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Van Jackson
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Van Jackson
@RealVanJackson
Joined June 2014
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is our truest successor to James Baldwin. Watch him deal with getting race-baited by a white moderate. Reminds of the Baldwin's many appearances on white moderate TV
- The world has fundamentally changed and there are signs of it everywhere"Capitalism in the Web of Life" by Jason W. Moore.
- This only became evident to me living abroad: Americans are among the most propagandized people on the planet. They have a false grip on history, they’re incurious about bad things that happen, and that fog merely serves a fiction that they’re temporarily embarrassed billionairesStellan Skarsgard really clocked American propaganda. I’d add that Americans are the most successfully brainwashed people in the world. They believe they have “freedom” when they are indentured serfs. Even soviets didn’t trust all the official slogans.. vulture.com/article/stella…
- “Abolish Palantir” is a winning message that the Democratic Party will never embrace because its leaders refuse to reject militarismDemocrats don’t need a better relationship with Big Tech. They need to make it clear that if they’re elected, Palantir will no longer exist and Musk will never receive a government contract ever again. They need to be stronger against Big Tech, not building bridges with those
- Really struggling to understand even the pretense of India’s strategic rationale at this point--it’s all jingoism. They have nothing to gain and they seem to want nothing but blood, which only invites retaliation
- Admin source tells me "Everyone wants 'preemptive war' now except for Mattis." Normal Korea experts have no idea how serious this isTonight's Nelson Report (a reputable newsletter on NE Asia): Removing personal assets from #ROK now advisable, say sr. admin. officials.
- Fukuyama: “the invasion of Ukraine was such a shock bc in our lifetimes we’ve never witnessed one country militarily invading another.” Chris Hayes: “Well, Iraq.” Fukuyama: “Yeah but…well, ok” 😂😂😂
- I don’t know what the right term is for this Palantir guy but I’ve seen him in 5 interviews and each time he puts on this “I’m just a wild, crazy guy genius” persona. But you listen to what he says and he’s just rhetorically dissembling on behalf of pure death-dealing andThis is an insane clip. He completely lost and his sidekick had to call backup. What’s more, he begins so arrogantly and once he rolls out the tone-deaf stupidity of his answer, he falters and realizes he lost the room. All she had to say was “stop using that excuse.” A thing of
00:00 - It seems obvious now that Yanis Varoufakis’s conversation with Larry Summers in his memoir was really about whether Yanis could be trusted with an invite to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedo island
- Replying to @RealVanJackson--Gorka, Rodman, Bolton all going to Singapore. --Trump says he doesn't need preparation for the biggest diplo move ever. --Pompeo swears KJU is ready to denuclearize. --Gripping TV. But in the end NK will have nukes and the US will be much lowered. Are you not entertained???
- The fact that Trump could perform this well with no ground game and by basically just doing podcasts should force some reflection from the consulting class…but it won’t
- I’ve had a number of media interview requests ahead of the Trump-Kim summit, which I’ve mostly declined. I’ve been relatively reticent about it, and a number of people have asked why. Here’s why. (1/11)
- The thing Walz is struggling with right now is not his performance, which is strong. It’s that he can’t offer a meaningful enough contrast with Vance’s ethnonationalist answers to every question, from Iran to climate change
