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aqouta
2hr ago
Those are the events that preceded the transfer. The transfer itself was relatively peaceful and successfully ended these hostilities. If there are population transfers in the west bank in 2030 then it would be dishonest to cite the deaths in the Gaza war as being caused by the population transfer.
ThenElection
2hr ago
When in the history of the ideology has it been otherwise?
The Khmer Rouge. (And, yes, Lenin/Stalin/Trotsky/Mao.)
The distinguishing characteristic of communism is not that it critiques society. It's that it seizes state power and uses it to commit mass murder in order to radically reorder society, with the murderers being at the top of the new order.
Neither the Frankfurt School nor Social Justice activists, despite their faults, desire that. Their relationship to power in the existing order is very different, in that they, in different ways, already had/have substantial access to it. That's not capable of creating the apocalyptic communist revolution, because that kind of upending would undermine their power. Instead, they want to expand their existing power and use it to push their different visions (a legally and socially recognized racial and gender hierarchy for the wokes, and some odd psychological liberation for Adorno etc).
ZeroPipeline
2hr ago
Also the US gives both Egypt and Jordan over $1 billion a year in aid to prevent them from attacking Israel.
Botond173
2hr ago
According to an article published in an 1998 issue of a Hungarian periodical of social sciences, reproduced online in .txt format, the young Jewish woman in question was carrying forged papers and hiding in a safehouse which she had to leave because it got compromised, and no replacement could be found. Fearing that her likely capture will compromise them all, the cell members (including her partner/lover) all unanimously voted to force her to commit suicide. In 1950, party organs investigated the matter and concluded that Lakatos formed the underground cell without permission from above and was the main culprit in this suicide, was expelled from the party as a consequence and was sent to a notorious forced labor camp (interned, technically speaking, although in retrospect it’s impossible to confirm what further considerations, if any, were decisive in that). According to his social circle he was pretty much a Dostoevsky character.
Lizzardspawn
3hr ago
If the U.S. puts a woman on some paper money, who should it be?
The statue of liberty
07mk
3hr ago
What I find especially funny/galling about this is that Peterson almost never used the phrase "Cultural Marxism" - the one time I saw him use it was in a meta way, referring to the term as something that people used and coined, but not referring to the thing that the term was pointing at.
The phrase he's most quoted as saying in terms of "Marxism" is actually "Postmodern Neo-Marxism," not "Cultural Marxism." Eliding between the two when complaining about the vapidity of the term, I think, is a reflection of the fact that there's a real cluster of ideologies there that is being pointed to that is postmodern, cultural, new, and Marxist.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
I mean yeah agree with all of this
My thesis isn't that these people don't exist, they do.
My thesis is just that the phrase "cultural Marxism" has been beaten and twisted to the point it's basically just an out-group signifier that has nothing to do with Marx
I don't think Marx would like DEI departments. I'm actually pretty confident he'd see all the DEI stuff as the bourgeoisie using a wedge issue to keep workers fighting each other.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
Maybe I'm slow today but I'm not understanding your parallel.
Mormon rule is a derivative of Christianity and by prioritizing it with rules you do give it a "supremacy" of a sort I guess.
The words are actually connected to the real life effects.
"Cultural Marxism" has very little to do with Marxism, although I'm still reading through all the philosophy everyone linked so maybe there was a more coherent connective thread in the 1960s, but these days the way it's used is borderline meaningless
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3hr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide?wprov=sfti1
I'll confess to knowing nothing about the Bulgarian case, and I'm not going to insult you by immediately researching it as pretending to. But the Turkish-Greek split was not without atrocities on either side.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
Which is also... incredibly stupid
The median Westen voter is a moron, the older I get the worse it's revealed to be.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
I'm not denying it doesn't exist, full agreement there, I'm just saying "cultural Marxism" is a stupid name
srf0638
3hr ago
Lol, I read it more as addressed to an audience that's never done anything than as by an author that's never done anything, but you may well be right. Separately, the accounts I've read of Delta selection (e.g. Haney's Inside Delta Force) make it pretty clear that the challenge comes more from navigation, elevation gain, bushwhacking (using the road is an auto fail), and beating the time cutoffs than from merely covering ground as such.
fmac
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3hr ago
I was legitimately just trying to clarify what he was saying
Obviously that is happening, I have eyes and I'm not a shitlib
My argument is simply that the phrase "cultural Marxism" is pretty devoid of meaning and when used in common parlance has essentially nothing to do with Marxism at all.
It's basically the right-wing equivalent of the very common leftist trope of "everything I hate is neoliberalism, the more I hate it, the more neoliberal it is"
Just in this case it's "everything I hate is Marxism, the more I hate it, the more Marxist it is"
Ahahahaha it's fucked up colloquial word usage all the way down
Yeah fully agree that CRT and classical liberalism are at odds.
