Ugly ass building, shocked it’s not in America.
CleverOleg
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I agree with Torkil Laussen that at the present moment, the principle contradiction in the world is between neoliberalism and “nationalism” (I don’t like the term as I don’t think it fits, but it’s whatever you want to call this destruction of neoliberalism and erection of walls both literal and metaphorical, the word “nationalism” is just a placeholder for the moment). Neoliberalism may be the on the dominant side of that contradiction right now, but neoliberalism is collapsing before our eyes. I think we really are in terra incognita. For well over a century now, when capitalism appears to be in a major crisis, it has been able to save itself. The last crisis of profitability (GFC was something different) was in the 1970s, and neoliberalism was how capitalism was able to resolve that contradiction. But the gains from neoliberalism have been spent and we are seeing the results. Capitalism has so far shown and endless ability to resolve contradictions in its favor, but it can’t do so forever. It is possible there is no way for it to resolve the fall of neoliberalism in a way that allows it to continue.
So it’s an exciting time right now, and there tremendous possibilities open to us. I can’t possibly provide a definitive analysis of the situation that leads to reasonable predictions, but at least Marxism gives us the proper tools of analysis to understand what is happening and how we can impact material reality.
I don’t think they have any qualms, but just because the Israelis are racist Nazi genocidaires, don’t assume they are entirely irrational.
Killing Greta and everyone on that boat would be a PR disaster. Of course Israel will take a PR hit if they think it will bring them closer to their goals. But killing them doesn’t serve a purpose that simply boarding their boat and arresting them wouldn’t do (which is how I think this all ends IMO). If Greta and co. were armed I might feel differently, but stopping the boat in non-lethal ways serves the purpose and most people in the west will just shrug and say “eh, at least they didn’t kill them”.
That’s kinda the danger of all this discourse how obviously Israel will blow away that little boat. It’s setting that up as the expectation so anything less will feel like a relief.
I seem to recall reading that during WW1, the British also made promises to the Palestinian people that if they fought against the Turks the British would give them independence / their own state, though no promises were formally written down or anything.
I am at the point where I no longer know what to say in regards to the news coming out of Gaza. Anything I could say does no justice to the horrors of what is happening here. I feel numb and my lack of words reflects that. This is just as much of an American genocide as it is an Israeli one. I’m not exactly young, but this has crossed the point of being the most evil thing the US has done in my lifetime (saying this as someone who organized protests against the invasion of Iraq in 2003).
Is the implication that PSL are feds, or that ICE targeted this place because PSL was nearby? Frankly neither seems plausible to me.
Also Liam Cunningham, who played Davis Seaworth in Game of Thrones and the priest who talks with Bobby Sands in Hunger is on the ship too. Legitimately a good idea for famous people to go on this ship. Yeah Israel is bloodthirsty and doesn’t care about global opinion but their position is more precarious by the day, they will need to think twice about doing anything to the ship IMO.
Our comrade LargePenis wrote an excellent effort post on modern Shia identity:
The “arrogant” part is so spot on. I know so many Americans who are absolutely clueless about how the world works and yet are absolutely convinced their opinions are correct.
Meanwhile there is an actual evil Nazi regime committing a genocide that we could stop with a phone call, but…
The implication the article is trying to make is that they are being forcibly trafficked by the see see pee.
I don’t think Hasan thinks Ukraine can win, pretty sure he thinks Ukraine needs to accept the losses they have. I’m gonna be honest with you I watched Hasan talk about those recent events and he absolutely does not equate Russia and Israel, I really don’t get where you’re coming from at all on this. Criticize Hasan for a lot of things but he doesn’t have bad takes on Palestine.