attacks even as folks like Barnaby Raine and Rivkah Brown had cheered them on. I remember watching one vid in particular just after the attacks where Michael and Barnaby had quite strongly disagreed on this" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729713738037489677) 2023-11-29T04:07Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "@occupyirtheory Why would I be in Hamas rather than a socialist group Why is Islamist theocracy terror and rape the only possible response to occupation" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1729924748300448028) 2023-11-29T18:06Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "@PumaNkrumah @8rnz3k @occupyirtheory Id argue for a Palestinian version of the ANC" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1730005198805061785) 2023-11-29T23:25Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements "The threat to free speech since Oct [--] is perhaps most severe in Germany. Even a call for peace is censored. And where are the great free-speech warriors of the right As ever its up to the democratic left who critiqued left censorship too to keep the torch of free speech lit" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1730345942413672661) 2023-11-30T21:59Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "For anyone needing a combination of impressive football/soccer acrobatics and delivery of a disquisition on Henry Kissingers myriad crimes" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1730457886869143747) 2023-12-01T05:24Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "Solid angry stuff from Dustin Guastella on how Netflixs Bayard Rustin biopic turns a socialist and labor giant into the much thinner subject of an anachronistic intersectional fantasia" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1730701389662470289) 2023-12-01T21:32Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "Ill leave it as an exercise for the reader to ponder which sort of left might have been responsible for the construction of the global trade union movement & post-war welfare state and which was responsible for show trials gulags the Holodomor & Cambodias killing fields" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1731402351825830179) 2023-12-03T19:57Z 14.4K followers, 28.9K engagements "@donaldp1917 I mean I do think that you are exactly the sort of person who would have done nothing in the face of the show trials Donny" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1731430719258521642) 2023-12-03T21:50Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "Jealous of all my nuke friends at COP28 making pilgrimages to Barakah the new four-unit nuclear plant built by South Koreas (mostly) publicly owned electric company for the UAE in about a decade" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1731455494823485733) 2023-12-03T23:28Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements "Great short thread on how eNGOs like Evergreen Action and Sierra Club fib about the carbon intensity of publicly owned Tennessee Valley Authority in service of privatization while due to ignorance of how the system works actually undermine decarbonization" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1732479757974204832) 2023-12-06T19:18Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements "Dockworkers in Sweden refusing to unload Tesla cars arriving by ship & Swedish electricians cleaners postal workers & auto component makers have said they would deny the company their services. ✊✊✊ An injury to one is an injury to all" [X Link](https://x.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1732495508659404831) 2023-12-06T20:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @matthuber78 @benburgis @esennesh @aaronbastani @ericlevitz @alex1789 @fredstaffordcs @elvanderjonas @opendemocracy @danieldriscoll @davidgriscom @michalrozworski @rojasrjuand @simonmair @joelliambuehler @dock_currie @doughenwood @symonsjon @meadwaj @djenebajalan
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"THE FACTS: Germany has not dragged its heels at all and instead will have spent over half a trillion euros (520bn) on its Energiewende (energy turn). Meanwhile France spent [---] bn francs or [---] bn on its Messmer Plan public-sector buildout of its nuclear fleet"
X Link 2022-10-14T07:19Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Great short thread on the frustrations of arguing with those who suffer from postmodern epistemic relativism a crippling and incurable brain injury. One quibble: its not unique to the left; postmodernism has long since escaped the academy and injured many other sorts of brains there's a rhetorical move i see occasionally from certain leftists. you ask a direct question about a matter of fact--"where will the money for public housing come from" say. and they respond with "this question valorizes white ways of knowing in problematic ways." a thread. there's a rhetorical move i see occasionally"
X Link 2022-10-28T15:32Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@ElvanderJonas @openDemocracy @Matthuber78 @danieldriscoll @DavidGriscom @FredStafford @marcusbarnett_ @michalrozworski @AaronBastani @DougHenwood @symons_jon @Jonas_Thiel_ @rojasrjuand @EricLevitz @fredstaffordcs @euobs Oh and this one of mine in the New Statesman (2023) on why climate change would actually have been worse had the 20th Century been socialist as industrial modernity would presumably have spread to the whole world (and this would be A Good Thing) https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/07/global-warming-socialism-capitalism"
X Link 2024-04-23T01:35Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Hear hear. ICE cant function without the private sectors services and those services cant function without its workers. Labor outreach to those workers is thus essential. In the 1980s Liverpool dockers refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa. The same can happen again. As Pete Seeger sang: without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. ICE cant function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping. https://t.co/1nTaqXY7GK ICE cant function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop"
X Link 2026-01-09T23:36Z 15.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@NiallGlynn Im a bit less cynical (and certainly less misanthropic) than EO Wilson. Id say we have Enlightenment institutions and modes of thought not medieval ones and therein lies the hope: a revival of humanism contra all antagonists"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:44Z 15.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Tyler_A_Harper @DouthatNYT Thanks Tyler. :) And Holy cow Its uncanny how youve been thinking these same sort of things even down to writing about Todd May and the Voluntary Human Extinction movement profile in the Times This was my piece along similar lines in [----]. https://www.compactmag.com/article/hurrah-for-8-billion-humans/ https://www.compactmag.com/article/hurrah-for-8-billion-humans/"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:56Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@jerometenk Ooh fascinating. I presume youve been following @wang_seavers work on similar topics"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:57Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Thanks for your interest Alex. As I was saying to a close friend of mine who is Anglican taking about the book while I am an atheist I suspect the book will find a warm reception amongst those of faith. Certainly already I have found that believers instinctively get the radical distinctiveness of humanity that I am arguing for even though I make the case from a secular scientific POV. Id be very keen to read the essays on AI that youll be publishing. Please let me know when they go out. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013802888528027 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022013802888528027"
X Link 2026-02-12T18:23Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Dock_Currie Work camps really dont. Not a lick of evidence for your bigoted claim. IDpol myth-making. All you are doing is exposing your middle-class contempt for blue-collar men (while just completely erasing blue-collar women)"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:56Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@Dock_Currie Sorry how exactlydo you have modernity without petrochemicals"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:58Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Dock_Currie Critical Geographies lololol. An activist-scholar journal is your source for epidemiological assessment Lets actually look at the evidence shall we: @tboyblues @pey_are It doesnt surprise me that you only took five seconds to investigate as that essay does not actually provide any evidence itself for the claim that remote camps cause the rape of indigenous women and girls in Canada but cites two sources to support this claim. And when we https://t.co/mfiDm0sV1Q @tboyblues @pey_are It doesnt surprise me that you only took five seconds to investigate as that essay does not actually"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:10Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Dock_Currie I mean sorry dude but if the shoe fits You are precisely one of these petty bourgeois activism studies wastrels that has taken over what used to be the party of labour"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:12Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"I mean this is kind of hilarious: you believe in the absence of any evidence that remote work camps cause rape and murder and so want them shut down thereby bringing modernity to a crashing halt but have nothing to say about the thoroughly documented role that alcohol genuinely does play in sexualized violence https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437848054399006 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022437848054399006"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:28Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"When I say that calling blue-collar workers rapists and murderers is showing contempt for the working class is no more saying that blue-collar workers are the only real workers than calling Hillarys basket of deplorables comment about rustbelt workers equally contemptuous of the working class is saying rustbelt workers are the only real workers. But Im done here. You have shown yourself uninterested in evidence in what blue-collar workers think or even in the electoral prospects of the NDP and only interested in performing your radicalism for your PMC in-group regardless of outcome. Whatever."
