functor
10mo ago
They gave back most of the country and gave full citizenship to the people in the rest of the country while allowing Irish people to move to the British side.
functor
10mo ago
The continuous settlements didn't help the Serbs in the 90s. Most of Ireland is free despite the population of Britain having huge population centers with minimal Irish presence. Iraq kicked out the Americans despite not being able to hit American cities. The taliban won as well as the Vietcong.
As for south Africa The qualitative difference between Bantus and Hezbollah makes all the difference.
The part populated by jews in Israel/Palestine is a thin coastal strip. There isn't really a jewish area since all of it is bicycle distance from a larger Palestinian settlement. Add in rockets and drones and Israel can be put in a perpetual state of war.
The settlements are often jumbled together
Also colonies aren't easy to maintain when none of the colonials support the regime and millions want the colonizers out.
functor
10mo ago
I think there should be a major news story every time civilians are killed in Palestine. Israel is blasting away with airstrikes and plays victim when a few fireworks get shot back.
Israel doesn't want to get involved in Lebanon. Their military is tired after trying to control Gaza for 9 months. They are getting pulled into their nightmare situation, in which they have 7 million Palestinians and 5.5 million Lebanese to subjugate. That is more than half of the population of Iraq in 2003. The non ultra-orthodox jewish population of Israel is less than the population of Denmark or Wisconsin. The current war isn't going to end because they fundamentally can't subjugate that many people. They are stuck in the same situation Rhodesians were stuck in during the 70s and the French were stuck in during the 50s in Algeria.
They can kill people, they can arrest people, but there are simply will be more people.
functor
10mo ago
Golfing isn't a sport, it is a networking event. You and three other people get to spend four hours together while having a bit of fun and experiencing some emotional ups and downs.
Sailing is largely about being a bunch of guys on a yacht and having fun together.
I was recently invited to a sporting event to which a friend has season tickets to the lounge. My friend doesn't even like sports, he just wants to be in a lounge with people who spend two months average salary to be in a lounge.
functor
10mo ago
Compare Israels fighting with the British in northern Ireland. The Brits weren't bombing tens of thousands of people to death. Levelling an entire city while not letting people flee is beyond absurd.
They had their go at it and lost.
The Irish had their go many times before they won. The Algerians had their go on and off for a century before they won. There is nothing that says they won't win in the end. Israel is an infeasible nation and the Palestinian population is booming compared to the Israeli population. Combined with better tech such as drones and rockets, it is fully possible to turn Israel into a Rhodesia. If the Palestinians simply gave up, they would be genocided and removed from the area. Their best bet is to learn from the Iraqis that kicked their occupiers out.
The Palestinians appeal to us who don't want christians ethnically cleansed from the Holy land and those who don't want a mega-refugee crisis on Europe's doorstep. Israel's lobby is directly damaging the west. Palestinians appeal to us who want to see people live by the spirit of the second amendment.
functor
10mo ago
Is it Dems or Reps being cucked?
Both. They might as well have come to the speech in a gimp suit.
Who is fighting the brutal war?
Israel is fighting with a genocidal level of brutality.
Why would the Palestinians not put up armed resistance? I find it amazing that Americans talk about gun rights yet don't expect others to fight when they are being occupied.
functor
10mo ago
If Democrats are the Palestine party then Republicans are the Israel party.
They are literally arming Israel on a massive scale and giving tens of billions in foreign aid to Israel while they are fighting an incredibly brutal war. The level of cucking required to satisfy jewish donors is just next level.
functor
10mo ago
One presidential candidate got shot.
The other one went AWOL and is tweeting that he is no longer running.
functor
10mo ago
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Kamala is more outgoing and forward than Asian people. The most important trait to reach the political and media elite is to have the personality of a narcissistic car salesmen. Asians are a bit too timid and not outgoing enough.
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Indians like to fight internally but whenever they go abroad they seem to hold together much better. Even Indians and Pakistanis seem to be great friends as soon as they leave their home region. Asians don't have the same level of Asian cohesion.
functor
11mo ago
Probably highly unlikely. I have worked on mission critical software. While it wasn't automotive it was in a similar field. The code I wrote took six months to reach production. At that company we wrote maybe 5% as many lines of code per work week compared to a normal company. There was also extensive testing.
There may be individual events that happen. Mass brickings are unlikely.
functor
11mo ago
While it might not be a good signifier of wealth it does really impact your appearance. Well fitting clothes, better materials and wearing something nicer than a t-shirt can easily add two points on a scale from 1-10. Attractive people are more popular, are perceived as smarter and more moral, have better chances at attracting and retaining a mate and are more financially successful.
functor
11mo ago
The left wins by shutting down the right. It is almost impossible to have right wing demonstrations without riots. People are afraid to attend debates. Doxing makes it far more difficult to recruit to political organisations.
functor
11mo ago
The left wins because they are much more fervent than the right which pushes the tail end of the left into a level of fervent than causes terrorism. Antifa and assassinations are examples of this. I am not necessarily saying assassinations would work for the right but the right needs to become more radicalized in their beliefs and not just want to grill if they want to win.
functor
11mo ago
Is it though, nerds throughout history are nearly all men. Pretty much all major scientific discoveries were made by men. Technology has been dominated by men. Nerdy occupations have some of the highest over-representations of men.
