I’m struck by this passage from Against Empire by Michael Parenti, published 30 years ago:
Mainstream pundits and propagandists label our desire to move away from corporate militarism and imperial domination as weakness, folly, isolationism, or self-defeating pacifism. But there is another name for the course of action that aims to wrest the wealth and power out of the hands of the military-industrial complex and the multinational investor class and give it back to the people so that they can become agents of their own lives and social conditions: it is called democracy, the victory of the republic over empire.
These fucking Twitter liberals have spent so long arguing against leftists, that they really cannot comprehend the fact that the leftist position on Gaza is entirely mainstream, overwhelmingly popular, dominant. They are the absolute fringe, the weirdo wackos. They are Democrats who are to the right of most Republicans.
I grew up and lost all respect for Nate over something really trivial that made me realize he was full of BS. He said imperial measurements are better because you could say you ran “4 miles”, he said saying you ran 3.2km would just sound stupid so why would you want metric? Does he think people in countries that use metric are agonising over having to round distances (just like imperial would the majority of the time) or wish they could express it in miles? Does he always run in exact mile increments every single time? Rant over but it made me irrationally mad. He might have been joking but didn’t care enough to find out.
Ahhh imperial, the system that uses the same metric to measure volume and weight and half the time people forget to specify which kind they’re talking about.
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