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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

at this particular time

That's the thing about tailism, though. It's always bound to a struggle that is of particular urgency or salience at a given time. You can use the same exact words to repudiate any charge of tailism that isn't being made retrospectively, in a history book.

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

an organization whose primary driving force is Islam

What Islam? A collection of beliefs? A set of believers?

The defining contention of materialism is that ideas are not the primary driver of history. Hakim's post says, without qualification, that Islam is the driving force of the resistance.

The backflips folks are doing in this thread (including obliterating the very distinction between the ideal and the material, which is revisionism) to reconcile these two blindingly obvious, incompatible things are incredible.

That is a materialist analysis of the situation lol because that is what the Palestinians themselves are saying

Self-report (unadorned by any commentary or context, even) is 'material analysis' now? What?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That might be a credible take if, for instance, Hakim's post so much as mentioned material conditions, or Roderic's post was about the engine of history rather than Hakim's post.

Your assessment is totally disconnected both from the content of Hakim's post and from the content of Day's tweet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This has to be satire, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

no matter how different a homophone's intensions, they all sound the same to me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I work for a large, global staffing agency and let me assure you, you are already a faceless spreadsheet cell among many, and AI is already a factor in your ability to advance or get noticed at multiple stages in the pipeline

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most parties have at least some meetings, and certainly many events, which are open to the general public. Just attend some, and join the org which is doing the work you most want to be involved in. As for the dangers of cult-like microsects and burnout, maybe why you shouldn't join any, check out this podcast by a bunch of former members of such a party.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Based on these victims' ages and the fact that they weren't in prison, can't we infer that they were in the IDF?

They probably couldn't have been Greta's friends then

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, haven't really followed this. Is the idea of 'the long Corbyn' that somehow he's responsible for alleged anti-Semitism outside his tenure or time in leadership?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's on a half-informed anti-idpol/politically incorrect kick for the past few years, and combined with his tendency to really stick it to people and actions that he feels lack integrity, it sometimes leads him to engage in insults and boomerisms that ultimately undermine his valid points. It's a real shame because he still has a lot of value to say and he's getting in his own way when he does that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I love how the questioner in that clip just smiles, nods and walks away instead of further replying, like 'damn, you got me'. He doesn't seem mad about it either— he looks like maybe it's really given him something to think about.

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