I mean off the rip Tesla’s entire existence is a middle finger to public transport, but tbh I hated them the second they let Elon run around calling himself the founder. It was like a slap to wake me up, and when I got to looking into Elon that was enough for me to doubt it all. Once you realize how much of a dumbass he is, all the “inspirational” quotes come across as the ideas of a 12 year old whose dad doesn’t listen to them.

Honestly, I am amenable to a different point, that by winning Democrats will learn nothing and just go back to “SEE?! WE’RE NOT HIM! That’s the only thing we have to do to win!”

I hate to say it but I said the same thing over a decade ago. Never doubt capital’s ability to self-perpetuate, logic or sense be damned.

End if the 80’s here. You can set your bags over there by the wall.

Malcolm X by his lived experience was much closer to the issue and much more educated in the horrors we were inflicting on the region. Like I don’t even want to call it anti-arab racism as I feel that that tacitly supports the lumping of all the diverse peoples of the region into one racial category. This isn’t to critique Malcolm or defend MLK, just it’s worth keeping in mind that being right or wrong can be an outcome of our lived experiences and biases regardless of education.

I think that MLK was a lot closer to a different era of politics around Israel (and colonialism in general) than what we have today, and there needs to be some analysis of that. Israel was and is a settler colonial project, but the dynamics of that were completely different at the time. I doubt he saw Israel as the western MIC blacksite it became, and more saw it akin to something like Liberia, which he also supported. Which, yes, Liberia is also a colonial project. Like he was still a deeply religious man; I guarantee you he saw Jews as a racial diaspora as opposed to just a religious minority. Dude would have said with his full chest that Palestine was their “ancestral home.” Does that make him a hypocrite? Idk maybe. It does show himself as a bigot, ignorant of race and racism outside of the US yet willing to comment on it. But, idk. I think this deserves discussion at least, that the Israel of yesterday, while wrong on almost every level, was still completely different than the Israel of today, and that the ways supporters were wrong then don’t necessarily map onto the ways supporters are wrong now.