Michael Parenti said it beautifully: Any aid from a capitalist country is when money is taken from the poor people of a rich country and given to the rich people of a poor country
I wasn't rereferring exclusively to Syrians. Sure they may believe this means an end to the war (which is still highly bloody debatable), but I meant specifically diaspora as well as Arabs and Muslims who are not Syrians. I've seen, Egyptians, Moroccans, Algerians and all manner of gulf state Arabs celebrating this. I even know Palestinian, Lebanese, Pakistani and Indonesian expats in my own town who were gladly cheering this on. These people should know better, as they're third parties to the whole thing and should remember that this same pattern has played out in Libya and Iraq within their lifetimes.
I know all about Al-Jazeera, I am well aware that Qatar have funded Syrian rebels, what I cannot wrap my head around is how many Muslims and Arabs have the total lack of political awareness to take what they say at face value. How much of the Palestinian solidarity from them is equally thin and motivated by sectarianism rather than genuine humanitarian outrage? It's deeply disappointing and reveals that we have all failed as supporters of Palestinian freedom to educate enough people as to why the cause matters.
I suppose what astounds me is the lack of ideological or moral consistency. They shed all the tears and show all the outrage that anyone should when it comes to Palestine, or Lebanon. Yet are cheering alongside the very people they were loudly disagreeing with over those same issues when it comes to Syria.
This is in stark contrast to the western liberals, who's worldview is 100% consistently aligned with western imperialism. They oppose everything they are told to by their leaders, and support everything they are told to.
With these Muslims and Arabs I mentioned, they are somehow capable of seeing through this narrative, but somehow inexplicably susceptible to be blinded by it in this instance. I guess it just shed a light on how hollow the anti-imperialist movement worldwide really is, and that not nearly as much consciousness has been built by the genocide and wars over the past years. It's disappointing, and sobering.
So so. Life is more stable but it seems to have come at the cost of a less active social life. Back when I was in turmoil I somehow was seeing people more often and out and about more. Now I'm busier and have a stable home I find that's beginning to dwindle. Can't have it all it seems.
Good to see you back, and the apology is appreciated, I hope you're forgiven.
I remember you from the video game related posts you'd make each week. And the "AmAs" that you left under each weekly thread.
What I don't see many people talk about is how in my part of the world, and plenty of others, the film was actually censored to remove all of the nudity, so I didn't actually get too bad of an experience in that regard. But the way it was done was bizarrely technical, to the extent in a film that put so much effort into practical effects, that the heaviest amount of CGI used in the film was applying clothing to nude actors, pretty funny.
Theres a scene where Oppenheimer is invited to attend a party hosted by some communist friends of his brother. He has some silly conversations with them where they talk about abolishment of property and ownership, mainly making a lot of smugness all around. Tough to explain but it just feels off, try and find a clip of it if you're curious.
I saw the film when it came out, apart from the cringe inducing communist house party scene I thought it was alright, pointing out how cold war hysteria reached absurd levels in the US.
In the UK, All Royal family reporting is pure theatrics, similar to when the US starts randomly pushing UFO stories. In both cases theres usually something actually important they don't want people to look into.
I'm assuming this is supposed to be for mostly online interactions, but I have unironically heard a few of these when discussing politics irl with some of the Americans that happen to live in my town. It takes a lot of self control to maintain civility and not call them out on how idiotic they are to their faces.
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I prefer it when the sun's up later, makes me feel like I'm very productive and have a whole lot of day ahead of me.