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#1

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Razgovory - March 07, 2026, 11:29:13 PM

As a matter of fact, it is not.  Your attempt at deception has failed.

#2

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by crazy canuck - March 07, 2026, 10:51:17 PM

Raz here are some examples that have been widely reported. I chose links that are not behind paywalls for you

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric


https://jacobin.com/2026/03/evangelical-christian-zionism-end-times-iran


https://as.cornell.edu/news/end-times-rhetoric-us-military-didnt-infiltrate-was-invited

I heard about the story, I was asking you what the name of the person who said it was and what their religion was.  Do you know?

It's in the articles. I'm not gonna play games with you guys.

#3

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Razgovory - March 07, 2026, 10:08:22 PM

Okay, I'll bite.  What's your source that that Evangelicals want "A white ethnostate with unfettered capitalism, mostly."

#4

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Zoupa - March 07, 2026, 10:03:10 PM

"Mostly".

#5

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Razgovory - March 07, 2026, 09:47:58 PM

What exactly do American evangelist believe in anyways?

A white ethnostate with unfettered capitalism, mostly.

You know that Martin Luther King Jr was an evangelical, right?

#6

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Razgovory - March 07, 2026, 09:47:02 PM

Raz here are some examples that have been widely reported. I chose links that are not behind paywalls for you

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric


https://jacobin.com/2026/03/evangelical-christian-zionism-end-times-iran


https://as.cornell.edu/news/end-times-rhetoric-us-military-didnt-infiltrate-was-invited

I heard about the story, I was asking you what the name of the person who said it was and what their religion was.  Do you know?

#7

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by crazy canuck - March 07, 2026, 09:40:06 PM

Raz here are some examples that have been widely reported. I chose links that are not behind paywalls for you

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric


https://jacobin.com/2026/03/evangelical-christian-zionism-end-times-iran


https://as.cornell.edu/news/end-times-rhetoric-us-military-didnt-infiltrate-was-invited

#8

Off the Record / Re: Iran War?

Last post by Zoupa - March 07, 2026, 09:26:59 PM

What exactly do American evangelist believe in anyways?

A white ethnostate with unfettered capitalism, mostly.

[Silent Heroes]

#9

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by mongers - March 07, 2026, 09:24:48 PM

Silent Heroes (1987)

https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0479812

Complete with misleading VHS covert art. 

Well, now that's a weird one. Directed by the oft-described worst British director, schlock meister Richard Driscoll, here is an anti-war movie shot in a Welsh backyard, in the backdrop of the Falklands War, with some exploitation cinema bits a thrown in for good measure.

So it begins with a traumatised SAS veteran (make-up FX fans beware!) being interviewed by a daring journalist, with allusions to a cover-up by politicians, with Vietnam War movie tropes used in a British context, lots of more or less convincing use of stock footage (most of the movie in fact) to attempt to make up for the shoestring budget, which explains as well the shakily edited not really convincing, yet sometimes atmospheric backyard battle scenes involving some fireworks.

It even gets artsy and philosophical in the end, à la Apocalypse Now.

For some reason it got released in France on VHS, and there is a French-dubbed, badly so, version on youtube.

Falklands Exploitation?

I don't think that ever saw the light of day here?

#10

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - March 07, 2026, 08:17:17 PM

By the by there's a separate Chinese espionage case where the details are just coming out but - if true - I am in "throw the book" mood. The allegation is that an immigration service worker was basically spying for the Chinese state by using his access to immigration databases to provide lists of information about Hong Kongers who moved to the UK from Hong Kong in recent years including pro-democracy activists.

Possibly separately, possibly not this follows a lot of strange reports of basically low level threatening/intimidating behaviour from British Hong Kongers - largely what seemed to be low-level harassment campaigns at their homes. As I say no idea if that's linked or not.