Zompist Bboard Again

Why do people see structure as meaning? Why do we see neatness as justification? For example, take people who think the Quran has some kind of code in it. Here's a literal flat earther trying to explain his theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxlqYyd7m4 Regarding this specific attempt, you can ...

malloc wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 7:52 pm So last week I tripped while running and scraped my shoulder on pavement. Now an enormous scar is forming on my shoulder, the size of a playing card and stiff enough to make moving my left arm uncomfortable.

I hope you get better soon.

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I'm so sleepy.

Flavor conlang idea for my novel: Standard Intramural (Let me know if this conlang idea already exists. I know it's terrible, but I think it's cool for an exotic SF setting. I have many pages of notes on this "language" that I didn't consult for this post. Last year, I had hopes of workin...

Wait, isn't this veering towards anti-Arab bigotry? 1. "Antisemitism" is not a word that magically adds justice to your position. It is insane to "believe" a woman who says you are invading her personal space if she is currently in the process of throttling you. In fact, the left...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:59 pm They are also known as the Kerguelen Islands.

Thank you. People might oppose colonizing it because it might endanger seal habitats or something. There might also be better options. What do you think?

If I may ask, where are the Desolation Islands? I can't say I've ever heard of them before; sorry. They are a barely inhabited French territory on a microcontinent in the southern Indian Ocean. 49 degrees south latitude IIRC. 49 degrees north latitude is the south of France. The area is approximate...

I mean a bit, yeah. it's one thing for some of your jews to migrate out to israel or wherever... but four in five is a lot. I admit it's weak, i'm only just now going on the 'what's the deal with jews in iran' googling session but the ADL says Iran is currently the least antisemitic country in the ...

Well the part about the death penalty was Iraq, not Iran. But yeah, being coerced into protesting against your will is horrible. Sorry, I thought you brought it up because Iran has something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if Jews with connections to Israel are targeted by the Iranian Revolutionar...

I heard that Christian missionaries to the Middle East actually largely imported anti-Semitism there in the not-so-distant past, even though they largely failed to import Christianity itself (disregarding those Arabs and like who were already Christian to begin with). Personally, I think people's t...

Apparently Jews are treated better in Iran than in much of the Middle East -- but that is not saying much (considering just how atrociously they are treated in much of the Middle East; IIRC not too long ago Iraq put in place a law mandating the death penalty for ties to the "Zionist Entity&quo...

The fact that Jews were treated like utter crap throughout the Middle East after the 1947-1948 war despite most of them having no part in said war is a big reason why almost all of them moved to Israel (generally with what they could pack in a suitcase at most), and I have heard nothing that indica...

Torco wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:39 pm according to the wiki, there's fewer than 10k jews in Iran, from something like 50k back before the revolution.

Is that indicative of how they are treated now? Jews left for Israel from all over the world, especially unstable places and Middle Eastern countries.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:42 am Agreed; but antisemitism is probably 80% ordinary human stupidity and 20% machiavellian dealings.

In my reading, it always gets started with the powerful stirring up lynch mobs for personal gain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvtf2TYmuw8

I hear all the neighboring states declared war when Israel was created. Was this because they saw Israel as a crusader state? Was their reaction worse than the opposition faced by, say, Rojava? The official narrative that Arabs/Muslims/poors are irredeemably antisemitic doesn't seem right to me. In ...

When the British were thinking of creating Israel, the Saudi king suggested carving out a piece of Germany for the Jews. Not that the West would ever displace white people for racial justice. The Soviet Union also created a Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The problem is that, as the Bundists say, the Jewi...

The US doesn't just give money to Israel. It is directly sending high tech weaponry that is being used to kill civilians without oversight, the US is blocking UN resolutions for Israel, etc. Israel is attacking Rafah now. Roughly, the main problem from Israel's perspective is that, having been out o...

I don't think definitions always fit neatly. A foreigner is, ultimately, someone his neighbors treat as a foreigner. Jews have been, historically, foreigners everywhere. Zionism was a response to that. I'm also treated like a foreigner by everyone. Non-Muslims treat me like a Muslim, and Muslims tr...

Were the Swiss or the French treated as third-class citizens and kicked out or killed off by brutal pogroms everywhere they lived? No, Jews were treated as scapegoats by the Machiavellian leaders of the world, and that has to stop. In fact, I suggested: There could be an international army that exp...

Iroquois is the most famous Native American confederacy, but this one was right on the Northeastern coast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabanaki_Confederacy There are still 66,748 registered Mi'kmaq people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%27kmaq

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:09 pm British India was an exploitation colony, which is distinct from British North America, which was a settler colony.

The British were always looking to resettle their local troublemakers elsewhere. They would have turned India into a settler colony if destiny had cooperated.