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[–] 95 points 2 years ago (2 children)

reminds me of that thing Parenti usually throws out as an aside about how making common cause with the disenfranchised, disempowered, and materially insecure peoples is characterized by the hegemon as some kind of sneaky, duplicitous move to seize power... though how one actually receives power in this way is never explained.

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Liberals never explain it because they believe the world operates on magical thinking. If enough people combine their imaginations, the thing they want happens. That's how they conceive of reality

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For them that largely is how it works, they're able to will a lot of bourgeois policy into action because it didn't challenge power. When they see an actual challenge to power, they are incapable of approaching it from any other perspective because their brains have been rotted by their ideology.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they all know when they want unions to go away they have to hire pinkertons and employ cops to beat their skulls in. Suddenly they know their imagination isn't good enough and they have to take violent action to protect their interests.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago*

    Yeah, but they don't have to go out in the streets and protest for Pinkertons and cops to be called. They just think it and it happens and the status quo is maintained.

    Calling the cops or hiring union busters is essentially magical thinking because it pretends to solve some problem with no real political action, it exists as a free side effect of the current system. You can literally dial 3 numbers and have just about anyone locked up if you're a rich white person.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hamas has lobbyists and high ranking politicians spread throughout the world. There are right wing fanatical religious movements in different countries supporting Hamas. Hamas has broad support in the West and in Western media. Meanwhile, the Global South broadly condemns Hamas and supports…

    wait sorry I got it flipped, that’s all Zionism

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean on the other hand, I know plenty of people who are either Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Persian (everyone I know who is from Iran magically becomes "Persian" once they immigrate for some reason... probably all that "Death to the west" that I see on the news) and for some reason I never have to ask where they stand on the issue. Muslims scare white people more than Jews, brown Muslims even more. Give them a beard and a kaftan and you watch Karen clutch her pearls. At least the Jewish people get Jon Stewart and Mel Brooks.

    The vast majority of people dont see this as a vast complicated 70 year ongoing geopolitical hot potato, they just pick their side and defend it.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Your first part of the comment reminded me of my coworker. She is proudly iranian (though i think that is more because she is from the Azeri part and is therefore not really persian) while also being a monarchist who want the Shah to come back and constantly defends the Shah as somehow more civilized than the current Islamic Republic.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago

    Finally, Zionist QAnon

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago

    going full "The Protocols of the Elders of Hamas" with this rhetoric doomer

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like the onion did a "you, yourself, at your home, are hamas" bit that i cant find, but i also cannot distinguish parody from reality, so...

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't claim to know exactly what Hamas has and hasn't done to Israel. All I know is that Hamas definitely fucked this guy's mom.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I cannot conceive of a comedy writer writing this and not realizing it sounds like they're doing a bit.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    to be fair, he was one ninth of the writing team for Borat 2, a largely unscripted improv comedy

    maybe his contribution was mostly in the "add more racism" scope

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Maybe he's trying to carve out a niche for himself in the hopes he can become a Netflix comic.

    "I'm very pro-Israel. Are ya triggered? I'm not saying we should kill everybody in Gaza and all the right people in the West Bank. But what if we did?..."

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    *borat voice* NOT!

    Thanks folks. If you want more hard-hitting and incisive comedy like that be sure to like and subscribe.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Literally doing the bit about Jews in Borat but switching in Palestinians and their supporters.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    "And worst of all, he could be any one of us. He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be me! He could even be..."

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Maybe the real Hamas were the friends we made along the way

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Fox news? Hamas. Dell computers? Hamas. Your mom's potato salad? Believe it or not, Hamas.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    This must be a bit. Please be a bit.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Can't wait for Borat 3 making fun of how paranoid schizophrenic and insane the media is just taking Borat's wild bullshit stories at face value.

    Itza true my nana told me when I was child! Whena I wasa teen shea said not to look at pretty girl or khummus appear in the pants. No one wants khummus in the pants.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do a search for “oscar nominated” on this guy’s feed for a laugh.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    he sounds like a guy that ends up being interviewed by borat

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    we are all hamas on this blessed day

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    *one of nine writers on Borat 2

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Borat 2: Electric Borataloo

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    my wife!

    (she is also an undercover Hamas agent)

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    It does sound like the kind of over the top parody of antisemitic conspiracy theories you would expect to find in a Borat movie.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Ok, but you do get that if I just accept all of this as true it does make Hamas into the most impressive organization ever? If they can run and coordinate all of these organizations with the resources they currently have, don't you want to see what they could do with full control of the resources of a major Western state?

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  • All thirty third party witnesses are lying your honor.

    The defendant is innocent. He even said so!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I assume he's been ironic to diss on Zionists, but I honestly can't tell anymore.

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