aegg @castawaymariner Twitter profile

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aegg

6 months

long one this time - an examination of the drug trade, deindustrialization, policing, and surveillance in America, and what I think those things mean for the future of the left

End of the Line

The Making of the American Underclass

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@castawaymariner

5 months

this guy would have been big on twitter

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the Chinese working class is on the cutting edge of hanging out

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Incredible things are happening in China

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white boy obsessed with Japan vs white boy obsessed with China is one of the most important political distinctions of the 21st century

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My prof: Elves aren't real Me: 🙋‍♀️ Elves were common in Northern Europe before the Industrial Revolution. They disappeared as a result of science overpowering magic in the eternal scale of being. My prof (decades in academia): idk

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"Bureaucratics" by Jan Banning

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“The masses have boundless creative power.” - Mao Zedong

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Bro ??? I - 😭

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check this out

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under communism the national anthem will be a 27-minute ambient drone piece

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2 years

you know I keep those thangs on me

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6 months

still true

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2 years

John Birch Society map of communism, 1980

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1 year

this thread has led me to believe that most people would be satisfied with a tube of grey nutrient slurry provided by the state

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2 years

Russian state media: An interview with the soldiers of Special Battalion “Denikin” fighting in Ukraine against Nazi-NATO LGBT ideology Chinese state media: Villagers in Chongqing are surprised to encounter an elephant, but are respectful of its great wisdom

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9 months

autogenerated content mills have embraced Maoist Standard English

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2 years

in 2-3 years there will be a really unbearable esoteric subculture on here who call themselves "lovecraftian marxists" and write the worst prose you've ever seen

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8 months

Twitter should implement a faction system so you can manage your standing with the Perverts, the Metalheads, the Maoists, the Grad Students, etc.

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2 years

does anyone else think it's kinda epic to be a freaking schizo o_0

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2 years

I trust your judgment

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2 years

so many online leftists would've been fence sitters during WWII

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8 months

hiding in the bathroom during a date to read the Wikipedia page for Love on my phone

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5 months

@ConceptHuman to be fair a US Marine deserves some credit for being able to write out a full sentence in the first place

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2 years

learning about Mao's grandson

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8 months

not really interested in any of the psychodrama NGE depicts. I only watch for the shots of control panels and industrial infrastructure

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 13 Angel Infiltration

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2 years

2,500 Army men and CIA agents carried out chemical warfare tests in Paraguay for use in Vietnam, and when American soldiers were injured, they were treated by Josef Mengele

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2 years

autechre song

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2 years

amerika requires a military dictatorship that will treat "chiropractic care" like footbinding in maoist china

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1 year

women love industrial infrastructure, abandoned facilities, ruined colossi of steel and concrete, etc.

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3 months

what we need is a The Wire-style series that depicts life in a postindustrial northern Chinese city: salt-of-the-earth street vendors, grizzled detectives, ambitious local Party bureaucrats, scheming real estate developers

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4 months

shoutout to this guy

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2 years

@hum_dunkin it's so cool how mommy can just take my nose. normal world.

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6 months

some of the last real American outsider art can be found buried deep in MAGA twitter

Lee's His and Hers Formal Fashion warehouse ltd♥ X

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This I thought it's raining When I found out it's almost gone. Wow! This is the second time I saw a hail . The first time I saw a hail in California in Long Beach. It's big like the fingernails . Now, this is like tears it's melting.

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10 months

America needs a program that creates superfluous free-time jobs (security guard, parking lot attendant, night clerk) for young intellectuals so they can pursue their studies

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1 year

Stardew Valley should be banned and replaced with a charming pixel-art game about the joys of mechanized collective farming

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1 year

under communism hotel chains will be replaced with inns populated by mysterious travelers and kind barkeeps

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9 months

I found your prose overwrought but your analysis penetrating, playboy

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10 months

if the Napoleon film is successful I’m hoping we can get an entire Historically Progressive Figure Cinematic Universe

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2 years

Proposals for the Lincoln Memorial

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5 months

this TikTok helped me to understand why so many cultures have fables of trickster gods taking human form to teach people lessons

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bro won

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1 year

(trying to pretend like I’m not controlled by a fungal hivemind)

(brain) worm buxx

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1 year

This is really silly but I don’t like how anti-fungus The Last of Us is. It feels reactionary to our future body possibilities.

