Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
I understand the optics are bad in the US. I still believe it and I’ll say it. I don’t think there’s a way to believe otherwise if you oppose genocide and you fully understand the history of the occupation and of resistance to colonialism. Maybe there’s a lot more we could be doing to educate people (more posting!), but I think it’s a mistake to deny your actual beliefs in service of the carefully crafted PR produced message that will immediately transform a fully propagandized American liberal into a comrade. For decades we in the West tried depicting the Palestinian people as passive observers of their own destruction, and it somehow has done little to weaken the racist image of the bloodthirsty terrorist. Maybe we need to rely more on the truth: that Palestinians have always fought back, and have not given up.
reading these comments and realizing that there are tons of leftists, here and elsewhere, who quietly believe all the right things, but cannot emotionally deal with the fact that anti-imperialist communism isn’t as popular as DNC Vote-ism and never will be, so they fedjacket anyone who can on political-tactical grounds.
Weird (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....
She's been writing such shit at the NYT for 41 years. In 1999 she won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. (hexbear.net)
October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” (theintercept.com)
18+ [CW// sex/ Swastika] how do they come up with this? (hexbear.net)
So called marxist website full of impotent screeds asserting that dialectics is wrong (anti-dialectics.co.uk)
Somehow has worse UX than marxists.org.
Why are Palestinian protests filled with feds?
Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
Me when I'm in a shitty teleprompter reading competition and my opponent is Biden (hexbear.net)
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