This French racist can’t imagine seeing a black person as his equal and so projects that on to his political opponents. These people assume that every single person is secretly just as racist, bigoted, and insanely wrapped up in media simulacra of the 19th century society as they are
Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors
The way in which the internet has warped some peoples’ brains so they can only really think in terms of simulacra of an imagined 19th century is worth studying — people whose conception of politics is built on a half-remembered masturbatory fantasy of Bismarck instead of like, the world they live in
DC Natl Guard so sick of my shit they start to sigh when they see me because they know I’m about to start heckling
I really think the Nationalist International’s constant cowardice needs to be studied in a lab
Among Those Who Say To Defend Our Nation:
All: 59%
New Democrats: 78%
Liberals: 73%
Bloc Quebecois: 46%
Conservatives: 38%
Even American members of the Nationalist International are all functionally cowards — they only support the use of force when it’s unlimited violence committed on populations which can’t really resist. Hence the complete backing-down from fighting China or Russia, they’re all fundamental cowards
Tooze is one of those figures who’s agonizing to read and think about because he’s *so close*. He’s *so close* to being consistently correct that it’s genuinely disappointing when he starts to go wrong — as he constantly does
He is absolutely correct about the Biden Admin though. The degree to which that Admin was constantly jerking itself off while making endless piecemeal compromises that doomed and discredited its own (excellent!) starting principles is shocking. It’s a prime lesson in how not to do politics.
I would like to formally apologize to PTA for saying the Colonel Lockjaw was an unrealistic caricature
Basically my fear is that if the Dems retake Congress and vote to impeach or defund ICE we will have a Kapp Putsch on our hands basically immediately
Brecht was still comparing Hitler to a “gang leader” in 1940!
Not a particularly serious country
This article and its response is bugging me because:
1. Yes, a genuinely new political vision on the left is necessary
2. No, it will not come from fucking Leninists
3. You cannot get especially made when a Leninist says Leninist things. The sky is blue. Water is wet.
Some of you would be clutching your pearls over the Italian Futurists in a way that is deeply embarrassing
Ok but the financial times is the best mass-distribution newspaper in print
There is only one working class, the professional managerial class, and there is only one working class party, the Democratic Party, and there is only one working class paper, the financial times
