jhoberman.bsky.social
Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
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One drink behind (or maybe ahead of) Audrey
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LOL
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Yes, read Joshua Cohen's novel The Netanyahus and weep (with laughter)
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I'm not sufficiently versed in LA politics to know which local labor leaders, politicians or liberation theologists have the skills or the moral authority to organize a general strike but hope some will emerge. What is the appropriate tactic for DC with tanks next weekend in the street?
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as per Che Guevara's assertion that "the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."
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Agree but there's also the disciplined violence of a general strike. It's one thing to use guns (as per Robert Williams) to hold off the KKK but street fighting in Weimar Berlin only served to help the Nazis (who weren't even yet in power).
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All true. While Pierre Trudeau's "reason over passion" has its limits, I have never forgotten the Black Panther admonition against "Custeristic" action. I think we're both thinking about what's going on in LA where rather than understandable violence, I'd like to see something like a general strike.
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At the risk of oversimplifying, I'd say that Gandhian non-violence & the MLK wing of the civil rights movement were founded on something other than vitriol--the subsequent history of the subcontinent and the ongoing backlash against civil rights in the US notwithstanding. We need a better analysis.
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Good chops! If it weren't so suggestive it could have been one of Mad magazines tipped-in 45s
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Never saw that. Really great. Thx!
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Very funny. Did you invent? I tried to float MAGAhatzis back during Trump1 but it never caught on.
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I did get your tone & do get it re US Jews. My point was that actual stats would have added useful 3rd element, assuming any newspaper had guts to run it juxtaposed w the other surveys. (Assume your saw that shameless ADL blamed Boulder on MIT valedictorian.) When's your book out?
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They are certainly not unrelated. Have any pollsters quantified support for Netanyahu's war on Gaza (or even Israel) among American and other Diasporic Jews?
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www.theguardian.com/film/2012/fe...
Thought you might like this blast from the bast written a month after the VV canned me.
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Exactly!