Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1779990904792645730?t=2266_wUbxq-FeCxS7f0qWw&s=19

Al-Saqr posted:

Also the british airline 'Easy Jet' is cancelling all flights to Israel over the next six months

This way they will save lives, because the less easy jet planes are in the air the less crashes will happen.

Also really worryingly for the Israelis alot of airlines that cancelled flights are not in a rush to resume flights, there is definitely the same effect of companies being afraid to risk their planes the way shipping companies are.

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

And due to this, El-Al, the israeli airline company has been raising their prices significantly because capitalism is ftw. lots of israelis crying about how expensive their passover vacation is gonna be (the reasonable complaint of people who are allegedly in a war fighting to defend themselves against an existential threat)

Al-Saqr posted:

Maybe I should do a really annoying and insensitive propaganda video like the israelis and film myself going to new york and eating delicious Babka, Bagels, Delis, Katz's etc while making really annoying cutesy soyfaces and talk about how awesome and cheap my flight is and scream free palestine between each bite.

Al-Saqr posted:

wow you're right I just checked a flight from saudi to new york over the next month is a hundred dollars cheaper than a flight to tel aviv to new york!

Maybe I should do a really annoying and insensitive propaganda video like the israelis and film myself going to new york and eating delicious Babka, Bagels, Delis, Katz's etc while making really annoying cutesy soyfaces and talk about how awesome and cheap my flight is and scream free palestine between each bite.

KlavierVogel posted:

I'd contribute to that GoFundMe

Cabbages and Kings posted:

if you go to NYC I will take a train down for a day and drag another goon with me. Also suspect many of the posts here are coming from NYC metro area.

Al-Saqr Goon Meet. poo poo, I'd contribute to your airfare to make this happen.

Cabbages and Kings posted:

if you go to NYC I will take a train down for a day and drag another goon with me. Also suspect many of the posts here are coming from NYC metro area.

Al-Saqr Goon Meet. poo poo, I'd contribute to your airfare to make this happen.

KlavierVogel posted:

I'd contribute to that GoFundMe

Cabbages and Kings posted:

haha, jinx, and, it seems like we could definitely make this happen, from a financial perspective anyway. Whether Al-Saqr actually wants to come visit the throbbing financial heart of the great satan is another story.

Shageletic posted:

Yeah come down I'd be down for a Mideast bagel meetup

Weka posted:

Not sure, but it's been 40 years since they could buy a part, so they have presumably been making their own. Like what even is a maintenance facility in this context? Some computers to plug into the onboard computers? Special tools? Nothing beyond the capabilities of the Iranian brain bros and consequently, their allies.

Steve Yun posted:

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1780059230965207402?s=46

eyyyyyyy

PawParole posted:

Israel

Aerial photos of swimming pool/rec center

CheetoVonTito posted:

“Pa pa pa pleaaaase!”


https://x.com/snarwani/status/1780199469172113877?s=46

CheetoVonTito posted:

“Pa pa pa pleaaaase!”


https://x.com/snarwani/status/1780199469172113877?s=46

Al-Saqr posted:

you cant fool me youre all FBI honeytraps

lol just kidding

i love new york ive been there several times for a few days, i wouldnt mind going sometime soon.

once i re-gain employment and save up some
money to do fun stuff lets see what to do. i miss the metropolitan museum the most and definitely sylvias in harlem was really awesome, so was the talent show at the appollo. drat that was such a good time.

if there was one deli i want to go back to its this one:-


Russ & Daughters

https://g.co/kgs/tnAEau2


i went to new york for a couple days, i saw this Deli on Louie C.K.'s old show and tried it, its loving awesome

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

PawParole posted:

Oh, and they dropped a ballistic missile on top of the base’s officer’s swimming pool/rec center. You can see screenshots close-ups of what was hit prior to the attack via google maps attached here.

CheetoVonTito posted:

“Pa pa pa pleaaaase!”


https://x.com/snarwani/status/1780199469172113877?s=46

CheetoVonTito posted:

“Pa pa pa pleaaaase!”


https://x.com/snarwani/status/1780199469172113877?s=46

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

But why would such decoding be viewed as an effective way of punishing and teaching lessons to the Chinese? If inquiry is confined to missionaries with lengthy experience in China, for example, they apparently believed that these acts would be effective because of their own “understanding of Chinese character and conditions.” Central to such an understanding appears to have been what missionaries identified as a fundamental trait of the Chinese - their notion of “face.” The Rev. Arthur Smith, at the time one of the most widely read “experts” on Chinese behavior, defined face as “an integral part of both Chinese theory and practice,” one in which “realities” were far less important than “appearances.” “If the latter can be saved,” he argued,

“the former may be altogether surrendered.” This is the essence of the mysterious “face” of which we are never done hearing in China. The line of Pope might be the Chinese national motto: “Act well your part, there all the honour lies”; not, be it observed, doing well what is to be done, but consummate acting, contriving to convey the appearance of a thing or a fact, whatever the realities may be.

Smith went on to explain that the Chinese were continually caught up in the process of gaining, preserving, or losing face. In so doing, they frequently had to act in an “arbitrary and violent manner,” “fly into a violent rage,” or otherwise use “reviling and perhaps imprecatory language.” Such behavior was essential for indicating to the “spectators” of the “drama” in which the individual was “at the moment acting” that he was “aware just what ought to be done by a person in his precise situation.” Not to do the proper thing would be to descend from the stage, or “lose face.” The language here is important, for in Smith’s version of face, the Chinese treated all the world as a stage on which appearance was all and reality insignificant.

Smith presented this “Chinese characteristic” as an accurate representation of Chinese social behavior, and it has come down to us largely unquestioned in that form. The point is not whether face is actually an organizing category in Chinese practices but rather the place that it holds in a Western discourse of ritualized destruction and lesson teaching. We must consider, in other words, the role of face in authorizing the destruction of walls, towers, and temples. The China lore of missionaries such as Brown and Smith constituted “face” as a singular attribute of the colonized, while denying that representatives of the allied powers were concerned themselves with appearances or that their discursive practices might actually produce “face.” Constructing their Chinese in these terms (making their object, as it were, responsible for the illusions of face), the Powers could then in good conscience act with impunity against symbols they took as significant to a Chinese mind that could mistakenly ascribe magical powers to walls and confuse the apparent and the real. The actions taken in Baoding and Taiyuan can also be understood, therefore, as designed to inflict a loss of face on a people continuously play-acting the game of face.

- Leaving a Brand on China: Missionary Discourse in the Wake of the Boxer Movement

fits my needs posted:

lmao, this reads like the gbs china thread

SplitSoul posted:

I hate to go all "media literacy", but I think this woman was married to Richard Spencer, so it's probably best to go with another source for this.

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I just found a scan of this, and I'm dying to see how little has changed



e: It was reprinted in 1970 in anticipation of the US reaching out to the PRC and apparently was taken on the 1972 trip to China

CheetoVonTito posted:

“Pa pa pa pleaaaase!”


https://x.com/snarwani/status/1780199469172113877?s=46

Leandros posted:

His shoes lmfao

fits my needs posted:

lmfao

Owlbear Camus posted:

how many rounds of "symbolic strikes" back and forth before its a "symbolic regional war?"

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

e: Why would Chinese people in 1894 have "contempt for foreigners"?

Al-Saqr posted:

man I dont know why the chinese are so mad we're literally giving them drugs and stuff they should chill out.

CheetoVonTito posted:

This is insane!
Didn’t somewhere deep in this thread did we learn that those batteries are moved every hour or so…to a different location?