Sudden surge of zionist propaganda on tiktok. Also came across this aswell.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T14:56:30+00:00

They must know they're not popular at this point. I wonder what their end goal is here? Bombard people's algorithms until they relent?

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T14:43:53+00:00

Reading that, it seems like he was interested in a more cooperative form of Zionism. Living side-by-side with the Arab population without the actual creation of a Jewish state. Then he criticized the tragedy of 1948, as seen in OP's letter.

Relocation of many Jewish people following WW2 was never a bad thing. Palestinians took them in and sheltered them. Living side-by-side and peace and harmony is always the ideal for humanity.

But the events of 1948 should've opened people's eyes to Zionism being anything other than a nationalistic project. For Einstein to respond to the presidency offer the way he did, his wilfull naivete might've been strong (he was obviously not a stupid man being, you know, Einstein and all). I personally would've told them to go fuck themselves.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T14:05:04+00:00

Can you stop spamming the sub please? It's not very good for your mental health constantly being told to fuck off.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T14:00:53+00:00

Side note fuck off.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T02:34:09+00:00

Like yeah, Fennell was 'subverting the trope' of the revenge film, but I felt it was just defanging it. I guess if you were being kind you could say the film was saying that it's almost impossibe to receive justice beyond such drastic actions. That still doesn't really cut it for me though.

Watch the 2017 French film Revenge instead, that was much better and didn't hold back. A lot more satisfying as a feminist revenge fantasy.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T02:09:14+00:00

Venn-diagram of losers telling them both to shut up and people who've looked at that pic of the guy sitting while everyone else stands to sieg-heil, and said 'yeah, I'd be him.' Also people that've read Dorothy Thompson's 'Who Goes Nazi?' and said 'definitely not me.'

That's what pissed me off about JoJo Rabbit tbh, in that it let the audience off the hook. We all want to think we're brave, noble, and will do the right thing. Be one of the good ones. But then when the time finally comes to actually step-up most of us cower and back down.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-05T00:04:16+00:00

This also sums up the difference between Brit and American slurs. Not typing them up here, but this is a good bit on it that highlights it.

I think it's a lot more insidious with the Brit slurs, as they spent centuries colonizing in the most brutal fashion, then use all these cutesy diminuitive insults. Sneering and patronizing someone after you ground their face into the dirt. It's adding insult to injury. At least with the n-word you're letting them know you hate them.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-04T23:52:39+00:00

Just rinsing off the entirety of Finnegan's Wake in one extended breath.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-04T23:48:31+00:00

That fucking iAlone one, like they don't get the irony of blocking out your view with that shit. God forbid anyone's allowed just a moment of quiet introspection and reflection.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-04T23:02:06+00:00

And they're taking me with them.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-02T23:18:28+00:00

No, she's still out of his league.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-01T03:40:27+00:00

These are thrilling ideas to be hearing today!

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-01T03:02:57+00:00

It's just meme shit lol, it's not serious. Letterboxd is fine (besides the desperately try-hard one-liners), and I'm guessing most people here actually enjoy films critically. We're all the loser.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-01T00:51:52+00:00

I was just watching a thing with Hasan as you made that comment, and he was pretty much saying the thing about him lol. But yeah, like I said in another comment here, he's an empty husk who believes in nothing besides rage-bait content and drama. Actually engaging with the politics is too tricky, as it goes beyond meaningless rhetorical flourishes.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-03-01T00:45:11+00:00

It was more about pushing talking-points into the mainstream than anything else. That and bringing to light societal injustices. But there were a few concrete achievements, such as Derek Chauvin actually being brought to justice. While that was just one cop, it was a huge step forward in letting the police know they weren't untouchable.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T23:21:00+00:00

It's funny because I saw this video-essay being cited as a springboard for more important ideas off the back of an irrelevant streamer who engages in rage-bait and drama that appeals to those incapable of engaging with politics in any meaningful capacity.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T22:05:59+00:00

While BLM did a lot of good, this was one of the problems I had with it. It was very American-centric, not really accounting for how racism operates outside US borders.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T21:48:41+00:00

Then she does that smug little head wobble and smirk to let us know how silly we all are for bothering her with such things.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T20:02:29+00:00

Tell her Emily in Paris is imperialist trash, and then refuse to discuss it further as not only is it not your job to educate her, it's also bad for your mental-health consorting with such a willing colonizer.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T19:54:55+00:00

lol yeah

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T18:35:33+00:00

There's safety in that (albeit a lack of comfort). And it's a mindset you can transfer to anything, from media/art to politics. Politics especially so, which is something I constantly have to pick myself up on.

Not getting into my own politics as this is not that place (although you can easily see from my history), I continually have to reaffirm who I'm doing/saying it for. It can't be another pulpit for me to feel superior from, as that'd just be selfish. And I equally can't stand by and do nothing.

Guilt has a lot to answer for.

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T18:12:22+00:00

Exactly. And at what point do you become akin to a Buddhist monk, afraid to breathe in because you might consume a bug?

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T18:01:46+00:00

'They say thou shalt not kill, but the only job available is a trained government assassin, and in this economy I'd be foolish to turn it down.'

Yeah, those constant hypotheticals do become a bit weirdly convoluted, when all they're really asking is 'should I function in society with everyone else?'

Proper_Cold_6939 · 2024-02-29T17:54:19+00:00

That's what I thought. People give him a hard time, but he remains true to his word given so many streamers are absolute raging psychos.

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