chapotraphouse

It's rational actors within a irrational worldview. US capitalists are essentially dooming themselves in the long run by destroying social liberalism and heightening the contradictions within the system. But within that system their internal calculus seems entirely rational moment to moment.

The same is true of Israel. The ruling coalition ranges from "destroy Gaza and southern Lebanon for settlement and secure the borders permanently at the nearest convenient natural border" to "Skulls for the skull throne! 1-tag from from the Nile to the Ganges!"

Both those positions are irrational and the latter is impossible and apocalyptic. However within that range of worldviews their current acts are entirely rational.

Also, look how different their direct push for conquest and extermination is compared to what is the traditional "shadowy murder cabal" lies deployed against Jewish people. These guys explicitly didn't read the Protocols and went "good idea actually". They read Mein Kampf and went "we'll do it first".

I know that being oppressed doesn't make you a good person just an oppressed one, and that the vast majority of Jewish people find this utterly repellent, but fuck that makes me sad.