Ian Welsh

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    25 Aug 2016

    There is only one law that creates Heaven on Earth: "be kind at scale". That is all. If you can't do that, Earth will be hell for many.

    4 replies 58 retweets 90 likes
  2. Retweeted
    1 hour ago
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    Don Juan? "You can only see things you can explain" (pdf)

    1 retweet 2 likes
  3. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    Drugs get the credit for a hell of a lot of the lives that are actually destroyed by the economy.

    15 replies 539 retweets 1,759 likes
  4. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    "Capitalism is freedom" he tweeted during a 10min break from coerced labor performed under threat of homelessness and starvation.

    3 replies 91 retweets 177 likes
  5. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    Big News Guys: Newsweek has settled over Kurt Eichenwald's Trump-Russia articles falsely smearing me.

    65 replies 183 retweets 382 likes
  6. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    Much better than the last fifteen years of China getting our industrial base and US officials lying to us about it.

    The Trump trade people are actually honest that the Chinese want to continue screwing us on trade.
    3 replies 32 retweets 55 likes
  7. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    This clampdown renders people homeless and provides no solutions. It's a war on the impoverished.

    UPDATED: Coun. Jim Karygiannis calling for hefty fines as city officials clamp down on Scarborough rooming houses
    1 reply 10 retweets 8 likes
  8. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    my friend who works 60 hrs/wk duct taped some sticks to his fractured wrist bc he can't afford surgery but good for these dickheads I guess

    69 replies 2,113 retweets 5,111 likes
  9. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    The biggest diversity problem at the BBC isn't gender or race: it's class. Yet no-one talks about it. My piece:

    164 replies 1,254 retweets 1,555 likes
  10. 20 hours ago

    I know that for many people having kids is great. Bravo. But I am so very glad I did not.

    2 replies 13 likes
  11. Jul 21
    Replying to

    I used to think I was lazy. Probably am. But much of it is that I don't /care/ about most of what other people think matters.

    14 likes
  12. Jul 21
    Replying to

    whenever someone says "I don't have time" I hear "that's not a priority". Ok, but be honest about that.

    1 reply 5 likes
  13. Jul 21
    Replying to

    What are you willing to give up is as important a question as what are you willing to do.

    1 reply 6 likes
  14. Jul 21
    Replying to

    If you want a 9 to 5 job, a spouse and 2 kids, you're going to have little room for anything else. Not nothing else, but not much.

    5 replies 8 likes
  15. Jul 21
    Replying to

    I can cut down the work for you, a lot. But I can't eliminate it. If you can't read 10 books, you can't read 100 and think about them.

    1 reply 4 likes
  16. Jul 21
    Replying to

    People come to me asking for reading suggestions. I give them 10 to 15 books, some heavy, some not. Never hear back.

    3 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
  17. Jul 21
    Replying to

    I don't hold myself up as a success, but sometimes ppl want stuff I have. You can have them, sure, if you're willing to do the work.

    1 reply 4 likes
  18. Jul 21

    Sometimes you can't have it all. Certain choices or problems shut out other options.

    1 reply 11 likes
  19. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    The problem isn't knowledge. The problem is 'experts" who sell themselves to the highest bidder and a credulous media that treats every 1

    2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
  20. Retweeted
    Jul 21

    In the next 7 days the DY podcast will do a 2nd interview with & a first with . Good stuff coming!

    1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
  21. Retweeted
    Jul 21
    Replying to

    the GOP doesn't have serious answers to climate change, demographic change or automation but spoiler alert neither do the Dems right now

    6 replies 21 retweets 94 likes

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