I’m halfway through it now. I really want to like it… but it does feel a little unfocused and meandering. And surprisingly, I don’t feel like he’s actually talked all that much about Stalin yet. I’ve had to take a couple breaks in reading it so maybe that’s why, idk.
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I think that’s the Irish singer.
I have, but keep in mind the average cable news viewer is like 69 years old. That demo is already in the tank for “israel” and racist af towards Arab people. There’s no changing their minds.
This whole Eurovision thing is a fascinating microcosm of how “israel” operates geopolitically. I kinda hate the term because JBP coined it but it’s the perfect term: “israel” is a chaos dragon. From the US perspective, that’s its raison d'être. “israel” is supported because it keeps the rest of the MENA region disunited and fractured, unable to act as a cohesive unit. The parallels to this year’s contest are uncanny.
Murray Rothbard. And he wasn’t just a “libertarian intellectual”. If libertarians had their own Five Heads, he would probably be on it.
Between campus protests in Europe, invasion of Rafah, the UN vote, and Eurovision shenanigans… it almost feels like this has been the worst few days for “controlling the narrative” on behalf of US and Israeli interests. I’m not suggesting some Israeli singer getting booed will stop a solitary bomb from dropping on Gaza… but narratives do matter. That’s why the US works so hard to control it.
Armchair analysis: Israel is the west’s crazy “bad cop” in the Middle East. The threat is always there for Middle Eastern countries: play ball with the US or Israel will fuck your shit up. The quid pro quo is, the US gets pliant vassal states in places like Egypt, Jordan, etc and Israel gets money, protection, and diplomatic cover from the US.
The rabid, unhinged nature of Zionists is a feature, not a bug, that serves US interests. It allows the US to (superficially) keep their hands clean of the violence that needs to exist to perpetuate hegemony. US gets to play good cop and appear to the rest of the world to be level-headed and impartial (whether the world buys that is a different matter).
The US has fostered this “attack dog” mentality in Israel for decades, if by nothing else by not holding Israel accountable for anything. It now permeates Israeli society. And the US might be naive enough to think you can just turn on/off Israel’s psychotic mentality like a faucet.
I honestly think this is part of it. Biden, Hillary, none of these ghouls have investigated the history themselves, they just went along with what whatever was fed to them by AIPAC. I think they know young people do know the history, but their egos don’t let them admit some sophomore at Humboldt State know more than them.
Blinken - who’s actually younger than most of these politicians - explained it when said in that chat with Romney that it used to be you picked up the Washington Post or Wall Street Journal off your doorstep and read it in the morning. Major newspapers and TV news, that’s the only way they people ever learned about history or the world around them. And as we all know, that’s a pretty low quality source of information.
I’m not on twitter so I can’t link directly to the videos, but this news story has the videos embedded. It has Macklemore singing Hind’s Hall live at a concert in New Zealand. Crowd goes nuts, love it.
These are the kinds of videos that make every Zionist under 40 go 
. No way any of them would get applause like this. Everyone their age hates them, the movement for the liberation of Palestine has an entire generation on its side. The only people who cheer on Zionists are the ones who are as miserable as they are.
On closer inspection, I think the problem was more how I was reading it. Life dictated that for weeks I was only able to read two or three pages every other day or so. Read a bigger chunk over the weekend and it seemed way less disjointed. It’s definitely a good book.