@vijayprashad@thariel@HimalSouthasian wild how Mishra once wrote a searing essay taking Ta-Nehisi Coates to task for his political limitations and willingness to be the pet intellectual of white liberals. Maybe all this time Mishra simply envied him?
Coates never disgraced himself on Palestine like Mishra has.
All this stuff about the power of media manipulation is off the mark. Talk to rightists. They're into it.
The idea that merely stable economic indicators can be a bulwark against this pitch is also misguided. "Job numbers ok" is tame in an era of war and tech goldrushes.
@_The_Wub_ maybe it’s because Burning is based on a short story I’d already read, but I personally found Burning to be a more “satisfying” watch than Eddington. Surprised it didn’t make more of an impact!
reading this horrifyingly common story and the replies full of similar ones from *current day college students* and thinking about the mindnumbingly stupid "the youth aren't having sex discourse". nothing has changed except what you see online. you're becoming a fox news dad
@justinpodur To give one example, I remember Carl Zha once mentioned how in China, you can often find the Torah in the business and finance section of bookstores. A lot of western-aspiring middle classes have a tendency toward philosemitism because they broadly emulate “western values”
@beersippinlefty@justinpodur The post was about philosemitism, not islamophobia. but thank you, “beersippinlefty”, for this sweeping assessment of more than a billion people as islamophobes.
What’s with West exceptionalising Trump? Trumpism is the highest stage of Americanism. There is no shift in trajectory, it is the trajectory. Iran is nothing new. Cuba, Chile, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan - coups, invasions, undemocratic capture have been the American imperial way.
it harder for them to mine info + make it unthinkable for them to want to build new data centers, AND getting power for them to bend to our will vs vice versa and false hopes of “working for us.” Nothing works for us without power to make it so, and that requires struggle.
This reminds me of the social media and then app discourses — where the exact same logics were used — and no power was amassed to confront them then, so now we have fascist monopolies also all in on AI. The convo shouldn’t be “how to make them work for us” — we should be making
Everything is “inevitable” until it isn’t. That’s how I view AI discourse and the “make it work for us” convos. We don’t have power now to “make it work for us” — and people should admit this instead of pretending free-loading these fascist programs with info is “revolutionary.”
The brother of federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is the CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the privatization of public postal services in Canada. https://t.co/N7oyati815
"Still, Minab" is the single most heart-wrenching and yet life-affirming work I have ever done in my life. In this fieldwork ethnography of the Minab massacre, I conducted in-depth interviews with 35 people, including 8 families, volunteer workers in town, and local eyewitnesses.
The existing accounts of Minab in both English and Farsi language media, while valuable, remain incomplete.
This mini‑series was born from a responsibility to affirm the victims’ own voices: their lives, testimonies, and interpretations as undeniable sources of knowledge about this atrocity. It is also a commitment to them.
This commitment also makes this work freely available and accessible to all. You are welcome (and encouraged) to share and use it widely.
Here is the first episode of the ethnography of Minab—the massacre and its aftermath.
Parastesh Zaeri, 11, survived the US-Zionist attack on her school. But she does not know that her brother, Ali Asghar, 9, who came upstairs after the first explosion to look for her, did not survive.
This is Parastesh's account of what happened that day. The life of Ali Asghar. What was taken from us. And our promise and dedication to carry him forward.
"Still, Minab" honors the people of the south, holding its pain and dignity together, as a testament to the best of humanity.
/special thanks to @Jedaal & @bikrumsinghgill
Watch the first episode here:
https://t.co/K3E9o4BUOc
#StillMinab #MinabSchool
@slipnsloth@queersocialism hes out here telling his audience hezbollah are the good guys, i cant think of ANYONE of note in the Democratic Party who has done that.
middle class aspirants from these communities freely give them license to. I had a professor at York who was new to Canada, and the other POC suburban students wasted no time telling her how much brampton sucks. Fortunately this prof, a principled communist, set them straight.
i do love when people freshly move to toronto from some bumfuck small town and immediately start talking shit about the areas of toronto that are predominantly working class black and brown families. like yeah okay. of course you don't want to acknowledge those areas.
i do love when people freshly move to toronto from some bumfuck small town and immediately start talking shit about the areas of toronto that are predominantly working class black and brown families. like yeah okay. of course you don't want to acknowledge those areas.
This here is the crux of why Pakistan's liberal class hates Imran Khan. Class betrayal. They thought an Oxford educated and seemingly westernised man would be one of them. Instead he related more to the common man and this country's roots. And unforgivable sin for the elite.