immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
although I largely agree, what I have found is that a large number of people just aren’t seeing the images coming out of Palestine and they act as though it is impossible that the media they consume wouldn’t have shown them. People experience media differently from each other in this day, and it leads to vastly different ideas about reality. Particularly if they believe that the media is anti-israel on some level, they think that “CNN and MSNBC would love to be showing that every night” They literally live inside of a fantasy football game where whatever they see is reality and there is no space outside of it. Essentially that whoever will see the images coming out of gaza have, but it simply wasn’t enough because the corporate controlled media either never showed it or used the algorithm to contain it. I think this is why the demonstrations and actual political work over this still has importance.
This of course is different from the young staffers and petty-bourgeois types at the DNC (and their supporters) who absolutely saw at least some of the violence, but either didn’t care at all or those who avoided it intentionally but continued to follow “the news.” Those types are objectively the worst and there are so many more than i would have imagined
I feel like this might be something to prevent infamy from being spread to someone with a similar name, but also because having three names can also make “naming” them feel more serious. Like when you are a kid and you are in trouble with your mom and they use your full name to establish how you are in a lot of trouble instead of just a little trouble.
Isn’t National Congress relatively right-wing compared to every party previously in government?
I don’t actually think the protests against Iraq were that much bigger in the US, although they were much larger in Europe. I think the biggest protest against Iraq was in NYC with about 500,000 people. There have been sustained protests across the US, with the first few mobilizations getting around 500,000 people in DC and even 8 months later drawing close to 100,000 to DC last month. I think it is also pretty impactful because back then, during the Iraq war, in the US you could be a democrat upset with Bush protesting the war and think plausibly that it wasn’t a contradiction even though the Democrats voted for the war too. You could be led to think if you voted really hard the war would end. This war is Biden’s and those people in the streets were all by and large current/former democrats. Not to mention the electoral effect of the muslim community turning against Biden, in states like Michigan where it is enough to completely undermine his ability to win. I get that people want to say American’s don’t give a fuck about the rest of the world, and that is often very true. But the past 8 months has been a sea change in comparison to the last 30 years in my opinion, and the conversation isn’t about which bourgeois political clique will do imperialism best. People are involved in an anti-imperialist movement that can’t be co-opted by Democrats effectively, which is distinct from a lot of the anti-war activism during the Iraq era- which was firmly ensconced in the end of history
I agree, those are contenders… there is also the war in Afghanistan, the second Congo war, syria, Sudan…They have all been horrendous. I think the war on Gaza seems like it may be the worst arguably because the speed with which high numbers of civilians are being killed, particularly children, is unmatched in nearly any sort of conflict the world has seen since the last century-- on top of the past 16 years of blockade and sanction which left Gaza an open air prison prior to this recent onslaught
I am really starting to think that the liberal infighting and constant media coverage about Biden’s age is an attempt at hedging against any argument that his electoral failure is tied to his support for the genocide in Gaza. Biden was not going to win the election against trump before this debate, it was already assured that millions would refuse to hold their nose and vote for him regardless. But now the ruling class can ignore this sort of analysis and focus on, “Biden lost because he was too old, he couldn’t connect with young people” and they will hammer that home until they can completely erase the effect of the first anti-imperialist mass movement in the USA since the Vietnam war. The death toll coming out from the Lancet article had really driven this home for me. They have fully convinced themselves they can invent their own reality. The public hand-wringing the Biden admin has done, all while being primarily responsible for the genocide continuing as it has, is just so absurd for anyone paying close attention. This is probably the worst atrocity of the 21st century (so far ) and they will try their best to erase any electoral consequences, and thus erase anti-imperialist discourse from popular understanding of history. Seems even more important now to symbolically vote for an anti-imperialist candidate like Claudia de la Cruz, because even a relatively large, but still marginal vote in a battleground state would be hard to ignore, particularly if liberals decide to demonize and blame 3rd party voters for a Trump victory. “If everyone who had voted for de la cruz in Georgia voted for Biden, he would have won” etc. etc.
isn’t this the same group that went to Cuba and snubbed Diaz-Canal, met with “dissidents” and then wrote a lengthy article about how Cuba was bad and won’t listen to other voices on “the left?”
I keep seeing articles saying that Russia has told the US it will retaliate against the US. So like, are we all going to get irradiated or worse because Biden’s worm-filled brain is stuck inside the end-of-history? Is Russia in a position to end the war in Ukraine? I remember reading a lot in the news mega about the lines finally moving appreciably… but did that stop happening or is Russia advancing still? I feel like that might be the only way to actually stop the escalation. Other nations are starting to call the US’s bluff, but it seems like the US regime just pretends they weren’t bluffing and it keeps doing the dumbest shit imaginable and choosing mass death over a wounded ego. I just don’t want everyone to die because an Alzheimers patient wound up in the US presidency in a sick combination of elder abuse, class warfare, and neoliberal hubris.