Already seeing libs call this a false flag attack. So that stage has been set already if proof comes out that Ukraine was responsible

Okay I don’t feel bad anymore

I don’t mean to come off like I’m attacking you, I’m just pointing out red flags that make me very skeptical of a source or an author, sorry if it reads as aggressive. I am also learning from everyone’s input on this thread and I’m glad you brought this up for discussion.

I can’t take someone seriously who advises presidents who have genocided Muslim peoples and talks about “Islamic Extremism” while ignoring the role of western countries and states like Saudi Arabia for creating groups like the Taliban and fostering their power in the region.

Religion has always justified itself as a “civilizing project”; that doesn’t mean this is correct. I can’t take that argument seriously.

You seem here in good faith so I don’t mean this as a personal attack, but that book sounds incredibly racist and light read of her wiki page says she has advised Bush and Obama during their presidencies, which I think says it all really. She is a white woman from Canada who converted to Islam and apparently just scolds Muslims about “extremism.” I can’t even respond to the claims the book makes because it just reads as Westerner imposing racist tropes on peoples they don’t understand, to say nothing of the fact that it is completely devoid of class analysis and seems entirely ideological.

It also would require giving labor a lot more power which is a major contradiction with neoliberalism

Comrade Xi, pls

They don’t fall for it, they choose to believe it to maintain their inflated perception of their own superiority above the Orient.

Would love for one of these fucks explain what the “nuance” is exactly

You do realize how much of a patronizing asshole you are right?

It was primarily an Islamophobic movement in the post-Gulf War and 9/11 era.

That’s what it seems like to me. It was very much the same “white dude pseudo-intellectuals pretend they know everything about the world but only push reactionary ideology” as the Peterson, Rogan, etc. bullshit.

I mean yeah, mass murder has been part of the cultural psyche since the beginning. Once genocide and lynching fell out of fashion, the violence simply turned inward. You can see the parallels with relationship between liberalism and fascism.

Damn the tankies were right again? Don’t listen to them though the economy is actually great and Russia is totally gonna collapse any day now

Tying retirement to the stock market is insidious class warfare

Okay, see we should organize to violently depose the Republican party since they are the primary obstacle in the way of creating a more fair and just society, right?

Interesting, I’ve mostly noticed a big push to declare that the economy is “doing great, actually” (dems are always the most condescending assholes) and that its because of Biden. We will see how this plays out I guess

Haha I thought the same thing we’ve got some heavily commercialized sporting events to get us through winter and that’s it

Sometime this week on CNN: “German academics criticized for genocide denial concerning Uyghur treatment in Xinjiang”

Meanwhile in America we have to cherish it because the two months between Halloween and New Years is the only thing resembling culture and a shared identity that we have left and the rest of the year is depressing and lonely (the bar is very low)