There's a scene in 28 weeks later where US soldiers are crying while they shoot civilians lmao
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The reason that, for example, RAF terrorism in West Germany was ineffective and counter-productive, is that it didn’t align with the values of society. The RAF thought the people would support them when the inevitable government crackdown came, but people supported the state increasing its own powers to oppose terrorism. By contrast, Luigi’s action has a level of support that a resistance group to a foreign occupier might expect. People can talk shit about his personal politics all they want, but it was a perfect choice of target.
Yeah as Sirota implies though Obama likely doesn’t see things this way, it’s just a rhetorical device to justify his devotion to the status quo
Starting an apocalyptic nuclear war to advance your career in the moments before annihilation, a true galaxy brain 4d chess move
Yeah the fact that elite underground pedo churches might exist is disconcerting. I guess the question is are they sitting around planning 911 or are they just like ‘next week would be a great time to sell those stocks’. Who knows…
Can anyone explain what is the deal with Isis, AQ and HTS relationship to each other? Why do Isis and AQ oppose each other when their ideology seems the same? How does Isis even still exist out in the desert with apparently everyone against them? why do they hold out instead of just going with other groups like Jolani did?
No wonder Americans are conspiracy theorists, absolutely nothing can happen in that country without a mass of dodgy secretive weird shit just below the surface. Actually it often makes me less inclined to believe conspiracy theories because America is just like that, if you dig below you will inevitably find evil and corruption, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s connected in any grand plans
True, but people will always judge themselves relative to their surroundings. And it is hard in the wealthy West to be poor without feeling (and actually being) ‘outside’ of society, which most people will respond to by feeling ashamed. In so far as self-hatred exists I think that’s the primary source of it.
Whereas it sounds like Vonnegut is saying the poor could love themselves except they have some kind of moral need to blame themselves for their condition, which (in my opinion) is not entirely accurate to what’s happening
Vonnegut is kind of right here, but the emphasis is wrong. It’s not that people ‘blame themselves’ for being poor exactly (in a moral sense), but rather the material condition of poverty strips one of dignity and self-worth, particularly in a society that is oriented around the petite-bourgeois middle class and relegates those below to a kind of wasteland devoid of opportunities for community and self-development
If he’s mentally ill he might’ve just fixated on his plan for the ceo without thinking about how to live life on the run afterwards. Although carrying around his manifesto suggests he expected to be caught. It is a bit weird.
Like with any collapse, i imagine a critical mass of people decided a corrupt, disintegrating status quo just wasn’t worth trying to save anymore, even despite the alternative. Doesn’t necessarily mean Syria will be a new Afghanistan. Although Afghanistan is an interesting example, because the Taliban did not arise out of the Mujahideen, rather they swept into power once the Mujahideen disintegrated into infighting and warlordism. Probably one of the reasons for this disintegration was that the foreign powers supporting the anti-Soviet fighters ceased to give any fucks about Afghanistan once the Soviets were kicked out. But I dont know enough about Syria to guess what its future will look like, or if theyll be any appetite for continued fighting.
The crocodile from the movie Crocodile Dundee has died. He was just 90 years old.