Elysium [he/him, any]

Honestly haven’t looked into it that far. I agree with you though

It’s absolutely wild that the DNC emails which proved internal corruption at the DNC between the top democrats and the media… are considered more important to the US than trying to forcefully suppress the videos of mass murders happening by US military.

Also kind of expected since liberals will tell you, straight faced, that the video of them killing the Reuters reporters and the other people “wasn’t a war crime.” “… uh, how isn’t it?” Would be the first question from basically everyone with a brain. “Because the US said they were terrorists.” Oh. Ok.

So, it just seems to me that those in charge view the war crimes videos as “settled” and not negative for the US. While they see the email stuff as an ongoing, never ending source of annoyance for the DNC/Hillary/MSM and so it needs to stomped down. Obviously the emails are already out for years now and not much they can do about that, but it does say and show so much of what is wrong with these people’s brains. They’d rather some video of Hillary personally executing a Libyan child came out and be subsequently explained away by the CIA as justified than ever have to talk about how the media fed her questions before debates ever again. Just totally twisted people. That’s how I read it anyway.

Analyzing right/left dynamics in this way seriously requires a full and total ignorance or misunderstanding of everything. Willful, purposeful, ideologically driven ignorance I’d argue (in most cases).

It also totally deletes discussion of class (this is why I said it’s done purposely- of course capitalists want to delete that discussion altogether). It boils everything down to “Is the state exerting power somewhere?” “Is that force justified?” This effectively equates suppressing capitalist/liberal ideas like private property ownership being sacred and actually where value flows from (business owners- which hurts my brain even typing bc it’s so dumb, but moving on) to, I dunno, police coming and killing striking workers because a private owner demanded the strike end. Both of these are examples of authoritarianism, the state exerting force on individuals to force an outcome, but one is in the interest of workers/society as a whole, and the other is in the interest of a handful of owners. Under the bullshit definition some want to push, the class aspect doesn’t matter, all that matters is someone was forced.

When neoliberals know they’ve got no answer to questions around class and legitimacy of private property, they just change the definitions to fit whatever they need. Convenient and not unexpected

This is bad obviously because some random peace kid is gonna go their life fucked

However, this also means that (probably) the protests are putting a shitload of pressure on these Nazi ghouls to drop Zionism. If it wasn’t working, if it was easily ignored or whatever, they wouldn’t even acknowledge the protests. As they’ve done for almost 4 months now.

Gotta pump those protest numbers. Time to look into the next DC mass protest.