Scott Hamilton RTM (@SikotiHamiltonR) / X

Scott Hamilton RTM

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Scott Hamilton RTM

@SikotiHamiltonR

Books include The Crisis of Theory, The Stolen Island, & Ghost South Road. 'Atenisian. Islands open the door to strangeness.

Puhinui/Warkworth

readingthemaps.blogspot.com

Joined June 2014

Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
1/7 MAGA is melting down as the movement's lumpenproletarian base rages against tech bros' talk about American mediocrity & the superiority of migrant workers. I'm reminded of a story Tongan-based American sociologist Maikolo Horowitz told me about Trumpism.
Samuel Sinyangwe
@samswey
Dec 26, 2024
Vivek and Elon briefly talking about white Americans the way white Americans talk about everyone else has the entire Republican coalition fractured and in disarray.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
10/10 MAGA is built on the 'culture of mediocrity' Ramaswamy condemns. It offers ageing jocks & prom queens a bogus explanation for their ills - an explanation rooted in the conformist, exclusivist, anti-intellectual values the hard hats who heckled Michael Horowitz embraced.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Nov 19, 2024
1/7 When conservative Pakeha are made anxious by Maori protest they reach for the Moriori myth like a comfort blanket or brandy. Posts to twitter about Moriori have predictably surged as the hikoi has descended on parliament. These posts reek of unintended irony.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Nov 29, 2024
1/7 In 1969 a Frenchman struggling with mental illness suddenly began producing astonishingly beautiful sculptures that seemed like they had sprung from Melanesia, a region he had never visited or studied. How did Michel Nedjar do it? For my friend Sio, the answer is obvious.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Nov 17, 2024
1/30 Te Pati Maori's haka in parliament has been greeted with disgust, anger, & fear by many conservative Pakeha. Like Act's Treaty Principles Bill, this response to the haka is the expression of a massive, long-brewing identity crisis.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
7/10 'The world has been turned upside down for these people' Horowitz said. 'The ideology they grew up, its world of prom queens & jocks, its valourisation of manual labour & contempt for the intellect, is still hegemonic, but it's a route to poverty & frustration.'
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Nov 2, 2021
The anti-vax heckler at Ardern's press conference was Shane Chafin, who according to his own testimony was visited by police in the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attacks because of concerns he shared the terrorist's ideology. How did Chafin get so close to the PM?
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Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Oct 15, 2023
NZ Loyal supporter Ken Duncan has announced that he is preparing an affidavit that will show the party was robbed of votes due to software used by voting machines. He's not deterred by the fact NZ doesn't use voting machines.
Russell Brown
@publicaddress
Oct 15, 2023
Could schadenfreude over Liz Gunn and Brian Tamaki discovering they are not in fact at all popular be the moment that heals a divided nation? newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
5/10 'Fast forward a few decades, & the jobs have gone. The steel belt has rusted. & it's the losers, the nerds and weirdos, who are giving out jobs. People like Bill Gates & Steve Jobs, who were smoking pot & coding in garages in the '70s, they're running things.'
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Sep 7, 2023
1/15 Jill Bender teaches history at the Uni of North Carolina. She's dived into NZ archives, & returned with a story about alliances between Maori & Irish anti-imperialists in the 19th C Waikato & King Country. Bender has also found an old, long-forgotten, potent name: Piniana.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Feb 5, 2024
1/7 I've noticed a lot of Pakeha on twitter saying, with the best intentions, that they are here in Aotearoa because of the Treaty of Waitangi. I understand what they are trying to say, but I'm pretty sure that, like me, they're here because the Treaty was broken.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
9/10 In Marxist terms, what Ramaswamy & other Trumpist tech bros want is a shift in the cultural superstructure of the US that reflects the changes in the country's economic base. But there's a problem with a Trumpist making such a demand.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
Dec 27, 2024
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
8/10 Vivek Ramaswamy, an unctious techie & convert to Trumpism, provoked the current uproar by condemning the culture of 'mediocrity' in America, & championing the values of successful, highly educated migrant Indians. Ramaswamy wants a cultural revolution.
Scott Hamilton RTM
@SikotiHamiltonR
May 11, 2022
Replying to @SikotiHamiltonR
6/6 When we put together Burr's racist politics, the racial explanation he gave on the night of the amputation, & the gratuitous nature of the amputation, then it's hard not think our courts have just endorsed a hate crime, rather than a legitimate act of self-defence.