X Link 2026-02-13T22:53Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Heavenly_Armed Both the AirBnB lobbyists who live in the Annex and that surrounded Jagmeet and the green NGO staffers who also live in the Annex who surround Avi are two different sides of the same professional managerial class who are utterly cut off from the realities of working class life"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:14Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@danielyoung1000 I dont think theres much of a voice for labour at all in this parliament"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:57Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Whatever. Ive explained how there is no evidence but because you are more interested in moral performance than facts you are indifferent to whether the claim is true or not. Look in the next election the Tories and likely the Grits too will deploy that big manly mancamp comment over and over again just like the Republicans did with Hillarys basket-of-deplorables comment and the party will be wiped out. I await your consumption of a massive helping of humble pie. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022421768238211205 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022421768238211205"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:24Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"As I said its indicative of a far broader problem: a left that represents only the eco-austerity and IDpol fantasias of a class of MANGOs (media academia NGO staff) and no longer the working class. If you want a more in-depth version of this critique than I can mount on Twitter feel free to read my related essay here: https://jacobin.com/2024/10/social-democracy-workers-ndp-election https://jacobin.com/2024/10/social-democracy-workers-ndp-election"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:44Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@EnglerYves Ahh so youre not just an antisemitic Hamasnik monster undermining the Palestine solidarity movement but youre also a malthusian loon Good to know"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:39Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@Dock_Currie This you Lolololol. Youre calling resource extraction workers violent yet youre actually the one threatening journalists with violence for lemme get this right disagreeing with you about resource extraction"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:51Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"So you admit that you lied when you apologized for the comments You actually did want to break the jaw of a reporter Its good to know what a strong supporter of freedom of the press you are. But I guess thats to be expected from an actual real-life tankie someone who apologizes for Stalins atrocities and eradication of civil liberties in the USSR. Btw can I ask how come youre working at a liquor store despite getting your JD https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477311745098025 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022477311745098025"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:05Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Ive just this week landed a deal for my third book a radical defense of humanity as the most precious thing in the universe contra the misanthropy of the green left (We are the virus) and the tech right (We are the beta test for AI). The book aims to construct a secular version of the Judeo-Christian Imago Dei doctrine. In place of revealed truth my attempt at an objective scientific argument for human dignity and value draws on geology evolutionary biology comparative cognition and the history and philosophy of our understanding of ourselves. I want to re-affirm our Promethean pioneering"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:27Z 15.5K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Excellent work from Ryan at the @thebti deflating Elons hype about near-term space-based data centres: Elon Musk claims that in [--] yrs launching data centers into space will be more economical than building them on Earth. Dont listen to him. 🧵 https://t.co/HaS4NPbYFh Elon Musk claims that in [--] yrs launching data centers into space will be more economical than building them on Earth. Dont listen to him. 🧵 https://t.co/HaS4NPbYFh"
X Link 2026-02-18T01:12Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @Matthuber78: We will no longer provide/maintain the social infrastructure of an electricity grid so you're best best is privatized sola"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:42Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Left Abundance intensifies. In a city that moves a mile a minute it shouldnt take two years to get an affordable home through environmental review Watch @NYCMayor stand with @GovKathyHochul to support streamlining state SEQR rules so we can deliver homes to New Yorkers faster & drive housing costs down. https://t.co/tqMFgHWx3B In a city that moves a mile a minute it shouldnt take two years to get an affordable home through environmental review Watch @NYCMayor stand with @GovKathyHochul to support streamlining state SEQR rules so we can deliver homes to New Yorkers faster & drive housing costs"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:40Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @buffsoldier_96: Class. That's the explanation"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:42Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"There has been a minor flutter on here about Matt Bruenigs instant LLM-authored labor-law book not least from the anti-AI left. I find this project fascinating not because it replaces human agency (in the way that say an LLM-authored novel would an anti-humanist endeavor that we should indeed shun) but because it showcases the opposite: what we might call technological humanism augmenting human capability rather than substituting for human agency and meaning-making. As Matt points out this work which he intends as a vital aid to workers and labor lawyers engaged in struggle against injustice"
X Link 2026-02-11T01:05Z 15.5K followers, 74.6K engagements
"I should add: I am incredibly proud to have landed this deal with Beacon Press out of Boston a publisher of moral giants like James Baldwin and Cornel West and with Swift Press in the UK whose own list reveals a similar moral seriousness"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:36Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Remarkable timing: @DouthatNYT just yesterday begged progressives to mount a better analysis of the AI conundrum asking whether the left is still capable of mounting a defence of human exceptionalism. He suspects not not least because the environmentalist left has already cast humans as a cancer on the planet disrupting the harmonies of nature. One cannot very well suddenly rediscover the virtues of anthropocentrism after decades of denouncing it on behalf of the whales and the redwoods. It seems Im not the only one to have noticed the parallelism of green-left and tech-right misanthropy or"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:11Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @atrembath: As I wrote a few years ago "Anthropocentrism is one of the primary characteristics distinguishing ecomodernism from convent"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:46Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"I am no Qubec sovereigntist but I have always really really liked Yves-Franois Blanchet (and would gladly vote for him were I in his riding). Il est profondment ironique que lorsque Trump a menac d'annexer le Canada Blanchet a dfendu avec plus de vigueur le sens du Canada quun nombre de fdralistes. Et une fois de plus mme s'il ne l'exprime pas exactement ainsi il dmontre qu'il est un grand Canadien. Heartfelt and eloquent tributes by @MarkJCarney & @PierrePoilievre but I was especially touched hearing @yfblanchet: "I hope you will allow me to make an exception today so that I can speak"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:13Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"No if the degrowther Avi Lewis who attacked blue-collar workers at what he called big manly remote work man camps that have intense horrifying impacts on indigenous women and girls basically calling all these workers racists rapists and murderers it will be the final nail in the coffin for working-class support for the NDP. That comment will go down as the NDPs version of Hillary Clintons basket of deplorables moment. What he said was definitely noticed in these camps (where I work as a geologist as it happens) not least by indigenous workers. And you just know that the Tories were quietly"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:19Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @fredstaffordcs: Bummer that Bernie offers little political guidance in this pivotal moment. Not that I'm aware of anyone else on (democ"
X Link 2026-02-13T21:26Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Degrowth supremo Jason Hickel stumbled across the defense of abundance written by me (whom he blocked a long time ago) @Matthuber78 and @fredstaffordcs and he unsurprisingly hates it saying his neo-Malthusian ideology doesnt actually posit that there is already enough wealth and we just need to redistribute it but instead that there is already enough productive capacity and we just need to redirect it. But in the very screencap he posts he seems to have not noticed that we say expressly that no there is not yet enough productive capacity in the world for everyone to have a good life."
