as Will said on Chapo (paraphrasing) Israel has lost the argument so now all that's left is coercion
Chapo? Like the drug dealer?
But yeah I think that's basically where we're at. All of the kids of the current rulling class are being taught the same lesson that the Vietnam war protesters were, that the armed wing of the state will remorselessly crush them, ideals about free speech be damned, and in twenty years they'll be just as bloodthirsty as their parents about the conflict of the day and all the ones currently pro Israel will be pretending that they were pro Palestine all along.
Eh, I'm sure some will become reactionaries later in life, but there was a selfish reason to protest Vietnam in the draft. These students are risking a lot for purely selfless reasons or for their families in Palestine. Pessimism is usually pretty accurate in the imperial core, but I'm hopeful for the next generations
We were saying 6 months ago that there would be a crackdown, simply because the US can't support a genocidal colonial project if the victims can livestream their suffering to the world.
But what's really weird here, and I think no one could have predicted, is the mass suppression and arrest of Ivy League student protestors. They're protesting peacefully, which they've been told is the only moral and acceptable way. They're not making any material demands, and they're not tied into a workers movement that could strike and threaten capital. Anyone with knowledge of previous college protests and the academic year could have told them that this is harmless, and that it would fizzle out as summer started, but instead they've violently cracked down in a way that's causing the protests to spread, while also radicalizing and blackballing the children of privilege , the people that are supposed to carry on the ideological future of liberalism and sign up to be the next generation of the imperial bureaucracy and the NGOs.
It's because the bourgeoise is shutting the door and kicking down the ladder behind them. The student protests will be drawn along class lines. The majority of students protesting in support of Palestine will be those on grants, bursaries and scholarships. So normal people good at academics or sports. The majority of those on the Zionist side will be the rich fail children there because of money, family connections, or both. By cracking down hard on the protests, the bourgeoise are saying that class mobility is dead, unless you fully assimilate to their moral values. In essence, that's the message here. Class mobility is dead, there will be no way to improve your position without fully selling out, and we are going towards a pseudo caste/feudal system.
This checks out with what I was thinking. They know they’re killing the youth vote and they’re going to be ready with their ideological response when they lose in November. Just spitballing here but maybe they help republicans pass compulsory military service to fix the enlistment problem and the Dems say it’s the youths fault for not bending the knee in spite of them doing everything they could to turn them away. It could be something else but I get the feeling they going to start feeding the youth into the wood chipper even faster and more deliberately and sell it to the radlibs as just desserts for not bending the knee in November despite them doing everything they could to kill the energy of the youth vote.
In typical boomer fashion, the people in charge absolutely categorically refuse to think long term, particularly if the long term is more than 5 years.
We're stuck in a demented good cop bad cop routine and the dems have upped the ante. Their line is effectively now, "vote for us so Trump doesn't use the tools we specifically gave him because we knew how scared you'd be." Except the dems are using those tools right now, to defend their genocide. Bleak.
I nod solemnly as i begin crossfading between I'm afraid of americans and this is america
Also we saw an entire political party collude to expell everybody that wasn't ideologically in lock step with them.
It was the 2016 and 2020 primaries, the head of the DCCC resigned over it, and liberals to this day insist it didn't happen.
Libs got the outcome they wanted, therefore it was Fair and Democratic(tm)
the parmesantarian revealed that the powers of the presidency can only be used to do bad things, sorry sweaty Biden doesn't have the power to make sweeping changes for good only for bad
"Look I hate to be the one to tell you this but the president isn't God, he can't just do whatever he wants"
*Biden announces he's sending more arms to Isreal with or without congressional approval
"Maybe some day you'll understand that politics is about compromise, also fuck you, were not going to stop doing a genocide and you better still vote for us"
If you don't vote for the blue genocide enabler then a dastardly red genocide enabler might get in!
R/politicalhumor unironically had thisnpist today where it was the trolley problem but the democratic side was one person labeled Palestine and the republican side had like 4 or 5 people.
At least they've moved on from trying to say they aren't genocidal maniacs and are just tryng to brow beat other people into agreeing to also support genocide.
at this point Reddit is just various private influence campaigns plus the CIA influence campaign that is Reddit management sort of smashing up against each other
The Supreme Court is about to let cities and states make homelessness illegal too
It really is crazy they've gotten bold enough to try the play off "Nobody is entitled to a living wage and also if you don't make a living wage that's illegal"
The more depressing thing is the vast majority of Americans are so selfish and cruel they side with the government while being one medical procedure or missed paycheck away from homelessness.
Bell Riots 2024 is a prophecy
It's bad folks.
Genocide Joe isn't 99% hitler because eu law says you can only call him hitler if he's from the hitler region of bavaria.
Are you trying to destroy America? He may be old but he was not a member of the German National Socialist Party therefore he can't be a nazi, so you better vote for him or we're all dead already.
Are you trying to destroy America?
it's funny to imagine this as the opening to a late-night infomercial
Shows man clumsily dropping ak-47
"There must be a more marg bar way!"
I saw a book at my public library today called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps and I was like
but then I saw it was written by Ben Shapiro and I was like
Rulebook says he's only a 'Nazi' if he's a card carrying NSDAP member
It's sparkling oligarchy
looking forward to Genocide Joe losing and leftists, who have no real power outside of the glorified scam of voting, getting the blame.
Everyone paying attention knows the Democrats will make the evil shit even worse. They always have but liberals hate hearing that and will angrily shoot you down for pointing it out.
It's wild because I actually saw some polls recently that showed them to be regaining the lead, then they do this. Like yeah polls are flawed, but it is maddening to see them do this.
It's pretty clear that the polls merely tell them how far they're allowed to push. Voter support is just currency to them, whenever they creep up in the polls it means they've built up enough spending power to implement something horrible.
He is literally turning a big dial that says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.
Libs keep falling for general approval polls and seem to be very determined to not mention that the dem candidate has to win by 5% to 7% to overcome the EC advantage of empty land in the Dakotas and Wyoming being very pro Trump.
Exactly like they did in 2016.
Libs Fascists
At this point, if there is a "lesser evil" party, I don't even know which one it is
Im told that we have to support this, or trump will get elected and also do this.
But if trump wins, democracy is over!!!!!1!!!One
Which is exactly what they said last time before losing the easiest election maybe of all time and then retaking the presidency through voting four years later.
Unlimited genocide on the Demokkkratic Party
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