Zompist Bboard Again

I had noticed that the prose of it was to my mind unusual yet i had not quite noticed it till it was pointed out. I have the feeling that strong and clear segmentation might be an artifact of writing as opposed to something speakers "are doing under the hood", mostly cause people who are o...

a relevant issue if one is, for example, a utilitarian, is that the office of POTUS has consequences for both yanks and for everyone else. the continued dominance of the us empire is much more likely if the democrats are in office, I think, whereas during trump the US lost a loooot of its soft power...

whoa, zero of the relevant points were addressed. okay, let's go through the antisemitism thing. I’m sorry, but this is not ‘latent’ antisemitism. This is antisemitism. ‘The Jews are coming to kill us all and replace us’ is one of the oldest and most persistent antisemitic canards there is. I’ve bee...

When did I ever deny this? I said, ‘this protest is violent in this way’. Your response here is, ‘many protests have been violent in this way’. Which may be true, but it doesn’t negate my point. no, my response is that if we're going to condemn student protests -against a genocide, mind you, or an ...

Emily is correct. the violence in the US demonstrations has been almost entirely instigated by zionists and police, not the protesters themselves, what the fuck are you talking about? I’m talking about, for instance, the way that they forcibly occupied a university building. In addition to all the v...

Man, I'm getting more and more luddite about this whole AI thing. look at self-driving cars: they're dangerous, clunky, and still they're getting deployed on streets here and there: why? because they're profitable. but why are they profitable? cause they unload a bunch of the costs onto regular peop...

yeah, i guess US rulers never make decisions on what protests to crack down on based on which military agendas they want to pursue ¿

How many millions of Israelis need to participate in protests before you stop saying things like this? I, personally, have called out this behaviour many times in this thread alone, and more elsewhere on the Internet. Perhaps I should just keep on repeating that Zionism is not Netanyahu-ism , in th...

yes of course people are either with you or against you, Anakin. it's either wholesale support for the israeli regime exterminating the palestinians so it can sell the land to colonists in the new york stock exchange in the name of exterminating hamas and bringing back the hostages (presumably by th...

neutrality during a genocide (or even a systematic, race-based massacre that somehow doesn't amount to genocide because genocide is something only people one doesn't like can do) is quite... well, whatever, figure people's positions are for the most part made on this. that being said, there's plenty...

you see, in most protests there are different people with different thinking. seems like most attendants, and the organizers and leaders or whatever, are not there out of antisemitism. that's what the jew guy there is saying, this isn't an antisemitic protest, even though we have some cunts (heheh) ...

That was the Nazi plan. 'Paradisiac' isn't quite the right world, since the idea IIRC was to more or less let the Jews die there. Incidentally, Madagascar was a colony at the time. Yikes. yeah, relevant fact there lmao. (oppressed people can in turn oppress others, but honestly fair enough on the a...

One can insist but its better to have reasons for it. can't fathom how its not colonialism for an ethnic group to take over some land and make the natives second class citizens, but yeah, that's my intuition. I do seem to remember one idea floated was Madagascar, which is quite paradisiac. then agai...

Thats why I said spoken human languages. :) In that case, it’s just a tautology… Tautologies are facts, right? (i'm serious - I asked a few times over the course of my life, and nobody wanted to give me an answer) If we take tautologies to be facts, then yes. If not, then no. more seriously, I woul...

One this that has to be considered is that while israel *worked* (took off, as it were: it could have perfectly been a failure), it probably only worked because it was in the holy land, a bit of land of immense value in terms religious, cultural, touristic, positioning vis a vis trade routes, natura...

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. I mean a bit, yeah. it's one thing f...

according to the wiki, there's fewer than 10k jews in Iran, from something like 50k back before the revolution.

I don't know that PRC wanting to conquer Taiwan is a good example of settler colonialism: it's like if, I don't know, at the end of the american civil war the ottomans had funded some just-as-anglo-as-the-separatists loyalists in coney island or something. But yeah, formosa had pre-chinese inhabitan...

yeah, there's a lot of ethno garbage left over in most countries, especially in rich white countries, and especially especially in this age of fascist renaissance... but let's keep proportions here: neither chile nor france, for all of its sins (which are many), bomb its populations in order to exte...

Just a mechanical note, though: Ni seems pretty ubiquitous: are there not regular fighters that fight with... you know, hitting very hard with sharp and pointy things? i'm kind of assuming here ni is some magic-adjacent thing.