the funny thing about how often satanic panic stuff rears its head is that, not only is it all fake, but satanism itself isnt real, literally has never existed
« current events -- we see them daily, at the movies.
there's a false idea about current events at the movies.
they say lumière invented current events. he made documentaries; méliès made fiction.
i think just the opposite. i'd even say méliès was like brecht… »
@siobh_99 wouldnt such a programme of redistribution (which like i said i dont think is on the agenda/structurally feasible in any case) itself have some ameliorative effect on unequal exchange w/ mena/africa, e.g. thru increased remittance corridor flows?
@siobh_99 and why would that be a bad thing lol. its social imperialist for hyperexploited migrant underclasses to win any concessions in their struggles if they arent simultaneously also totally restructuring unequal world-exchange??
@siobh_99 1. the youth in question are evidently disproportionately arab/african banlieue kids 2. what basis is there for thinking the near-stagnant french economy could bear a redistributive policy transformative enough to integrate its migrant ghettos? let alone the political will 4 it??
@mysterypuppy2 I like how she puts leftists in scare quotes to clarify she thinks protests are bad in an intelligent red scare cultural criticism way not just bc they inconvenienced her personally