It could have been a 30 minute expose, but instead, he pulled out a folder full of receipts and just started reading them verbatim into the camera.

“Through every diplomatic means possible”

I.e. he’s gonna ask nicely

Every time

Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he’ll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he’ll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.

It’s like, he has two settings: “actually useful moderate” and “KILLKILLKILLKILL”

Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter

Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.

Do you think I’m acting in bad faith?

Hmmm, maybe you’re right, I want to parse my thinking on this more

I think you’re right that Israel is factually not safe. Although, the attacks were mostly against forward settlements and not like, Tel Aviv (although the bombing obviously changes that). I think I should have differentiated more strongly between the motivations of apolitical and left wing Jews who moved to Israel after the holocaust and the reality of Israel not actually being safe. Thank you for your quibble.

I want to clarify one thing though. in my post, I’m critical of the idea that an ethnostate is the best way to secure Jewish liberation. My proposed solution was one secular state with civil rights protections for religious minorities.

I’m distinguishing between enemies and political opponents. It’s the difference between socialist majority in DSA (our political opponents) and the democrats (our enemies)

I didn’t say “if you’re criticizing Israel, you’ve been doing it antisemetically” I said “a lot of people have been leaning on antisemetic tropes while criticizing Israel.”

I’m not going to dig up every post I’ve reported, but I’ll encourage you to look out for it the next time you’re in the news thread. You’ll see what I mean.

Right, there needs to be a distinction drawn between ethnostates and nationalism of the oppressed.

Yeah, there have. I saw one person get up voted for saying that decolonizing Palestine required ethnic cleansing. I saw another say that Jews need to “pack up and leave” Israel. Both upvoted. It’s not the mainstream but it’s out there.

More common though is vague language that probably applies to settlers / likud or whoever but could reasonably be interpreted to mean “jews” by someone not on the same page as the hexbear mainstream.

To be fair ive never had a productive conversation with a jewish person who wasnt already a communist

I feel like I’ve met maybe one Jewish person IRL who wasn’t pro Palestinian liberation. Even the Israeli dude I worked with wanted to vote out Netanyahu and work towards two states, which is admittedly liberal but like, a massive improvement over the status quo.

I don’t care if anarchists organized this or local teens organized it. Either way it’s working class self activity. We aren’t some special group floating above the working class and directing it, we’re workers fighting for our own interests.

This kind of thinking about the left as separate from the class comes from the professionalization of politics and while it’s sometimes neccesary to pay staff, we should not do it uncritically.

I think there’s a thin line between the opportunistic and and the political in working class politics. The goal of looting is to improve the lives of working class people. The goal of striking is to improve the lives of working class people. They both do it by taking from the profits of buisnesses and by disrupting norms like working-for-a-wage and purchasing-commodities.

When anarchists organize looting as political protest, they’re pointing out just how thin that line is.

Yeah, but it’s also how a good portion of this forum has been engaging with the lemmyverse, so it’s clear some folks have been interpreting the meme literally and some clarification is needed.

I agree that those would be good, commonsense ways of using those words. It’s also not what Marx meant by them. So when you throw them around on a Marxist forum, it gives a weight to what you’re saying, but without actually referencing anything Marx said.

Do you see how this could create issues?

this is a really good question, and I think one that is both necessary to a proper materialist understanding of the issue, as well as a good example of how culture is a material process.

I bet liberals would respond better to the first way of talking about him

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