I do think the anarchists have the right idea with this one and everybody should rotate like 2-3 months of the year doing critical hard labor like this. No, your ordinary work is not “too valuable” for you to be exempted from it. If you don’t experience the work that goes into maintaining the basic conditions of your modern existence it’s easy to become ungrateful and alienated from the material realities of your society.
Where is the actual vote in both houses? I was trying to find this and was frustrated. Made me realize that none of the media outlets give the actual name or code of the bill, they refer to “a legislative package”.
I mean they’re all hardline Islamists so we critically support from the position of anti-imperialism but hope once the anti-imperial struggle is resolved (or even before then) there is struggle for greater rights for women/gays/etc. to which this person would be an obstacle. Of course rights for women and gays (except for some tokens in the upper classes to parade to the west) would be much worse in whatever imperial client regime is set up if these guys fall so it’s a tough line to walk.
One of the greatest things to come out of the past six months is widespread realization that israel isn’t some bastion of equality in the middle-east but is actually a lightspeed-racist fascist shithole. I’m including myself in this realization btw I didn’t actually know their domestic attitudes were that open. They really are just brazen about it.
I suspect most people go through at most two election cycles here as a politically-aware person before recognizing the nature of the game and tuning it out. Unless they’re a neoliberal pervert who gets turned on by the price stabilite policies or whatever
there’s a berniecrat house dem in my district who is coming up for re-election. Reading their website it’s like support for everything Bernie was going for in 2020 and more. Then I see they voted to give 20 billion dollars to israel and I’m like nah ain’t voting for this dickhead
Something’s gotta be written about how quick libs are to want to make “hard nosed” decisions like murdering children is okay or whatever. Some weird psychological reflex. Maybe the conservative bullying of them being naive hits home and they jump at the chance to show they’re a real adult or something. But it’s just so strange because objectively the “hard nosed” decision they’re making is the absolute easiest one for them to support. It isn’t hard at all.