A different perspective--if we want to leap headfirst into the analogy--would be that Biden has already become Gollum, is bringing Sauron his ring right now, and "we" are not part of any decision-making process that matters
He calls what happened "a bad debate" because the endpoint of this kind of thinking is the idea that you can just use whatever words you want and convince people to believe them. If Biden only had a "bad debate," this would not be the news cycle consensus. Sometimes reality has an objective force.
It may or may not be a successful tactic, but they are trying something. We should all try things. And when I see actual flesh-and-blood climate activists in conflict with their natural enemy, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
This dude with the messenger bag asked me what book I was reading, I told him, and he said "My book is next, you'll be reading that soon." Didn't break stride.
Something about muralism as a revolutionary movement to make art public, too large to individually own and collect and hoard, anyway, there's a little side door at SFMOMA where you can peer in and still see Diego Rivera's Pan-American Unity mural
I don't exactly disagree with the place she lands in this essay, though I DO think that variations on "we must look forward, not back" is something people who don't want to think about the crimes of the past (or their continuation in the present) often say.
But wait! After ten paragraphs of this, she talks with a Palestinian, who quite clearly, precisely, and vehemently isn't like this at all. He tells her "Don't take those people seriously."
Later, she cites another Palestinian, the late Edward Said, who ALSO is not a backwards-looking reactionary with a mythical utopian politics that believes decolonization means going back to the 19th century.
Meanwhile, the state currently, literally doing a genocide is using the specter of Palestinian desire to expel Jews from the land as rationale for doing it to the Palestinians first.
This sentence asserts that people's anger at Israel is a desire to expel them, not anger at a genocidal state.
The word "Implicit" jumps out here. No examples of actual expressed desires of this kind, only *implications* that, taken to some extreme, might result in exactly the thing that is CONCRETELY HAPPENING RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
