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Love cormorants I find them so goofy

Orioles because orange and black looks cool

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

I think they mean in terms of ideological threats to capitalism in the imperial core

Already seeing libs call this a false flag attack. So that stage has been set already if proof comes out that Ukraine was responsible

While he simultaneously tells the press that he doesn't believe in bodily autonomy

I always think about stuff like this. Westerners love to talk about how much they hate other people and how miserable everything is but will still turn around and preach to marginalized and oppressed people domestically and abroad that this is the best system and we are justified using war to "spread" it across the globe

Okay I don't feel bad anymore

Eventually Christopher Nolan will be correctly and ignominiously remembered as a great propagandist instead of an artist

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.