Nice one Eyal! This is great work and genuinely hilarious 😀
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Who first said, “on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog”?
@bobby b
Who first said, “on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog”?
In theory, on the internet, it shouldn’t matter if you are dog. What matters is the value of what you say. Of course given that the Twitter message is based on a lie it definitely does matter in this case.
FWIW, I am an American citizen, not born and raised but here by choice, and I also don’t want me or my kids to die for Israel, though I do support Israel’s right to do what they are doing.
However, when John Bolton and Lindsay Graham are walking about on TV with a hard on, you know it is probably time to take your gold and your guns and head for your bomb shelter.
O/T I would like to become an American citizen to be closer to my family and also out of concern that much of the UK is becoming an unwelcoming place for an elderly Jew.
I was still in my 50s when my sibling-sponsored green card application was filed back in 2016. It’s due to be considered when I’m in my mid 70s and if that goes well I could become a citizen shortly after my 80th birthday. Sadly I do not have the necessary spare $5m to circumvent this process.
One reads a lot about family reunification. Done legally it can be a rather slow process.
I think the US has a greater interest in stopping Iran than it has in defending the Ukraine. A nuclear Iran would endanger the flow of oil to the West, and all of the West’s Arab allies. And – Iran is Putin’s ally supplying him with armaments. It is not only about helping Israel.
I also think that Europe (who depends on ME oil) should not be too happy with a nuclear armed Iran. (Neither should Russia… )
that “red pill media” account being run by some dudes in a pakistani village making a living off of reposting MAGA ragebait is basically the modern internet in a nutshell.
The idea that the Islamic Republic of Iran Dictatorship will “only” use nuclear weapons on Jews is false – all infidels would be under threat.
Especially the leading infidel power – the United States of America. What is it about “Death to America” that people find difficult to understand. The IRI regime has been at war with the United States since 1979, the attack on the embassy, and has killed many hundreds of Americans – in many countries.
One can not “deter” the IRI regime – as they believe that if they die fighting infidels they will go to paradise. Deterrence does not work with people who believe they will go to paradise if you kill them.
Therefore the IRI regime must be “sent to paradise” BEFORE it gets nuclear weapons – as it will use nuclear weapons against infidels (NOT “just” against Jews).
Pakistan – India (and other nations) should be very careful of what sort of regime comes to power in Pakistan, as Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
Nominal Muslims (people who are “Muslim” because their families were “Muslim”) are one thing – but people who sincerely believe they will go to paradise if they are killed fighting infidels, are a rather different matter.
Many such cases. There’s an account RadioGenoa, which is ran by some Cambodian national. Ian Miles Cheong, who is an insufferable Elon Musk fluffer, is a Malaysian who is always obsessed with Musk and MAGA politics. I believe the account InevitableWest was exposed to be Indian too. All just grifters making a fortune from X being monetised.
Bobby, it was originally a New Yorker cartoon. One of the very few to break the rule that the cartoon is funnier and makes more
sense if you replace the caption given with the words “what an asshole”.
Paul,
Yes. Anyone who thinks we should offer them Israel as “Tehrangelt” is not only immoral but insane.If I was POTUS (or similar) an absolute line in the sand would be Iran is never allowed anywhere near nukes. At. All. Ever. As a side-hustle I’d have State etc. working on doing whatever it can to kindle revolt in Iran.
@NickM
Yes. Anyone who thinks we should offer them Israel as “Tehrangelt” is not only immoral but insane.If I was POTUS (or similar) an absolute line in the sand would be Iran is never allowed anywhere near nukes. At. All. Ever. As a side-hustle I’d have State etc. working on doing whatever it can to kindle revolt in Iran.
I think that is pretty much what President Trump has been doing. But I would caution this whole “let’s foment a revolution” idea. Let’s remember that the last revolution in Iran was not a good outcome. History teaches us that French revolutions are far more common than American ones. You might argue that it couldn’t be any worse and maybe you’d be right, but it is a huge mistake to make to think that the Persians will rise up an install a Westminster style democracy. Quite simply, history teaches us that the only thing that works in these middle eastern cultures is a strong man dictator to run the country with an iron fist (see Saudi, or UAE or Qatar, or even for that matter Saddam.) Perhaps the best we can wish for is “he’s a bastard, but at least he’s our bastard.”
@Fraser Orr
I largely agree-you don’t get a functioning democracy [or even close] in a culture unless it’s worked its way towards it (by which I mean both the historical struggles but also the cultural adaptations) for a long time.
Having said that, I think of all the middle eastern cultures (excluding, of course, Israel), the one that has the best chance of getting a lot closer quite soon is Iran. The reason I say that is that I think a much larger percentage of the women in Iran (than the rest of the middle east, excluding Israel) value a less authoritarian approach
AND
a lot more of the men in Iran value the women(as people and, to use an old-fashioned word, helpmates)!
NickM – we will see this evening if President Trump is going to do anything.
Fraser Orr – the matter comes down to the following…..
Should a nation with nuclear weapons be ruled by people who believe (sincerely believe) that the most wonderful thing in the universe is to kill infidels, and that if they die fighting infidels they will go to Paradise.
Such rulers WILL use nuclear weapons – because they regard killing infidels as the most wonderful thing. And they can not be deterred – as they believe if they are killed by infidels, they will go to Paradise.
Deterrence will not work with such rulers – so they must-be-killed or they will kill us.
Because the Western establishment is saturated with atheism (from philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, David Hume and Jeremy Bentham – who were all thinly disguised atheist materialists, and they did not believe in the soul – even in the NONreligious Aristotelian sense) it assumes the rulers of all other powers are atheists. But they are NOT.
I respect followers of Islam – unlike the Western establishment who would put me in prison for, supposedly, not respecting Muslims – it is the Western establishment that does not respect Muslims, does not think they really believe the doctrines of the Islamic faith.
Respecting followers of Islam, indeed respecting anyone, means that when they say they believe XYZ doctrines one believes them.
The “Supreme Ruler” and the rest of the Islamic Republic of Iran government are clear about their beliefs – and I respect them, I accept that they believe what they say they believe – namely Islamic doctrines (see above).
Unlike former Israeli Prime Minister Barak – who holds that one should “negotiate” with the IRI government, he clearly does NOT respect them, he does not think they really believe in Islamic doctrines (see above). You can not “negotiate” with people whose aim is your extermination – and who believe that if you kill them they will go to Paradise.
The former head of Shin Bet (basically the Israeli version of the FBI) was much the same – holding that one should “deter” Hamas.
One can not “deter” people who believe that the most wonderful thing is to kill infidels and that if they are killed fighting infidels they will go to Paradise.
Basically the former head of Shin Bet did not believe that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and so on, really believed in Islam – or he had no idea what Islamic doctrines are.
For such people to be in positions of authority is not good.
This (the above) is why when I hear Israelis (and others) saying the enemy will “pay a price” – my heart sinks.
The enemy, for example Sunni Hamas and Islamic Jihad – or the Shia rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are not market traders – they do not care about “paying prices”.
You can not deter them (see above).
“But surely they love their children”.
Of course, they love their children – which is why they want to their children to go to Paradise, and the certain way to go to Paradise is for believers to be killed by infidels.
All the above applies ONLY to the sincere – NOT to the “nominal” people (the people Mohammed called “hypocrites” – people who claimed to be Muslim without really believing in his doctrines, Mohammed held that these “hypocrites” should be killed).
But it is showing great disrespect to the Supreme Leader of the IRI, and so on, to assume he is not sincere in his Islamic beliefs.