Yes. Because as we’ve seen, sunlight is not a good disinfectant for this kind of thing. Because “sunlight” results in these ideas can get visibility and by association, traction.

Naziism needs to be stomped on whenever, wherever and however it sleazes out from the sewer. Karl Popper made this very clear.

Gee, maybe you should have spent more time improving the lot of everyday people and less time playing footsie with billionaires?

A lot of neoliberal erstwhile-progressives are about to find out the consequences of selling out their principles for a seat at the rich kids’ table.

Most of Europe’s already found this out, Biden and Trudeau are looking at the same thing, and I expect Starmer will be out on his ass after four years of failing to help the poor and middle class, as he’s so busy right now assuring everyone that he’s not a socialist like Corbyn.

To be fair, that’s a British style of writing. It’s a loaded word in North American journalism, but neutral in the UK.

Because the political left got enamoured with corporate cash and forgot that they’re ostensibly a labour party. The spent the post-Soviet era indulging on third-way neoliberalism.

Heck, several of them are more actively hostile to actual leftist economics. Labour in the UK fought its own voters and threw elections over Corbyn, the Democratic Party in the US hates the Sanders wing more than it hates Republicans and the Canadian NDP voted for a fundraiser instead of actual lefties.

And in doing all this, they ceded working class politics to protofacists.

The populist right is quite happy to talk about “kitchen-table” issues.

The problem is that they usually don’t offer real solutions, preferring to says stuff like “immigrants are going to steal your kitchen table, and only I can stop them! Vote for me! Ein Reich Ein volk Ein gott!”

They might truly only care about corporations, but they lie very well.

Do more for the poor.

It’s really that simple. Do more for more people, and less for corporations. Deliver results.

That’s why the Right is eating everyone’s lunch: they’re promising they’ll make things better. They’re lying, of course, and their path to making things better is just basic scapegoating of out- groups, but at least they’re speaking to people’s insecurities, where the neoliberal left is clinking glasses with billionaires.

Because dying for GDP is the only thing that matters.

Do they have tiki torches? Are they talking about replacing Arabs?

Because holy shit do these people not have any sense of self awareness.

This’ll be interesting, because staying in power is the only way Netanyahu stays out of court, if not out of prison.

We’re going to get fascism back purely because the neoliberal idea of fucking over everyone for the greater glory of the wealthy, while strip-mining brown people for every bit of value apparently has consequences.

Imagine how nice the world would be if we could have convinced the wealthy to make do with less?

Biden doesn’t really have a good path either way, and Netanyahu knows it.

If he goes too easy on Bibi, he loses support and Netanyahu gets Trump, which is great for Netanyahu. If Biden goes too hard on him, the same thing happens. It makes sense when we realize that Netanyahu’s goal is to get Trump I’m office so that both he and Trump can stay out of prison.

What Biden is doing is probably the least bad option, and if he wins Netanyahu’s toast.

This is such a smart move: it really cuts the legs out from under the “…bbbbut Hamas are terrorist!!” bad-faith arguments.

I’ll put this back to you this way: is Likud also a terrorist organization? Is the IDF? Because they do a lot of the same stuff.

There are definitely terrorists associated with Hamas, and Hamas definitely carries water for them, but they’re also the duly elected government in Gaza and if I were Israel I’d be asking why Gazans feel like they were so wronged that the only option seems to be a political movement that’s sympathetic to terrorist tactics.

Saying “they’re terrorists” without acknowledging how we got here is a lot like calling the ANC in South Africa “terrorist” in the 1980s. It’s stupidly reductionist and ignores complexity for the sake of jingoism.

It’s also why Cameron is a disingenuous jackass.

Continuing the tradition of British conservative prime ministers labelling things “terrorism” when the poor get uppity.

How’s Thatcher looking these days for insisting that Mandela was a terrorist?

China being authoritarian is a “Dog bites man” story. It’s expected.

Same with police misconduct in the US: it’s also dog-bites-man.

Trump and his team realized that outrage fatigue is a thing: fuck up daily and with such magnitude that being a corrupt fuckup becomes a non-story and then you can get away with anything.

Steve Bannon even had a term for it: “flood the zone”.

This is on Netanyahu.

He’s put a target on the collective back of the entire Jewish diaspora, just to save his own political skin.

It’s like we learned nothing from the 20th century: every time the rich get too greedy, they’ll gleefully fertilize the fields of fascism before they’ll accept making less money.

Every right wing party, in every western democracy, is either benefitting from Russian agitprop, if not taking Russian money directly.

Every. Single. One.

This is what the State is afraid of: not that people will protest Israel’s actions, but that the left might organize trans-nationally and demand better from their governments.

They’ve been happy to let the political Right metastatize because at least fascism can be good for business, but they’re terrified of the rest of us realizing the we have the numbers and that the rich need us more than we need them.

They had a narrow escape in 2008 and spent the last decade and a bit stoking culture wars. The last thing the west wants is it’s own Arab Spring.

It’s not to excuse this kind of thing, because it’s monstrous, but you can draw a line from this rhetoric to Netanyahu’s actions.

He’s put a target on the backs of the entire Jewish diaspora.