Love cormorants I find them so goofy

Orioles because orange and black looks cool

Dang I really need to read their book, they just distilled a lot of thoughts I have had floating around in my head since the pandemic in a clear and concise way and added some crucial evidence to back it up. You could tell people lost their minds behind the wheel early on in the pandemic and it just continues to get worse. I am sure I myself have become a more inattentive or less capable driver just from the growing psychological burden that is placed on us that continues to swell as contradictions magnify and the capital’s profit shrinks.

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

While he simultaneously tells the press that he doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy

I always think about stuff like this. Westerners love to talk about how much they hate other people and how miserable everything is but will still turn around and preach to marginalized and oppressed people domestically and abroad that this is the best system and we are justified using war to “spread” it across the globe

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.

Ugh we still have so far to go with ableism :(

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

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.

Nah this feels big

Turns out the process of fascism isn’t some mystifying thing like we are taught in schools about Nazi Germany, its literally the lives we’ve lead in the west. The call was coming from inside the house!

Also speaks to the power of class conflict as the supreme driver of social constructs. Trying to explain it away as “people bad” only goes so far. I know people don’t really want to hurt others like this. Its entirely the system created by the bourgeoisie. At least we know we have the tools in Marxism!

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