X Link 2026-02-16T20:29Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The piece Hickel is referring to here: https://catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-left-has-always-fought-for-abundance https://catalyst-journal.com/2025/12/the-left-has-always-fought-for-abundance"
X Link 2026-02-16T20:31Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @b_judah: This will be an important book. I kept on noticing the @j_amesmarriott thesis working in politics. At the peak of mass deep"
X Link 2026-02-18T01:49Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@StupidpolX @BungaCast @michalrozworski @VersoBooks @jacobinmag We wanted to compare Walmart to a planned economy on the scale of the USSR in the middle of the Cold War prior to 70s economic crisis. In [----] Soviet GDP clocked in at $433.4bn in todays money then the second largest economy in the world; Walmarts [----] revenue was $485bn"
X Link 2019-01-23T23:40Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair They certainly dont believe in the scale of intervention that social democrats do. Otherwise you are saying there is no difference between social democrats and free marketeers"
X Link 2019-09-02T17:43Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair If you think the public sector is some fairy tale manna from heaven arent you rather as much of a capitalist realist as your alleged capitalist opponents I thought socialists were supposed to defend the democratically organized public sector"
X Link 2019-09-02T17:49Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy Ive responded to the individual points you make in tweets further up the thread. But in conclusion degrowth is an anti-humanist Proudhonian ideology of penury alien to the left. Better to spend your time working to legislate the technology shifts we need"
X Link 2019-09-02T17:59Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair You are equating social democracy with the CBI Lol"
X Link 2019-09-03T16:34Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair My argument is against Mcafees idea that the normal operation of markets are responsible for decoupling. I argue that it has primarily been state intervention. Thats not a defence of the state as it currently stands"
X Link 2019-09-03T16:38Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy Morris made some lovely wallpaper but he really fits more in the camp Engels described as utopian rather than scientific. You could have mentioned Proudhon as well. Basically: middle-class hippie communes where everyone dies of dysentery vs egalitarian modernity"
X Link 2019-09-03T16:44Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@simon_mair @JKSteinberger @_ourEconomy And as for a belief human exceptionalism again I hold my hand up and plead guilty. Im very glad humans exterminated smallpox. Not all species are equal. We humans are the only moral subject"
X Link 2019-09-03T16:46Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@crisortunity @simon_mair @_ourEconomy Where are the straw men Where have I misrepresented arguments"
X Link 2019-09-03T16:48Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Howdy Calgary Youve got a real cute mini CN Tower there"
X Link 2019-09-18T00:06Z 16.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@JKSteinberger If youre a socialist and in favour of censorship then youre not much of the first"
X Link 2020-09-07T17:27Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@KaiHeron Investment in the Global South makes up a tiny proportion of total investment. So its not possible for profits from so-called super-exploitation in the South to subsidize any bribing of workers in the Global North. If anything the South suffers from insufficient exploitation"
X Link 2021-08-04T23:42Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@DTCochrane @KaiHeron Did I say there wasnt exploitation in the Global South No i said the fiscal flows to and from the south were far too small to be able to buy off workers in the Global North. Both North and south workers have a common interest in ending exploitation. They are not antagonists"
X Link 2021-09-30T03:11Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@EliSennesh The tweet is not the best prcis of his talk. The talk is very good on key parts of on-the-job-training that get blocked by AI ie eliminating a key part of training. Have a watch. Its very good"
X Link 2021-11-09T19:28Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Good piece from @danielyergin on little known uses of oil and gas and their ramifications for the clean transition such as the need for petrochemicals for North Face garments or the lipids used in mRNA vaccines. Even Tylenol is a petroleum product () https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/11/energy-shock-transition/620813/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/11/energy-shock-transition/620813/"
X Link 2021-11-30T02:40Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@ceburnacct @DTCochrane @DanielYergin Oh I think a lot of environmentalists not realizing the many uses of petrochemicals want there to be no petrochemical industry like yesterday"
X Link 2021-11-30T03:16Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@Hezbolsonaro @Nate_Housley So only white people are miners. And all indigenous people want an end to mining Perhaps youd like to speak to some actual miners and actual indigenous people before you toss off such racial essentialism"
X Link 2022-08-11T03:48Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@KieranSuckling Here you go again blaming mining qua mining rather than the social relations around mining. There is nothing wrong with mining. Theres a lot wrong with the social relations around mining but also around farming pharmaceuticals theatre bookbinding balloon animals"
X Link 2022-08-11T04:27Z 15.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Thats not the end if the story of course not least with respect to microplastics and endocrine disrupting impacts but it does complicate the simplistic synthetic polymers evil; natural polymers good narrativeanother case of the appeal-to-nature fallacy"
X Link 2022-12-06T00:21Z 16K followers, [--] engagements
"@jameskwantes @nanoxplore Cool beans. Just gave them a follow"
X Link 2022-12-06T00:31Z 16K followers, [--] engagements
"When I lived in the Netherlands the Indonesian dude in this wacky chart was how I felt going to gigs. I could never see the band. My German mate Jens and I half-joked about starting a business renting out stools for non-Dutch to stand on at concerts"
X Link 2023-01-10T15:24Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@superdupler @cafreiman If a libertarian is embracing Norways 76% state ownership that makes me happy. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/14/the-state-owns-76-of-norways-non-home-wealth/ https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/03/14/the-state-owns-76-of-norways-non-home-wealth/"
X Link 2023-01-10T20:44Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"This isnt some naive romantic workerism but a realistic appraisal of how the formal & tacit knowledge of these systems by the women and men who built and operate them profoundly adds to societys understanding the feasibility & equity of different decarbonization proposals"
X Link 2023-05-25T20:00Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Decarbonization would frankly happen much faster and more equitably if the eco-austerity-enamoured green NGO-academia-media complex got out of the way and we put labour in the climate-policy drivers seat instead"
X Link 2023-05-25T20:01Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"If avg global income were that of eg an upper middle-class Norwegian at that point Id say the sufficiency talk of the limits to growth folks might have some merit. Not much merit as human needs are unbounded but at least it wouldnt be loony. But were so far from even that"
X Link 2023-06-29T20:41Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Unpop_Science Flippant You galloping hypocrite. You literally said it would be cool and cathartic if orcas killed people. Outside your misanthropic deep-green bubble most people think it awful when humans are killed or maimed by other organisms"
