Luke Savage @LukewSavage
Words in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Statesman, Smithsonian. Columnist at Jacobin. Seeking Social Democracy w/Ed Broadbent out now. ecwpress.com/products/seeki… Toronto, Ontario Joined April 2011-
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Lot of takes floating around about what is motivating student protestors (loneliness, peer pressure, trying to be trendy?) My take: protestors are primarily motivated by concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Note that almost no one in US media bothers defending Israel’s destruction of Gaza on its merits. Every criticism now is concern trolling, crybullying, anti-zoomer psychobabble and “Trump would be worse” voter-scolding. It’s all meta, desperate, and morally vacuous
Note that almost no one in US media bothers defending Israel’s destruction of Gaza on its merits. Every criticism now is concern trolling, crybullying, anti-zoomer psychobabble and “Trump would be worse” voter-scolding. It’s all meta, desperate, and morally vacuous
Nice Howard Zinn quote (via @LukewSavage): 'They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.'
No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have. Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.
No, seriously, Uber is deciding what driver gets what job based on their weight, whether they ever missed a payment, what political associations they have. Algorithmic wage discrimination should be made illegal before it becomes the dominant business model.
Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.
Imagine being the college dean who escorts snipers to the roof to take aim at your own students.
He was probably a Conservative MP because he believed in the things he consistently voted for - slashing taxes on the rich, destroying the welfare state, privatisation, that kind of thing. And he probably doesn’t think Labour poses any threat to those core beliefs?
He was probably a Conservative MP because he believed in the things he consistently voted for - slashing taxes on the rich, destroying the welfare state, privatisation, that kind of thing. And he probably doesn’t think Labour poses any threat to those core beliefs?
Thanks @David_Moscrop for covering our new policy report on what it would take to spark a major expansion of democratic employee ownership in Canada. Full report here: policyalternatives.ca/employee-owner…
Thanks @David_Moscrop for covering our new policy report on what it would take to spark a major expansion of democratic employee ownership in Canada. Full report here: policyalternatives.ca/employee-owner…
Major revelation here about the findings of 4 key bureaus at the State Dept. Worth reading the whole thread+story. Note confirmation of my scoop last month that Jack Lew, Biden’s ambassador to Israel, is strongly defending Isr claims of complying with U.S. + international law.
Major revelation here about the findings of 4 key bureaus at the State Dept. Worth reading the whole thread+story. Note confirmation of my scoop last month that Jack Lew, Biden’s ambassador to Israel, is strongly defending Isr claims of complying with U.S. + international law.
An actual, bonafide instance of norm erosion in action:
An actual, bonafide instance of norm erosion in action:
In 2014, Obama's lawyers insisted a president had a unilateral right to extrajudicially assassinate Americans. 10 years later, Trump's lawyers are basing their assertions on the same argument. It's all bad. Maybe liberals shouldnt have eyerolled critics of Obama's move.
In Canada, calls are growing to boycott Loblaws for the month of May, but how do you boycott an oligopoly? Still, boycott or not, Canadians are paying for Galen Weston’s castle. NEW from @LukewSavage: ricochet.media/labour/class-w…
They're already calling Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted "the cinematic event of the year." "A tour de force of comedy and social commentary" - every newspaper; "Unfrosted? This movie has FROZEN all the critics who said it was dumb as shit dead in their tracks" - Peter Travers
Good chat
.@jordanbpeterson calls @jacobin "idiot socialists" (ft. @LukewSavage and @MattPolProf): youtube.com/watch?v=hIK73W…
Bad movie that thinks it's a good one:
Bad movie that thinks it's a good one:
An Aaron Sorkin January 6th movie sounds like a fever dream that would emerge from a riffing session on a left irony podcast, not an actual thing that does or should exist in our reality
Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker
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noah kulwin @nkulw
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Carl Beijer @CarlBeijer
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Pretty straightforward!
Columbia Professor @BruceRobbins6 on CNN with Fareed Zakaria and Bret Stephens.
This is such a profoundly strange way to live, constantly laundering your ideological preferences through pseudoscientific public opinion tea leaf-reading. Just say you disagree w/ the protestors and think killing 17,000+ Palestinian children is justified, it takes way less labor
Ivy League students might plausibly be a leading indicator for *elite* sentiment. But to a first approximation, they are irrelevant to forecasting popular sentiment. And to a second approximation, they are a contrary indicator.