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3 months

@gracecthdralprk sometime in the next few decades a Western government’s attempt to seriously restrict access to internet pornography will spark a protest movement on the scale of the Arab Spring

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6 months

under communism I’d like to be an old man who plays chess in the park and dispenses cryptic wisdom to my youthful opponents

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perfect Bushwick party at 11pm on a Sunday is joints being passed around a room of only white guys and Asian girls, Fallen Angels is playing on the TV screen and someone’s reading Simone Weil

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2 years

incredible things are happening

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many of my mutuals missed their callings as flamboyant ideologically incoherent warlords in 1930s china

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(Chinese rapper) Your conduct in the presence of women is unbecoming / It would be wise for you to engage in rigorous study of discipline and etiquette / I robbed my plug much as how the Western barbarian-imperialists robbed China during the Century of Humiliation

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5 months

this was one of the most interesting posts I saw this year I think. most people never even scratch the surface of the ocean of subcultures and communities based around outsider art that exists online

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fascinated by these 3d fetish renders where the premise, if im understanding correctly, is that it's a world where clothes are "alive" and can act independently of their wearers. youre supposed to jerk off to this stuff. someone made these images to jerk off to

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1 year

this looks like the interior of squidward’s house

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rose quartz sinks

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@furby_hancock organic eaters wake up every day and say to themselves “hmm… I think I’ll forego this blend of the most splendid substances yet produced by modern science for a plate of toxic foliage…”

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construction workers marching in Moscow with models of modernist housing units, 1931

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2 years

the Burger King has been deposed and replaced with a burger mercantile development state with land redistributed to the burger peasants

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a man on the edge

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since the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Karl Marx as young adults question growing income inequality

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What is the most obscure communist fact you know?

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western leftists really think they can develop revolutionary consciousness without engaging in intensive study of alchemy

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American film: My Friggin In-Laws! (1 hr 32 mins) Chinese film: Serve the Homeland Through Patriotic Military Service (4 hr 58 mins)

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to desire is to suffer

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to prevent Finnish radicals from immigrating to the US there was an attempt to classify Finns as "Mongolian" so they would be covered by Oriental Exclusion laws

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punished giorgio

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@castawaymariner @masonwrong A lot of them have transitioned to live streaming and TikTok to try and monetize the hustle (or lack thereof)

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How Africa Underdeveloped Europe: Economy and Ecology under the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat of Oppressed Nations, 2061-2096

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The Murder of the Soviet Union

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From the late 60s through the late 70s Army intelligence agents were present at every demonstration of more than 20 people

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@jesusdersupajew No Mao but she use that Tung when I Tse so

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the local library should be the biggest building in any given town

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future humans will look down on us for allowing dentists, a caste of unaccountable witch doctors, to molest our mouths with hooked and bladed implements

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RIP Henry Kissinger. he once unknowingly helped smuggle 125 kilograms of heroin into the US

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my gf just left me for a fancy merchant capitalist in the big city-state even though I have the most bountiful fields and the hardest-working oxen in the whole village

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lol r/longshoremen banned a bunch of Trotskyists for criticizing their union

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nothing like kicking back after a long day of waking up at noon and reading pdfs

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hey I wanted to let you know that we're reassessing your historical role. I can't give any details, but it's looking like they're going to conclude that your actions were flawed but understandable given the conditions

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peasant gf just married the town blacksmith despite my prodigious grain harvest

