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Comment whom the gods would destroy they first make mad (Score 0, Flamebait) 258

Who cares? Does anybody still watch that crap? All mainstream media outlets are giant dinosaurs too stupid to realize they're already dead. There's virtually nothing good on television anyway; ad revenues are plummeting as consumers have no more money to spend, and anybody savvy just uses BitTorrent anyway.

Good to see these propaganda arms of the State cannibalizing each other, kuru and death should follow soon enough.

Comment Re:too much political bias (Score 0, Offtopic) 632

They do not call for the "destruction" of Israel. They call for the dissolution of the political entity of Israel and the institution of a democratic government which grants citizenship equally to everyone born within the borders. A democratic one-state solution. But people like you can't differentiate a government from the people; that's why you're able to believe such ridiculous nonsense about the "threat" of Iran. Most Iranians are like most people anywhere - trying to build a prosperous life and be left the fuck alone by their own government and everyone else. Wake up! Groups of people are all basically the same!!

There is a fundamental and obvious difference between calling for the dissolution of a hostile government, and calling for the deaths of 7 million people.

Comment Re:too much political bias (Score 0, Troll) 632

This is what is repeated by Western media outlets ad nauseum, that is correct. I, for one, do not believe the vast majority of the things I read and hear. As for you, your sources are obviously Western mass media.

As for me, I read Ynet. I read Haaretz. I read Al Jazeera. I read Al-Manar. I read PressTV. I read Russia Today. I read McClatchey. I read UrukNet. I read the Army Times. I read Lebanon Star. I read several blogs, especially the Angry Arab.

You are repeating shit you heard on the idiot box and absorbed through cultural osmosis. I read dozens of sources and piece together my own narrative from opposing viewpoints. I do not believe these ridiculous, self-congratulatory stories about why it's a sad tragedy when Western nations kill Muslim civilians but it's demonic freedum-hating evil when Muslims kill Western civilians.

Comment Re:too much political bias (Score 0, Troll) 632

What the fuck are you talking about?

I think "Jews" are the second best example of a granfalloon in the world. IE: a meaningless category. In the Vonnegut book Cat's Cradle, a vapid woman latches on to the protagonist because they are both "Hoosiers." She spends the whole book making reference to the fact that they share some kind of imaginary similarity because they are both from Indiana.

People who claim to be Jews, well, what of it? If you meet someone on the internet and they claim to be a Jew, you have learned absolutely nothing about them. You don't know where they live, you don't know what they eat, you don't know what they believe religiously, you don't know how they spend their Sundays. You don't know what their ethnic heritage is or what other language they may speak. You have not learned anything about them as a person.

Hitler bought into the granfalloon of Jews just as foolishly as "the Jews" themselves have. "Jew" is an artificial category and an external identification for someone who doesn't have enough of themselves inside themselves to fill themselves up with themselves.

You say "Jew," I say "So what?"

Comment Re:too much political bias (Score 3, Interesting) 632

1. Lebanon is a RINO - Republic in Name Only. Consider the huge population of disefrachized Palestinians who have been living in camps for the past fifty years. Lebanon-born "Palestinians" have it as bad as they would have it in Israel. Jordan is also guilty of this.
2/ Why is Hezbollah a "terrorist" organization? They fight in wars to keep their land free of occupation. Wars result in civilian deaths. Is this news? IDF kills civilians. Hezbollah kills civilians. Hamas kills civilians. Islamic Jihad kills civilians. US Army kills civilians. Either one is terrorist or they all are; as for Hezbollah, at least they fight on their own land and not the land of others.
3. Whatever your opinion, Hezbollah has stated that while it receives funding and support from Iran, they are not a puppet and are Lebanese fighting for Lebanese sovereignty. Consider that in the last war Christians and Druze both fought in Hezbollah and supported Hezbollah by overwhelming majority. In fact, Hezbollah offers a non-confessional alternative to the country's entrenched political system which is based entirely and sickeningly on religion

Comment Re:too much political bias (Score 5, Interesting) 632

No you can't. Zionism is a political agenda defined by racial politics and largely based on religious fairy tales. For these reasons I think it constitutes racism and should not be considered acceptable by civilized peoples. Zionism isn't some made-up boogeyman - it is a real thing, and the word is used by people who are Zionists! The word and idea did not spring fully-formed from Zeus' forehead and start posting on Stormfront one afternoon.

As to what constitutes neutrality on Hezbollah, I think the issue just goes to show there is no neutrality anywhere. Every article is going to have biases either explicit or implicit as all human beings have biases explicit or implicit. Hell, there was a months-long flamewar on the Brazil article on whether it constituted linguistic imperialism to spell it Brazil rather than Brasil. I didn't expect "neutrality" in the mythological sense, but what I did expect was that the words of the senior leadership of Hezbollah on their motivations and agenda be included in an article on their organization.

Comment too much political bias (Score 2, Interesting) 632

I stopped even trying when I was editing the Hezbollah article for a little less bias and a little more clarity and then getting all my edits erased due to Wikipedia being run by editors of the Zionist persuasion. Finding out a few days later that the CIA was editing all kinds of articles on "terrorism" and other methods of opposing the agenda of the US government was just icing on the cake. The "neutral-viewpoint" promoted by Wikipedia almost always defines their own political agenda as neutrality and any other views as "biased" or "controversial."

Comment Re:Just wondering out loud... (Score 1) 575

What if the laws of physics aren't the same in all systems? I have occasionally toyed with the idea that the heliosphere acts as a kind of lens distorting the apparent operations of the outside universe. Sort of an updated sublunar/supralunar idea. How can we test if the laws of physics operate the same on all scales? Could the Voyager Anomaly be evidence that "local" physics is not universal?

Comment some modest hypotheses (Score 4, Funny) 575

1. Gravity is still spooky action at a distance with no causal mechanism defined.

2. I don't think time, as in "time lines" or some kind of unidirectional movement through a medium exists. Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)

3. Electromagnetism is the dominant force in the heavens as it is on Earth.

4. Stars are organisms and they reproduce through fission.

5. Galaxies are powered by vast electric circuits; beads on a string.

Comment Re:bend over and take it (Score 1) 141

Oh yes, a rational discussion with the SS goon arresting you just to take bodily material from you will work! If only we had thought of this before!

How naive can you be? Tyranny is irrational and it is imposed by paranoid radicals. I saw a farce of the US Homeland Security that showed the eagle holding a magnifying lens and wearing a tinfoil hat. The biggest conspiracy theorists of all are in the Axis governments - jumping at shadows, yelling about "terrorism" without cause, and spying on everyone. The government is having a psychotic episode.

Comment bend over and take it (Score 0, Troll) 141

Will any of you fight this intrusion into your persons by force? What's that? No? Even the Taliban are brave enough to try to defend their way of life against the demeaning incursions of the USA/British/Israeli Axis, but when it comes to the victims in the Home countries, well you just bend over for it every time. This is why I will always admire organizations like Hezbollah more than you, even if I don't agree with all of their ideas - at least they have the balls to stand up against your violent and intrusive regimes and define their cultures in opposition to it. Since none of you will ever go to the lengths necessary to protect your rights and human dignity, you had better pray to God that the economic collapse happens sooner than later and cuts off the ability of your malignant regimes to continue these debauches.

When the USSR fell, it fell largely peacefully - but I expect the US/UK/Israeli Axis regimes to wage total war on their own people before fading from history.

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