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i think it's lashing out. bringing people down a peg or two. a good excuse if you want to give someone a quick slap.
You've told us you're a martial arts master with superhuman discipline. How could I not believe?
not sure I ever said that! although I did bump into one of my Wing Chun brothers today who suggested I should resume "training"
You said you were in a Channel 5 documentary with your master and could do two-fingered, one-handed push-ups and hang from an open window by your penis.
ya think so? i don't,i haven't been a part of it but the palestine protestors keep popping up. they've been relentless. power to them i think.
it's more or less an irrelevance in the grand scheme of things but ....
@HannahB ?since i have no respect for staying on the thread topic: i've been thinking about it. not because it's mental particularly but for various reasons including work and visa. england is starting to feel distant now and like i don't get it. when you spend enough time in a place it gets into your bones. america is glorious and wild but its also totally irretrievably fucked, they aren't going to get out of their problems, it doesn't matter for any individual american how much you disagree with the basic setup here, you're in it and there's surprisingly few places to run. even if you're minted. everywhere nearby is still america or its mexico or the carribean. it's not like you can just move to europe or australia even if you want to. and you'd have to have the most supreme optimism to think that much is going to get any better, your options are to inherit a load of money or deal with an insecure grind. you do on the other hand have the best and least conservative art culture film etc etc on the planet and some wild and unhinged cities to get into and absolutely killer nature. but in the long run it's hard to turn your back forever on orderly europe if you have the choice
I mean in the grand scheme of things. Zoomed out. As compared to you know. Decision making in the IDF. What the Egyptian government are thinking. Who wins the US election. I'm not saying that it achieves nothing at all or is a waste of time or anything like thatya think so? i don't,
and it seems like it barely matters whether the protestors are coherent since nobody is genuinely listening in good faith, just that they are there demonstrating opposition to the war
@HannahB ?
i think it has a disproportionate big effect, certainly compared to demos in yurp or the mid-east,I mean in the grand scheme of things. Zoomed out. As compared to you know. Decision making in the IDF. What the Egyptian government are thinking. Who wins the US election. I'm not saying that it achieves nothing at all or is a waste of time or anything like that
the idf and the egyptian govt as well as hamas and all the other actors are trapped in their roles without space for maneuveri think it has a disproportionate big effect, certainly compared to demos in yurp or the mid-east,
on the discourse and ultimately opinions in the us which are very important in the war
Clearly, the “Lefts” in Germany have mistaken their desire, their ideological-political attitude, for actual fact… [they] have naïvely mistaken the subjective “rejection” of a certain reactionary institution for its actual destruction by the union of a number of objective factors. The surest way of discrediting and damaging a political idea is to reduce it to absurdity on the pretext of defending it. For every truth, if “overdone,” if exaggerated, if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to absurdity, and, under the conditions just mentioned, is even bound to become an absurdity.
What childish innocence it is to present impatience as a theoretically convincing argument!
i mean more important than israeli public opinion maybe even, israeli opinion is not gonna shift unless something else big changes, whereas US opinion especially in NY is crucial?the idf and the egyptian govt as well as hamas and all the other actors are trapped in their roles without space for maneuver
whereas the opposition to the war seems to have more potential for unexpeccted moves and forcing/changing events,
i dunno maybe i'm being overly optimistic
this sort of apartheid is like ultracolonialismspitball - i think ~the movement~ is still thinking in terms of colonialism and not yet neocolonialism. vis a vis national liberation
i didnt know the person in question was a friend, apologies. was being needlessly guarded