Educator/Múinteoir (she/elle/sí)
The average Iranian wasn’t interested in going to war because, surprise surprise, they now get to see their sons and daughter fucking bombed. How terrible it must be to blame them for hoping that it wouldn’t come to this, because the monumental decision to pull the trigger on a war and all the countless deaths that will follow was not a simple calculus to the people who are actually involved.
Woe to them for the judgments of a safe and righteous keyboard warrior.
This is truly such cynical and bloodthirsty rhetoric. You’re literally victim-blaming on a national scale because Iran tried to avert war.
Because the people of the US are materially interested in attacking others. You talk about yourself as some great material analyst, but come on. Actually look at the demographics you’re talking about, actually learn how people are in the US and China, the lives they lead, the things they think, their material conditions and their class interests. It’s pretty obvious why the US can convince people to go to war, and why China would struggle to get popular support for foreign intervention. The US is propped up by violence, it feeds them. China is propped up by peaceful trade. You can’t just “analyze” your way out of how people relate to the world around them and how people would feel about being asked to get involved in a war.
They are made up of people. And I can guarantee you that the people of China aren’t interested in being at war with Israel, so what is the nation-state supposed to do? It’s all well and good to call yourself materialist, but the material conditions of the average Chinese citizen doesn’t lend towards them wanting to die in Iran. So what, should China try to impose militarism on its populace? It’s easy to demand violent intervention, war, and foreign imposition when that’s how capitalist nations operate, but when it’s you and your family being asked to give up your currently peaceful life to die for people you’ve never met…well most of the people here baying for blood certainly wouldn’t do it, most people here would hardly deprive themself of a comfort, a convenience, or a treat unless forced to.
Edit: and while we’re at it, you definitely didn’t do “everything within your power” if you’re asking other people to put their lives on the line but you’re safely here typing on Hexbear
“I’ve sat by and watched”
Well there’s your problem, stop sitting by and do something, if you’re so eager for everyone else to be at war why are you on hexbear instead of at war?
Shooting at the No Kings protest in Salt Lake City being reported
Sheesh, well, an overwhelming number of people at the protests this afternoon seem to think that you can invoke the law like a magic charm to stop the cops and are waving american flags, so the bar on today is pretty low.
Not into Twitch and never saw Hasan before this, but y’know, he’s been putting other people’s safety first, keeping a cool head, and helping the confused and panicked libs, so I gotta say, pretty solid first impression of this guy.
LAPD unloading on a crowd while he gives his speech in DC
Pretty much that’s it, but Cohen is also the hereditary priestly caste. Anyway, when people say “cohencidence” the implication is that there is a “cabal” (also a term with anti-semitic origin) of Jewish people that are manipulating things behind the scenes and it isn’t a coincidence.
“cohencidence” is an anti-semitic conspiracy dogwhistle
If the police ask you nicely to cancel your anti-police protest it’s only polite to stay home
I’m not saying this man did it, but “CEO of Praetorian Guard Security Services” is compelling.
This cartoon villain photo is from a very serious presentation at the UN> As you can see, the red line is almost at the top of the bomb, which is clearly not good, because bombs are bad. This explains why a lot of bombs should be used to stop the bomb. Make sense?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israels-path-to-a-new-middle-east-1.7560393 (to be clear this photo is from over a decade ago, because they have been fear-mongering about Iran “getting the bomb” since the revolution)
Racist chuds looking to pick a fight with any immigrant they come across is just another thing that unites the north and south
Yeah but Dublin had roving bands of racist thugs hunting for immigrants and beating up cab drivers like a year and a half ago, it’s not unique to the north
LAPD police chief on CBSLA talking about how they’re overwhelmed by getting shot at with fireworks, rocks, and bottles of piss. Admitting on TV that they got peed on by protesters, amazing.
I will second Rashid Khalidi’s work, including The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Musa Budeiri’s The Palestinian Communist Party, 1919-1948
Ilan Pappé’s Britian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1951 and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947 - 1951
Gershon Shafir’s Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882 - 1914
Nur Mashala’s Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Ghassan Kanafani’s The 1936 - 39 Revolt in Palestine is a really good essay as well
Ford is trying to get SEZs, previously a tool of imperial extraction in the Global South, in Ontario. (They will still be tools of imperial extraction, but from treaty lands within Canada)
If it’s so easy to choose to be part of war then get off your ass and do something, soldier. The Internet trenches aren’t going to defeat imperialism, they need the world’s best strategist in the war room, get to it.