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Tungsten posted:gently caress reading this guy’s book as a kid probably made me dumber didn’t it. like scott adams Otoh, reading so many books as a kid meant I barely had to crack a textbook through undergrad (barring languages and math), but on the other hand, an unknown amount of my worldview is still based on G. A. Henty books. Just be glad you're not one of the many, many people who only read Harry Potter and had your worldview created by that . Stringent posted:realizing that americans learned absolutely nothing from the aftermath of 9/11 has been one of the most depressing things i've seen in my life. Orange Devil posted:For this kind of learning one requires introspection and a conscience. To Orange Devil's point, what would they learn that doesn't also challenge their baseline assumptions about the world? It's so much easier for them to forget or consider it a one-off, a mistake, Bush and Cheney being uniquely incompetent or evil, than to reconsider America's place in the world, and their place in America. As we have been saying for almost two years with Ukraine, atrocity propaganda works incredibly well on people who A) trust the media B) understand the world basically in terms of "vibes" , and for those reasons, C) have an interest in not digging to deeply into any one thing but riding the vibes the media feeds them to chase a feeling. That's the anthesis of introspection. You could show them all the evidence in the world about "Kuwaiti babies torn from incubators" and the only conclusion they would draw from it is that you were a bit of a weirdo for knowing or caring. It would be incomprehensible that knowing about something that happened then has any bearing on now. First, they don't know about it, and they already hold all of the correct opinions about the world, so obviously knowing it doesn't offer them any benefit. That makes you an eccentric. Second, when they learn about it, they see it as an odd historical detail, maybe a mistake or the action of a bad actor. Like knowing the name of Alexander the Great's horse or something. Someone naming their horse that today would have no consequence, so what difference does it make if someone in the past lied about that atrocity? What matters is what the Third, suppose they do start tugging on that string. Do they really want to feel bad about the Persian Gulf War? It was so long ago. Why put themselves through that? Besides, there's the good war to focus on now, even if that war in the past was an unfortunate, one-off mistake. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 05:01 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Jonah Galtberg posted:it’s far worse this time round. Yeah, universal access to social media has amplified everything. Bad times
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Jonah Galtberg posted:it’s far worse this time round. makes sense. everything's gotten worse.
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Buck Wildman posted:lol he really is the best we've had in decades this is why im going to vote for him
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crepeface posted:this is why im going to vote for him But there is a whole thread in this sub forum to make fun of him Ardennes has issued a correction as of 05:04 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:Lmao this makes so much sense agree.
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I was worried that The Defector would chicken out but Samer Kalaf came in hot. https://defector.com/subjugation-and-dehumanization-lead-to-only-one-result All worth reading but this is the poo poo that needs to be drilled into the heads of people that want Palestine to peacefully protest quote:The last time Gazans tried resistance on a large scale, it was during the Great March of Return, which began in 2018. Every Friday for over a year, demonstrators walked to the Israel-Gaza border to protest the blockade and demand their land back. In response the Israeli military killed 223 of them and injured nearly 8,000 more. One IDF sniper, speaking to Haaretz, said that he shot 42 Palestinians in the knee over the course of one day of protests. Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh was fatally shot by Israeli forces in 2022 while doing her job; the IDF denied responsibility before reluctantly admitting it could have been one of its soldiers, then declined to identify or hold anyone accountable for her killing. At Abu Aqleh’s funeral, Israeli police kicked and beat the mourners carrying her casket. Look beyond the flashpoints that reach the international news cycle, and every day there is another instance of someone being beaten, maimed, or murdered in order to maintain the Palestinian population’s status as subordinate. “The world would be better off if it had more actual, committed, principled pacifists,” the philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò wrote. “But I suspect that what we have instead are mostly people who believe that violence is only the legitimate province of some people, and what is morally required of everyone else is submission.”
