simoom22
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2 months ago
Your version is plenty uncut and soggy as well. A significant amount of land buys involved evictions of peasants. There was plenty of violence in the arab revolts against British rule, when Jewish militia acted as British auxiliaries. Pogroms were very rare in pre-modern Arab lands, and usually related to factional politics, since jews often had significant political rights and power. The British suck. Most MENA Jews migrated voluntarily, and there's clear evidence that mossad had projects to heighten tensions in those countries, including even planning the bombing of synagogues.
simoom22
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2 years ago
> But ... what then keeps us in the status quo of fluoridated water supplies?
> ...thinking that everyone who made these claims sounded like General Ripper.
simoom22
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2 years ago
Is milk a brand name? I thought it was just a word for boob juice.
simoom22
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2 years ago
There's definitely more at play than just bad thoughts. Actions result from emotions and expectations that are conditioned by complex patterns of social behavior reinforced by material pressures and legal institutions providing complex feedback to behaviors and all of that is also part of the explanation why memes spread farther and faster in some places, like American schools, than in other places.
simoom22
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2 years ago
Um, have you been to America before, or read any of it's history? Of course we don't openly discuss the racialized class of cheap reserve peon labor that is maintained for everyone else's benefit, that would be super uncomfortable.
simoom22
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3 years ago
Having the global reserve currency is a pretty big difference too. The base economy of the Lebanese government is Lebanon, the base economy of the US government is the world.
simoom22
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3 years ago
Yeah, I hate when woke liberals and college administrators go on about their Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and subverting the bourgeois counter-revolution, good grief.
simoom22
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3 years ago
You realize that historically labor unions predated government laws about labor unions, right?
simoom22
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3 years ago
I'm not sure this is true. I recall from listening to the Blowback podcast that Castro initially tried to align with the US, and there was disagreement among US leaders about whether he was friend or foe. But we had a bunch of people in Florida, among them the dictator he ousted, offering to try and kill him, so we just went with that.
simoom22
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5 years ago
Yeah, that's really not so different from being sold naked in irons at slave auctions for centuries. Also similar is the way everyone can identify jews by the star on their foreheads, and mormons by the bright glow of their genitals.
simoom22
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5 years ago
No, flouride was the chemical they were trying to get rid of.
simoom22
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5 years ago
It's a good thing cavities are the only negative health effect of poverty, just give em fluoride!
simoom22
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5 years ago
simoom22
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5 years ago
He might mean energy efficiency. We just have access to way more energy these days, and we've been slurping that milkshake hard.
simoom22
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5 years ago
I'm quite sure the CIA's first choice would be to deny any association and convince the media to downplay it, which they certainly have the leverage to do, especially in this age of fast news.
simoom22
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5 years ago
That's the opposite of anarchy. An-arch-y means a situation without fixed power structures.
simoom22
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5 years ago
What's inexplicable about it? They're called the Labour party, not the Remain party.
simoom22
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5 years ago
I just watched a video where Graeber points out that Boris Johnson himself wrote a novel promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, but not a single article was written about Tory anti-Semitism in prominent papers during the height of that controversy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA
simoom22
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5 years ago
I'm not aware of any essential nutrients lacking from a plant-based diet, aside from maybe B12, which is supplemented in animal feed and besides would probably be provided by soil bacteria if agricultural soil was healthier and our produce wasn't washed so well. A few amino acids like taurine aren't in plants but are synthesized from others in the human body.
simoom22
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5 years ago
I'm not an expert on the labor theory of value, but I do know that's not a valid interpretation of it. For one thing, I believe it applies only at a macro, or sectoral, level.
