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#61

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Zoupa - Today at 01:03:59 AM

It also gives the game away when you are wholly unconcerned with civilian collateral victims as long as it's the IDF doing it. You're very concerned about Yemenis and old women shot and thrown in shell holes, as long as the perpetrators are the right color.

#62

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Bauer - July 17, 2025, 11:50:25 PM

Also, it appears Colbert has been at the top in ratings for 7 years in a row. Yikes.

Yeah which makes it hard to imagine this wasn't political or lawsuit related.  I know there's a long list of assaults on democracies at this point, but America has always been a leader in the entertainment / free speech / political space.  Americas decline is becoming very dangerous indeed...

#63

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - July 17, 2025, 10:35:41 PM

I'm assuming we'll need to form a protest administration system to make sure protests are spread across all equally worthy causes.  On an individual level we'll have to turn away people who might want to protest the same cause as us to make sure we don't draw too much attention.

It kinda gives the game away when you are really only concerned about the doings of what type of people.

#64

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - July 17, 2025, 10:34:23 PM

You think America/Americans adore brown people so much they're willing to forgive them their vices? Kind of goes against 300 years of American history and your own lynching  example. Unless the guy being lynched was white, I guess. I know you feel for the plight of the poor maligned white man, but that's a weird way of seeing the world. And funnily enough I agree with you on some of your views of prejudices towards white people, but I think you take that view to way too far.

The people protesting Israel aren't Americans living in 1725, they are mostly left-wings in the Americas and Europe, and Muslims in 2025.  And yes, those people more than willing to forgive brown people their vices.  If those vices get out of hand, they and attack Europe, then that forgiveness will go away as we saw with ISIS.  I remember reading an article about how someone who had just come from Syria was reporting on the attrocities committed by ISIS, but found his British colleagues unconcerned.  They were laser focused on Israeli checkpoint system, but largely ambivalent about photos of old women shot and thrown in shell holes because they couldn't be sold as slaves.  The Israel issue revolves around identity, and the antizionists use that sort of language all the time.  They are fighting "White supremacy", "Zionism is Racism", "Go back to Poland"  "Israel is an apartheid state".  Hell, they typically define themselves as "anti racists".  Being anti-racism isn't bad, but they define racism in way that only certain colors of people can be racist.  Their definition of racism is, often by itself, racist.  The point is that the focus revolves around Identity, just as Islamic and Far Right opposition to Israel revolves around Identity though the focus is slightly different.

There is an article I've been meaning to post about this that covers a study on this very issue.  I was going to give it it's own thread but I think i will put it in the Democrats thread.

#65

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by frunk - July 17, 2025, 10:13:58 PM

I'm assuming we'll need to form a protest administration system to make sure protests are spread across all equally worthy causes.  On an individual level we'll have to turn away people who might want to protest the same cause as us to make sure we don't draw too much attention.

#66

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - July 17, 2025, 10:02:15 PM

Yes, but he also won a peabody award

#67

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Admiral Yi - July 17, 2025, 09:58:46 PM

Ferguson is my all-time favorite, too. Colbert was the top rated show of the 3 by a fairly wide margin. I'm wondering if Trump demanded his firing as part of the merger bribe.

Every time I watch a Ferguson clip he's perving on a hott young female guest. 

#68

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - July 17, 2025, 09:37:54 PM

Yup! It's called Joy. I quite enjoy it.

Also, it appears Colbert has been at the top in ratings for 7 years in a row. Yikes.

#69

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by HVC - July 17, 2025, 09:19:51 PM

He has a pod too. You can listen on Spotify or watch on YouTube. Still a good interviewer, but now he can swear


*edit* Craig that is..

#70

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Sophie Scholl - July 17, 2025, 09:12:06 PM

Ferguson is my all-time favorite, too. Colbert was the top rated show of the 3 by a fairly wide margin. I'm wondering if Trump demanded his firing as part of the merger bribe.