I think they mean in terms of ideological threats to capitalism in the imperial core

Already seeing libs call this a false flag attack. So that stage has been set already if proof comes out that Ukraine was responsible

Okay I don’t feel bad anymore

Eventually Christopher Nolan will be correctly and ignominiously remembered as a great propagandist instead of an artist

I don’t mean to come off like I’m attacking you, I’m just pointing out red flags that make me very skeptical of a source or an author, sorry if it reads as aggressive. I am also learning from everyone’s input on this thread and I’m glad you brought this up for discussion.

I can’t take someone seriously who advises presidents who have genocided Muslim peoples and talks about “Islamic Extremism” while ignoring the role of western countries and states like Saudi Arabia for creating groups like the Taliban and fostering their power in the region.

Religion has always justified itself as a “civilizing project”; that doesn’t mean this is correct. I can’t take that argument seriously.

You seem here in good faith so I don’t mean this as a personal attack, but that book sounds incredibly racist and light read of her wiki page says she has advised Bush and Obama during their presidencies, which I think says it all really. She is a white woman from Canada who converted to Islam and apparently just scolds Muslims about “extremism.” I can’t even respond to the claims the book makes because it just reads as Westerner imposing racist tropes on peoples they don’t understand, to say nothing of the fact that it is completely devoid of class analysis and seems entirely ideological.

Haha there is a lot of time spent staring blankly and resisting the urge to explode on some of these hopelessly dense fuckers

For the most part, academia exposes a lot of the bullshit going on. However, liberal ideology prevents researchers from seeing “the elephant” i.e. the horrors of capitalism, so they go searching for answers down blind alleys. For example, in my field, research has established the brutality of our healthcare system; but, research will always seek to answer this by recommending and then further exploring “novel healthcare solutions” instead of, ya know, the solution that’s right in our face (FUCKING DESTROY OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM)

It’s not just the ruling class, unfortunately.

It also would require giving labor a lot more power which is a major contradiction with neoliberalism

Please define “terrorist” for me please

I believe they said airstrikes but either way they said unequivocally that Israel hit them with explosives.

Biden fucked up so hard with this. Whether in this war or the next the global South is uniting. Internally, people do not support Israel like they need them to get away with this level of denial and propaganda. And they are now going to pit themselves against fucking doctors from MSF, one of the most highly respected western organizations, who are providing unequivocal firsthand testimony that these were airstrikes. They will pay.

The misinformation techniques on reddit right now remind me of peak Trump reddit

Tea is one of my favorite characters, there is something so aesthetically pleasing about it. Please keep posting these!

Nah this feels big

It’s honestly pure fucking racism. China is clearly just acting in an underhanded way and manipulating people by LOOKING like they are doing the right thing by bringing people out of poverty but really they are just waiting for their moment to assume imperial power. Those sneaky orientals-- I mean revisionists!

China is obviously a complicated entity. There are a lot of important questions to be asked about how they operate and how that fits into ideas of socialism and communism. But 1. this is their socialist project and not ours and 2. you definitely don’t have the right to project centuries old racist tropes on them.

Comrade Xi, pls

Words cannot describe the rage I am feeling right now. Palestine’s liberation is such a fucking softball, and if people can so easily cheer for their genocide I frankly don’t know what to do with myself in the US.

Apologies for the ‘Dear Diary’ type post, but I really just don’t know how to alleviate this intense feeling.