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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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The West’s support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people tells you everything you need to know about “Western values”.
Western values are dollars, euros, and cents.
The next time some white person from Europe or the US preaches to you about their values, laugh in their faces. Loudly. Make sure everyone around you hears what a sick joke they are.
#israel #genocide #ethincCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #US #USA #Europe #EU #TheWest #complicity #europeanValues #westernValues #bullshit #fascism #Palestine #Gaza #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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Illumination in dark times
A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world"Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "
" “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>
* Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/04/the-authority-of-thought-pankaj-mishra/* Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/169395/somebody-elses-century-by-patrick-smith/
#TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environmentImage: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney
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CW: deliberate misgendering by AU newspaper
Kerry Stoke's little rag is vile.
The West Australian newspaper
Stoking anti-trans hysteria.
(And Trumpist hate, Tony Abbott fascism, genocide denial.)
Kerry's moonshotting of ex-footballer joke Basil Zempilas into first mayor of Perth City and now leader of the opposition in the WA parliament speaks to Kerry's desire to control WA.
#Perth #WA #WesternAustralia #KerryStokes #BasilZempilas #TheWest #TheWestAustralian #SevenWestMedia #BenHarvey
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* The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/stephen-miller-donald-trumps-immigration-policy-architect/106272938* "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/hatemonger-paints-trump-advisor-stephen-miller-as-a-case-study-in-radicalization* The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
#hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric -
How Europe crashed its car industry
Short-sighted policy gave China the upper hand"The production and consumption of cars have long marked decisive junctures in Western political history...Symbolically, cars represented historical progress conceived as individual and democratic freedom." >>
https://unherd.com/2025/01/how-europe-crashed-its-cars/
#cars #CarIndustry #deindustrialization #TheWest #progress #energy #transition #Fossilfuel #automobility #EV #democracy -
Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself | Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/17/israel-palestine-hamas-gaza-west-leader-view#Palestine
#Palestian
#TheWest
#Genocide
#Hamas
#Terrorism
#ProPalestinianProtest
#UniversalDeclarationOnTheRightsOfMan
#Privilege
#MostPalestiansAreCiviliansNotHamas
#CivilianRights
#PalestianRightsAreHumanRights
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"David [Graeber] often said that his task was to decolonise the Enlightenment; to change our ideas of what kind of society we would like to live in."
https://artreview.com/noam-chomsky-on-david-graebers-pirate-enlightenment/
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#InstitutionalRacism goes back a long way, as we all know.
This documentary highlights a number of ways in which #theWest have exploited #fear of #theOther to commit heinous #atrocities, even against their own people.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
#slaveCamps #oilBarons #railways #cottonFields #russians #bolshevics #cuba #sugarPlantations #vietnam #racism #islamophobia #bankers #twoParadigmDebate #usVersusThem #badNeighbour #phonyWars #richMansTrick #skullAndBones #piracy
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As we all know, #InstitutionalRacism goes back a long way.
This documentary highlights a number of ways in which #theWest have exploited #fear of #theOther to commit heinous #atrocities.
http://invidio.us/watch?v=8ObvK4NR_LI
#slaveCamps #oilBarons #railways #cottonFields #russians #bolshevics #cuba #sugarPlantations #vietnam #racism #islamophobia #bankers #twoParadigmDebate #usVersusThem #badNeighbour #phonyWars #richMansTrick #skullAndBones #piracy