Folamh3
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Folamh3
8d ago
Valid point, although this theory has a lot of degrees of freedom. One might argue that it would predict that Churchill would get a pass from the anti-fascist collective, given that the thing he's most famous for is helping to defeat the most prominent example of fascism in human history.
Folamh3
15d ago
Richard Hanania predicted exactly this in December. https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-great-jewish-realignment-of-2023
Folamh3
21d ago
What a triumph The Prestige is.
That and Memento are probably the only films of his I'd put in the W column without major qualifications.
The Axis powers were not the weaker party in WW2. They invaded and defeated various countries that were weaker than them.
It can simultaneously be true that Germany is stronger than Poland and that the USA is stronger than Germany.
I replied to you prior to your edit - I'm just about as aggressively anti-communist and anti-Soviet as they come.
Folamh3
27d ago
Heck, if you look at ratios of civilian casualties -- as I've seen some argue makes Israel's actions unjustified -- America had almost none (generally counted as a few thousand if you include territories and civilian ship crews). The British claim 70,000. More civilians than that died in the Battle of Berlin alone, and Allied bombing campaigns killed hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the nuclear weapons.
I have trouble embracing the progressive worldview on Gaza because those same principles, applied to WWII, would have me side with the Axis powers.
To quote myself:
Freddie deBoer confuses me on this point, because he was once writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict and stated “Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg. Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg.”
But he has also argued repeatedly that "punching up" and "punching down" is a meaningless framework through which to look at humour, interpersonal relationships or anything else.
If I'm reading this correctly, he means that in a conflict between a weaker party ("egg") and a stronger party ("high, solid wall"), he will always take the side of the weaker party, even if they're wrong and the stronger party is right. Which logically implies that, were Hamas ever to gain the upper hand, Freddie would immediately start supporting Israel. It likewise implies that he ought to have supported the Axis powers in the second world war.
Folamh3
22d ago
Last of Us,God of War + GOW Ragnarok, Warcraft 3, Witcher 3, Sekiro
Can't comment, not having played any of them for the reasons outlined in the last paragraph. Pretty much everyone tells me that Last of Us is great, annoying that it still hasn't received a PC port.
"Please Just Fucking Tell Me What Term I Am Allowed to Use for the Sweeping Social and Political Changes You Demand". Didn't realise that @roystgnr linked to this article in their comment, making my link redundant.
Folamh3
29d ago
I mean, the leg amputated in the 1990s I quoted above.
Sorry, I missed that.
I'm not claiming it has no relationship to trans activism, just that "The Anglophone medical establishment appears to be fully ideologically captured" isn't a justified conclusion from this particular amputation and a single paper connecting BID to transgender people.
Fair point.
Folamh3
3hr ago
Savita Halappanavar's death
Such an obvious one, don't know how I forgot it.
Folamh3
8d ago
Woah, what happened to the formatting there?
I wanted to put in a horizontal line to separate the body of the post from the footnotes. If you neglect to put a paragraph break between the preceding paragraph and the four hyphens, it treats the entire paragraph as a header.
Folamh3
15d ago
One of the most recent videos is by Andrew Callaghan interview
I heard he was MeToo'd awhile back, did anything come of that?
I live in Ireland and still get my fair share of slagging. A few years ago I could hardly leave the house without someone pointing at me and saying "hey look lads, Ed Sheeran's on tour!" but that dropped off after I lost weight.
Folamh3
21d ago
And is it really possible for an intelligent human to both understand a book like Crime and Punishment and read it and be emotionally indifferent to it?
Why not? There are lots of stories which I understand perfectly well but which leave me cold.
Folamh3
22d ago
let me know if anything actually happens
Folamh3
29d ago
I will caution you that if you buy a hard copy of Lost Girls, do not read it on the bus. People will assume that you're reading child pornography, and with good reason.
Folamh3
22d ago
To be fair, he could well have changed his mind in the intervening two years.
My theory is that at any one time, there's one "primary" international news topic which dominates the Anglosphere discourse for months or years at a time. This topic is sometimes coupled with a "local" topic which only dominates the discourse in specific Anglosphere nations. In addition to the primary and local topic du jour, there are smaller secondary topics which take up a great number of column inches for a few weeks, but rarely longer than a fiscal quarter, and never threatening the status of the "primary" topic.
A history of international "current things" in Ireland:
A history of "local" topics which dominated the Irish discourse almost as much as the dominant topic du jour, but only locally (with some maybe getting a few write-ups in British outlets:
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