X Link 2023-06-11T19:39Z 15.7K followers, [---] engagements
"This report is pure conspiracism confabulating a vast new right-wing (and far-right) nuclear lobby bankrolled by industry. The reality is that most contemporary nuclear advocates come from the left & climate activism & quite deliberately dont take a penny from industry"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:14Z 14.6K followers, 52.9K engagements
"If anything its the other way round: the nuclear industry until recently has largely been scared of its own tail more focussed on decommissioning and had grimly accepted what it thought was a society-wide consensus that nuclear was a dead end"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:17Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"In fact its the science-focussed evidence-based climate activists who discovered on their own the fibs of Greenpeace the German Green Partys Heinrich Boell Foundation etc and have woken the nuclear industry up"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:17Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Once upon a time Greenpeace served a purpose: raising awareness of urgent environmental challenges. Today its a gargantuan multinational that acts a block on effective climate action little different to Exxons misinformation campaigns or Volkswagens dieselgate"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:37Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The labour movement too which recognizes the need for nuclear associated industries and how this delivers good paying family supporting jobs in the clean transition is shaking off its chains and beginning to push back against green NGO eco-austerity"
X Link 2023-06-29T21:57Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"So the conspiracist donation-obsessed unscientific dinosaurs of Greenpeace the Heinrich Boell Foundation and co are right to be scared. An evidence-based labour-backed young-climate-activist-shaped asteroid is coming for them"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:13Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@AaronBastani But even there nuclears teeny weeny land footprint just cant be beat. Mine from a couple years ago on the challenge of land-intensity of different low-carbon options:"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:03Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@AaronBastani And on top of that theres decarbonizing industrial process heat and remote extraction. I dont see many other options than SMRs for this"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:03Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@weaselx86 Sure Heres a good backgrounder on the subject from my friend Nick:"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:14Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@weaselx86 Could also recycle it as is done in France. Also what are your plans for disposal of the heavy-metal waste from solar panels To be consistent I presume youre pushing for solar panel manufacturers to be responsible for its permanent disposal"
X Link 2023-06-29T23:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Massive state-led build of large-scale nuclear & SMRs to power the clean transition with strong union support delivering perhaps a century of 1000s of good union jobsin effect the Green New Deal & Just Transition the left wants. Social democracy announced by Tories"
X Link 2023-07-09T01:07Z 14.4K followers, 48.5K engagements
"Theres something either shabbily dishonest and disloyal about Murray here or just ignorant. His good friend Christopher Hitchens was a socialist and certainly a public intellectual as was George Orwell whose warnings he has repeatedly marked out as evergreen"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:36Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"So either Murray didnt know Hitchens & Orwell were socialists which suggests a very light reading of their works or knows all too well that they were but is happy to toss off such silly remarks for the sake of the likes indifferent to the grave slander of his late friend"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:45Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Its also just absurd to suggest socialists have never made any great art or music. One cannot study the literature music painting dance film or architecture of the 20th Century without repeatedly stumbling across socialists. They are as common as eggs in a box of eggs"
X Link 2023-07-11T00:45Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Alex__1789 What an odd piece of shadow boxing. Who exactly wants to cement over the whole of the world or exterminate river otters"
X Link 2023-07-12T19:53Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Alex__1789 My argument isnt against nature parks or even re-wilding. It is that parks only exist for humans. A fortiori they can only exist for humans because there is no set way for nature to be no direction or purpose to evolution"
X Link 2023-07-12T19:53Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@humble_humboldt @willshetterly @Matthuber78 Is that really Phillips conception That he never inquires into the conditions of extraction our resources Could it instead be you who is utterly disconnected from the industrial workers who do this Lets see what Phillips actually writes:"
X Link 2023-07-17T00:36Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"They can have per week one cabbage one loaf bread and one bottle vodka. Everything else unneeded luxury"
X Link 2023-07-17T23:37Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@JWMason1 The mass global consumption of bananas (a good thing) and the spread of SUVs (not a great thing but also its complicated) are very different phenomena not at all comparable"
X Link 2023-07-20T00:51Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"A great way to view the precision manufacturing that supplies nuclear is as a catalyst or attractant for other industries that require precision manufacturingincluding many other sectors of the clean transition. (This is what happened with hydro dams in Quebec for eg)"
X Link 2023-07-20T01:40Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"(I expect those who denounced the piece before reading it will now of course apologize. Ha)"
X Link 2023-07-24T22:58Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"With Ontario going full tilt for new nuclear Qubec maybe reopening its mothballed nuke plant Ottawa pivoting to full-throated support for nukes & Alberta Sask & New Brunswick backing SMRs British Columbia risks losing out with its irrational ban on nuclear and uranium mining"
X Link 2023-08-11T18:56Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Very poor reporting here. Should be in the opinion pages not the news pages. One of the two environmental experts doing the criticizing may be an EU climate advisor but hes also a long-standing anti-nuclear campaigner and the other is an eNGO activist"
X Link 2023-08-12T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@KaiHeron Theres no rejection of limits. Theres a rejection that we must accept being bounded by them. We are at all times surrounded by limits on what we can do and human progress is defined by the overcoming of those limits. Thats what freedom is"
X Link 2023-08-17T20:54Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@PaulNolandhm The only hard limits of nature are logic and the laws of physics. But its not a matter of respecting or rejecting those particular limits as referenced in Kais original tweet; we have no choice but to abide by them"
X Link 2023-08-17T22:58Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"is writing about the dastardly EC ploughing ahead w free trade negotiations with Colombia despite mass human rights abuses. cha cha cha"
X Link 2009-05-04T10:15Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Billions would die if we stopped heating homes. Many more if there were no shipping Also he forgot: - we stop building homes hospitals schools & infrastructure (bc cement & steel) The curea genocide that would make Hitler blushis worse than the disease"
