I don’t doubt it. A lot of Americans are smug jerks, including a lot of American communists I met. I don’t blame them entirely; their ruling class keeps them divided and sapped of mental energy.
I don’t see how that contradicts me. It did cause me introspection because lately I have indeed been feeling better about myself about how I’m right and most others around me are wrong according to objective data because otherwise I’d feel suicidal out of isolation. About how that attitude may not be productive to conversion after I had already tried for so long. What I object to is that tweets first sentence. “I wish no harm to the American ruling class”. It’s not something I’d think or utter in any circumstance. And as redsails remives the binary between people and the ruling class, so to can I remove the binary and say that the ruling class, in all their power, are still the ones maintaining and benefitting from this state of affairs. We don’t exist in a vacuum. We’re not biologically attuned to this. It’s not mere human nature. We’re a product of our material conditions.
I’ll say it again. I understand wanting to vent. But I’ll say that not wishing harm on the American ruling class is totally absurd, even if you consider them synonymous with the people. Especially so. If it’s some kind of joke then firgive me for not getting it. Or maybe I misinterpret what “American people” are.
I don’t totally disagree but this is a bit like blaming individuals who drive cars for contributing to climate change.
There is a possibility for individual americans and israelis to take a moral stand against their nation but the difficulty in swimming against the current is not to be underestimated.
are the israelis like this because of their elites or is it because they’re settlers?
It’s because they’re fascists
yea! americans are that just a handful of generations removed from their genocidal conquest.
I don’t doubt it. A lot of Americans are smug jerks, including a lot of American communists I met. I don’t blame them entirely; their ruling class keeps them divided and sapped of mental energy.
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
I don’t see how that contradicts me. It did cause me introspection because lately I have indeed been feeling better about myself about how I’m right and most others around me are wrong according to objective data because otherwise I’d feel suicidal out of isolation. About how that attitude may not be productive to conversion after I had already tried for so long. What I object to is that tweets first sentence. “I wish no harm to the American ruling class”. It’s not something I’d think or utter in any circumstance. And as redsails remives the binary between people and the ruling class, so to can I remove the binary and say that the ruling class, in all their power, are still the ones maintaining and benefitting from this state of affairs. We don’t exist in a vacuum. We’re not biologically attuned to this. It’s not mere human nature. We’re a product of our material conditions.
I’ll say it again. I understand wanting to vent. But I’ll say that not wishing harm on the American ruling class is totally absurd, even if you consider them synonymous with the people. Especially so. If it’s some kind of joke then firgive me for not getting it. Or maybe I misinterpret what “American people” are.
It is a joke, it’s Twitter irony posting that honestly has no place here among respectable people
This isn’t how dialectics works. You’re walking blind and doing piss poor “analysis” because you’re viewing the world via individualism
I don’t totally disagree but this is a bit like blaming individuals who drive cars for contributing to climate change.
There is a possibility for individual americans and israelis to take a moral stand against their nation but the difficulty in swimming against the current is not to be underestimated.
¿ por que no los dos?