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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Look we just want high wages, strong regulation, and redistribution of wealth, but without any of the levers of power necessary to achieve it. Is that so much to ask?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, the weirdest part about 90s/00s culture is the idea that a stable desk job in an air conditioned office is the worst thing ever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

9 to 5? Sounds heavenly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

spoilerSo he undid the Holocaust?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here’s a take I saw on Folau that made me pause for a bit.

Missing from the public discourse is the background of how evangelical Christianity swept the Pacific Islands. This the story of colonialism and Christian missionaries and Captain Cook; of the destruction of local religions and languages.

It is the story of how all over the world, cultures that didn’t have laws or customs against homosexuality or gender fluidity could become so puritanical that they turned against their own LGBTIQ brethren in favour of the gospel as preached by their colonisers; only for the colonisers to then finally soften their own stances against homosexuality and decide that homophobia was yet another moral failing of the colonised. *

I still don’t like him, but there’s a grain of truth in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You’re right that it’s not neofeudalism, and that neofeudalism is optimistic, but you’re confusing intelligentsia/‘PMC’ with petit bourgeois.

the professional classes that produce medicine and research and lawyering and technology along with the exploitation of the increasingly proletarianized service classes. These people do not have the same class interests and it is the major source of division between liberals and a nascent socialist movement

For the most part, these are just particularly well-compensated segments of the proletariat, much as the rest of the proletariat was bought out during the mid 20th century. A reversal of their fortunes will have the same effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Where’s the site to generate these?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

This could have been Harry Potter, if tech actually got a seat at the table.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Graeber has you covered.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s going on here. These “heroes” are purely reactionary, in the literal sense. They have no projects of their own, at least not in their role as heroes: as Clark Kent, Superman may be constantly trying, and failing, to get into Lois Lane’s pants, but as Superman, he is purely reactive. In fact, superheroes seem almost utterly lacking in imagination: like Bruce Wayne, who with all the money in the world can’t seem to think of anything to do with it other than to indulge in the occasional act of charity; it never seems to occur to Superman that he could easily carve free magic cities out of mountains.

Almost never do superheroes make, create, or build anything. The villains, in contrast, are endlessly creative. They are full of plans and projects and ideas. Clearly, we are supposed to first, without consciously realizing it, identify with the villains. After all, they’re having all the fun. Then of course we feel guilty for it, re-identify with the hero, and have even more fun watching the superego clubbing the errant Id back into submission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I (Don’t) Miss The Old Hexbear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

He didn’t actually embezzle money—he proposed doing so to the others, and they went full Maoist on him.

Honestly, a intact Proles, with or without microbrewery, would have been preferable to how it went down.

 
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Did you know that 40% of permanent ADF personnel in 2019, were aged between 20-29? That means that during their most formative childhood and adolescent years, these ADF personnel would have been bombarded with anti-Muslim rhetoric from the most senior members of parliament, overexposed to sensationalised anti-Muslim stories from the media, and they would have contextualised it all in their classrooms as they sat through that same propaganda-infused curriculum that I did.

Is the idea of an ideological campaign sounding less far-fetched now? To me, what I’ve described so far sounds like an effective way to create an army of soldiers with extreme anti-Muslim sentiment. This process has another name: Radicalisation, and you’ve been stewing in it for quite some time, Australia.

 

For example, there’s no easy way of bypassing ads on YouTube mobile. But a lot of them don’t actually say the product name. Refusing to look at it is my one, small, micro resistance.

 
 
 

There is the school of thought that Muslims ought to be made to accept ‘Western values’ and apparently it is the failure of Muslim populations to accept or ‘integrate’ with this superior way of living that is the real root of all terrorism, which is far too easily associated as a product of the faith’s teachings.

Except it is not that simple. Islamist terrorism is not so much a profession of extreme faith as it is a mantra of extremist identity politics. While of course it is using Islam as the faith to justify its goals, understandings and ends, it is nonetheless the application of Islam as a political ideology.

Whilst such acts of sporadic violence have been influenced by particular dogmatic schools of the faith, such as Wahhabism and Salafism, the point of analysis for Islamist terrorism and its associated groups begins with a study of politics, economics and sociology, rather than theology, and the assumption that every believing Muslim will spontaneously be prone to such activities is misleading. As with any other human being, who Muslims are and what they do is a manifestation of the material circumstances in which they exist.

What then, causes radicalisation and leads individuals to commit such acts? The faith itself is not the problem, rather the feelings of resentment, alienation and disillusionment that play upon one’s comprehension of identity and create receptivity to such ideologies.

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