X Link 2023-08-24T15:18Z 14.6K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@Eaterofsun @DanVisioni Indeed. My initial thought was Ah Club of Rome guy; this is his programme not least because there ARE so many around these days who in all seriousness demand an end to aviation an elimination of industrial agriculture and an immediate halt to all fossil fuel use"
X Link 2023-08-24T18:20Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@ryankatzrosene Fred Pearce is great. Ive been quite frustrated with how at times the excessive focus on the (completely real) role of climate in many disasters we are letting off the hook things like neoliberal cuts to state capacity"
X Link 2023-08-28T16:16Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Very best of luck to her. This is the future of the climate movement a movement that recognizes that modernity is the solution not the enemy"
X Link 2023-08-29T23:03Z 14.6K followers, 21.7K engagements
"@GrahamWalkerNRG It is ridiculous to equate the UK and USfor all their democratic deficitswith Spanish fascism"
X Link 2023-08-30T06:34Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"Jacobin no Enough with the Fukushima-water fearmongering It contains [---] becquerels of tritium per litre well below the WHO limit of 10000 becquerels for drinking water. If you drank [--] litres of it (8 gallons) youd still only receive the radiation = to eating a banana"
X Link 2023-09-02T00:19Z 14.4K followers, 25.8K engagements
"@Matthuber78 This in passing is also part of the socialist planners critique of market socialism and social democracy regardless of the feasibility of planning at scale:"
X Link 2023-09-13T20:17Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Matthuber78 So long as there are any market actors there will continue to be incentives to delay problem solving in that infinitude of future as yet-unknown sectors where problems have been solved only to throw up new problems"
X Link 2023-09-13T20:18Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@Matthuber78 But thats a tangent from the main traditional socialist/ecomodern left argument against degrowthers: Which is"
X Link 2023-09-13T20:19Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Matthuber78 So long as such democratic interventions to speed up technology switching can enable absolute decoupling (not merely relative decoupling) of resource inputs from production there is no reason why economic growth cannot continue indefinitely on and beyond this planet"
X Link 2023-09-13T20:19Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The worst scenario imaginable would be if we found a new source of clean and infinite energy for example nuclear fusion. It would be a total catastrophe. This was precisely why the anti-nuclear movement originally got going except against fission"
X Link 2023-09-15T02:14Z 14.6K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Great short piece from @paul_prescod on Trumps instinctive anti-unionism and on how Biden needs to do better to tie clean tech subsidies to labor protections"
X Link 2023-09-17T21:15Z 14.6K followers, 15.6K engagements
"This game written by my friend @JonasKyratzes looks humanist enough to tempt me into getting into gaming. What a thoughtful interview too alighting upon how repetitive dystopian sci-fi has becomeand why"
X Link 2023-09-21T01:22Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Dystopian fiction has become entirely the opposite of subversive. Its also become just very boring"
X Link 2023-09-21T01:25Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"No major political party has addressed climate. So form a new party and if you win implement your favoured solutions. But if your response to repeatedly not winning elections is to break the law to impose your minority position on the majority thats anti-democratic"
X Link 2023-09-21T20:33Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis In any case it looks like its you who hasnt read Saito as he declares it necessary that the development of open technologies to start from scratch in many cases. In other words he doesnt see many technologies developed by capitalism to be usable"
X Link 2023-09-21T21:49Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis And the productivity advances needed to deliver a four-day work week with no loss in standard of living (while delivering a decent standard of living to everyone in the world) manifestly would entail economic growth"
X Link 2023-09-21T21:53Z 14.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Under democratic coordination we can decide ourselves: do we increase the amount of widgets for the given time or decreased work time for a given amount of widgets. In both latter cases there has been an increase in use-value"
X Link 2023-09-21T22:23Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Any increase in use-value is ipso facto economic growth"
X Link 2023-09-21T22:24Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis My point is precisely that the concept is so vague as to be unhelpful. I dont think its even feasible or beneficial to come up with such an index. The components of Zyklon B can be used as a pesticide as a soil for Bonsai trees or to commit judeocide"
X Link 2023-09-21T22:48Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis I would argue that to think systematically about technology is to consider the social relations that surround them rather than to fetishize technologies (ie to believe that the social relation is inherent to the physical item itself)"
X Link 2023-09-21T22:59Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis lets ask instead: What changes to social relations do we need to make so that we can switch to/develop a technology that retains the enormous benefit of coal plants while excluding the harm"
X Link 2023-09-21T23:08Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@JoelLiamBuehler @Matthuber78 @BenBurgis Im rejecting the notion of open and locking tech. But look to the Zyklon B example for your answer about nuclear technology. It can be used to produce reactors to deliver abundant cheap clean energy (and medical isotopes) or to produce civilization-destroying weapons"
X Link 2023-09-21T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Really great guardedly optimistic talk by Hannah about environmental decoupling and green growth. Key message: humans have never been sustainable so there can be no turning back but now for the first time we are becoming so alongside (indeed because of) a good life for all"
X Link 2023-09-22T17:35Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"It says something about Canadas history education standards that not a single MP appears to have thought: Hold on. doesnt fighting Russia in WW2 mean that you were on the wrong side This really is elementary (school) stuff"
X Link 2023-09-25T17:58Z 14.6K followers, 14K engagements
"I back cellular agriculture for potential climate nutrition cost & taste benefits it will provide & strong animal welfare protections as exist in some jurisdictions. But nature is red in tooth and claw killing orders of magnitude more animals than we do often eaten alive"
X Link 2023-09-27T00:19Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Vox reporter sympathetic to degrowth here @NoelKing argues she fees that we all in the developed world have enough maybe too much. We all must include UAW workers. It follows then they must not win the 40% raise theyre asking for for this would exceed that enough Odd Lots looks at the degrowth movement and why the idea is attracting more and more fans https://t.co/WrT9rS23vM Odd Lots looks at the degrowth movement and why the idea is attracting more and more fans https://t.co/WrT9rS23vM"
X Link 2023-09-27T21:25Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Are we not supposed to decarbonize data centres Or do you think there should just not be data centres Im which case why are you still tweeting if you dont think there should be data centres"
X Link 2023-09-28T00:48Z 14.6K followers, 19.9K engagements
"It blows my mind that there were people who dont have a minds eye. When they read novels is all thats in their head just words What are their dreams like And John Greens a novelist When he writes doesnt he visualize what hes writing"
