tentativelurkeraccount posted:middle class businessmen so politically unaware they don't realize they're settlers: truly defying the stereotypes of settler ideology.
our advanced forms of colonialism destroy cultures in memory at the same rate they are destroyed in reality.
tpaine posted:at least they know real suffering, swampman. i am burdened by my own self-knowledge
are you saying that you're so fat that the very idea of you makes people's brains weigh more
tpaine posted:roseweird posted:when did anyone ever put forward a stereotype of israeli settlers as gun toting fanatics
uh durr pallywood and the anti-semitic left in the us
this is sort of true because its hard to get mad at people living for lives similar to your own, so the idea that settlers are religious crazies makes it easier to explain the whole situation
roseweird posted:AmericanNazbro posted:i dont know why anyone would give rosewrird thread moniterator priveledges that guy sucks
don't worry eventually i'll get bored and leave due to general disgust with the pathetic swell of human degeneration exhibited here daily
have you tried huffingtonpost forums to satiate your need for daily moral outrage
The United States Government assesses with """"""high confidence""""" that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. We further assess that the regime used a nerve agent in the attack. These all-source assessments are based on ***~~~human, signals, and geospatial intelligence as well as a significant body of open source reporting~~~***. Our classified assessments have been shared with the U.S. Congress and keyinternational partners. To protect sources and methods, we cannot publicly release all available intelligence – but what follows is an unclassified summary of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s analysis of what took place.Syrian Government Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21
A "large body" of "Independent Sources" indicates that a chemical weapons attack took place in the Damascus suburbs on August 21. In addition to ~~~U.S. intelligence information~~~, there are !!accounts from international and Syrian medical personnel; videos; witness accounts; thousands of social media reports from at least !!12!! different locations in the Damascus area; journalist accounts; and reports from """"highly credible"""" nongovernmental organizations.!!!!
A preliminary U.S. government assessment determined that 1,429,000 people were killed in the chemical weapons attack, including at least 426,000 children, though this assessment will certainly evolve upwards as we obtain more """"information.""""
We assess with "high confidence" that the Syrian government carried out the chemical weapons attack against opposition elements in the Damascus suburbs on August 21. We assess that the scenario in which the opposition executed the attack on August 21 is ~highly unlikely~. The body of information used to make this assessment includes ----intelligence---- pertaining to the regime’s preparations for this attack and its means of delivery, multiple streams of intelligence about the attack itself and its effect, our post-attack observations, and the differences between the capabilities of the regime and the opposition. Our ~~high confidence~~ assessment is the strongest position that the U.S. Intelligence Community can take short of confirmation. We will continue to seek additional information to close gaps in our understanding of what took place.
blah blah blah cont'd for 3 more pages, nothing else of interest or any sourcing
ilmdge posted:I Like How d&d doens't evne have a syria thread, people just post about syria in the "middle east" megathread
i like how respectful that is of the pan-arab socialist caliphate
codywilson posted:just shows the frivolousness of ideology in comparison to the capitalist behemoth and consumerist stranglehold.
capitalism has within it the means of simultaneously incorporating yet nullifying seemingly all other phenomena.
tentativelurkeraccount posted:Israeli Settlers Defy Stereotype Amid Peace Talks
BARKAN, West Bank (AP) — Micha Drori is living the Israeli dream: a house, a yard, a wife and three kids. The 42-year-old businessman has found an affordable alternative to Israel's booming real estate market in a quiet community he loves, with a commute of less than half an hour to his job near Tel Aviv.
What's the catch? He's a West Bank settler.
yessss, about time israeli settlers were rebranded as chill middle class gentrifiers just trying to find authentic yet affordable housing
tpaine posted:who keeps probating tom. i bet it's the jools
Since mass probating entire threads of people is obviously decriminalized now, i hereby demand an official pardon, and the full reinstatement of all personal posting rights and privileges
Now watch this drive
The president rounded out his foursome with former U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk and businessman Glenn Hutchins, a part owner of the Boston Celtics basketball team.
Obama has spent much of his vacation golfing, including a five-hour round to kick off his stay, in which David, designer Kenneth Cole, filmmaker Peter Farrelly and restaurateur Patrick Lyons made up the foursome in front of the president, the Boston Globe reports.
Obama and the Seinfeld co-creator also crossed paths on Wednesday, at a sunset cocktail party thrown in the president's honor by cable TV mogul Brian Roberts. David discussed his new movie, set in Martha's Vineyard, The New York Times reports. Attorney General Eric Holder, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett were also in attendance.
The president wraps up his vacation Sunday. He has made few public statements during his stay, although he did condemn the bloody street battles in Egypt.
gyrofry posted:i bet obama sucks at golf
realtalk: his form is horrible. grumblefish, back me up here.
so larry finally gets convinced by cheryl and the fat manager that he has to apologize to the president, so he calls the white house to do it, but the president won't take his call and his secretary tells him obama is still REALLY angry at him.
then on election night, video leaks to worldstarhiphop of obama assaulting larry david on the golf course! some kids can be whispering commentary and when obama pushes larry the kids say "wooorld staaar." so of course this gets huge press and obama calls larry to say things like, "you know, i make people disappear every day, like they never even existed" so larry and fat manager are basically terrified and trying to figure out how to get to mexico right away, and they do so at great expense in some incredibly humiliating fashion, maybe curled naked around each other hidden under a bus toilet, but fat manager asphyxiates six hours in when they realize nobody knew to let them out on the other side of the border, now that the bus is starting to pick up passengers. its only after eleven hours that somebody hears larry's hoarse screams and he is pried from the septic tank, shit and cucarachas running across his foul old body and taken to the mexican jail hospital, where he learns that obama has been re-elected entirely thanks to the leaked video, due to overwhelming public sentiment against larry david. of course as soon as larry finally is back to normal life he checks his email and he has a billion emails because video of larry and dead fat manager being pulled from a bus toilet is on the internet with some kid saying "estrella mundial"