[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

at this particular time

That's the thing about tailism, though. It's always bound to a struggle that is of particular urgency or salience at a given time. You can use the same exact words to repudiate any charge of tailism that isn't being made retrospectively, in a history book.

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

an organization whose primary driving force is Islam

What Islam? A collection of beliefs? A set of believers?

The defining contention of materialism is that ideas are not the primary driver of history. Hakim's post says, without qualification, that Islam is the driving force of the resistance.

The backflips folks are doing in this thread (including obliterating the very distinction between the ideal and the material, which is revisionism) to reconcile these two blindingly obvious, incompatible things are incredible.

That is a materialist analysis of the situation lol because that is what the Palestinians themselves are saying

Self-report (unadorned by any commentary or context, even) is 'material analysis' now? What?

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That might be a credible take if, for instance, Hakim's post so much as mentioned material conditions, or Roderic's post was about the engine of history rather than Hakim's post.

Your assessment is totally disconnected both from the content of Hakim's post and from the content of Day's tweet.

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

This has to be satire, right?

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

no matter how different a homophone's intensions, they all sound the same to me

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

I work for a large, global staffing agency and let me assure you, you are already a faceless spreadsheet cell among many, and AI is already a factor in your ability to advance or get noticed at multiple stages in the pipeline

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Based on these victims' ages and the fact that they weren't in prison, can't we infer that they were in the IDF?

They probably couldn't have been Greta's friends then

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Sorry, haven't really followed this. Is the idea of 'the long Corbyn' that somehow he's responsible for alleged anti-Semitism outside his tenure or time in leadership?

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He's on a half-informed anti-idpol/politically incorrect kick for the past few years, and combined with his tendency to really stick it to people and actions that he feels lack integrity, it sometimes leads him to engage in insults and boomerisms that ultimately undermine his valid points. It's a real shame because he still has a lot of value to say and he's getting in his own way when he does that.

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago

I love how the questioner in that clip just smiles, nods and walks away instead of further replying, like 'damn, you got me'. He doesn't seem mad about it either— he looks like maybe it's really given him something to think about.

[-] bestagoner@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago

A little bit to my surprise, ol' Norman Finkelstein, in his media appearances since this latest development in the occupation, has refused to condemn Hamas. In his interview with Chris Hedges yesterday, he explained this decision with reference to slave revolts in the US, John Brown, and the Haitian revolution. I think it's a sound comparison.

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