North Star Radio

  • Sandra@idiomdrottning.org
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    1 month ago

    I like Chris Hayes’ take as clipped in this video 43 minutes in:

    The way that so many prominent voices have focused so exclusively on colleges feels honestly a bit decadent to me. Like we’re doing a paper doll version of conflict because the actual reality of what’s happening in Gaza is so horrific, unceasing, and high-stakes, it’s more enjoyable to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that’s happening in the actual conflict that is, of course, the source of these protests. What seems to be most worth debating isn’t campus speech but whether the US government should contine to fund and support an Israeli war in Gaza that has pushed more than a million people to the brink of famine. A war that has damaged half of the buildings in Gaza. A war that has failed to bring home most of the hostages held by Hamas, that has in fact lead to the death of some those hostages.

    This is a good video, thanks.
    I’m not all onboard with the conclusions: “YouTube & TikTok good” (I believe they’re overall bad. Fund Peertube.) and “Socialist sentiment is growing” (I believe the overton window has been slipping & skipping to the right for decades now.)

    • WamGams
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      1 month ago

      Cenk is a capitalist, they previously employed two people who are now essentially full blown out of the closet fascists, and Cenk’s own nephew most recently caught controversy for telling a Houthi pirate how hot he is.

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          1 month ago

          I don’t consider the trafficking of women and children to be left wing. Perhaps you might, if this comment is in reference to the Hoithi pirates, but I don’t.

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        1 month ago

        I don’t care he is a capitalist but I have been always wary of him given his history and recently there have been some things which makes me distrust him personally. Don’t get me wrong though. TYT has had some good stuff.