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Trump, who’s been in office for all of a month, is “failing spectacularly to broker a peace”? When Biden did everything he could for two years to stymie peace?

This article is paywalled.

And here I thought HP was stalwartly antidisenshittificationalistic.

Both dudes support the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

It’s not hard for me to conceptualize nuclear great power politics, because I’ve been there before. I’m old enough to remember the world before that brief unipolar aberration, which G.H.W. Bush called the “new world order” and Fukuyama called the “end of history.”

Just a small problem of thousands of murdered eastern Ukrainians, and the Ukrainian state’s efforts to systematically suppress their political representation and erase their culture. Which is why the ICJ is investigating it for genocide.

They’re not Nazis unless they come from the Nationalsozialistische region of Deutschland. — Some German on the internet

If I had the health insurance and/or the money, I wouldn’t ask pseudonymous internet randos, I would ask a psychologist/therapist/councilor.

By far right I mean the Trumpers, Germany’s AfD, and other European fellow travelers. They’re not anti-war, they’re anti-this particular war. They’re not against the ethnic cleansing of Palestine or the annexation of Greenland. So far this second Trump administration seems to want to refocus on the Monroe Doctrine and on containing China (somehow).

The left is no longer my left, especially in Canada, with all this stupid gender theory crap that goes against nature and the natural way of things.

I mostly disagree here. While the liberal left’s pinkwashing is pretty crap, the actual left’s gender theory and critical race theory are solid, and gender essentialism is illusory.

• The Combahee River Collective, 1977: A Black Feminist Statement
• Proletarian feminism
• Critical race theory

Ya can’t beat a superlative is what I always say.

It has a weird & witchy history.

One of them narrowly made it into the DSM-5 and the other never will.

The Politics of Sociopathic Narcissism

It is thus plausible to consider “narcissism” and “sociopathy” as really two poles on a continuum of overlapping traits (and indeed, the newly-revised DSM V, which considered subsuming narcissistic traits into sociopathy, has moved in this direction).

A lil’ bit of voter suppression may also have contributed.

Ultimately I think the fact that there’s virtually no anti-war left left in Europe (or in the US for that matter) is the worst part of it all, because the far right isn’t, in any principled way, anti-war.

The neoconservative West had the election cancelled on the flimsiest of excuses: another RussiaGate conspiracy theory, because the results were unacceptable. Bourgeois democracies aren’t really democratic to begin with, but even still that was a coup move. https://xcancel.com/aaronjmate/status/1891619825023369330

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: tankie ass response

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

Except none of that actually happened. What actually happened is that Israel slaughtered its own civilians that day.

I mean to say that, just because you don’t notice the propaganda on other instances, and in popular media in general, doesn’t mean it’s not there. You may just see it as “common sense.”

Cultural hegemony

📺 The Fascism of Common Sense

📺 Hegemony of Common Sense:Interview Of Dean Manders

Class domination is effectuated more by the mystification of consciousness—the distortion, the obfuscation, the redirection of thought and ideas—than through force or even the threat of force. Of course, force is always in the background—it’s always there. […] If you can mystify people, if you can get people to participate in their own “subjugation,” you’ll get people to become their own worst enemies, you’ve won. And you’ve won without any police forces, military forces, or whatever.

Da kine

Ukraine was a pawn in a project to regime change or balkanize or isolate Russia before. Either way a pawn.