reminds me of that thing Parenti usually throws out as an aside about how making common cause with the disenfranchised, disempowered, and materially insecure peoples is characterized by the hegemon as some kind of sneaky, duplicitous move to seize power... though how one actually receives power in this way is never explained.
Liberals never explain it because they believe the world operates on magical thinking. If enough people combine their imaginations, the thing they want happens. That's how they conceive of reality
For them that largely is how it works, they're able to will a lot of bourgeois policy into action because it didn't challenge power. When they see an actual challenge to power, they are incapable of approaching it from any other perspective because their brains have been rotted by their ideology.
they all know when they want unions to go away they have to hire pinkertons and employ cops to beat their skulls in. Suddenly they know their imagination isn't good enough and they have to take violent action to protect their interests.
Yeah, but they don't have to go out in the streets and protest for Pinkertons and cops to be called. They just think it and it happens and the status quo is maintained.
Calling the cops or hiring union busters is essentially magical thinking because it pretends to solve some problem with no real political action, it exists as a free side effect of the current system. You can literally dial 3 numbers and have just about anyone locked up if you're a rich white person.
Thumbing through Steve Jobs's dream journal so that I, too, can be a billionaire (and then self-medicate my pancreatic cancer with an all-fruit diet because I am a the world's largest gifted child)
Ironic, considering libs call other people orks: in warhammer 40k this is literally how orkish psionics operate. They can wish things into existence if enough of them believes something hard enough.
if i wanted power i would just be a psychopath ceo or a crony high level bureaucrat or lickspittle politician
Hamas has lobbyists and high ranking politicians spread throughout the world. There are right wing fanatical religious movements in different countries supporting Hamas. Hamas has broad support in the West and in Western media. Meanwhile, the Global South broadly condemns Hamas and supports…
wait sorry I got it flipped, that’s all Zionism
I mean on the other hand, I know plenty of people who are either Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Persian (everyone I know who is from Iran magically becomes "Persian" once they immigrate for some reason... probably all that "Death to the west" that I see on the news) and for some reason I never have to ask where they stand on the issue. Muslims scare white people more than Jews, brown Muslims even more. Give them a beard and a kaftan and you watch Karen clutch her pearls. At least the Jewish people get Jon Stewart and Mel Brooks.
The vast majority of people dont see this as a vast complicated 70 year ongoing geopolitical hot potato, they just pick their side and defend it.
Your first part of the comment reminded me of my coworker. She is proudly iranian (though i think that is more because she is from the Azeri part and is therefore not really persian) while also being a monarchist who want the Shah to come back and constantly defends the Shah as somehow more civilized than the current Islamic Republic.
going full "The Protocols of the Elders of Hamas" with this rhetoric
I feel like the onion did a "you, yourself, at your home, are hamas" bit that i cant find, but i also cannot distinguish parody from reality, so...
https://www.theonion.com/israel-military-reports-it-was-you-the-reader-who-ble-1850939156
I don't claim to know exactly what Hamas has and hasn't done to Israel. All I know is that Hamas definitely fucked this guy's mom.
I cannot conceive of a comedy writer writing this and not realizing it sounds like they're doing a bit.
to be fair, he was one ninth of the writing team for Borat 2, a largely unscripted improv comedy
maybe his contribution was mostly in the "add more racism" scope
Maybe he's trying to carve out a niche for himself in the hopes he can become a Netflix comic.
"I'm very pro-Israel. Are ya triggered? I'm not saying we should kill everybody in Gaza and all the right people in the West Bank. But what if we did?..."
*borat voice* NOT!
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Literally doing the bit about Jews in Borat but switching in Palestinians and their supporters.
"And worst of all, he could be any one of us. He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be me! He could even be..."
Maybe the real Hamas were the friends we made along the way
Fox news? Hamas. Dell computers? Hamas. Your mom's potato salad? Believe it or not, Hamas.
Can't wait for Borat 3 making fun of how paranoid schizophrenic and insane the media is just taking Borat's wild bullshit stories at face value.
Itza true my nana told me when I was child! Whena I wasa teen shea said not to look at pretty girl or khummus appear in the pants. No one wants khummus in the pants.
Do a search for “oscar nominated” on this guy’s feed for a laugh.
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