John MacArthur, pastor of the Grace Community Church megachurch and founder of Grace to You Ministries is dead at 86
Most of you who were not raised in American Evangelicalism probably don’t know who this bozo was, but for those who were, please celebrate with me!
Former BDS Movement economist Shir Hever's interview on Electronic Intifada last week
I thought this was a good watch. Gets into a number of facets regarding the Israeli economy. But I thought the most interesting part was when he got into the subject of the ultra-orthodox and Iran. I don't recall if this was mentioned in the news mega before, but apparently the ultra-orthodox wing of Netanyahu's coalition was planning to vote no confidence in the government / leave the coalition over the issue of conscription. This vote was scheduled for... June 13th (the day of the Iran attack). When the attack happened, the vote didn't materialize and now they can't go for it again for another six months. Interesting...
I do believe the IOF is short of manpower, and the conscription of the ultra-orthodox will eventually be a necessity if they want to continue war in Gaza (or start something in Lebanon or Syria). Justin Podur thinks the recent rumors of a ceasefire are coming from the army themselves, as they are telling the politicians they can't / don't want to continue fighting in all ways but open ones; and I think that notion has merit.
Been here since the beginning, and I don’t think you could be more wrong. I think especially what happened in Syria has given us all a lesson in humility. The way this mega handled the situation with Israel/Iran was excellent; level-headed and sober. Things might swing a bit in the moment but we are literally just responding to events as they happen.
Exactly
I hate this country so fucking much.
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I’m an American. I really wanted to go with an AK-47 for probably obvious reasons. But ultimately I couldn’t ignore the practicality of having and AR-15 here
One of these days I will get around to writing my effort post about how having kids has really opened my eyes as how much gender really is a social construct. I’ve tried to avoid pushing gender norms on my kids but the reality is that society is so overwhelming in this regard.
Also, while I am very much on the side of “let kids pick their own stuff” (largely based on what I said above), my wife got my daughter her first backpack - a sparkly purple unicorn backpack. Which is fine in itself. But… I shouldn’t be, but I do feel kinda hurt I was not involved in the process. Because - and I know this is a bit odd - I am a bit of a backpack aficionado. I worked in an independent outdoor goods store for a couple years and got really involved with the backpacks. Kinda like, my “thing”. There wasn’t anything intentional, but still…
Chapter 10 is one of my favorites.
It’s a single data point but radlib brother the other day said that the people in the Batista regime that Fidel and Che executed, absolutely got what they deserved. And “thugs like them”.
The world is turning towards militarization as the global economic instability is amplified further under Trump’s erratic policies.
I suppose I will beat a dead horse with the point I feel I repeat too often… when I read Torkil Laussen state that the principal contradiction today is between neoliberalism and sovereignty, I was skeptical. I thought the global north/south divide was more critical. But I stand corrected, I think Laussen is correct. Neoliberalism may be the dominant side of that contradiction right now, but it seems that this contradiction is also resolving itself far quicker than I had expected. Neoliberalism is dead, it’s only a matter of time before it is replaced. At the moment, as you said, it seems like we’re going back to the 1930s and that style of inwardness. But the world is dialectical, and what emerges out of this contradiction will no doubt be something entirely different.
And it’s interesting to me with Trump’s tariffs, while it certainly appears to be the act of a singular person, I feel this actually is yet another example of “men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please”. I don’t think 20 or even 10 years ago, Trump would have been able to get away with it. But he can now, not necessarily because congress is weak, but because material conditions have eroded the neoliberal grip on the world. Throwing up tariffs is a natural result of neoliberalism weakening. If not Trump, some other president would be instituting some form of increased tariffs or other inward-facing measures.
Many such cases.
Albanese definitely deserves it. I mean, since they won’t give it to Sinwar posthumously, Albanese is probably the best of people they would actually choose.
But also, Trump’s cope and seethe if she won it instead of him would be quite a marvel.