If they turn the country into a war machine they give themselves a chance to reset the board like they did in the 40s. It is deeply ingrained in the US zeitgeist to think this way. It is both profitable for the MIC and synergizes with settler nightmares and our expectations of the US being the preiminent, sovereign, and morally legitimate civilization in the world. The benifit is as much spiritual as it is anything else but the material gains may be more than we think because the only way to bring back a golden age is to, as usual, make someone else pay for it. I hear it from people that don't agree with the US government about much of anything that they are willing to participate in nationalism if it means the US keeps its place on top. We will likely have to find out just how anti imperialist US citizens really are and I assume there will be some disappointment.
And the first sentence of the article is a massive fucking lie
Also
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
No it just got rebranded as "development" to depoliticize assimilation and genocide
Then
Israel as a colonial enterprise is “a significant category error.” It cannot apply to a conflict involving “two indigenous peoples.” It is misplaced given that the 20th-century influx of persecuted European Jews came from a historically indigenous “population of refugees not sent by any empire.”
“Israel’s creation was endorsed by the United Nations.”
In other words people love to play dumb about the UN and the international order.
They aren't broad enough statements. It's white queers generally too. I am currently watching white queers in union leadership ignore all union bylaws and undermine democratic processes while making it a very unwelcoming environment for bipoc. Guess who they blame for lack of participation? I'll give you a hint... It's certainly not blame directed at themselves. And after the 3rd and 4th time it's brought up there is still no hope for change beyond booting people from their positions. We need better solidarity and better leadership in our organizations and it seems white queer folk are just as prone to repeating the routine racist mistakes that other whites make and are equally stubborn about self criticism. It really undermines our organizations when people refuse to read the room while making it about themselves. We all need an annual mandatory history lesson on how often white people fuck it up for everyone. That includes white queers.
I agree but it is still curious. Usually, there is a need for "peace" from an imperial perspective because the chaos makes asserting imperial sovereignty messy. So the ceasefire talk is something I would expect a sheepdog role player to agree with as long as he can avoid condemning the occupation or the "right" for the occupiers to persist with their crimes. But he doesn't even do that, he won't even go along with the ceasefire minority. I'm not sure what he really gains from this other than not having to hide his true power as an imperialist anymore. The US regime has been a little extra aggressive on this war, probably because it is closer to American settler-colonial "home" than Ukraine, and Bernie is something of an example of this.
What a coward
It doesn't even make any sense period. States are the ones that delineate "rights." A sovereign state would never need to affirm its "rights" or have them affirmed, unless their sovereignty was conditional.
So, all of this is a show the international (imperial) community plays to endorse the genocide. The US gives the occupier of Palestine the "right" to defend itself from blowback and demands support from its other vassals and victims to solidify the sovereignty of an illegitimate project through their recognition as legitimate players. Yet this seemingly challenges the sovereignty of the project, almost as if it is just a US colony in need of permission....
The US would never - maybe not even rhetorically - rely on rights granted to it by the international community to assert its imperial sovereignty. The society of states is such a fucking joke.
People say that when non-democrats don't vote blue we are enabling republicans. Nothing more.
Then they go and say stuff like this.
Well what is the problem then? Are we wrong for somehow enabling Republicans or are Democrats the ones enabling Republicans through not acting and then justifying not acting to save face?
Your commitment to democrats and to the US electoral game is what legitimizes and enables the political world we live in. But nothing that exists must exist as it is. Things could be different but when someone suggests abandoning democrats to build a new coalition it is shot down as unrealistic and enabling Republicans by splitting the vote or letting Republicans win by not voting. But yet even when Democrats win the Republicans win too because "what were Democrats supposed to do???"
What if bourgeoisie partisanism is just a scam? What if focusing on concrete social or material issues of our communities through organization and solidarity gives us a better shot at a better quality of life and you are wasting the opportunity by defending a party that stands on genocide, and that cannot even achieve a fraction of what people want without taking from someone else.
What if a dialectical understanding of US partisanism reveals that the Republicans and democrats rely on each other for the development American politics and its discourse? One could not stand without the other.
What use is it to even ask what Biden should do? I have no recommendation for Biden, tho it's true I think he has the ability to take a much harder stance but chose not to.
But I dont want Biden to succeed because it legitimizes a genocidal party that relies on primative accumulation to enrich it's financiers. It relies on massive exploitation of miners and factory workers. It relies on the erasure of peoples, cultures, languages. It relies on the complacence of the privileged and the oppressed. It relies on planned obsolescence, waste, pollution, the warming of the planet, and the destruction of life. It relies on a narrative of developmentalism that forces the world into a wealth arms race that will kill us all. It relies on the destruction of humanities future.
Why would I support the destruction of all human futures just to defend someone that wont even raise his hand high enough to ruffle some feathers?
What I want is for the people of this land to figure out how to achieve solidarity with people around the world to build their own sovereignty so they can build a future that is fully disconnected from American politics and that directly challenges imperialism, indeed the very imperialism democrats support and require. I want people that can be critical of the status quo and critical of their own interests so that the social virus known as capital can be dethroned and we can begin to heal.
Harm reduction for the already-privileged, and fuck everybody else. ‘Well, fuck them too’ is what I say.
I couldn't agree more. These tactics have been used to get people to support political figures that will not advance their goals for far too long. (not to mention how distracting electoralist positions really are from what could be more productive efforts)
Liberals oversimplify politics in a way that erases the dynamic political realities of everyone, especially colonised and working people. They obfuscate the imperialist function of mainstream political discourse. The colloquial left-right political spectrum that is enforced cannot explain the differences between interests of white settler workers, Black workers, or moderate middle income land owners, yet liberals live and die by it and demand coalitions be built with it's logic.
Ultimately this is why the Democratic Party is a prison house of social movements and marginalized interests, just as the US is a prison house of nations.
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I have met some people that are vaguely like this but I've never pressed them enough to see how far they go. They love to talk about communist atrocities, but especially when any kind of atrocity comes up. I'm just like, and back to what we are actually talking about....
the natural state of the imperial settler is contradiction and dissonance.
I guess this is why we produce so many good (terrible) debate-me-bro types. From Vaush and destiny, to 'friends' and family, to the bargaining team my union is facing, and the state itself, there are so many paternalistic, conniving, obtuse, and disingenuous people ready to talk over you for hours at a time.
What a ridiculous, meaningless designation.