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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12m

(Spoiler: it's not going to be me; I don't have credentials, a position in the institutions, or a whole bunch of people who think I'm fun to have around.)

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12m

Someone I like and respect mentioned my account in the same breath as the apologist for disinformation who is taken apart by the Bellingcat founder in this thread. I'm trying to get across that you have to *choose* which of me or Oliver you want in your recomposed Left. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jutel argues that Disinfo Studies is rooted in a NatSec-administrative paradigm and reflects a broader historical struggle in communications theory. That framing may be worth examining, but flattening the entire field into a proxy for state power skips a lot of nuance.

Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · Aug 3

My published work on the political economy of Disinfo Studies puts it in the historical context of different theories of communication. It is an old struggle between an instrumental, administrative paradigm in service of NatSec priorities and the Frankfurt School that railed against that. [thread]

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12m

... who tend to see fascism as righteous karma on shitlibs for their sins; who have no problem with genocide denial if the deniers are Boomer Western journos/academics carrying water for non-Western anti-liberal regimes, because there is no "truth", just memes that comfort or discomfort shitlibs.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12m

I wrote a slightly more developed version of this on Facebook, and some Scottish comrades liked it enough to want to repost it.

It's not just Red-Browns, or even "tankies". It's the section of the Left who despise things like trans rights and YIMBY as "liberalism"...

bsky.app/profile/unga...

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 1h

Although @daphnelawless.com is in New Zealand, every word of this is familiar as the British left makes its moves to grind together again...

leftungagged.org/2025/10/14/r...

Left Recompostion CAN'T Include Red Brownism... - Ungagged!

Although Daphne Lawless is in New Zealand, every word of this is familiar as the British left makes its moves to grind together again… My bottom line on Left recomposition is that I’ve found out, by e...

leftungagged.org

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_P...

Louis Philippe (1773–1850), Roi Bourgeois

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1h

What do you think of Orwell's essay on him (one of my faves)?

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1h

A section of the radical Left on here are convinced that liberal democracy is in fact already over, that the Trump regime *will* simply massacre protestors soon, and that the people in frog costumes are disgusting cowards because they're not grabbing their 2nd Amendment Solutions and firing first

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 3h

Guys, I know I've recently described some other things as Blueskyism, but I was wrong. I think this is peak Blueskyism and will never be improved upon

Bluesky discussion on the No Kings protests. User A states "If you're going to die, die on your feet." Aubrey responds, "Protestors on Saturday will be on their feet." To which user A responds, "And your solution is to lie down and take it?"

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 1h

Swedish fed

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

Well, no again, they would argue they *do* have *revolutionary* values and morality, which *require* not caring about deaths of counterrevolutionaries en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_M...

Their Morals and Ours: The class foundations of moral practice - Wikipedia

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

Add this to the fact that the Greens (in my country at least) have a program for change, although it's not something I can contribute to. I snorted when a Green leader said "we can get Wayne Brown to do a lot of good stuff if we talk to him right". But they were right. It's just not my skill set.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

This is NOT me saying I'll join the Greens or any other electoral party - but that I'm highly skeptical about any recomposition which is based entirely on people who are happy to call themselves "Socialists".

Also, it wasn't Greens who actively bullied me over 15 years for my attempts at analysis.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

If I'm going to sit in a political meeting with people whose views piss me off, I'd rather go to a Green meeting to hear hippie nonsense and praise of working through the institutions, than go to a Socialist meeting to hear that trans people are menaces and Bashar al-Assad did nothing wrong.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

oi mate you got a loicense for that 200 year old sport uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/angry-v...

Angry villagers on council’s ‘mean-spirited, crass decision’ to ban cricket

Vincent Atkinson is the longest-serving member of Danbury Cricket Club. He has played here since 1977, when he joined aged 16.

uk.sports.yahoo.com

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

Newsom is evil in a jar of hair gel, but would probably be on the *left* of contemporary Brit Labour

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 2h

Do you guys remember when some very anti-imperialist and serious Left journalists, Ryan Grim springs to mind, were saying that Matt Gaetz was a vital ally for good within the Trump admin?

Or did I dream it?

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 3h

The joke in the US is that "Brit Labour are what the most embittered radical leftist *SAYS* the Democrats are"

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 3h

I think you're right but you've got it turned inside out. They think "bourgeois morality" itself is a hideous farce; that it is *morally superior* to not care how many Israeli civilians re massacred. They think that anyone who does is weak-spirited and corruptible; lack of empathy makes them better.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 3h

No. The Dems are far to the left of UK Labour, on trans rights at least

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 3h

To be fair, it's the "edgy left" themselves who are wishcasting about Zohran being a sellout. It's the ABC of their politics that he can't be anything other than a sellout, winning on the Dem ballot line without a "revolutionary party" behind him. The thing it, this isn't a worthless argument

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

Zohran told a synagogue than he would not discriminate against Zionist Jews, something that would be illegal as well as insanely provocative, and a bunch of high follower, brain poisoned accounts took that and NYT wish-casting about his alleged moderate turn as evidence he's a sellout.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 3h

It won't? You think the average lib won't just reset to how they felt about Israel before 10/7/23 now that starving kids will no longer be on TV?

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 4h

A lot of the Left try the line "you can't be happy under capitalism, only revolutionary struggle can help you". Maybe, but if revolutionary struggle makes feel worse because the Left treats me like shit (true story), guess I'll die and the Left won't miss me

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

imo the left implicitly cedes a lot of mindshare to the right by trying to make individual advice societal advice. while it's just objectively true that structural forces determine most of your life, that's not really good advice *for a person* to hear. gotta focus on the 20-30% they can control

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

Basically every protest I've been to in East Texas since January has had dozens of Palestinian flags. Still amazes me to then log on and see people act like the average lib mom is not for Gaza.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 20h

My sentimental favourite is "Obilex & Co.", but you miss something if you don't know the antagonist is based on Jacques Chirac

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 20h

As I was saying to @besttrousers.bsky.social a few weeks ago, the "Abundance" label is a net negative. It's splitting the coalition internally and letting a lot of bad actors traffic destructive ideas in reputable places. YIMBY is just a better brand all around

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 20h

The exception is _Asterix in Belgium_, where they have to ditch all the puns relating to the Belgian language divide and don't replace them with anything interesting

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