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Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:03:40 AM
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:16:38 AM
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 27, 2024, 02:46:13 PMDisagree.  It's my belief that the one interest group he considers absolutely indispensable is evangelicals.  And Israel is their pet.

There are few things Donald Trump loves more than taking advantage of people and pulling something over on people who think he's in their corner.

One theme for the current American radical right is the way they've turned on and jettisoned previous shibboleths and purity tests for their movement. Sure they evangelical right loves Israel, but if Trump could find a way to turn his base against Israel for his own gain (or ego) he'd have no compunction not to. And if the Trump base is given a choice between Trump or Israel, I think they'll break for Trump in large numbers.

EDIT: Not right now, of course. But soon enough.

And even then...isn't the Christian evangelical support of Israel based on some mad idea that they'll bring about the Second Coming/Apocolypse?  :hmm:

Once all the Jews of Israel convert to the one true god the apocalypse will start, IIRC.

Isn't the second coming a necessary precursor for this?

But even in a biblical apocalypse I could well imagine a divide would remain over whether its first or second and the man himself going "Guys. Its my 6th." wouldn't change anything :hmm:

For apocalypse, minded evangelicals it's all about the rebuilding of the temple.  An interesting counterfactual thought experiment is what would happen if evangelicals in the United States, were not so fixated on bringing about the end of the world.
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Off the Record / Re: Hungarian Politics
Last post by Tamas - Today at 06:29:44 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/jair-bolsonaro-hiding-embassy

QuoteBrazil's foreign ministry has summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain why the South American country's embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights "hiding" at Hungary's embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies.

Security footage obtained by the New York Times showed that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro aides were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Brazilian government – the rightwing populist took shelter in the embassy, a short drive from the presidential palace Bolsonaro once occupied.

The New York Times said Bolsonaro's embassy stay suggested he was "seeking to leverage his friendship with a fellow far-right leader, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, into an attempt to evade the Brazilian justice system as he faces criminal investigations at home".

#3
Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by The Brain - Today at 06:06:49 AM
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 06:02:57 AM
Quote from: The Brain on Today at 05:58:50 AM
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war



Partition?
That wasn't a war.

OK Crocodile Dundee.
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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:02:57 AM
Quote from: The Brain on Today at 05:58:50 AM
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war



Partition?
That wasn't a war.
IIRC its also something the Hindu nationalists aren't keen on mentioning as it doesn't suit their narrative. They don't seem to like the idea that once communities were a lot more intermixed.
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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by The Brain - Today at 05:58:50 AM
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war

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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:54:30 AM
I often run across seriously fucked up sounding Indian stuff when trawling Amazon prime and the like.  The rise of the Hindutva shittiness is really concerning.
The rewriting of history to suit they engage in particularly irritates- Indian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war...but that just doesn't fit the world they want to live in.
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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by The Brain - Today at 05:49:53 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on Today at 05:48:04 AMBooking tickets and just realised there's a big Savarkar biopic out - which doesn't seem great :ph34r:

3 hours of throat singing in the rain. Yawn.
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Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread
Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 05:48:04 AM
Booking tickets and just realised there's a big Savarkar biopic out - which doesn't seem great :ph34r:
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Gaming HQ / Re: Paradox: Star Trek Infinit...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:24:48 AM
Quote from: garbon on Today at 05:20:45 AMMaybe should have tried Nintentoesque route of banning fan mods for Stellaris. It was always going to be an uphill slog against a detailed, free mods based on latest version of Stellaris vs this was an earlier fork.

I'm reminded of the Stargate game mess. Fan games got absolutely destroyed when it was in development- the developers claim ignorance and said as they understand it (which seems true?) if the rights owner hear of a fan game then they legally have to destroy it or else they lose their copyright?
Maybe with mods its different?
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Off the Record / Re: Facebook Follies of Friend...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:21:35 AM
Obviously nothing would work with the zealots. But for those whose vote is up for grabs I do wonder what the best tactics on this would be.
It obviously isn't Biden's fault...but how to communicate that.