Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@bdomenech @dandrezner Which means what, exactly? Is your contention that Vindman perjured himself over something that he could very easily get caught on for...some reason? — PolitiTweet.org

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Correction: *did not* — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

As far as I can tell, Nunes has not asked a single question about the substance of Trump's conduct with respect to Ukraine — PolitiTweet.org

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Nunes' strategy appears to be saying a lot of dates and Ukrainian names and then "Biden" after them, in the form of a question the witnesses can't answer — PolitiTweet.org

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@qjurecic same to the last detail — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard not to be moved by Vindman talking to his father about fleeing from authoritarianism: "Do not worry. I will be fine for telling the truth." — PolitiTweet.org

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The real victims here are John Solomon and Ken Vogel, apparently — PolitiTweet.org

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Devin Nunes: media peddled conspiracy theories about Russia, how irresponsible Also Devin Nunes: The whistleblower secretly coordinated his smear of the president with House Democrats and the media — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbouie https://t.co/Tv21bkmpJd — PolitiTweet.org

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This left-wing political correctness is out of control https://t.co/FDfAXIOnDe — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Pompeo says Israel’s clearly illegal settlements are not illegal because sure, why not https://t.co/jW1qotjNZh — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattduss I see what you did there — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@urbanomicdotcom @nollid_watov @readthiswtf The other thing I'd add is that "it's journalism" is an excuse and I try to do better than your average reported when working on complex ideas (which is a major party of my job). So I'm talking to you all to make sure I understand the good-faith critiques and learn from them. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@urbanomicdotcom @nollid_watov @readthiswtf And I get that, it must really suck for Nazis to have laid claim to a term used to describe ideas you care about. If I could do it over, I would have liked to include this quote from my email exchange with Nick Srnicek when I asked him about the Nazis https://t.co/wePQtZzClt — PolitiTweet.org

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@urbanomicdotcom @readthiswtf @nollid_watov So the piece — not one tweet— I think does connect them. On @readthiswtf's point below, I did have a section on that point that got cut for space as it felt largely irrelevant to editors. I don't think the current version implicitly labels non-Nazis as Nazis. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@nollid_watov @readthiswtf @urbanomicdotcom no worries, i totally get it. feels bad to be attacked and i didn't mean to come across that way. fwiw, there was a longer section focusing on l/acc is all about that got cut during editing which i think would have helped address this issue — PolitiTweet.org

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@urbanomicdotcom @readthiswtf @nollid_watov The language of inspiration is about the white nationalist ideas producing violence. The point of the intellectual history piece is process-tracing: showing how terminology and (a small number of) concepts filtered through various ideological spaces — PolitiTweet.org

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@urbanomicdotcom @readthiswtf @nollid_watov So there are three arguments there — the first two I think are fair criticisms. The last one, though: I don't believe, or ever claim, that CCRU, l/acc, or u/acc had any role in "inspiring" the white nationalist version. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@readthiswtf @urbanomicdotcom @nollid_watov My view, and I *think* I'm fairly clear on this is the piece, is that while the neo-Nazi use of the term "accelerationism" emerges from the academic use of the term, the substantive ideas have only a little bit in common. — PolitiTweet.org

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@readthiswtf @urbanomicdotcom @nollid_watov Will probably regret engaging here given the tenor of @nollid_watov's comments above but as far as good faith criticsm goes — this, essentially, is the point I was attempt to make in the historical section https://t.co/YCKnDIwEpO — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@yeselson @JHWeissmann @ryanlcooper Are you perhaps suggesting that trying to slot historical figures into contemporary political categories is a difficult enterprise? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump and Netanyahu are so alike that they both have wacky conspiracy theorist failsons https://t.co/HbcvjHDLQm — PolitiTweet.org

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@tshjatsjir511 It's tricky, right? Because there's a substantive connection between CCRU/acc and r/acc as well a substantive connection between r/acc and Siege/acc. But CCRU/acc and Siege/acc end up being extremely dissimilar. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tshjatsjir511 I don't think that's a remotely reasonable reading of the text, which says that original accelerationism has "little in common" with the neo-Nazi version. I also call it a "dark parody" of the original. But YMMV. https://t.co/sLtWdqOLO5 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

@tshjatsjir511 I...didn't? One of the central points of the piece is tracing how the concept's meaning has changed over time, how a word coined in one context moved to a wildly different one — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Accelerationism is *the* tactical and strategic doctrine guiding far-right terrorism today. Yet virtually no one outside of the movement and a small community of experts have heard of it. That's why I wrote this piece. https://t.co/EARD15qRW7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Just this weekend, for example, we learned that members of an accelerationist group called The Base was coordinating a wave of synagogue defacements across the US called "Operation Kristallnacht" https://t.co/EO8KCwL6He — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the crucial point for today that's really poorly understood. The Christchurch shooter didn't just inspire copycats in the traditional sense; he acted on the basis of an *ideology* that has now become popular globally https://t.co/EARD15qRW7 https://t.co/PNUwYWM3C2 — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

The story starts with a bunch of Deleuzian British philosophers theorizing techno-capitalism in the 90s. It ends with the past two years of extreme right killings: https://t.co/iKkhNkYSjf — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

For the past few months, I have dug into the world of the most violent white supremacists on the internet — and learned about an idea that connects the dots between murders and mass shootings around the world https://t.co/EARD15qRW7 — PolitiTweet.org