X Link 2023-10-02T05:42Z 14.6K followers, 16.9K engagements
"I remember producing a policy note on the Norwegian EV success story for the director of the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions in [----] explaining how theyd been able to achieve an impressive 25% market share. Cant believe how fast its happened. Now at 87% Incredible"
X Link 2023-10-03T01:06Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"If one opposes the far-right Israeli govt attacks on and pogroms of Palestinian civilians one must also oppose Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians. Meanwhile Ukrainian resistance to Putins occupation fights military targets not civilians. Its Putin that targets civilians"
X Link 2023-10-07T19:07Z 14.4K followers, 36.5K engagements
"I have a lot of time for Novara Media but this is the same vile cheerleading for terror as when the day after 9/11 left-wing academic Ward Churchill called the al-Qaeda attacks chickens coming home to roost and the victims in the Twin Towers little Eichmanns"
X Link 2023-10-07T19:28Z 14.4K followers, 171.4K engagements
"A fine piece from an Israeli journalist that manages to contextualize Hamas terror in regional geopolitics while rigorously condemning it and also to condemn the far-right Israeli governments backing of anti-Pal pogroms. Would that others could walk & chew gum in the same way"
X Link 2023-10-07T20:29Z 14.6K followers, 24K engagements
"Heres the thing: when Netanyahu wreaks his own atrocities in the coming hours as he surely will I dont doubt Bernie will unreservedly condemn those too. This is what a principled left foreign policy position looks like: condemning injustice NO MATTER WHO is responsible"
X Link 2023-10-07T23:32Z 14.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
"2% Event industry experts. 3% trade unions. In a Labour party"
X Link 2023-10-08T02:13Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Rescue crews recovered [---] bodies from the Supernova festival in southern Israel. Terrorists sprayed gunfire randomly shooting those fleeing. Worse than the Bataclan massacre in Paris. And leftists are holding rallies in solidarity with these monsters"
X Link 2023-10-08T21:10Z 14.4K followers, 58K engagements
"Varoufakis compares Hamas to the ANCs armed wing uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) which also killed innocent civilians. This completely misreads history: MK almost exclusively attacked police military & govt targets & always tried to avoid harming civilians"
X Link 2023-10-09T05:56Z 14.4K followers, 189.1K engagements
"Vile exterminationist racism no different to chants of gas the Jews on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. But because over the past [--] hours the left has destroyed any moral standing we had theres now nothing we can do as Netanyahu razes Gaza. Not a soul will listen to us"
X Link 2023-10-11T04:18Z 14.4K followers, 30.4K engagements
"Pop quiz: Is this a Ukrainian street after Putins bombardment or a Gazan street after Netanyahus"
X Link 2023-10-11T05:25Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Avi and I are on opposite sides of many intra-left fights over extraction infrastructure & economic development but I agree 100% with his thread here on how hes appalled at both the Netanyahu regimes rampage of revenge & sections of the lefts celebration of Hamas atrocity"
X Link 2023-10-11T06:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Excellent furious rejoinder from @joshualeifer to @gabrielwinants ghoulish apologia for Hamas apologists"
X Link 2023-10-14T21:18Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@YiorgosVa @joshualeifer @gabrielwinant You mean all the tweets and retweets Ive done condemning the Israeli massacring of civilians eclipsing the number of Israeli dead We can walk and chew gum Yiorgos"
X Link 2023-10-14T22:01Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Even if they had voted for Hamas killing Palestinian civilians is no different to Hamas killing Israeli civilians for voting for Netanyahu & co"
X Link 2023-10-14T22:35Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"There are 500-600 US citizens in Gaza according to US and Israeli officials and many more other foreign nationals including NGO staff UN workers and journalists that Washington (but not Brussels or Oslo) appears to have abandoned"
X Link 2023-10-15T00:29Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"EU foreign affairs high representative Josep Borrell has said Israels actions breach international law and Norwegian foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt has also condemned the siege as unacceptable"
X Link 2023-10-15T00:35Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Very cool that environmental protests outside Greenpeace offices are popping up around the world against the organizations anti-nuclear climate vandalism"
X Link 2023-10-15T04:31Z 14.6K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Yanis Varoufakiswho said Hamas was no different to the ANCwas the left-wing finance minister of Greece (who I looked up to) and founded the Progressive International. This is not crazy fringe shit you find on Twitter"
X Link 2023-10-17T06:17Z 14.4K followers, 34.5K engagements
"@emcnally96 Youre doing a politics PhD at Oxford yet seem unaware that during the Cold War the vast majority of socialists in the West denounced the show trials gulag Holodomor and other horrors of the USSR while also denouncing the horrors of capitalism. Enough with the binary thinking"
X Link 2023-10-17T19:39Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements
"I should have done a better job here. I took the claims of the Gaza Health Ministry at face value. Many lines of evidence independent of both Gazan and Israeli authorities appear to demonstrate other than what I suggested yesterday"
X Link 2023-10-18T18:01Z 14.4K followers, 21.7K engagements
"@Meshugga_Daddy Fair. Though to allow a modicum of defence I wrongly assumed that the AP NBC CNN and others who reported the body count had done their due diligence on the ground. A good thread here on how newsrooms need to up their OSINT game:"
X Link 2023-10-18T18:51Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Sad words from Harold Meyerson a 48-years-long veteran of Democratic Socialists of America and its precursors now quitting the org. It must be frustrating to see recent events in a group that had refused to side with Washington or Moscow in the Cold War"
X Link 2023-10-18T19:20Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Another excellent piece from Eric. The collective punishment of the siege and bombardments are already crime enough. Theres no need to vomit on the turd (the inverse of gilding the lily). There is no reason for advocates of the Palestinian cause to dig in on a factual debate about a single incident rather than focusing on making their moral case against the present war. https://t.co/mdmuIz26k5 https://t.co/QZ7giOZ4xW There is no reason for advocates of the Palestinian cause to dig in on a factual debate about a single incident rather than focusing on making their moral case against the"
X Link 2023-10-19T18:21Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements
"To be consistent anyone rightly condemning French and German bans on Palestine solidarity protests must condemn UK police obstructing Israel solidarity protests too. Otherwise everyone is just defending the speech acts of their team not freedom of speech"
X Link 2023-10-19T20:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Those of us who have been defending free speech from attacks from the left in recent years are today also critical of France and Germanys ban on Palestine protests. Meanwhile the freeze peach brigade have only now suddenly discovered they do like free speech after all"
X Link 2023-10-20T02:40Z 14.4K followers, 12.9K engagements
"My own [----] piece in Jacobin during laffaire Harpers on the cancel culture threat to free speech and civil liberties had many many paragraphs about how left undermining of free expression norms was already a threat to Palestine solidarity groups"
