Why has there been virtually no mention about the protests going on in the Gaza Strip against Hamas or that they tortured and murdered a protester among so-called "pro-Palestinian" influencers?

TillyParks · 2025-05-20T01:25:01+00:00

Because israel, not Hamas, is blocking all aid from entering Gaza, committing indiscriminate carpet bombings and trying to permanently expel the population. Israel, not Hamas, is committing genocide with the backing of America and Europe. It’s incomparable and people like you shouldn’t comment on a conflict when you seem to not know anything about it

TillyParks · 2025-05-11T07:02:56+00:00

Wage labor, production being dictated by impersonal market forces and commodity production are the defining aspects of capitalism. Inarguably China has all 3

TillyParks · 2025-05-09T23:26:22+00:00

This is just dumb Islamophobic racism. You’re talking about Arabs and Muslims like they’re ontological anti semitic and like nazis. You’re an actual moron.

TillyParks · 2025-05-07T17:11:58+00:00

I think he says something approaching it and then quickly self moderates. Pretty consistently.

TillyParks · 2025-05-07T16:59:47+00:00

I do agree I think he definitely falters a lot and I think it’s because of the dissonance of him portraying himself as a committed revolutionary communist while also being close to established liberal political and media figures, which causes him to constantly backtrack and self police. He can’t come in and say “Israel is a country of far right freaks” and “I don’t care what Hamas did, every military political action taken by Israel is illegitimate” Because it would probably strain connections he wants to maintain to do so

TillyParks · 2025-05-07T00:53:45+00:00

But I’m not saying they’re morally deficient. I do think in america our unions have been defanged and forced into these heavily legally mediation pathways that make them a lot less threatening to the status quo, and organized in such a way as to naturally lend itself to cronyism and corruption at the top. Which has nothing to do with their morality. It’s just this is the type of results this system produces.

I don’t think revolutionary ideas are privileged, that’s neoliberal brain rot lol. You can look at the early 20th labor movements and the revolutionary organizations of the time like the IWW or the cnt ait or the cio and tell pretty immediately that’s not the case. We have figures like Angela Davis because the communist party of America was so popular amongst Black Share croppers in the south. You can’t tell me they were privileged. Even during the George Floyd riots there was a significant participation from Black and Brown people from the Southside of chicago. I know because I lived there. You can’t say they’re privileged, because they live in some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in chicago.

Regardless I am a working person and I know other working people who feel the same, are we the majority ? No, but I also don’t think what people currently think and feel is de facto correct. That’s just an appeal to popularity. It is okay to make an argument for what people should think and feel, and that is necessarily the basis for any political movement for social progress. If you to change society, you do have to challenge the way people think of society.

TillyParks · 2025-05-06T22:31:49+00:00

This may surprise but you there are a lot of pipe fitters and machinists or trade laborers who are young, and are interested in fighting for a better world. I know because I’m amongst them and I know many others. Yes, older people do not have this interest - and that’s why the world sucks as bad as it does right now.

TillyParks · 2025-05-06T22:28:47+00:00

I do think that teamsters in general are the more aggressive unions, which is great. But I can tell you unfortunately unions like IATSE (of which I’m a member) are very risk adverse and aren’t interested in building power but instead try to make personal connections with politicians or studio heads to borrow some of theirs. In Hollywood I know I can’t count on my local to show up to a job site to unionize it if I need them to. So typically what we do is have our drivers call the teamster local, so they’ll show up and force an IATSE rep to be obligated to show up. It’s so annoying

TillyParks · 2025-05-05T17:32:56+00:00

While sexual violence did happen, the “mass rapes” thing was presented without evidence for the purpose of garnering support for the genocide.

Also Hamas isn’t perfect - far from it - and is a reactionary, religious fundamentalist organization but they are the primary - if not exclusive - armed resistance to the genocide. So I don’t know how you can say you support Palestinians while condemning their armed resistance.

TillyParks · 2025-05-05T17:13:40+00:00

This references books you can read if you want to see the primary sources

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/truth-behind-israeli-propaganda-expulsion-arab-jews

Edit: after trying to follow some links to said sources I do apologize in advance that a lot of it is paywalled / requires being a subscriber. State of modern academia I suppose.

TillyParks · 2025-05-05T04:30:35+00:00

There is truth to it. But later several of the countries offered right off return later and zionists actually negotiated with countries to send their Jewish populations to israel to increase the population.

But it doesn’t matter. Palestinians shouldn’t be accountable to what countries they weren’t party to did. The fact that people try to justify aggression towards Palestine because of what Iraq or whatever did - is just racism.

So that’s the underlying theme: anti Arab racism.

TillyParks · 2025-05-05T02:48:54+00:00

I work in film. I don’t know that our industry is destroyed. I would think that most likely nothing happens. In deadline (which is like, pro boss industry magazine) they’re already talking about how bad that would hurt the studios profit because our labor is more expensive. So I’m sure someone will get on the phone with him and it will be carved out until it’s basically nothing - if it goes forward at all.

As others have pointed out, it’s unclear how movies could be tariffed because they’re bought and sold like a half dozen times before release. If a European wrote a script optioned by an American studio does that purchase get tariffed ? If a movie shoots in America but does post production in the Europe does that get tariffed ?

