A vacancy created high or low on the social scale creates a destiny, even though this destiny remains for each candidate no more than a possible being. ~Sartre
@JeninYounesEsq I agree on most points but I don't think Racicot claims she asked Platner to come over. What she said she texted was "I need a glute massage", but didn't intend that as an invitation.
The habitual use of the word "platforming" as if it's a term that has intrinsic moral and political gravity tells me that people view politics and social justice as parasocial consumption, as social media activity (the inverse of seeing social media as a means of doing politics)
@steviewelles55@MattBruenig@yashalevine I'd agree that Marx's unwavering promethean optimism should be reconsidered in a time when innovation often seems more legible in "necropolitical" terms than as merely a means for reducing necessary labor time.
@Levy393364Y@ggreenwald Do you have any inkling of why there have been no Western reporters in Gaza? Also, the GHM's numbers have consistently been corroborated by outside orgs, in the West and Israel
@venom1s Even if there's truth to this take it suffers from being far too transactional and utilitarian about relationships and people, which is more wrong than any of the issues with the film.