rant · moment 9 of 17
Establishment Liberals, Refugees, and Blowback from Endless War
from What Does Your Brother Do In The Navy · #82
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4 minRiff on how establishment liberals perform outrage over gender issues while supporting foreign wars, how neoliberalism and Obamacare reflect corporate capture, and how refugee resettlement is blowback from two decades of U.S. intervention in Syria, Yemen, Darfur and Africa.
- 23:26Establishment liberals will respectably do a little genocide, nicely.
- 23:41Supposedly revolutionary people are obsessed with Beyoncé and the Real Housewives.
- 24:32Neoliberalism's ideology of unending war and economic systems like Obamacare trap people in corporate interests.
- 25:13The foreign policy obsession with projecting power on a global chessboard doesn't resonate with regular people struggling to afford basic needs.
- 25:40As time passes from 9/11, people are beginning to understand blowback from endless wars.
- 26:05France, Britain, and the U.S. have engaged in extensive military intervention across the Middle East and Africa.
- 26:19The U.S. finances Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign in Yemen while running 90 military operations a day across Africa.
- 26:38Tim questions how anyone decides who qualifies as a terrorist when conducting 90 operations daily.
Chuck SchumerNancy PelosineoliberalismBeyoncégeopolitical interventionJohn Kerry