Are the simple open ended questions being asked by this person/whatever really that bad even?
Maybe I'm not thinking this through, but it seems like a good way to get some fundamentals and then go on to read theory? For anyone reading the posts.
Structured reading isn't for everyone and most people are educated by memes, pop culture, etc
Important to keep in mind that this is not an independent, organic entity that grew from local sources. To the extent that it is composed of people from the area, those people have been forced to assimilate to Zionist/anti-Arab/imperialist/colonialist values (e.g. Arabic Jews, disposessed of their heritage essentially) or are considered colonial subjects and second class citizens, if even that (the Palestinians).
It may seem paradoxical, but hating on Israel in the conventional sense ("Why are we helping them? Boo Netanyahu bad") ends up legitimizing it -- as an unethical, immoral actor, sure, but a legitimite actor nonetheless, with the implication that they "should do better". It is essentially lamenting the fact that a murderer is cursing out the victim while killing him, as if doing it politely would make it palatable somehow. It completely misses the point.
It is a violent settler colony, and its establishment and existence is the work of, and to the benefit of, Western Imperialism.
Changed so many minds he managed to buy himself a trillion dollar beach house with his twitch money, what a great hero of the people
Türkiye number one!!
Fine line between being cordial and a being a grifter eh
Those who support Israel’s actions in Gaza are the worst people on earth, but at least their position has some kind of integrity. They’re not contradicting themselves by pretending to oppose what they’re actually fine with. They’re not tearing themselves in half trying to straddle two completely incompatible positions while smiling for the camera and pretending it doesn’t hurt. They’re not posturing as compassionate anti-imperialists while serving the evil empire
Same sentiment as Malcolm X and many others have expressed. With the wolf, you at least know where he stands. The sneaky lib fox will tell you (and itself) what you need to hear and before you know it, it's all but eaten you alive.
This is partly why I worry that these kinds of "confirmations" of the decline is doing anti-imperialism a disfavor (and also becomes an easy way for ops to confuse, misdirect, redirect) -- the alternative is not going to magically be a shift to a socialist economy, that needs concerted effort. The "alternative" is more likely to be what you described.
Of course I still think that there is value in discussing these kinds of pieces, but often the comments will echo simplistic "lolz" type sentiments which will just be used to represent socialists and sympathisers as a brainless, directionless, destructrive force, at which point you might as well be an anarchist, "rationalist libertarian" or some other individualistic aesthetic self expression, bleh.
Fwiw I'm not against gloating/mocking humor when it's principled, informed, on point, and cuts deep like what I assume hexbear tries to do with its memes and shit (I'm not too familiar yet).
I often look at submissions like these (and there are many), gloating about the fall of the us empire, which is fair enough, but the articles/studies themselves are usually lamenting this fact (at the very least implicitly), and are essentially trying to drive support for maintaining it, like brainstorming solutions. I get confused, because it seems we are looking for direct confirmation of the decline of empire.. from channels of the empire? I think it's better to link to and discuss sympathetic material showing why and how the machine is failing and what we can build in its stead, not submissions linking to the machine's awareness of it and attempts to "correct" it from within the same narrow scope. The former will increase knowledge of theory etc, the latter is just a strange circlejerk. Seems like it might backfire. And is easily abused.
Hey, who can say what people like JRRT were up to. Trying to create some sense of history for the West to quell its barbarity, and providing fertile ground for new habits and traditions and ways of thinking to grow? Creating some NWO euro supremacy myth for people to larp to? Underpinning the West's attempt to redo the history of the world in a form that fits its conceits and aspirations of world hegemony and its self image built on other people's stolen history, or providing a platform for conscious self reflection so they can avoid just that?
I dunno.
Good? I don't think so anyway. But effective, for sure. To what end? Well, so libs can eventually use it like this, for example. Sleeper agent, heh. What's next, am I gonna hear about how 1984 is actually good, just misappropriated?
Check out The Last Ringbearer by Kirill Eskov. Since the movies, lotr has become part of the west's cringy lore and you have to deal with that shit even if you try to stay away from it. This book is a nice antidote
Edit: he he, just realized old mate was talking about the article, not lotr
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