Jimmy's motivations are different probably, the man almost certainly knows he's going to hell if it exists (in the way his beliefs would see it as existing). He's clinging on for dear life lol
Pretty much. This is what E*rope did to the religion following the legacy of the dude who broke bread with sex workers, outsiders, and tax collectors, who flaunted religious convention like "not working" on the Sabbath, who chilled with lepers, and who whipped money-changers and mocked religious hypocrites (pharisees).
Agnostic ex-Cath myself but even just based on what sources we have on the historical figure he wouldn't approve (of the majority of what has been done with his legacy)
Pretty much, honestly all Anglo teachers are the same
Pretty much, this has been my take as well (that Trump is if anything the opposite of an accelerationist by and large, and impotent due to just how much of an Ugly American™ he is)
I suppose mapposting is timeless :o (as a mapnerd myself)
I hope this happens lol...
Based, fingers crossed we can live to see even the first gasps of that world emerge
Pretty much, he's just saying the quiet part out loud. Any lib with an inkling of historical knowledge (even of the cold war), or with an inkling of geopolitics combined with some meager understanding of the real workings of the modern economy/supply chains (granted, far less common than it should be), or who keeps up with news and doesn't have the memory of a beanis understands exactly how their bread is buttered even if they won't admit it to themselves or others.
Are we going to pretend that imperialism only exists in this specific and convenient definition that you make and did not exist before industrialization and the financialization of economies, or that the Russian entry into this war was for "imperialist" reasons or that Russia is exploiting its new territories (which have always had indigenous Russians as the main population base) in the model (of "expanding markets and abusing cheap resources/labor") you describe, rather than painstakingly taking effort to integrate and develop the regions that Ukraine and the collective west has been shelling for a decade?
There is a clear difference between the imperialist warmongering of the western nations, and this war of defense by Russia, capitalist as it may be- a war to defend their country from being further encircled, threatened, and carved up, and to protect the legitimate human rights of the indigenous Russo-Ukranians. The entire majority of the world can see it, but somehow you- by the looks of your recent comment history, a Spaniard (white west European, whose imperialist heyday it should be noted fell outside of the definitions of imperialism as you describe it) conveniently do not. I'd recommend taking a look at your own biases, because you're clearly Euro-brained and it's not a good look.
It's a term used as much by genuine progressives as it is by reactionaries IMO (for instance in critiques of white feminism, imperialist feminism and western pinkwashing, etc). There is a genuine larger world of feminists (and other progressives) out there who have serious bones to pick with the western portrayal of itself as the end-goal and arbiter of progress..
There's Islamic feminism, indigenous feminism, black feminism, communist feminism, etc. Even western feminism (and "feminism") has its serious divisions and many outright wreckers/appropriaters tbh.
Honestly if any of the claims of the historical figure and his divinity are to be believed, it's probably not so far from the truth. If he whipped the money changers and merchants in the temple, what would he do for those who have made a mockery of everything he allegedly stood for and desecrated (genocided) most of an entire continent?
What does it say of people, when their kids pursue such different paths and beliefs and generally come to the conclusions that their parents are pieces of shit?
Turns out, a genocidal, racist, bigoted and hyper-exploitative settler-society (Isntreal and AmeriKKKa and much of the west, really) tends to have that experience. Who woulda thought...
rambles of shit family but in a vindicated manner
Honestly I know my sis and I feel a lot of vindication in that, of all 6 kids, literally none of us now in adulthood (the youngest is 18) has much if any respect for either parent, and can recognize they were cartoonishly terrible people and- while they have both I suppose improved- neither remains anywhere remotely near a role model (at most I have respect for my mom for bringing herself back to some semblance of normalcy and being a decent person, from rock bottom- I appreciate her). We were all raised thinking that one of the parents was practically saintly in particular, but turns out that nope- he's an absolute POS, and even more of one than initially thought, even (if nothing else he hopefully knows to not be an ass to the siblings still living with him, sounds like he does). Not "the worst person" imaginable maybe, but an utter shithead and in many ways lower than dirt; I have sympathy for how he turned out this way and wish otherwise, but a narcissistic monster.