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Brandon Lighty

@brandonlighty

Political researcher, writer, sometimes an artist - all content is a spicy overzealous emotional outburst https://itcanbedifferent.substack.com/

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DDOS attack on twitter lmao, love to see it

10.03.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The word β€œshall” gives conjunction vibes

No I will not elaborate

18.12.2024 16:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole app just feels like a thousand people trying to get over the same ex while also pretending they are having a great time with their downgraded new partner lol

23.11.2024 15:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I started this, if you see one of those "listen up new users" posts send it to me and I'll add that user to the block list

16.11.2024 18:17 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Deeply ashamed that my first skeet (post? blweet?) in nine months involved the Jake Paul fight

16.11.2024 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Streaming services truly are the Midas touch but instead of gold it’s shit

We’ve had high definition live broadcasting for decades but Netflix tries it once? Shit

16.11.2024 05:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve decided I’m going to translate the MEGA as a personal project to both reteach myself German and read through as much of Marx’s work as I possibly can in its original language

I think I’ll also put the translations up on my Substack too, probably weekly or semi-regularly like that

02.02.2024 21:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Breaking Down a Mass Movement Part 2 A brief aside to discuss Maoism before looking at how it has influenced the Palestinian Resistance coalition

Part 2: Defining the different strains of Maoism before looking into their influence on the DFLP and Saraya Al-Quds (PIJ)

04.12.2023 17:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can tell the Biden administration is full of a bunch of careerist β€œpOLiCy wOnKs” because their spreadsheets look like the inside of a McKinsey consultant’s brain when they are turned on

27.11.2023 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my favorite parts about sifting through the U.S. government’s raw data is how around every two years the entire format of every report changes and for some reason each time it does it becomes more difficult to decipher and find the info you’re actually looking for

27.11.2023 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course the ironic part is that this was an explicitly bipartisan venture, led by the leadership of both political parties

But once Super Tuesday comes around all of a sudden there will be a clamoring about the fascist tendencies of the Republicans with no introspection on Democratic complicity

15.11.2023 03:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like the big tent of the Democratic Party has expanded so far out that the party is beginning to ideologically decouple again

In the next decade we will likely see the reemergence of something akin to the Dixiecrats as the barrier to entry becomes simply β€œwanting to govern a liberal state”

08.11.2023 15:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking Down a Mass Movement Part 1 The myth of Hamas running the show and the development of an ideologically diverse liberatory front

Part 1: The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP

19.10.2023 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ideological Incoherence and Nonviolence The United States, Israel, Palestine, and what is to be made of the genocide of a people

Introduction: Where I reaffirm my support for a liberated Palestine

19.10.2023 21:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I started writing a series breaking down the different factions involved in the Al-Aqua Flood because I’ve found even among well meaning people in the English-speaking world, there seems to be a complete misunderstanding of who the actors are in this

Links below

19.10.2023 20:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLet’s send you to a foreign country with a bunch of strangers and lovebomb you for days before traumatizing you about the Holocaust solely to justify why we exist as an oppressive state today”

Is not in fact, contrary to popular belief, a good thing to do to anyone, let alone college kids

13.10.2023 20:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The immense damage Birthright has had on multiple generations’ understanding of reality genuinely can’t be overstated

The intentional targeting of young [majority Ashkenazi] people in colleges at a time when they are seeking new connection and meaning is straight up cult indoctrination behavior

13.10.2023 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also kinda seems like it should be noted how quickly progressives will reflexively parrot denunciations of violence even when there’s no evidence they occurred if that violence in any way could harm the status quo

07.10.2023 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Towing the increasingly frustrating line of

The acts of individual fighters do not delegitimize anti-colonial resistance

And

Most if the the atrocities being denounced by U.S. liberals are completely unsubstantiated and we are watching the mythmaking spin of history happen in real time

07.10.2023 18:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Like I’m just rolling over the quote:

β€œIf you want to know where Protestant liberal theology went to die, you need look no further than the work of some Catholic theologians”

04.10.2023 20:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I’ve really begun to appreciate Hauerwas’s belief that (likely pre-Vatican 2 especially) the Catholic Church *was* the church and for Catholics to think of themselves as one of many denominations is as good of a confirmation as ever that it was/had becom[ing]/[e] Protestantism

04.10.2023 20:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0