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What I'm saying here has been said over and over again by leftist theorists who see the obsession with Trump as actually a mistake. It remains on the surface as this kind of politics of negativity (negativity in the philosophical sense )

I am actually a leftist who wants a proper left and not some dressed up liberal shit that's just a consumable authoritarianism.

Alright if you say so. I might be wrong about this. But this overzealous response I got here is interesting. I still think there's a valid critique of Trump but there's a hysterics of Trump that functions in a weird way. The obsession, even now, with his every move and every word is interesting and for me goes beyond the simple fact that he was a bad president. It's as if he becomes the stand-in for a proper systematic critique

Maybe just your reality ? I am Arabic and I can see the destabilization that's occurring right in front of me due to the stupid blunders that Biden is doing. I have never felt that with Trump.

Why did you assume I am a European though ? I am Arabic and I can assure you Biden is having more of a destabilizing effect on me than Trump ever did.

I know what Trump said. I know he said dumb shit. That's not my point. I am not saying Trump is good.

I know what scapegoating means. It has a specific sense in ideology critique (for example in Zizek's Sublime object of Ideology). It means a figure in which a systematic issue is projected in order to mask the system itself. I am not saying Trump was good. I am saying the hysteric focus on him as this evil detached from the system, instead of a symptom and the culmination of it, is scapegoating. It doesn't mean he is good. Even now when Biden condones war crimes we are hearing about Trump who has no power whatsoever. Trump is used to not confront what is there and what may give rise to other Trumps or maybe to some politically correct genocide suppoeter as a president.

I don't see any 24/07 media attacks on Biden in the same way I saw with Trump. As someone not in the USA I see Biden as having much more of a terrible effect than Trump ever did. Some criticism of Trump is warranted but it sometimes borders on some weird hysteria where it obscures everything else. He is used as a way to obscure many systematic issues that were always already there and took even a bad turn now with Biden. The focus on Trump even now shows that he plays this role of obscuring and diverting attention. Why do you think people keep talking about him even if he has basically no power now ?

What I am saying is that it'd be great if US people had 1 percent of this zeal when speaking against actual war crimes that Biden is condoning. But of course at least he mostly knows how to speak so let's just all keep focusing on Trump for another year or so.

I am not defending Trump in any shape or form. I am saying there are more devious ways to authorianism happening right now

Ok that's a fair point. But I see him used as a kind of scapegoat that masks what is happening now. No matter how fucked are US policies now some would day "at least it's not Trump." There was never a chance of him overthrowing anything tbh. The riot that happened are kind of a joke and they didn't even know wtf to do once they got inside so they just took selfies. It's a terrible look of course but I don't think there was any great danger given what it would take to actually overthrow a government in the US.

Because of what he says or because of what he does though? Trump said all kind of crazy shit but I don't see him as quantitatively different from what is happening now. The truth lies in what is done not what is said and the entire facade of word plays. My contention is that Biden is so much worse while actually knowing how to dress things up in a diplomatic and politically correct way. I'd rather have someone speak bullshit than have politically correct destruction of the middle east

I've written a hacky Bash script that exports my kindle notes and highlights of selected books as a text file. By default kindle lumps everything in one file and it's such a mess

Except that Hamas and ISIS are enemies. This is even explained in The Times of Israel in 2019

Here is an Archived Wall Street Journal article detailing how Israel had a hand in forming Hamas

The power vacuum was literally artificially created by Israel. Do you think they didn't know that this would happen ? They literally wanted to make an example out of Gaza like "see what happens when we step down of a region? Do you want this to happen?" Do you think Israel actually will let Palestine be united in one voice? They actually loved the fact that Hamas exists, as long as they can keep the violence to a minimum.

I haven't been on Reddit since that time. I am really enjoying Lemmy especially now that I can use Eternity, the Lemmy fork of the reddit Infinity app I've used so long. It feels so familiar

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They were accused of being auti-semites for criticizing Isreael, despite the fact that some of the protestors who are part of the movement are Jewish themselves.