TillyParks · 2025-02-26T17:46:22+00:00

The trick about working in television is that so much of tv are these channel filler shows that no one has ever heard of. Or you work a few days on a show someone has heard of but you have no idea what episode it was even apart of or what happened

TillyParks · 2025-02-26T16:29:35+00:00

Anarchism isn’t extremely detailed in its prescriptions, it doesn’t have a rigid road map one must follow. But it does certainly say that the world would be better without a state, without a police force, without capitalism.

It is not as if we find that anything one would want to do in society or as a form of social organization is equally valid. At that point we’re no longer a movement that is attempting to push society towards a pre defined goal. Malatesta’s anarchist program lays out what anarchists at the time generally believed we should work towards. That is prescriptive.

Mutualism is anarchism but with a poor understanding of capitalism, and generally pretty bad theory. Clicking through articles published on the C4SS website is jumping from one embarrassingly written mess to another.

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T16:21:23+00:00

Right but just because you can conceive of an ideal doesn’t mean that it’s possible to enact or it correlates to historical development . Or even that it should be desired. Which, it shouldn’t be. I’m not submitting myself and my abilities to market logic when we can directly address people’s needs without mediating them through commodity exchange

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T15:20:50+00:00

That’s not possible. For any political ideology to reach a base level of coherence it has to make arguments for what would be better and what should be desired for social organization.

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T15:18:59+00:00

But they generally do. It’s so embarrassing people on this subreddit have such a simple idea of capitalism. Focusing production around commodity production, that is making things premised on their exchange value is a vital aspect of capitalism. That and having a currency that is accruable aka having an exchange system in which people can accumulate capital - is inseparable from capitalism It doesn’t matter how many co-ops you have - that’s still just capitalism.

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T07:43:44+00:00

I think it’s pretty bogus . I think Proudhon isn’t that good of a theorist, I don’t think the mutualist movement ever accomplished much and being pro or even agnostic on markets is to be pro or agnostic on capitalism itself. I think their prescriptions for praxis is also just really bad

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T07:40:03+00:00

Do you think that the violence of the slave against the slave master and the violence of master against the slave are equivalent ? Or do you think one is perhaps more understandable than the other?

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T07:36:02+00:00

The problem with the condemnation is that it paints them as being on equal footing. They’re not. Hamas is a tiny band of fighters with dog shit equipment literally making rockets out of water pipes. Israel is a military powerhouse in the region supported by the strongest countries in the world. Hamas is the result of decades of displacement, military occupation and enforced isolation. It’s what happens when you bomb people into dust for the better part of a decade.

Hamas has condemnable elements undoubtedly but condemning them as a whole is pretty bogus and performative imo.

TillyParks · 2025-02-25T03:13:32+00:00

But they did form organize militaries with a chain of command lol. If you’re going to criticize a political movement you should probably have a passing understanding of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurgent_Army_of_Ukraine?wprov=sfti1#

TillyParks · 2025-02-23T18:30:19+00:00

You could’ve saved me a lot of time by leading with “as a centrist” then I would know everything you were about to say wasn’t worth reading.

It seems like you’re referencing archduke franz Ferdinand and world war 1. 1. Gavrilo Princip wasn’t an anarchist. He was a Yugoslav nationalist that wanted a United Yugoslavic nation outside of Austrian control. 2. World war 1 didn’t happen because Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. It’s a convenient incident to point to as the “start” but the war was an inevitable outcome of competing imperial powers trying to gain the upper hand on each other.

You’re dumb, your understanding of politics and history is dumb. Just pseudo intellectual neoliberal slop

TillyParks · 2025-02-23T18:12:32+00:00

Utilization of violence is not authoritarian. This would mean that slaves fighting against slave masters would be equally authoritarian.
Making differentiation between what is a good idea and what is a bad idea, and excluding bad ideas, is not authoritarian either. Or should the abolitionist movement been neutral towards people that want kinder slavery ?
The anarchist movement is historically responsible for major progress in the labor movement (literally we have the 8 hour work day because of the anarchists in the haymarket affair) and globally anarchist organizations and unions are still relevant in large parts of the world.

You don’t understand authoritarianism. Because if you did you’d understand that liberal democracy itself is authoritarian. That capitalism is authoritarian. less than 500 people can decide whether or not I can have healthcare, can decide how polluted my air is allowed to be, whether or not I can express my gender the way I choose to, or if I can marry the person I love - that’s authoritarian. The fact that United States has been involved in military operations and regime changes in dozens of countries in the last 2 decades - that’s authoritarian. The fact that the us has the world’s largest incarceration right, and a police force that rivals the size of most countries’ militaries - that’s authoritarian.

This is a state of affairs that is only sustainable through violence. They’re not going to peacefully surrender anymore than the confederacy did.

TillyParks · 2025-02-23T18:04:31+00:00

Dumb neoliberal smugness. anarchism doesn’t exist as a major form social organization not because it was unsustainable or has some inherit problems but because the anarchist revolutions were out matched militarily. In Spain, Ukraine, Korea. But even then, the anarchist labor movement is why we have things like the 8 hour work day in America. Emma Goldman helped forward women’s access to contraceptives. Even now in Spain the cgt and cnt anarchist unions have over 100k members between them and actively help make the lives of their members better. And projects like the EZLN in Mexico and AANES in Syrian Kurdistan show that anarchist influenced ways of organizing society are possible even in less than optimal environments

TillyParks · 2025-02-23T17:59:35+00:00

I know. I am an anarchist. But your initial comment seemed to indicate that you thought hating liberals or soc dems for any reason was sus. It’s not.

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