it’s because they spend sanely on their military

that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. they’re suicide bombers, they have literally nothing to fear.

this is exactly the kind of reactionary garbage thinking that will leave this world in smoldering ruins.

Hoo boy, nevermind.

Hey scientists — that’s cool and all but maybe you should figure out a way to provide clean fucking energy for this planet.

the crusades weren’t christians defending europe from jihad. that’s complete and total horseshit. the crusades were about christian europeans enraged that sites in the “holy land” were controlled by muslims. the crusades were about christians in europe enraged at the presence of jews in their cities. the crusades were…

are you trying to say you live in a place without a local NPR affiliate? gross.

like evangelicals, you mean

Ok, so then why do you think the West has been muddling with the Middle East since the late 19th Century? The falafel?

god this is dumb

basically, it is. it always has been. we poked a hornets nest over a century ago because it was in the way of our oil and we’re still trying to swat the hornets away.

well, ‘cept that it’s not at all that simple.

I’m just gonna take this opportunity to say: Fuck Madison Bumgarner.

right, if there’s something to be concerned with, it’s people learning, caring for the environment, and providing for the needy.

idk, i was educated pretty well by academia.

do you not have a family? it works the same way.

bingo. so you have no ties to Western Europe, so you don’t care more about that region than Turkey. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THOSE OF US YOU’RE ARGUING AGAINST ARE SAYING.

good lord. you have a strange, strange conception of how the world works and of how people think. this whole thing is not a difficult concept.

It’s racist if you want it to be racist, which clearly you do. I don’t care what ethnicity the people were who were killed in Brussels or Paris. But I do care far more about those places than I ever will Turkey, because my heritage lies in Western Europe.

Because, biologically, we’re hardwired to care more about that which we view as familiar. Which you know, you’re just being ridiculous.