#richardseymour — Public Fediverse posts
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"His persona is actually Mr. McMahon, the WWE persona. He's basically the evil billionaire boss. I get Trump more than I want to. When I watch him, there's a part of me that goes, okay, yes, I get this. And so I can see the emotional appeal in a way that the liberal technocrats like Obama can't. I think that's one of their weaknesses and why they keep getting beaten."
#RichardSeymour, 2024
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/richard-seymour
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#NathanJRobinson: "JHelp me better understand how QAnon could become a thing."
"It's a live action role playing game in which you, somebody who knows nothing about politics, can be involved in the most important things that are happening in the world, in which there is an apocalyptic crescendo at the end.
#RichardSeymour, 2024
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"I think the Gujarat pogrom is the canary in the coal mine, and it's where all the techniques that we're seeing today begin. It's where we first learn that popular violence is not discrediting to the far right when it's associated with them. It actually can be an electoral advantage, and it was for the BJP ... So in this sense, it's hard, muscular capitalism, shorn of politically correct welfarist, environmentalist, fluffy, woke constraints."
#RichardSeymour, 2024
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Finding The Antidote to Disaster Nationalism with #RichardSeymour, who argues that crises— climate disasters, economic shocks—are exploited by nationalist forces to strengthen state power, scapegoat outsiders, and entrench capitalist interests. He critiques neoliberalism and advocates an #Ecosocialist alternative.
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Culture #Politics #Economics #Ecosystem #Permaculture #SolarPunk
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I know a lot of people have beef with #TheGuardian coz of Corbyn or whatever, but I support it as it is literally the only news outlet in the UK that will feature voices such as #ArwaMahdawi, #GeorgeMonbiot, #OwenJones, #JohnHarris, #NesrineMalik, #RichardSeymour and others
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/10/journalism-values-reader-support-trump-musk
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Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it | Richard Seymour | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/far-right-leaders-economy-voters
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Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it | Richard Seymour | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/far-right-leaders-economy-voters
Today’s far right offers a different answer – what the political theorist William Connolly calls a “politics of existential revenge”. It replaces real disasters with imaginary disasters. Trump warns of “communist” takeover and amplifies the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. His supporters rail against “white genocide” and satanic child-molesting elites. Instead of opposing injustice, they vilify those who threaten social hierarchies like class, race and gender. Instead of confronting systems, they give you enemies you can kill. This is disaster nationalism.
#farright #disasterNationalism #fascism #MAGA #pogroms #richardSeymour
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Over the last few days I’ve been thinking back to this Richard Seymour piece about the strange connections between centrists and the far-right:
Against all this, official liberalism has one move, which is to supplement its growth discourse by triangulating the far-right. Just as Biden had sought to neutralise Trump by appropriating parts of his border agenda, Macron’s government has tried to outflank Le Pen by, for example, calling her soft on Islam and fulminating about “Islamo-gauchisme”. This is a weird symbiosis, in which both the hard-centre and the far-right thrive on cultivating hopelessness and punitive desires: sado-pessimism. It legitimises the far-right, who take the win and demand more
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/07/the-rise-of-disaster-nationalism
There’s a long history of new Labour doing this, with the right flank of Starmer’s coalition now extending well into traditionally Conservative territory. Yes he’s called it “far-right thuggery” but I can’t help but wonder how the electoral landscape might be shaping tactical responses, with regards to for example recalling Parliament or going after Farage. My concern that Starmerism will lead the UK on a similar path to Macronism in France is growing with each passing day.
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/06/the-triangulation-of-centrists-emboldens-the-far-right/
#farRight #labout #liberalism #macron #populism #richardSeymour #riots #Starmer
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Commendably referenced & evidenced piece on #lockdowns from the usually-reliable #RichardSeymour
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Three years on, there is a new generation of lockdown sceptics – and they’re rewriting history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/lockdown-sceptics-history-academics-left-covid?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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"I think somebody famously put it: the message of accounts on Instagram is I had a better holiday than you, on Facebook it's my children are better than yours, and on #Twitter it's my ideology has killed less people than your ideology."
"What is it about #SocialMedia that turns us into such objectionable creatures? [...] Ash is joined by #RichardSeymour, author of #TheTwitteringMachine."