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Love cormorants I find them so goofy

Orioles because orange and black looks cool

Dang I really need to read their book, they just distilled a lot of thoughts I have had floating around in my head since the pandemic in a clear and concise way and added some crucial evidence to back it up. You could tell people lost their minds behind the wheel early on in the pandemic and it just continues to get worse. I am sure I myself have become a more inattentive or less capable driver just from the growing psychological burden that is placed on us that continues to swell as contradictions magnify and the capital's profit shrinks.

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

While he simultaneously tells the press that he doesn't believe in bodily autonomy

I always think about stuff like this. Westerners love to talk about how much they hate other people and how miserable everything is but will still turn around and preach to marginalized and oppressed people domestically and abroad that this is the best system and we are justified using war to "spread" it across the globe

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.

Ugh we still have so far to go with ableism :(

I just feel like America's history as a settler nation made it much more ripe for this kind of insane neoliberal society to be tenable than even modern Europe. Not that I don't think they will be mostly successful doing this to Europe, but I feel like it is such a big contradiction for peoples that still have a much stronger connection to their history and cultural identities, as bastardized as they've become in recent times; add on to the fact that much of Europe is build on a pride that they are at least not as terrible as America. Making sure the growing rage can successfully form a revolutionary movement is one thing, but for the most part Americans don't even have rage at all towards the absolute shitshow that is their daily life. I'm not saying Europe will suddenly be where it was at pre-World War but it can still create massive problems for the US empire. I mean look at the relative resistance to NATO that we see in Hungary and Austria, two of the most fascistic European countries. Can the US really keep ~800 million people pacified across the ocean the same way they do at home? I just think that it could pose a massive problem.