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every Maiden doth possess an Excess of Humor, whether it be Blood, Coleric, Bile, or Phlegm, so sayeth the Natural Sciences

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apparently every girl is either fox pretty, cat pretty, deer pretty, or bunny pretty

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atheist agitators in the 1920s Soviet Union would stand in front of the local church and read passages from the encyclopedia, "say the extract on the isosceles triangle or on similar triangles," in place of preaching

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Cross-sections of the Kowloon Walled City created by Japanese researchers, 1993-97

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"Sometimes, I'd hear a communist speaker say something so bitter and extreme, I'd feel embarrassed. Then I'd look around at the unemployed audience - shabby clothes, expressions worried and sour. Faces would start to glow, heads to nod, hands to clap."

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Alex & Books 📚

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Economist and bestselling author @tylercowen reads 100+ books a year. Here are 18 tips from him on how to read fast, read well, and read widely: 1) Cowen’s first rule of reading is as follows: You need not finish. He takes up books with great hope and no mercy, and when he is

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the best part of seizing state power is appointing your associates to positions for which they are manifestly unqualified

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before eating dinner american families say a prayer to Hitler and Ronald McDonald

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my political journey! 2016: revisionist 2017: dogmatist 2018: capitalist roader 2019: bureaucrat-capitalist 2020: running dog 2021: big feudal landlord 2022: right-opportunist 2023: left-opportunist

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cool anecdote about the spontaneous creativity of factory workers in the 1940s

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an extremely important book for understanding the present situation: mass surveillance/weapons tech is tested in occupied Palestine and redeployed against refugees/captive populations the world over

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the connection between cop city and palestine is not just like a discursive "pivot" that people are making. it's not rhetoric or like a vague "everything is connected" platitude. these are direct, material, links.

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I had to unfollow you because your posts don't contain enough references to East Asia, the lives of medieval peasants, cultivating wisdom, quests and adventures, etc.

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if you type in "material conditions" google should list what contradictions are currently developing

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haha thats pretty epic man. did you know that Dmytro Yarosh, former leader of the neo-Nazi Right Sector group which regularly assaults LGBT people, was recently appointed adviser to the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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Putin’s manly recruitment ads stand no chance against Ukraine’s they/them army

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the CIA allowed Afghan opium production to increase in the 80s in the hopes of getting Soviet soldiers addicted to heroin, leading by the late 90s to an AIDS epidemic in Central Asia

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at least one-third of your day should be spent ambling, strolling, smiling and nodding at passerby, sighing contentedly, and taking it easy

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this is what the average american eats every day

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"going for a run" - wasteful, obsessive, exhausting walking slowly with your hands clasped behind your back - meditative, sophisticated, certain to intrigue all manner of passers-by

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shouts out to the vietnamese businessman whose landlord is the CPUSA

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just cloaked my bourgeois nationalist movement in marxist language

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I think there should be more films where people hang out and don't do anything in particular

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back in the 1950s you could join the mob and hijack trucks, shake down small businesses, etc. for a living. neoliberalism destroyed that

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French peasants hibernated in groups throughout the winter until the 1910s

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slightly Bataillean point: animals waste the vast majority of their time. They sit around most of the day, idly grooming themselves or napping. Sometimes they engage in more intense acts of waste, play or hunting. Nature docs absolutely distort this image, by focusing just

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@roun_sa_ville State Department Left

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I'm in third period Honors Marxism-Leninism making the class laugh by clowning on my revisionist teacher

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if you build a factory the working class will spontaneously generate inside of it like maggots or flies

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you occasionally rt my posts so I was wondering if you wanted to read my five-thousand-word blog post about chinese industrial development

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very nightmarish post

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in college I made my dad come to some frat/art house with me as my "boyfriend" and, like a good father, he saw no problem with this tactic (I was trying to make some boy jealous)...he reached for my hand as we made our way inside and from that moment on I knew I was a True Artist

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they conducted a study of my mutuals

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