Horrific and unsurprising. They were drawing cartoons of Palestinians as cockroaches, this is what you get as a result of that level of dehumanization. Profoundly diseased society
Nice. Age of Napoleon has a short ep with matt christman as a guest covering that but it was only 30 mins so somewhat superficial, a deeper look would be very welcome, I'll have to check it out!
I'm listening to age of Napoleon and am reminded of the period right after Oct 6 1789 where the liberals and bourgeoise were drafting the new constitution and celebrating unity at the feast of the federation, pledging oaths of unity and loyalty and stuff before the thing was even drafted. The liberals were happy with the reforms, but the working poor were disappointed they didn't go far enough, and the church thought they had gone too far. There were different factions within French society with completely different visions of the future. The narrator makes a point that these differences can't be papered over with oaths or fancy rhetoric, they have to be fought out, either with politics or violence.
This is where the us is at the moment imo only the political avenue has been completely closed off. It's not a matter of if but a matter of when, unless something meaningfully changes with our electoral system. Like redrafting the constitution level of change. Of course only violence would force this anyway.
In this context the election is truly meaningless and of course one can't help but find the whole thing tiresome. It is just delaying the inevitable, it literally doesn't matter
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Horrific and unsurprising. They were drawing cartoons of Palestinians as cockroaches, this is what you get as a result of that level of dehumanization. Profoundly diseased society