I’m sure Poland has its problems with racism, and perhaps they don’t have a great border policy at the best of times. But I don’t think they deserve equal condemnation for refusing to submit to a quasi-invasion cooked up by a Russian vassal state (and being realistic about it, probably by Russia itself) that cons…
Props to whoever came up with the background music. Of all the songs I expected a moody, trailer-ready update of, this wasn’t one of them:
Yes, because Israel is so poorly-funded by comparison.
Yeah, it’s kinda true. To be honest though, I think that pithy slogans/catchphrases have contributed to so much fuckery and delusion surrounding this conflict (mostly directed against Israel) that I can’t really get behind this quote.
Tough as it is, none of the ME countries care about the Palestinians.
That doesn’t contradict anything I said. Qatar isn’t a neighbor of Israel. However, it is - along with Iran - funding all the terrorist groups that have been launching rockets into Israel for the last decade or so. It’s also putting up the Hamas leadership, with their 10+ billion dollars of net worth, in a bunch of…
You’re right, that was poorly phrased on my part. My bad.
I don’t know if this post is ironic or not, but since there’s a good chance people will take/are taking it seriously, I’m just going to mention here that every single one of Israel’s neighbours attacked Israel first.
But the U.S. had some unexpected allies. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the U.A.E. also stepped in to help protect Israel, which is, yeah, confusing.
Oh God! Sorry... You, uh, anti-semitic bastard! (Quick, now call me a Zionist shill.)
Ah, gotcha. Yeah fair enough. I don’t entirely agree with what you’re saying, and ordinarily I might like to drill into that disagreement. But I think as far as this conflict goes half-agreement is pretty good, so I’ll probably just leave it there. Good day to you!
Historically, Israel making concessions in the face of terrorist violence hasn’t gone well for them. Camp David led onto the Second Intifada and Arafat’s rejection; the withdrawal from Lebanon led to Hezbollah becoming as big as it is now; and the withdrawal from Gaza led to Hamas taking power, 15+ years of rocket…
The City & The City has a BBC version. Watched a few minutes of it, decided it did not look very good, gave up. Would check out a worthy adaptation though.
Hey, it ain’t our business what goes on with them between the Google Sheets
That’s like saying Einstein was a terrible dancer, so it’s a bit hard to trust his views on physics.
No problem!
But the characters of Rebel Moon are all so memorable! There’s:
Yeah, it took a lot for me to get past the ‘ideal woman’ bullshit. Also makes me wonder about the Dark Forest theory itself - kinda sounds like people take it pretty seriously these days, but it’s a bit hard to trust Liu’s sociological analysis when his characterization is so weak.
That was exactly my reaction to them as well.
They really did, didn’t they? I want to avoid spoilers, but let’s just say that the way certain people react to the game (more specifically, the world within it) was one of the most ridiculous and hard-to-swallow points of the first novel. Like, why would that make you want to... yeah.