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Honest Thief posted:Biden saying he personally saw pictures of the babies beheadings, it's over who cares if he's lying biden condemned a million+ ppl to death probs. cool prez
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Smythe posted:biden condemned a million+ ppl to death probs. cool prez But enough about covid
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Language truly is a thing to behold: He was obviously
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Mia Wasikowska posted:this is a great post Wait that was the picture that got Al Saqr probed for a month? Free Al Saqr
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Starsfan posted:Nah I found it smarxist posted:how much property does this guy own Zero VGS posted:I'm doing my part to keep the big corps from getting rentals, by being a small-time landlord. I own 4 rentals and work a full time IT job yet I'm still poor enough that I got the full $1200, because maintaining the properties, mortgages, and dealing with vacancies is fuckin' expensive. Half of all of rentals in the US are still owned by landlords with 10 units or less. Of course, I already have tenants who haven't made rent which is unfun when there's no pause on my mortgage or utility bills. But it's not their fault, Uncle Sam should be picking up the slack here.
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Ardennes posted:But there is a whole thread in this sub forum to make fun of him we're voting for him
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There's a settler in the jungle Watching a missile trail Caught up in the conflict Between its brain and its tail And if time's elimination Then we got nothing to lose Please repeat the message It's hamas that we choose
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Gorman Thomas posted:If my mom called me to tell me that Coachella was under siege by armed men flying in on hang gliders I'd have to tell her to call back because I can't hear her over the wind.
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ram dass in hell posted:we're voting for him absolutely
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fanfic insert posted:free al-saqr
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ram dass in hell posted:we're voting for him same, i'm a new kind of chud. a hamas chud
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seems like the west bank is popping off after america showed its entire rear end at the jackass state department meeting & the rest of the world started collectively realizing it the west will sell you out the moment it is convenient, they hold no allegiances, start counting your eggs
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im just a small-time ethical landlo-excuse me i have to take this call beep *beep* NO MORE SECOND CHANCES YOU GET YOUR poo poo OUT ON THE STREET BY SUNDAY OR ILL SEND THE SHERIFF TO DRAG YOU OUT
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Oglethorpe posted:america will sell you out the moment it is convenient, they hold no allegiances, start counting your eggs israel must know this
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i am harry posted:israel must know this settler-colonial solidarity is real (and not my friend)
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I think it's worst than after 9/11 precisely because there's more dissent, more pro Palestinian voices, that threaten the narrative. The threat isn't just the Other this time, it's traitors from within. The narrative must be reaffirmed loudly and accompanied with great violence, the enemy within must be destroyed.
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Al! posted:im just a small-time ethical landlo-excuse me i have to take this call beep *beep* NO MORE SECOND CHANCES YOU GET YOUR poo poo OUT ON THE STREET BY SUNDAY OR ILL SEND THE SHERIFF TO DRAG YOU OUT I'm a simple humble country landlord. Why after the tenants pay all 5 of my mortgages...
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Sherbert Hoover posted:same, i'm a new kind of chud. a hamas chud wife asked why I was saying never Trump never Trump never Trump over and over and I said no I'm saying Hamas Trump.
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Starsfan posted:I feel like Trump has said /done stuff like that before or even more inflammatory to the point of being clearly antisemitic and they've given him a free pass. He switched the u.s. embassy to jerusalem & hired his jewish son-in-law as his chief of staff or w/e it was. He loves the jews, bc he's convinced the jews love him. rabbi shmuley thought trump deserved the nobel peace prize, lol. The Pussy Boss posted:I got a feeling this is coming in the U.S. too. If not banning protests ahead of time, then breaking them up immediately on whatever pretext. January 6 convictions already set the pattern for criminalizing dissent & the letter agencies have been censoring media since even before then. Willa Rogers has issued a correction as of 05:33 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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maga communism is the only way
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Majorian posted:he’s doing my old Zhukov av! "We destroyed freedom in the middle east and Europe will never denounce us for it!"
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