Botond173
1d ago
The big difference is that Iran will continue to have the capacity to block the Strait of Hormuz, barring total defeat on the ground and an US occupation. Serbia in 1999 or Iraq in 1991 or Libya in 2011 had no such comparable options to sabotage US interests at all.
Botond173
1d ago
A couple of months ago I argued here that the reevaluation and demythologization of Reagan's legacy is something the Republicans have not yet faced up to. Assuming this will ever be done at some point, I think the same assessment of Dubya will also need to happen.
Botond173
3d ago
Why do you think this is a matter of blindness? Do such women normally talk to anyone about their trauma?
Botond173
6d ago
Bulgarians can tell that East Germany was a thing. What most of them probably can't tell, and what is mostly unknown outside Germany in general, is that the Nazi and East German armies had uniforms of identical design.
Botond173
6d ago
There was also a similar scandal at a Chicago high school where a student showed up in an East German army uniform at the local Halloween celebration. Well, I guess the complaints can be excused in this case, as it's probably not common knowledge in the US that the army uniforms of East Germany and Nazi Germany were of an identical design.
On a related note, I suggest this and this video as exampes of East German cosplay that are easier on the eyes.
Botond173
6d ago
So in other words, the anti-woke camp is divided on the issue of identity politics or alternatively on the issue of civic nationalism.
Botond173
6d ago
social skills aren't as major a contributor to men's status as they are to women's
Frankly I find this mind-boggling. Where did you get such ideas? Why do you think nobody expects female comedians to actually be funny, women in general to be good conversationists or good initiators of conversations even, to be able to tell jokes etc?
I'm assuming you're relatively young and/or you didn't follow the culture war back in the old days? I haven't heard her name in a long time but I remembered it after reading it here. She was a rather active rage-baiting feminist culture warrior and talking head back in the days when the US culture war was focused on the issue of sex as opposed to the issue of race, so roughly before 2014.
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