Dang I really need to read their book, they just distilled a lot of thoughts I have had floating around in my head since the pandemic in a clear and concise way and added some crucial evidence to back it up. You could tell people lost their minds behind the wheel early on in the pandemic and it just continues to get worse. I am sure I myself have become a more inattentive or less capable driver just from the growing psychological burden that is placed on us that continues to swell as contradictions magnify and the capital’s profit shrinks.

I am curious if any comrades here from the global south can give insight into how Hollywood and US media in general has affected their countries

Okay I don’t feel bad anymore

I don’t mean to come off like I’m attacking you, I’m just pointing out red flags that make me very skeptical of a source or an author, sorry if it reads as aggressive. I am also learning from everyone’s input on this thread and I’m glad you brought this up for discussion.

I can’t take someone seriously who advises presidents who have genocided Muslim peoples and talks about “Islamic Extremism” while ignoring the role of western countries and states like Saudi Arabia for creating groups like the Taliban and fostering their power in the region.

Religion has always justified itself as a “civilizing project”; that doesn’t mean this is correct. I can’t take that argument seriously.

You seem here in good faith so I don’t mean this as a personal attack, but that book sounds incredibly racist and light read of her wiki page says she has advised Bush and Obama during their presidencies, which I think says it all really. She is a white woman from Canada who converted to Islam and apparently just scolds Muslims about “extremism.” I can’t even respond to the claims the book makes because it just reads as Westerner imposing racist tropes on peoples they don’t understand, to say nothing of the fact that it is completely devoid of class analysis and seems entirely ideological.

Are you telling me double-counting mortgage payments as imputed rent isn’t real production?

It also would require giving labor a lot more power which is a major contradiction with neoliberalism

The misinformation techniques on reddit right now remind me of peak Trump reddit

Words cannot describe the rage I am feeling right now. Palestine’s liberation is such a fucking softball, and if people can so easily cheer for their genocide I frankly don’t know what to do with myself in the US.

Apologies for the ‘Dear Diary’ type post, but I really just don’t know how to alleviate this intense feeling.

It’s almost every single piece of action/adventure/fantasy fiction and people fucking rage if you deviate from it, it’s harrowing

They aren’t throwing billions at Ukraine, they are throwing billions in public funds straight into the hands of the bourgeoisie who are the true intended recipients