Can't wait to hear @WillSloanEsq and @LukewSavage discuss this on the pod! (And notice Elon's response 🤣)
Comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld finally goes FULL BLAST on Left’s destruction of comedy: “This is the result of the extreme left, and PC crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.” This moment is powerful.
terrible news for ivy league grads who were hoping to move to lakewood washington to help a single 70 year old man run a geocities website
Attention job seekers. I will not hire any recent graduate of Columbia, because that school is so tainted that I will not be able to trust in the character nor the educational attainment of any of its students. And I furthermore will not hire any older graduates either, because…
folks. ive said it before and again: the GOAT
Currently on Criterion 24/7 Close-Up (1990) Dir: Abbas Kiarostami 98 mins
CPAC: we banned a bunch of alt-right guys to show our commitment to a multiethnic conservative movement and also democrats are the real racists also CPAC: so anyway here’s a blonde lady with a funny name going off about white genocide and crime statistics
Here it is! The full speech I gave at #CPACHungary that the establishment is losing its absolute mind about. I spoke the forbidden truth: The Great Replacement is no longer a theory - it’s reality. White Europeans are being replaced in their own countries at an ever…
If only there was some way to ask the protesters what they think. Sadly, no living pundit speaks their language, so we have no choice but to rely on guesswork
This is probably right. Most people don't form political opinions through deep examination of the issues or reasoning from first principles. It's more like picking some particular fashion label or way of dressing. Especially for younger people, who face more peer pressure.
this sounds crazy but actually getting way too into a trend from 2012 is the most russian thing you can possibly do
Russian mercenaries are in "hot pursuit" of the notorious warlord Joseph Kony, after a bloody near-capture in a remote corner of the Central African Republic earlier this month, sources tell Rolling Stone. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Lot of takes floating around about what is motivating student protestors (loneliness, peer pressure, trying to be trendy?) My take: protestors are primarily motivated by concern over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
The Guardian's half-sentence biography of Chuka Umunna recalls him as a "rising star" which is odd given his star long ago imploded. Chuka is now pursuing the noble cause of helping a billionaire buy Royal Mail. It's speculated the plan is to "strip out all the valuable assets."
It was amazing, if not surprising, how little thought anyone on stage at the White House Correspondents' Dinner paid to the 97 journalists killed in Gaza since Israel began its siege. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
"Our institutions are so antiquated, so undemocratic, that we need fundamental reform to change them, to democratize them,” says Ari Berman, author of the new book "Minority Rule." democracynow.org/2024/4/26/ari_…
Protesting, to Serious Media Guys, is like a space capsule entering the atmosphere. It has to be at the exact speed and angle or the cause (which, they assure you, they vaguely care about) blows up. Somehow existing movement are never calibrated to their preferred inputs. Oh well
Note that almost no one in US media bothers defending Israel’s destruction of Gaza on its merits. Every criticism now is concern trolling, crybullying, anti-zoomer psychobabble and “Trump would be worse” voter-scolding. It’s all meta, desperate, and morally vacuous
This is probably right. Most people don't form political opinions through deep examination of the issues or reasoning from first principles. It's more like picking some particular fashion label or way of dressing. Especially for younger people, who face more peer pressure.
there’s something that happens over time that the further away we get from a large, annoying band’s time in the zeitgeist occupying the payola slots, the softer the edges get, the more we revise that they were Actually Good & Radical, its how we get Sublime revisionism, etc
on the road behind sideshow bob this morning
imagine debasing yourself at the white house correspondent dinner, only for the new york times to send me a news alert panning your set the next morning 🤌🏾
Nice Howard Zinn quote (via @LukewSavage): 'They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.'
One of the main conservative arguments on Gaza is that it's ok to kill Palestinian civilians because they're not woke.
Steven Thrasher, screaming about Israel as a professor at NU & Khymani James, screaming about tIsrael as a CU student, are both queer and black. You know where it's OK to be queer and black? Israel. Ask a gay Ethiopian Jew. You know where they'd be thrown off a rooftop? Gaza.
history will remember colin jost as a man who blew smoke up the president’s a** while it was already public that intelligence from within the state department thought the US was being anything but decent about palestine
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