X Link 2023-10-20T03:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Crucial thread. The majority of these young people Im sure think the chant just means wishing for everyone in the Levant to live in freedom and equality and not the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Also this generation has only ever known the Forever War. Its reasonable for"
X Link 2023-10-20T20:04Z 14.4K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Not true. Net zero done right will give us a cheaper greater bounty of energythe wellspring of wealth; quieter less polluting vehicles; more convivial cities; more extensive public transport; more wilderness to marvel at; more access to aircon; more nutritious meat etc etc"
X Link 2023-10-21T07:00Z 14.4K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Cancel culture indifference or antipathy toward free speech was always going to come back and bite the left in the butt"
X Link 2023-10-21T21:31Z 14.3K followers, 192.1K engagements
"The response to this heartbroken lament by the biographer of DSA co-founder Michael Harrington and a member for [--] decades has been vicious and just really sad denouncing him as a liar an apologist for ethnic cleansing & an old-fart paper-member liberal Zionist who needs a nap"
X Link 2023-10-24T04:59Z 14.4K followers, 93.1K engagements
"I dont even understand what the goal of removing posters of hostages is. Is it that these censor-litterbugs think the press & Israel are lying about there being hostages Do they worry that seeing pictures of the kidnapped might evoke sympathy for them"
X Link 2023-10-24T23:35Z 14.4K followers, 48.3K engagements
"Brother keeps nailing it. This is the left we need. Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. Im calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. Im calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of"
X Link 2023-10-25T23:57Z 15.9K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Theres an error here thinking indecency unique to the far left. Bernies stridently anti-Hamas. There were Cold War anti-Stalinist socialists like Orwell Trotsky Hitchens and Judt. There were liberal opponents of the Vietnam War and liberals like LBJ who gave us that war"
X Link 2023-10-26T04:44Z 14.4K followers, 15K engagements
"And even on the right: I may disagree with 1980s Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroneys neoliberal economics but he was also a fervent opponent of apartheid South Africa when Thatcher & Reagan & even liberal Pierre Trudeau had winked at Pretoria"
X Link 2023-10-26T04:52Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"So no sorry Matt Horseshoe Theory doesnt work here at all. Thats just liberals exploiting the (very real and abominable) Hamas apologism in parts of the left to denigrate the whole of the left"
X Link 2023-10-26T05:01Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"But the best people the very best were those Cold War democratic socialists who walked picket lines of striking miners one week and fundraised to support Eastern Europe dissidents the next. Opposed both CIA-backed Central American death squads AND Castros one-party state"
X Link 2023-10-26T05:12Z 14.4K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Saying Palestine is gonna be eviscerated and were gonna turn it into a parking lot shortly receives no demand for censure but a call for ceasefire and condemnation of the killing of civilians on both sides does"
X Link 2023-10-26T22:27Z 14.4K followers, 41.1K engagements
"@TRAILSANDWAYS @Env_Pol I cant find anything on this lack of flexibility. Could you provide a link Also the backup for w&s would then have to be gas thus increasing emissions. So this smacks of anti-nuclear campaigning not climate"
X Link 2023-10-27T02:01Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@james_d_hoff Thats utter BS. There have been dozens of celebrations of the resistance from performative radical IDpol loons. Tons of video of these rallies and actions myriad decolonial claptrap statements. It should be ABCs for Marxists to take a strong stance against such ghouls"
X Link 2023-10-27T18:19Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Gotta love ordinary Americans bone-deep belief in free speech and hatred of censorship: This is a free country You can wave your Palestine flag and shout Death to the Jews or America or whatever you want but we can put up f*ckin signs"
X Link 2023-10-27T19:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"All of us who were staggered by the demonic actions of Hamas & stunned at the apologetics shown in some quarters for such atrocity must now to be consistent stand against Netanyahus delivery to Gaza of pitiless death from above. Find a local protest. Bring both flags"
X Link 2023-10-28T08:35Z 14.4K followers, 24.9K engagements
"@MjjHollinshead Im sorry I must have missed that time when Ukraine slaughtered music festival goers shot up and slit the throats of grannies at bus stops beheaded Thai farmworkers tied parents and their children together and then burnt them alive. Get your moral compass fixed Matt"
X Link 2023-10-28T08:50Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@mwalimujulius77 There can be an Israel without occupation; there could not be an apartheid South Africa without apartheid. Or do you reject the very existence of Israel"
X Link 2023-10-28T17:35Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Centrist self-congratulation that ignores bitter divisions on the left between class-focussed classical socialists horrified at the ultra-left identitarian performative radicalsand the role liberals play in propagation of anti-universalist ideology that underpins the phenomenon"
X Link 2023-10-29T19:16Z 14.4K followers, 23.2K engagements
"The Tankies and campists who support China and Russia (Iran etc) are minuscule and online-only. The Hamas apologetics are lamentably very widespread but decolonial identitarianism reaches into the heart of elite liberal institutions from the Ivy League to corporate HR depts"
X Link 2023-10-29T19:20Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The solution is a return to Enlightenment universalism whose logical conclusion is the lefts critique of class society extending liberal democratic principle to the whole of the economy not a retreat from the left to the center"
X Link 2023-10-29T19:26Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"It wasnt Joe Bernie-supporter who wants public healthcare or some UAW member on a picket line who wants a decent contract who apologized for Hamas but Harvard grad students and NYU film studies professors"
X Link 2023-10-29T19:35Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@David_Jamieson7 Read the rest of the thread"
X Link 2023-10-29T19:40Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"No exaggeration to call this ethnic cleansing. Note the ministry wants the govt to convince Western powers to back the plan with Canada Spain & Greece identified as possible recipients of the permanently expelled Gazans. @JustinTrudeau needs to make clear Canada wont abet this"
X Link 2023-10-30T19:18Z 14.4K followers, 33.9K engagements
"@JamesConran1 @karpmj Honest question: what do you think the difference is between ceasefire and pause To my mind hostilities could restart after either as neither is a call for an end to hostilities"
X Link 2023-10-30T19:24Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"If by the term ceasefire its meant zero military action vs Hamas then no thats unreasonable. But surely theres a space between no military response and responding by carpet bombing refugee camps. There was that space after Munich 1972"
X Link 2023-10-31T22:41Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements
"The left when its in power is still stuck with those root causes having happened. We dont have a time machine. So the response cannot be: We just would not have perpetrated those root causes. So: what do we propose after a 9/11 a 7/10 a Bataclan a Charlie Hebdo etc etc"
X Link 2023-10-31T22:55Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"(This of course is the inverted mirror image of the debate over the distinction between the ANC and Hamas; resistance to oppression does not have to indeed must not take the form of atrocity.)"
