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Elena Louisa Lange's avatar

This is great, thanks again, Adam. All hail CJ Hopkins and down with Bratton: there will be an in-depth discussion of Bratton‘s leftwing totalitarian fantasies in an upcoming ep of Red Star Radio. Especially after Bratton called me a „libertarian Trotskyist“, an „anti-vaxxer Marxist“, and „sociopathic crackpot“ (I liked this one) on Twitter, unprovoked, you could see that the very fragile Mr Bratton isn’t really up for having a critical discussion of his theses, symptomatic for the authoritarian stream he represents.

Check out my new Substack on the left’s inversion of conspiracy and reality and another authoritarianism fanboy, Quinn Slobodian, which I think I‘ll manage to upload today. Much love and keep on resisting, E

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Adam Lehrer's avatar

thanks Elena I'll check it out! The thing I can't stand about Bratton the most is his faux edgy posturing. He acts like he's some kind of renegade philosopher but his politics are functionally the same as any talking head on mainstream media.

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Elena Louisa Lange's avatar

From my interactions with him, I sure have to impression he is quite insecure and definitely beging for validation. There is almost nothing lower for an intellectual than to cloak one’s conformism in the rhetoric of dissent, but I don’t even see that happening. It’s openly conformist propaganda, no strings attached. Or maybe it’s just clear to us few.

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Bag of Numerous Geese's avatar

i live about a mile away from current affairs headquarters on st charles avenue and I keep hoping i will catch the "plantation riddler" staring at the clouds so i can mug him for the cause

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APT2324's avatar

I think there's an erroneous link in the paragraph about the Bratton book, the link for Hausdorf's rebuttal just takes you to the book's page on the Verso website.

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Adam Lehrer's avatar

thank you for the edit!

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