Llituro

there's something poetic about china selling amerikkkans "the substance"

"becoming a monk would fix me" type guys

"following Allah is supposed to be easy" hates to see this guy coming

you can ask bernie in 5 minutes, be real, you can ask in 1 minute, which people did

you can ask, sure, but you couldn't have a sincere conversation of the kind that might actually change bernie's perspective in 5 minutes. surely you're not suggesting that asking the question in an interview changes the game in some way: it's been pretty clear that bernie is a feckless liberal zionist on all matters of foreign policy. i also would hope that you understand the point of people asking in contexts other than a planned interview is to try and pressure bernie to do something that bernie himself obviously doesn't agree with, since he's a liberal zionist. so i ask again, what exactly is your theory here of the point of asking bernie sanders about his changing views on the (obviously failed) dream of kibbutzism in light of the last hundred years of genocide and settler-colonialism in a 5 minute interview that he chose to have with you. because i think all that would have accomplished is making hasan's chat and twitter leftists very happy, democrats and their paid lap dog commentators very performatively upset on behalf of a politician they otherwise hate and is otherwise very popular, and would result in a series of dissatisfying, fundamentally non answers from bernie sanders.

i don't like that despite whatever profile, during interaction with mainstream world you will never get completely opposing (refreshing (tm)) framing from that ilk. why not ask probing questions of bernie panders time in kibbutz? why not ask about myriads of polls showing that pisraelis are fascists through and through? why not talk about nazis in ukraine with aocia or matt duffus?

he's talked about all of that through and through myriad times, and bernie has given him five minutes of time twice. genuinely, how do you think they would have had time for that? i'm not asking you to trust him or something, don't trust anyone that you don't organize with in your area that you have an actual relationship with, but this is not exactly a reasonable criticism of the guy or the project. it's not that he's not oppositional in longer form interviews or something. are you mad at his tone?

i agree entirely. i like the site partly because it's effectively a hidey-hole from the most brain-poisoned liberals, but that isn't conducive to actually moving people further towards class consciousness and revolutionary organizing. i have my own grounded criticisms of hasan's work that i've articulated before here, but a lot of the ungrounded hate has reminded me that there are limitations to anti-sectarian spaces. we're not organizing here. there are people here who organize. with the more international stance of this site in general, i agree that more actively trying to organize u.s. americans into class consciousness would probably cause tension. it can't be a safe space for international comrades and an educational space for emotionally ill-adjusted imperial citizens.

the chill revert needs to be an emoji, it's got potential.

well you see i'm an ultra and i think that talking about electoralism as a political commentator because you accept that it is currently the entity that the masses still think of as the sole locus of political possibility is actually why people are electoralists and not because this is the most propagandized population on earth. i am very smart. hasan is bad for not forming a PSL cadre or telling gavin newsome he should get the wall. /s

so much hasan hate is a combination of ignorance about using different rhetoric in different contexts, an ignorance that needing a popular leftist that talks at length about u.s. imperial violence, and an ignorance where they imagine that he could have formed a successfully revolutionary PSL supercadre had he not chosen to be a wealthy political commentator. he's not an organizer. i don't know why hexbear ultras want him to be one so bad when he's clearly much better at this.

now you're thinking like a shareholder

they can't fool me, that's laura loomer

the biggest cost centers are people in production

almost like the two kinds of business are stealing profit from laborers or rent-seeking, and rent-seeking is by far more profitable.

"we killed most of the guys we had in mind" why even try to act like you had them in mind then? the amerikkkan media is not exactly reporting accurately and consistently about how the u.s. precision strikes have targeted both administration officials as well as opposition figures, one of whom was on house arrest. i guess the point is that the distraction leads people to think that this wasn't the plan all along, but this was clearly the plan all along. but this is a guy that doesn't play into his own incompetence like that regularly, so it just comes across as brandonization (if it isn't genuinely just brandonization, which it could well be)