I think you are over-thinking it. No way Trump knows or cares about any of that. What he does “know” is that McKinley is the name the good white people gave it. Then the woke indigenous people got it changed. And since white people are superior, renaming it to McKinley is a way to express that white supremacy.
Destruction of the entity was never even close to being a possibility, to think otherwise is to engage in utopianism.
There were goals that Hamas stated they had (release of prisoners, disturbing normalization talk) and other accomplishments that were achieved (exposing the entity’s military as a bit of a paper tiger, setting up the entity as an international pariah state, et al), albeit at a tremendous cost.
The act of settler colonialism is itself extreme violence, and so far the practical reality is that colonial projects don’t just roll over. They engage in even more extreme violence on the way out.
Freedom cost Vietnam millions of lives and took over 30 years. This is a first step in a sadly long process.
I think it’s the other way around. No one other than Zuckerberg, AIPAC, and a few deep state ghouls actually want TikTok banned. It’s a super unpopular ban. Biden is now letting Trump claim the credit for actually allowing TikTok to stay around.
Xiaohongshu literally translates from Mandarin to "little red book," likely a reference to the famed little red book of quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, the founding father of Communist China.
Five minutes of googling would tell you this isn’t the correct way to translate this (would be too based if it was, though); but never miss an opportunity for some good ol’ red baiting. Journalism at it’s finest.
That solution would work, and I doubt the US government would even bother to try and stop it. Because 98% of TikTok users aren’t going to bother sideloading and maybe don’t even know what sideloading is.
It does remind me of the discourse around “Karen” or “boomer”… saying that someone in their 20s could be “boomer” or a some guy could be a “Karen”, when that’s not really what people think about when you use those terms or how they were intended to be used. Not really a fan of filtering out “incel”, but we should still be clear on terms.
Like, I don’t think “embarrassing Biden” was at the top of the reasons Trump did all this (I still think he may have a side deal with Netanyahu, though that could be as benign as “I will take care of you over the next 4 years” or as evil as allowing the annexation of the West Bank), but jfc this really has made Biden look terrible, even to libs I know IRL it’s clear now Biden could have done something at any point in the last 15 months and didn’t, while Trump clearly was decisive in making a ceasefire happen because literally every party involved other than the Biden admin themselves is saying this is due to Trump.
Edit: don’t get me wrong, I think Trump knew this would make Biden look bad to some extent but this is an absolute blowout; well beyond what I think Trump could have imagined.
Ilan Pappe stated that before Al-Aqsa flood, he felt the cause of Palestinian liberation was really on the ropes and possibly done for. Saudi legitimization of the entity would have been disastrous, and the Resistance themselves cited this as a reason for launching Al-Aqsa Flood; now that’s not happening anytime soon. Now Pappe says he think the entity is living on borrowed time.
Not to downplay the unimaginable price paid by the Palestinian people over the last 15 months, but the story isn’t over yet. It is certainly possible that down the line, schoolchildren will learn that it was Al-Aqsa Flood that was the beginning of the successful liberation of the Palestinian people and maybe even the end of the Zionist entity (inshallah).
Trump took $100 million in donations from Miriam Adelson (I think the single largest donation he received) allegedly to allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Her people denied she demanded that but she is also an ultra-Zionist and billionaires aren’t known for just handing out no-strings-attached campaign funds.
During his first term Netanyahu and Trump were best buds. The “peace plan” he came up with his son in law was just a wish list of all the things Netanyahu wanted without ever giving the Palestinians a state.
Color me skeptical that Trump is playing hardball with Netanyahu. For that to make sense you’d have to buy the line that Trump is a genuine anti-war dove. I think it is far more likely to be a combination of 1.) this is the inevitable end to all this, Israel simply cannot sustain it as they are not any closer to their goals while the economy is still shit and their military is continuing to get hit hard by the Resistance in Gaza; and 2.) there is some quid pro quo deal going on with Trump and Netanyahu, maybe an agreement to support West Bank annexation, maybe a massive increase in financial and military support, etc.
The only actually communist cartoon I’m aware of is Squirrel and Hedgehog out of the DPRK; never actually seen it myself.
But as a parent who is hopefully raising little commies, my current favorite show for them is Elinor Wonders Why (originally in English but maybe there’s Arabic dubs?). The characters just sort of observe the world around them, notice interesting things, then develop hypotheses and test them out. It’s not exactly dialectical materialism but it does feel kinda close to that.
Which is what pisses me off even more. I remember ~4 years ago a reporter asked Psaki about this and she said Biden had other, bigger priorities on his plate. Like it takes 4 seconds to sign this (well maybe more like 40 for Biden), he was not “too busy”.
I think you are over-thinking it. No way Trump knows or cares about any of that. What he does “know” is that McKinley is the name the good white people gave it. Then the woke indigenous people got it changed. And since white people are superior, renaming it to McKinley is a way to express that white supremacy.