X Link 2023-10-31T23:00Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Sierra Club and NRDC monomaniacally focussed in closing down Californias low-carbon Diablo Canyon nuclear plant while largely ignoring the coal plant that delivers 20% of LAs power"
X Link 2023-11-01T16:51Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Not only is this a lie as there are many many groups and individuals who are able to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinians but it repeats the very lie put about by Israeli President Isaac Herzog a few days ago that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza"
X Link 2023-11-10T04:07Z 14.4K followers, 19K engagements
"Canada the US Israel Hungary and three Pacific islands vs the world"
X Link 2023-11-11T17:15Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@occupyirtheory 3) One of your guests also says you have to pick sides. Really Do you Between Islamo-fascism and Judeo-fascism We didnt have to pick between Stalinism and capitalism during the Cold War"
X Link 2023-11-12T18:43Z 14.6K followers, [--] engagements
"@occupyirtheory 4) Just have one of these great disappointments on your show and ask us directly about all this. Id DM you about it but apparently I have to pay Elon Musk to do that now"
X Link 2023-11-12T18:43Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"The Dutch election is as much about the decline of the left as a contender across Europe as about hard-right breakthrough. In a 150-seat house the combined left got just [--] (34 incl. [--] ethnic parties) while the centre-right to far right got [--] (100 incl. agrarian interest BBB)"
X Link 2023-11-23T18:37Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@YodaAged @dlondonwortel @simonjhix Oops sorry Heres the link:"
X Link 2023-11-24T03:24Z 14.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@jdcmedlock A decrease because it is less democratic and enhances market incentive. Turning CVS Health Corp into CVS Health Workerss Co-op wouldnt solve the injustice of lack of access to adequate healthcare"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:03Z 15.8K followers, [---] engagements
"@jdcmedlock Worker ownership keeps decision-making restricted to just shareholders (who are now the workers) who must still govern in service of profit (in order to continue as a business) not in service of those societal goals"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:06Z 14.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@jdcmedlock Worker ownership is more socialist than boss-ownership as it eliminates domination by another class and extraction of surplus value but less socialist than public ownership so long as public ownership is genuinely democratic"
X Link 2023-11-25T19:06Z 14.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@Matthuber78 Eco-austerity is a species of capitalist realism: even as they demand radical anti-industrial transformation (which wouldnt solve climate change anyway) the embrace of movementism & antagonism toward organized labor results from the unimaginability of a revival of W/C power"
X Link 2023-11-27T23:50Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@its_mccarthy Centrality to accelerating decarbonization and ensuring it is effective (actually works contra the myriad eco-austerity climate policies that are bad or often bananas) and just (energy/transport/industry workers dont get shafted)"
X Link 2023-11-28T04:34Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@its_mccarthy Sorry - didnt mean for that to come across as snarky. I genuinely think it obvious like organizing around healthcare with healthcare workers but that may not be obvious for others"
X Link 2023-11-28T04:52Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@its_mccarthy When I read what the relevant unions call for with respect to climate change I often think: Yeah that pretty much gets it right on the tech and policy. When I read what eNGOs & eco-socialist/climate left activists call for I often think: Thats bonkers"
X Link 2023-11-28T05:00Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Useful explainer on the technical challenges of decarbonizing alumin(i)um. But what can I do personally in my life to fight climate change Become an electrochemical engineer"
X Link 2023-11-28T19:25Z 14.5K followers, 26.6K engagements
"@Revkin Interesting paper. I presume that if there is local/enviro opposition it will centre on increased seismicity"
X Link 2023-11-28T20:52Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"If Bernie freaking Sanders who has repeatedly condemned Netanyahus bombing campaign now counts as a genocidaire as an analog of Adolf Eichmann then plainly that word has become untethered from any real meaning. These people are unhinged"
X Link 2023-11-28T22:57Z 14.5K followers, 50.2K engagements
"@BenBurgis If Hamas had restricted themselves to the many military targets they successfully captured Oct [--] thats fair game. Same now. Is it likely that a group like Hamas would do so No. But that is different from saying Palestinians have no right to militarily respond to occupation"
X Link 2023-11-29T01:03Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The pro-hang-glider left is clearly not just fringe. It keeps happening. Something is very very broken here. It undermines peace protests isolates the anti-occupation Israeli left & anti-Hamas Palestinian left & threatens everything the left is trying to do far beyond I/P. Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction https://t.co/r7aTb2mkrQ Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language"
X Link 2023-11-29T02:47Z 15.8K followers, 433.7K engagements
"@barrylovesbagel I thought that Owen Jones and @michaeljswalker had condemned the Oct [--] attacks even as folks like Barnaby Raine and Rivkah Brown had cheered them on. I remember watching one vid in particular just after the attacks where Michael and Barnaby had quite strongly disagreed on this"
X Link 2023-11-29T04:07Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@occupyirtheory Why would I be in Hamas rather than a socialist group Why is Islamist theocracy terror and rape the only possible response to occupation"
X Link 2023-11-29T18:06Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@PumaNkrumah @8rnz3k @occupyirtheory Id argue for a Palestinian version of the ANC"
X Link 2023-11-29T23:25Z 14.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The threat to free speech since Oct [--] is perhaps most severe in Germany. Even a call for peace is censored. And where are the great free-speech warriors of the right As ever its up to the democratic left who critiqued left censorship too to keep the torch of free speech lit"
X Link 2023-11-30T21:59Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"For anyone needing a combination of impressive football/soccer acrobatics and delivery of a disquisition on Henry Kissingers myriad crimes"
X Link 2023-12-01T05:24Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Solid angry stuff from Dustin Guastella on how Netflixs Bayard Rustin biopic turns a socialist and labor giant into the much thinner subject of an anachronistic intersectional fantasia"
X Link 2023-12-01T21:32Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Ill leave it as an exercise for the reader to ponder which sort of left might have been responsible for the construction of the global trade union movement & post-war welfare state and which was responsible for show trials gulags the Holodomor & Cambodias killing fields"
X Link 2023-12-03T19:57Z 14.4K followers, 28.9K engagements
"@donaldp1917 I mean I do think that you are exactly the sort of person who would have done nothing in the face of the show trials Donny"
X Link 2023-12-03T21:50Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Jealous of all my nuke friends at COP28 making pilgrimages to Barakah the new four-unit nuclear plant built by South Koreas (mostly) publicly owned electric company for the UAE in about a decade"
X Link 2023-12-03T23:28Z 14.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Great short thread on how eNGOs like Evergreen Action and Sierra Club fib about the carbon intensity of publicly owned Tennessee Valley Authority in service of privatization while due to ignorance of how the system works actually undermine decarbonization"
X Link 2023-12-06T19:18Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Dockworkers in Sweden refusing to unload Tesla cars arriving by ship & Swedish electricians cleaners postal workers & auto component makers have said they would deny the company their services. ✊✊✊ An injury to one is an injury to all"
X Link 2023-12-06T20:21Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
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