But much like the term "the left", which used to be a reference to actual Marxists but now means "progressive liberalism" (I genuinely don't know what else to call this).
The word "liberal" has evolved from the classical (borderline "don't tread on me") industrial Revolution liberalism to a phrase that's basically interchangeable with "the left"
AHHHHH
Botond173
3hr ago
"Accepting the risk of death" is probably a more accurate description than "choosing to die for the cause" in this context.
ChickenOverlord
3hr ago
Some groups are so proud they'll even adopt exonyms their enemies created
4chan has wholeheartedly adopted "chud" and even taken the wojak variation originally designed to mock them and made it their own, it's beautiful to see.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
3hr ago
I actually enjoy his writing/ideas/most of his arguments and use the term because I find it absolutely hilarious and slightly endearing, although I see how that isn't intuitive given the context
aqouta
3hr ago
This is more similar to the hazy borders of Texas before it was inducted as a state in the US than Mexico trying to pull this on already established US territory. In fact the parallels are myriad and early mexico really did get screwed out of their territory after losing a war, remember the Alamo, to the American settlers. Imagine if now centuries later Mexico continued to dispute the territory and launched regular unguided rocket attacks at San Antonio. The mandate Palestine area was not a state before the fall of the Ottoman empire and had no real borders. After the fall the territory was rightfully British clay and the mandate policy gave the immigrant Jews a right to attempt to establish a state there. Was there lots of shenanigans coming from both of the budding nations? Absolutely, there were among the early Texans as well. Really the more I think of it Texas really is a pretty good analogy for Israeli history before around like 1960.
aqouta
3hr ago
I agree it's a millstone but it's far from the source of all their problems which seem more centrally to be located in the surrounding population which has a persistent belief that if they just keep fighting eventually they will drive the Jews to the sea and have the whole of the region as a Palestinian state and is thus unwilling to continence any kind of long term peace that forecloses on that possibility.
The haven't needed Syria to agree to them having the Golan Heights for example. Maintaining this quasi sovereignty indefinitely is the source of essentially all their problems both internal and external.
If they enunciated some border, say a modest expansion over the green line to encompass the majority of the settlements clustered along that line then what are their policing positions in the west bank? The fear is that pulling out without a Palestinian partner would lead to a repeat of their pull out form gaza and that the west bank would immediately become a staging ground for attacks on Israel which would eventually trigger an invasion and we'd be back to square one.
roystgnr
3hr ago
The Jordan Peterson-esqe "cultural Marxism" shibboleth is genuinely gibberish.
As @naraburns memorably explained once, it was a term coined by the original cultural Marxists themselves, not by Peterson or by any other of their opponents. The memory holing of that is just weird.
In the short term his interlocutor tried to cling to the theory that Peterson was the designer of a phrase that, by some weird coincidence, also happened to be a related field of study with diverse academic citations for decades prior, but in the long term that entire account was deleted, so perhaps there's only so much cognitive dissonance a person can take.
It's literally just "I 'ate communism, I 'ate wokism, refer to 'em interchangeably, simple as"
No; it was a self-appellation. It may have gotten too embarrassing to hang on to at some point, but that's language for you. The same thing has been happening to "woke", for that matter, after it happened to "social justice warrior". Some groups are so proud they'll even adopt exonyms their enemies created; others are so uncomfortable they have to keep escaping their own endonyms.
aqouta
3hr ago
For about as central an example as there could be Israel already executed a population transfer of their settlements in gaza, in your formulation would you refer to that as an ethnic cleansing? Perhaps but it does seem like this is a weaponization of the term to slime non-central examples with greater atrocities. Other exchanges include the Greco-Bulgarian, Greco-Turkish and Cyprus exchanges.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
My impression was that the pure Jewish birth rate was actually stronger than the Israeli Arab birthrate these days, though then you zoom in closer and it gets into different categories of Jew, though then there's an intra Jewish genocide question, idk it all gets pretty complicated and I'm not sure what we're talking about at a certain point.
Doesn't matter, though, incorporate the Gazans and West Bank Palestinians and the equation shifts to their side completely.
But there's no viable contiguous Palestinian state that can be drawn without evicting large numbers of Jews, who show no evidence of wanting to go peacefully. The resources and transit aren't there. You can make a retarded botched abortion of a statelet, but I'm not sure that will really solve the problem anymore.
I'm fairly sure the intended solution rhymes with "ass raves".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Because the diagnostic criteria explicitly say that if it's schizophrenia it's not depression.
The occurrence of the major depressive episode is not better explained by schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, or other specified and unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
4hr ago
Why are schizophrenia and depression mutually exclusive?
Yeah, I couldn't imagine them giving a nobel peace prize to a newly-elected president before he'd even done anything. That would be the scandal of the century.
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