SpookyGenderCommunist

Oh it's very real, arch neo-cons like Irving Cristal started off as Trots

Skibidibi toilet is a weird phenomenon to me, because it feels like something that would've been popular a decade ago

What a terrible day to have eyes

Lol puke more, nerd

I see where you're going but I actually really don't see HAMAS as a legit liberation movement

If I may engage in good faith, why do you believe this to be the case?

Ok but Bowling Alone has a decent thesis. He's arguing that the decline in social outlets, like bowling clubs, will lead to the decay of liberal democracies. He totally misses the role of capitalism though. So like, 4/10.

Also he's way too fucking optimistic about the Internet, and it's very funny to look back on. It's a big reason why the subtitle has "revival of American community" tagged on it.

same energy

Goodnight "Israel" but the Al-Aqsa mosque is the most prominent part of the cityscape? In the middle of the frame? In a contrasting color that draws the eye to it?

You're a fucking idiot. Do you know anything about the history of the region? I do not condone the killing of civilians, but the people of Gaza are in effectively an open air concentration camp. If you back an animal into a corner, you shouldn't be surprised when it bites you.

The violence of the oppressed can not be compared to the violence of the oppressor. If you punch me in the face unprovoked, that's entirely different from me punching you back in self defense.

The people of Israel are settlers who, by and large, have not lived their whole lives there. Benjamin netanyau grew up in Philadelphia for fuck's sake. Those people largely chose to bring their children into a war zone. They could just as easily have left. The Palestinians who's land is being actively stolen from them have no where else to go!

The Israeli government has the choice to end this conflict. They could grant Palestinians equal rights, end settlement in the West Bank, provide Palestinians a right of return, and formulate a long-standing peace plan tomorrow.

They choose to not make progress towards any of those things though. They choose to continue treating Palestinians like cattle to be caged and slaughtered. As far as I'm concerned, any fresh perpetrated by Hamas is a direct result of Israeli policy.

Eat shit. You're a genocide denier, plain and simple.

One of these cultures has normalised vegan and vegetarianism for centuries, the other is trying to wean a meat-obsessed population

As someone who works in a grocery store, the worst fucking people are the ones who go up to the deli counter and yell at the clerks, demanding the "bloodiest* roast beef they've got. That or the spiciest turkey, or whatever.

Dudes who's entire sense of self is invested in eating meat. Easily the most annoying kind of guy I encounter in my daily life.

I'm currently getting a degree in political science, and while there are definitely Marxists in the field, doing Marxist analysis (usually under the labels Political Economy, or World Systems Theory, everyone nods and agrees with Marxist analysis, as long as you don't call it that), my university happens to be associated with a nearby air force base, and is therefore swarmed with ghouls who wanna be CIA agents, and shit.

The amount of PHD's who's area of expertise overlaps with Marxism, but who knows nothing about it except for the shit they hear from the base (ie, east Asia "experts"), is agonizing.

I had a professor try to tell me Bourgeoisie still meant Middle Class, and that Marxism asserted a class above them which controlled everything, that he couldn't define when I pressed him on it....