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Oh, Israel...

Started by Pope Pixie Pickle, October 24, 2012, 03:08:07 PM

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Q. G. Pennyworth

Because nothing solves problems like digging in your heels and screeching  :horrormirth:

Cain

Country founded on legitimating ideology of ethno-religious shared identity caught in oppressing others of different ethno-religious identity shocker!

LMNO


Mangrove

So the US bends over backwards to prove that its Israel's best friend in the whole world while, at the same time, never fails to howl about how shamefully Islamic countries treat their women.

I'm going to give it a  :horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: out of 5.
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Mangrove on October 24, 2012, 03:59:13 PM
So the US bends over backwards to prove that its Israel's best friend in the whole world while, at the same time, never fails to howl about how shamefully Islamic countries treat their women.

I'm going to give it a  :horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: out of 5.

Israel isn't our friend.  It's more like an abusive spouse.  Demands everything, gives NOTHING.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I despise Israel and our support of it. It's shameful and was shameful from inception. Of course, everything the West has done in Africa and the Middle East for centuries has been shameful.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Man Green on October 24, 2012, 04:26:54 PM
I despise Israel and our support of it. It's shameful and was shameful from inception. Of course, everything the West has done in Africa and the Middle East for centuries has been shameful.

And Asia.  Mark Twain had something to say about the vile behavior of our "Missionaries" during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness

Happy nightmares.

(Note:  The Empress Dowager was a fucking GIANT)
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Man Yellow on October 24, 2012, 04:49:19 PM
Quote from: Man Green on October 24, 2012, 04:26:54 PM
I despise Israel and our support of it. It's shameful and was shameful from inception. Of course, everything the West has done in Africa and the Middle East for centuries has been shameful.

And Asia.  Mark Twain had something to say about the vile behavior of our "Missionaries" during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness

Happy nightmares.

(Note:  The Empress Dowager was a fucking GIANT)

Yeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Man Green on October 24, 2012, 05:28:51 PM
Quote from: Man Yellow on October 24, 2012, 04:49:19 PM
Quote from: Man Green on October 24, 2012, 04:26:54 PM
I despise Israel and our support of it. It's shameful and was shameful from inception. Of course, everything the West has done in Africa and the Middle East for centuries has been shameful.

And Asia.  Mark Twain had something to say about the vile behavior of our "Missionaries" during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness

Happy nightmares.

(Note:  The Empress Dowager was a fucking GIANT)

Yeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

There is no spot on Earth that we haven't marched across, on a road of bones that we painstakingly manufactured.

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

Quote from: NigelYeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

I don't think it's anything most other nations wouldn't have done, at the same time.  If China's 12th century industrial revolution had taken off, we'd be sitting around today complaining about how fucked in the head Mongols were.  And so on and so forth.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2012, 05:34:18 PM

I don't think it's anything most other nations wouldn't have done, at the same time. 

Twain's essay (above) goes into that in great detail.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2012, 05:34:18 PM
Quote from: NigelYeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

I don't think it's anything most other nations wouldn't have done, at the same time.  If China's 12th century industrial revolution had taken off, we'd be sitting around today complaining about how fucked in the head Mongols were.  And so on and so forth.

This! Raping neighbouring nations is how it works. This might be counter to what morality tells us but morality never built any empires.

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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 24, 2012, 06:10:27 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2012, 05:34:18 PM
Quote from: NigelYeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

I don't think it's anything most other nations wouldn't have done, at the same time.  If China's 12th century industrial revolution had taken off, we'd be sitting around today complaining about how fucked in the head Mongols were.  And so on and so forth.

This! Raping neighbouring nations is how it works. This might be counter to what morality tells us but morality never built any empires.

Balls.  WE do it for YOUR own good.  Just ask anyone in the Phillipines, for example.

"Kill everyone over the age of 10."
- General Al Smith
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on October 24, 2012, 05:34:18 PM
Quote from: NigelYeah, actually, come to think of it, everything the West has done everywhere has been pretty fucking nightmarishly awful. I think maybe Christianity is defective.

I don't think it's anything most other nations wouldn't have done, at the same time.  If China's 12th century industrial revolution had taken off, we'd be sitting around today complaining about how fucked in the head Mongols were.  And so on and so forth.

I don't know... I've wondered about it, but I really just have no idea what to make of it. Of course, I haven't read Jared Diamond yet, so who knows, maybe he does a perfectly good job of explaining it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."