It is a different male archetype than the chad but it is hardly one that isn't male.
functor
11mo ago
If Israel's enemies weren't also the enemies of the West and free civilization more broadly
They aren't. Palestinians are fighting to stay where their great grandparents lived. Assad fights to keep Syria together. Israel fights to cause a mega-refugee crisis on Europe's doorstep. AIPAC and ADL want to open the borders to the west and ban right wingers off twitter. Israel financed jihadists in Syria while bombing the country. Meanwhile, israAID was shipping migrants to Europe.
We heard similar arguments for invading Iraq. The result was a giant refugee crisis, a spike in islamism and a disaster for local christians. Israel is not the anti-islam option, it is the pro Islam option.
functor
11mo ago
It seems like people in the field are more likely to be a bit all over the place. There are more people doing things far out of the mainstream in every direction.
As for the trans thing I find it perplexing as the typical developer especially in the nerdier fields is far from being feminine. Even the ones who are trans aren't very feminine. Stick a transgender haskell developer in with at a Taylor Swift concert and he will really stand out. Much of the femininity is missing from them. They aren't talking with their friends for four hours about nothing, they don't really love kids, they don't really have feminine habits. Developers tend to speak in bullet points rather than the free flowing emotional output that women speak in.
Mathematics/CS is hyper masculine. It is purely logical, incredibly concise, black and white and doesn't care about your feelings. It is for somewhat unempathic types who answer the question "do you like my shirt" honestly. They aren't very girly. I find the autist to trans pipeline to be truly perplexing as autism is linked to high prenatal testosterone and is in many ways a hyper masculinized brain.
My guess is that they don't fit in with the bros and are desperately searching for an identity while needing attention.
functor
11mo ago
A substantial minority of the French threw a far right tantrum in the EU elections and they are going to be punished for it with total government deadlock
Good, don't catch a falling knife. The situation in France can't be fixed with democratic reforms and a society that focuses on feelings. The correct way to vote for right wingers in the west is to vote against the system. The most anti-system vote is voting for gridlocking the system. Vote to get lame duck presidents, impossible coalitions and endless palace intrigue.
The system has several systemic issues to deal with and the best way to fight the behemoth is to ensure that the system is too busy squalling among themselves to solve anything.
functor
11mo ago
Which is why we need to help them return and help the ones who are still there stay.
functor
11mo ago
Why would we support mass ethnic cleansing and a giant refugee crisis next to Europe?
They have every right to stay and it is best for the world if we don't get millions of refugees.
functor
11mo ago
(e.g. in parts of Paterson, NJ)
They managed to live there for over a millenia of muslim rule. A few decades with Jewish rule and they became refugees. Israel has been a disaster for the natural allies of Europeans in the middle east while creating a refugee crisis.
The Moorish Invasion,
Which the jews of Spain happily supported.
Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel
Abuout 45% of jews in Israel. Another 14% are Hasedic jews who aren't especially similar to Europeans culturally at all.
functor
11mo ago
And where would all the Christians in the holy land be?
Also that means millions of arab refugees a few hundred km from Europe.
functor
11mo ago
Well I can think of a few, the israelis are culturally much closer to the west than the palestinians
A lot of Palestinians are christians. Israelis on the other hand are a middle eastern group that is down right hostile group to European culture. There is no group that has had a more difficult time historically getting along with Europeans than jews and that includes Roma people. Genetically Palestinians and jews are similar. Both speak semetic languages, refuse to eat pork and circumcise boys. Unless they are Christian, in which case they are more similar to us. Jews are more ethnocentric and have a religion that doesn't see others as potential converts.
functor
11mo ago
Israel is the terrorist supporter. Israel has actively backed all sorts of jihadist in Syria as well as giving them air support.
Nor, in fact, the Australian Jewish community, which retains significant public sympathy.
Rather, a small loud and extremely vocal and ethnocentric minority lobbying for their ethnic interest.
brutal and horrifying Palestinian terror attack
Unlike Israels bombing of Gaza?
Israel was engaging in acts of war against Palestine and Hamas were well within their rights to attack military installations. If they are under blockade they are fully within their rights to attack installations imposing that blockade. Israel is engaging in genocide and there is not strong support for Israel in Australia.
Isn't this common throughout history? Women support the powers that be. In Saudi arabia women are more muslim. In the Soviet union they were more communist, in the third Reich they were more national socialist. Young men get fed up with the system and women keep supporting the position of those in power. Young men overthrow the government and install a new system. In 80 years women will be virtue signalling how much they love Victor Orban and Trump while young men will be rallying against whatever comes after the populist right.
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