Dear Gods, how many bigoted trolls are going to crawl out of the woodwork to try and lecture me with comically bad understandings of international law and political theory today. I feel like I’m teaching an intro course to a bunch of smarmy white teens that read Wikipedia and think they’re experts.

Alright, dismissing the troll after he went full in on fascist “the state is the people” nonsense. Take a remedial political theory course and some intro IR and IHL courses then come back. 

This thing where you completely ignore the substance of my comment to fall back on your misleading position is very trollish. If you don’t want to be dismissed I’d suggest not doing it.

It is ironic when you try and “own” me but turn it into a self-own. Note in your own bloody comment “human right”. A state is not a human. A “right to exist” does not exist for a state. You’re conflating that with a completely different right, self-determination, which I’d bet money I’ve had to do much more research…

Dropping bombs on apartment buildings, leaving Gaza under a siege so severe most people do not get the adequate number of calories, and violent raids that arrest children at 3 am to keep the occupied population from a state of normality are not “restraint”.

No, PR line. State to state recognition has nothing to do with a “right to exist”. The Palestinians recognized Israel in ‘93. While the term “right to exist” was used a bit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there is no such right in international law and the view and theory of the state then is significantly…

There’s a solid argument against all of this, and Warren proxies and her campaign need to make it. Her polling numbers have been slowly rising. It’s not debate bump. I don’t think it’s just name ID either. The more people see her, the better she does. If that’s not “electability” I don’t know what is.

How the hell is this pissant out of the greys? This troll popped up recently and now it’s everywhere. 

Bibi only cares about Bibi. It’s not what Trump said that caused it, but the reaction to his flank. He’s feeling more and more vulnerable because he started as a solid right politician in Israel and now is probably one of the most liberal members of the Likud. He grew the far-right and it wants to replace him.

Neither of them have “statutes”, you fundamentally don’t understand the nature of pre-modern law. Norse law wasn’t even generally written down. Early Irish law was, but it’s incredibly complex and far beyond your ability to parse when you know nothing about the society in question.

There’s also no such thing as a “right to exist”. That was a very smart PR line cooked up by the Israeli government. No such thing is in international law. A state exists, or it doesn’t. No state has such a right, it’s only brought up surrounding Israel because of a concerted push by their advocates to muddy the…

Here’s how I read this;

Probably fair, but I don’t know her exact relationship with either the Neo-Pagan community or how much Native American stuff she appropriates (I’m sure as hell not paying for her books). 

This woman is gross, and reminds me of manipulative and egocentric New Age charlatans who used to start mini-cults loosely associated with the Neo-Pagan community. Usually while stealing liberally from various traditions, especially Native Americans, and describing themselves as persecuted when people decried their…

I think you’re misunderstanding your citation. The stealing aspect goes all the way back to Latin, which was long dead as a spoken language by the 13th century. That is tracing the origin of the English word to French circa that time, which is probably when it is first attested, and it seems to maintain the “seize…

I’m honestly not sure. I’ve been focused in other directions for awhile. I do remember that most people, analysts and academics, took it fairly seriously when Gaddafi threatened mass murder. He had the ability, and once he started calling people in the east “rats” and the like it looked like he’d hit the psychological…

The way some of your comments were worded struck me as fueling the myth. I do think we’re in agreement in general. Though, FYI, the “Dark Ages” is a term most historians abandoned awhile ago. It’s a problematic term because people misunderstood the intent.

Branching out from awful soccer takes into the political sphere. He could be on Fox News in 6 months and I wouldn’t bat an eye. 

I can’t say it’s entirely accurate, but there was very good reason to revise the figures down, including mass graves that were exhumed and found to be much smaller than previously thought.

We don’t know. Livy suggests they may have, but Livy is a bit of a fabulist. We don’t know they were forcibly abducted, as I said on another post. There’s circumstantial evidence that they could have consented, but it’s far from definitive. The entire story may be an invention trying to tie the Romans to the Sabines…