lol a few days after he did that speech he voted against blocking $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel 🤡

It makes tactical sense to partner with liberals in some contexts, like a national liberation struggle, and to put aside lesser contradictions to focus on the principal contradiction. It doesn’t make sense to partner with liberals while under capitalism, especially not within the imperial core. The liberals in congress don’t have a shared goal in stopping fascism.

Certainly, but Israel is Zionist.

But it’s not “standardized” behavior, that’s just the behavior of a single animal.

We have more in common with other migratory herd animals because we move so much. Elephants, for example.

Partnering with liberals is idealistic. They always stab you in the back at the first opportunity.

We aren’t chimpanzees. As persistence hunters, our kinds of territorial disputes would have been very different and early humans were likely very nomadic rather than settling into territories that fight. In times of scarcity we’d just move on to different lands.

Which, notably, is why humans spread over the entire planet. We aren’t really built to be fighters.

I think you’re in trouble if you swallow or inhale any batteries.

and active, escalating persecution of an outgroup to persuade an ingroup to willingly give up their freedom.

… and this doesn’t apply to Israel?

Don’t forget they’re Democrats.

When the courts rule against them they’ll just meekly comply.

But what if their primary purpose is to cultivate propaganda, gatekeep social clubs, grant bragging rights to fail kids, and provide sinecures to elite alumni and their friends.

And what do you think the purpose of foreign students was? To propagandize foreigners and gatekeep their ruling class. The compradores are trained in US universities, not in schools in their home countries.

New Haven, CT has one of the highest poverty rates in New England, despite being next door to Yale, home of an elite business school.

Elite universities are like fortress towns all to themselves, so New Haven doesn’t get business from Yale. That’s going to be very different for the relationship between Iowa City and the University of Iowa.

Sure, but it will seriously hurt universities by making them lose tuition and talent. By extension it’ll hurt university towns by making them lose business and labor.

Well I didn’t say whites are entitled to become indigenous, I said they earn their place by joining the anticolonial struggle and materially betraying whiteness. It’s not enough to just performatively be an ally, they need to actually sacrifice and put themselves at risk through active resistance and assistance.

They also never really earn their place until the struggle is done. Every white person has to continually betray whiteness, because of the material reality that they’re more likely than anyone else in the struggle to be informants or undercover cops. I certainly recognize it’s not as simple as being an “ally” and requires real material sacrifice.

In settler-majority countries specifically the dividing of whites against non-whites is an active project that continues to this day, it has to be maintained by constant moneyed and state intervention to elevate whites that are loyal to whiteness and suppress whites that betray it, and in the United States specifically they historically kill and imprison Black and Indigenous leaders that try to make multiracial coalitions.

But those are just my thoughts. I’m hardly an expert in the anticolonial struggle, though I’m not only influenced by Fanon. I’m also influenced by Huey P. Newton and Walter Rodney.

So. Got any books you recommend?

Is it about perception or making people forget? I don’t think it makes sense to have it both ways, the perception created by a death trial keeps this in people’s minds and runs contrary to making people forget.

If they wanted to memory-hole him they should have just shot for a long sentence, like 40 years or something. Life ruining but ultimately uninteresting for the average voter. By sending a message they force people to remember; “Oh yeah, a CEO got murdered on the street. Wasn’t that cool?”

Okay, but they could accomplish that by not attempting to seek the death penalty. If they simply tried to imprison him for 40 years the exact same effect would be achieved, but without grabbing headlines.

We’re going to see an exodus of foreign born students and it’s going to hit college towns hard.

“”“typos”“”

Okay, but Fox does exist and it’s not going to be outlawed any time soon. Not having a response to Fox is liberal idealism.

It’s one of the reasons we’re in this situation.

Do you prefer Democrats being unable to fight back because any attempt to do so would be smeared by the media? It’s not like corporate media is unbiased, they just aren’t biased towards Democrats.

One of the Democrats’ greater failures is the lack of a Party media infrastructure that they could use to control the narrative. Republicans have Fox and the right-wing media ecosystem, but Democrats never bothered to capture their own media to push their own message and agenda.

There are definitely friendly media groups, but they’re not loyal. They just happen to agree with Democrats more than Republicans. If the government shut down they’d turn on Democrats.

Only one party has media control and so only one party controls the message. I have no doubt that Democrats would have failed to defend themselves if they voted against Republicans - but that speaks to their failure to make their own media more than the vote itself.

It’s like they want jury nullification.

If it’s lose/lose, why didn’t they choose to lose with dignity instead of lose like cowards?