I think it was when they were covering the DNC? It was fairly recent. I cna't recall the exact episode, but one of those DNC coverage episodes.

Brace talks about it briefly; he just says that Americans are exhausted from actually engaging in politics and that's just not where they were. He was dryly describing a situation rather than lamenting it or admonishing Americans for their apathy and resignation.

Did you see that r/trueanon post too

I suppose sometimes elaboration is something I seek in Hexbear comments and posts. Otherwise we talk in cliches and phrases rather than elaborated thoughts; though my experience may not be the empirical reality of genuine intellectual exchange, understanding, and catharsis here on this site.

As in this example, liberals tend to present the trolley problem but we already know that these groups are slated for danger and disintegration because the ruling class has decided this to be normal. The trolley is multi-track drifting, the rails converge and destroy those groups inevitably and the only remedy is to stop the momentum of the train.

I was referring to the axiom and common knowledge being relied on to communicate with one another, the way friends or colleagues with similar politics and world views use short cut phrases and conversation to recycle and communicate interpretations and understandings of history and current events.

So to an outsider it comes off as vague and esoteric, even to those who come in good faith, or share our politics but are unfamiliar with the culture. In other words, my experience on some posts is the same phenomenon of trying to interpret a Blackmoldfuture post; an opening statement that looks like it belongs in the middle of an essay or conversation.

The problem isn't our "dialogue" the problem is that we're latched to the hip with a dollar store version of 4chan made up of uniquely uneducated people who thought post-2020 reddit was too "woke", and we as a forum have a bad case of denial about it, because frankly it's a little embarrassing in terms of association

Yeah, that's a better way to put it. I was trying to be diplomatic but the topic at hand is too far severe to give anyone the benefit of the doubt.

Yeahhh...no...yeah... it's-it's like when you find a date on -intense clicking noises in the background - tinder but your car dealership has stopped selling parts for the Metal Gear, but it's like we're all children now and neoliberalism has turned us into babi- deeep vaping noises - and this is what DemoniusX has in mind for our future! it rules! it's awesome! I love this Re Dwah of the Bush Era! I'll use Gee-Aw-Sit-Tees to book us a hotel.

You feel like this because defeat and victory are not inevitabilities but forgeable and unpredictable chains of decisions that produce such a conclusion. I doubt Hezbollah will cease in its efforts but it is actually looking grim, assassinations aside.

The conclusion we all fear is that since Israel has the full support of the US, Hamas and Hezbollah are effectively fighting the US, and therefore it is only a matter of time that Israel destroys them both and finishes the genocide in Gaza. That the world just stood by, again, to witness and failed to stop genocide. And that follows a precedent that genocide is OK (even if the precedent was that it was tolerable if the US supports the ally doing so. ) And if the victims resist their own extinction.

I think this anxiety also comes from that Israel's strategy of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure to undermine the military capabilities of their enemies also is not just meant to undermine their enemy's political and military capabilities/credibility, but the objective in of itself. The terrorism, the mass murder, the cruelty, are all the point.

The notion that Israel has the right to torture, deform, maim, kill, and oppress its victims in Palestine and abroad, that this right is inviolable and retribution for violating this right is annihilation and decimation is a cruel and vicious one that is impossible to bear.

Scholars, commentators, journalists can all try to forecast "Here is why Israel is actually doomed" but genocidal and fascist projects like empire and settler colonialism do live on. They are fueled by human sacrifice. The only thing that can stop these things are power.

The hope is that Israel collapses on its own power before it is too late.

8 years of chapo

Liberals are white supremacists too.

the anti-Semitic dog whistle should be the signal to sever the friendship.

I don't know why but this made me laugh more than it should have.