r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Oct 12 '24

Social Commentary Jason Hickel explains why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism: 'A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. A liberated Middle East means capitalism really faces a crisis[...] & they're unleashing the full violence of their extraordinary power to ensure it doesn't.'

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24

A liberated Middle East ... LOL

That kind of naive is a bad look on someone his age

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u/-Weeb_On_Reddit- Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

don't know why are you getting downvoted, as an Arab we will never be liberated with our 7th century mentality and toxic culture

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u/NeverQuiteEnough Oct 13 '24

Before the Carter administration, Afghanistan was a country where women who had the mood could walk to their university classes in bell-bottom jeans, with the wind blowing through their hair.

Here's Carter's secretary of state talking about how they funded the precurso to Al Qaeda in a deliberate attempt to destroy the country.

https://dgibbs.arizona.edu/content/brzezinski-interview-2

Is this the 20th century mentality you aspire to?

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u/Calm_Isopod_9268 Oct 13 '24

Kid named Mujahedeen movement: