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AnimeIsTrash posted:3 episodes this week
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# ? Oct 12, 2023 21:40 |
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# ? May 20, 2024 22:21 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:3 episodes this week
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 02:13 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:3 episodes this week
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# ? Oct 13, 2023 07:17 |
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was it RWN which told the story of president of a eastern/central Europe that met his american wife who worked for USAID or the state department or something? iirc they met on a plane?
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# ? Oct 16, 2023 06:22 |
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# ? Oct 17, 2023 13:46 |
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Great interview, curious to read the book but lol even this guest had to constantly reaffirm his stance against hamas at every opportunity
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# ? Oct 17, 2023 14:07 |
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The war nerd community is gonna have to make some sacrifices.
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# ? Oct 17, 2023 19:52 |
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Honest Thief posted:Great interview, curious to read the book but lol even this guest had to constantly reaffirm his stance against hamas at every opportunity yeah i enjoyed it but the ending ten minutes was a bit of a nose dive
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# ? Oct 19, 2023 21:54 |
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the guy's very clearly a western liberal-left type of person, and to that style of politics it really is important to remain respectable. that means that you have to take a firm line against atrocity, and if you really believe that firm line it's better. there are obvious reasons for hamas to launch a big, bloody attack on israel even though it also carries with it enormous, obvious costs. however, since this person's politics have a strong ethical centre, that sort of thinking doesn't gel; and so what is judged for being immoral must be interpreted as irrational.
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# ? Oct 19, 2023 21:58 |
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I think mark touched on it a bit in part 1 of this hamas series but why did the US support islamic fundamentalism so much? I can't imagine they were the only right winged factions involved in all the muslim regions. Did the US really not see any chance of blowback? Was the US just relying on their anti communism, and probably some really racist beliefs about brown people?
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 04:05 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I think mark touched on it a bit in part 1 of this hamas series but why did the US support islamic fundamentalism so much? I can't imagine they were the only right winged factions involved in all the muslim regions. Did the US really not see any chance of blowback? listen to the latest season of blowback
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 04:10 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I think mark touched on it a bit in part 1 of this hamas series but why did the US support islamic fundamentalism so much? I can't imagine they were the only right winged factions involved in all the muslim regions. Did the US really not see any chance of blowback? I'm making my way through the back catalogue and they've made a few comments about how often britain and usa go for islamic fundamentalists, but I don't think I've heard any attempt at explanation
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 05:06 |
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i think TrueAnon NATO or maybe gladio episodes talked about how the west always empowers the most radical right-wing guys because who else would be both disenfranchised and motivated enough to be anti-communist to the point of violent political action? for europe that was the leftover nazis but since the middle east didn't have that i guess they had to go for the religious fundamentalists.
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 05:26 |
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that's right - it's not just about finding people who you share a common grievance with, you need to find the ones that are willing to do hosed up things and die for the cause
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 05:30 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Was the US just relying on their anti communism, and probably some really racist beliefs about brown people? yes. when the US first started arming the afghan mujahids, way back before the soviet intervention, they ran glowing writeups in every paper about how they were slaughtering the commie teachers and their slutty bitch daughters because of how much they loved freedom. the more psychotic a fundamentalist you were the better, in basically every country except iran because of weird historical processes making the religious establishment side with the peasants sometimes. Zedhe Khoja has issued a correction as of 05:48 on Oct 22, 2023 |
# ? Oct 22, 2023 05:44 |
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USA loves fundamentalists inside and outside it’s borders, it feels comfortable with them and understands them and their motivations
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 10:22 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I think mark touched on it a bit in part 1 of this hamas series but why did the US support islamic fundamentalism so much? I can't imagine they were the only right winged factions involved in all the muslim regions. Did the US really not see any chance of blowback? I remember readind that Destroying Yemen book which had the Muslim Brothers in Egypt fight a bloody civil war against Nasser, mainly because they opposed land reform. That was also the main complaint of Northern Yemen when they split with the Egyptians. Seems like landlords were into it. And the Saudis are still one of the core pillars of US hegemony.
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 10:48 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I think mark touched on it a bit in part 1 of this hamas series but why did the US support islamic fundamentalism so much? I can't imagine they were the only right winged factions involved in all the muslim regions. Did the US really not see any chance of blowback? the more radical sunni islamists are highly hierarchical, disciplined and reactionary, and they have a fairly well-defined political programme which is compatible with UK/US imperial interests - and they have a genuine mass social base. you can make a deal with the leaders and expect the organisation to fall in line, and their doctrines are foreign enough to any force at home that you can do some awful things to them if they start getting funny ideas without anyone respectable getting seriously upset. this has worked and continues to work pretty well, because proclaiming genuine support for the programme of hamas is obviously more difficult for domestic oppositionists than it would be if the main palestinian combat organisation were PLFP or something
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# ? Oct 22, 2023 13:53 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:3 episodes this week War causes death but also causes more episodes, so it's impossible to say whether it's good or bad.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:31 |
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straight edge dentist is a good bit
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 17:29 |
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Catching up on my backlog and lmao at the drone guy. UAV endusers. Warfighters. Can't deal with this
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 21:39 |
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V. Illych L. posted:latest ep with vincent bevins is good finally got around to listening, it was great. has anyone read the new book? he has to mention the NED right? also curious about his take on hong kong. afaik, the protests worked and they got the extradition bill withdrawn. he's right that that the right-wing took it over (the fact that azov was there blows my mind) and switched to secessionist demands. does he discuss the circumstances that lead to the protest in the first place? things like apple daily news, NED, and the br*tish deciding to implement "democracy" 5 years before the handover?
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# ? Oct 30, 2023 09:47 |
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there was a reference to ames’s review of the bible? anyone know what that’s referring to? sounds incredible
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 05:58 |
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Centrist Committee posted:there was a reference to ames’s review of the bible? anyone know what that’s referring to? sounds incredible https://web.archive.org/web/20200819165326/http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6791 haven't read it yet, been meaning to find a copy and you spurred me into action. looks right tho
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 06:24 |
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pokeyman posted:https://web.archive.org/web/20200819165326/http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6791 quote:When I told my friends that I was reading the Bible cover-to-cover, an expression of worried nausea inevitably crossed their faces. It was as if I'd said, "Fellas, I'm gay, and damnit I'm not ashamed to tell you!"... only much worse. A homosexual you can beat to death with a baseball bat and the problem's solved. But a Christian is impossible to kill, like George Romero's zombies. The whole point of a Christian's existence is to get martyred, so killing one only makes it grow stronger, sprouts another hundred zombies in its place; on the other hand, if you don't kill a Christian, then they don't shut up about the Book of Revelations and how everything that's happening today has been foretold. Everyone's sat next to a Christian at least once in their lives and had to listen to their drivel. Once, on a flight to Las Vegas, I had a Christian sit next to me and tell me that the European Union was foretold as a sign of the Apocalypse, something about fifteen members as each horn on the devil or stars in some constellation or something... You know that the EU expansion will have been foretold in the Bible too, as was the WTC attack, the war in Iraq, Putin's rise to power, the Slavneft auction, the price of whores at Night Flight and so on. The Book of Revelations is just Nostradamus for wage earners- meaning the majority of idiots, as opposed to the minority. lol man this makes me sorry I missed the exile back in its day
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 07:10 |
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Centrist Committee posted:lol man this makes me sorry I missed the exile back in its day that owns, never read any of mark's writing before
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 07:29 |
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Gay whiney Hitler
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 12:42 |
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God drat.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 15:17 |
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Gay whiney Hitler
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 16:30 |
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Zedhe Khoja posted:yes. when the US first started arming the afghan mujahids, way back before the soviet intervention, they ran glowing writeups in every paper about how they were slaughtering the commie teachers and their slutty bitch daughters because of how much they loved freedom. wait what?
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 16:44 |
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Gay whiney Hitler
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 16:51 |
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Tankbuster posted:wait what? it's believable for propaganda at the time. those godless commies are tearing families apart and forcing children into authoritarian engineering programs
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 17:41 |
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No the mujahideen giving the slutty commie daughters a good shag and glasgow smile to correct them sounds like some sort of hosed up coomer idea.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 18:02 |
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Any war nerd podcasts about Israel that I can get for free right now?
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 20:31 |
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LuxuryLarva posted:Any war nerd podcasts about Israel that I can get for free right now? yes but it's finkelstein on trueanon
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# ? Nov 2, 2023 02:11 |
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i say swears online posted:yes but it's finkelstein on trueanon https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/its-not-too-late
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# ? Nov 2, 2023 17:39 |
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Does Finkelstein yell at a zionist and make them cry because that's when I like him the most.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 00:20 |
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LuxuryLarva posted:Does Finkelstein yell at a zionist and make them cry because that's when I like him the most. yeah he yells at Brace and Brace cries like a bitch
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 00:34 |
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listening to the Hamas ep and I'm surprised they dismiss the "Israel let 10/7 happen" idea right away, on the basis that it's had negative political consequences for Netanyahu and Likud, and they surely couldn't be that stupid could they? it's a great episode though and Mark speaking about his Zionist past is quite the listen.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 00:37 |
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# ? May 20, 2024 22:21 |
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There's a big difference between "Israel did Oct. 7th" and "Israelis were warned about Oct. 7th but did nothing thinking they couldn't be beaten."
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 10:39 |