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/449/ Aufhebonus Bonus: Nov 2024 (Patreon)

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2024-11-05 12:09:32
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On your questions, comments, criticisms.

[Patreon Exclusive]

It's our letter to the episode show where we have a chance to answer you, the listener. We discuss:

Has Bungacast gone eco-austerian?

Are Marx and Freud in conflict?

Is abortion about healthcare or about freedom?

Why has the left abandoned liberty?

Did we underestimate Israel’s existential fears?

And what’s so “complex” about the Arab-Israeli conflict anyway?

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2024/25 Reading Club on Place, Nation, Class

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jkjkjkj

Building off of moldy Ls point, I think it’s worth noting that the people surveyed in Ambers article are, beyond being neurotic PMCs from a narrow sliver of the PMC (techies), one of the couples is, to my memory, a swinger couple or at least polyamorous or something to that effect. That feels like sampling error right there to begin with

David Manson

Asking from 95% NYT needle for trump era America: What are the odds that the dems will be shaken enough to abandon their perennial strategy of vaguely hoping to be able to appoint a new electorate before the next election?

New

"Respect the Husserl" 👍

Animals in Motion

Why is it that Phil always analyses the PMC from a pathological perspective, while the idealized Working Class (tm) are always rational actors, realistically guarding their true interests? Seems more driven by self hatred (Phil that is) than analysis

Ran Heilbrunn

Yes, I am an Israeli, and when I say that Israel’s behavior contains a strong existentialist element, I’m not offering a conceptual take—I’m reporting a fact. Existential framing has been central in Israeli discourse on the war, extending beyond media and the public to leading analysts, scholars, military thinkers, and policymakers. Of course, one can question the sincerity of this framing, but not its factuality. Regarding Phil’s objection: existentialist politics doesn’t necessarily require an imminent threat to the state’s empirical existence. Assuming that existential concerns arise only when the state’s survival is directly imperiled reflects a strangely literal view of what existential anxiety actually is. In a society where nearly half the population (48%, if I’m not mistaken) knows someone who has lost their life within a year, death and tragedy are a pervasive reality. This is a society steeped in existential dread, even if the state’s institutional continuity isn’t immediately at risk. Furthermore, Israel’s existentialist mentality has many secondary sources: the eliminationist agenda of its adversaries, the weight of Jewish history, the fact that denials of its right to exist has become a normalized part of the international debate, and the deep internal divisions that could bring it to the brink of societal collapse. Finally, let’s not forget that October 7 wasn’t far far worse only because Hezbollah hesitated. Had the north been invaded that day, who knows what might have happened. A coordinated assault on all borders could have created something close to an existential crisis. That was, after all, Sinwar’s plan. A brief response to Alex: the stance described in the original comment (settlements with the Arabs must follow a military defeat) does not reflect Israel’s consistent position over recent decades, as Alex seems to imply. Israel moved away from this view — which is known as the "Iron Wall" thesis, rooted in the revisionist Zionism of Ze'ev Jabotinsky — in both the Oslo Accords and the 2005 Gaza withdrawal. It only gained significant traction among Israeli moderates after these two major left-leaning geopolitical initiatives were attempted and failed. Now, again, I am personally skeptical of this interpretation of Oslo and 2005. But it is crucial for understanding why Israelis are resistant to a settlement with the Palestinians. This hesitation arises not from inherent hostility toward peace but from the failures of recently implemented left-led policies.

NigelBOpinion

Re Trump will fix it...years ago in NZ somebody, I can't remember which party, ran on the Bob the Builder theme: "Can We Fix It? Yes We Can." As we all now know, they did not.