boboblaw

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I know there are white Muslims. I've seen lots of blue-eyed blond-haired Muslim Bosnians. I'm just wondering if there's a limit to what Americans would consider white.

Like I know a Palestinian guy with fair hair and blue eyes, but I've never asked him if he considers himself white.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Is Hasan white? I thought the name alone would preclude him from whiteness.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Theyre trying to do do an Amerikkka.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(military_symbol)

Opponents of the war have pejoratively called the Z symbol a zwastika.

The 2022 Moscow rally [...] was officially called in Russia "For a world without Nazism" (Russian: «Zа мир без нацизма»), with Latin Z replacing Russian З.

In Moldova, unknown vandals painted the symbols "Z" and "V" over crosses at the World War II Heroes' Cemetery of Chișinău, on graves of soldiers of the Axis-aligned Romania

Forget all the Ukrainian nazi iconography, the Ruzzians are the real Nazis!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly it seems like an arbitrary line, considering that Herbert's story continues for a few more books after that. The first two books could also be considered a good standalone (duology?), since they cover the span of Paul's story.

Really, the only wrong answer is the first book alone. I think most people read only the first book and get the wrong idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

No, I'm asking you for a solution to what you called a "problem with our logic".

The problem with your logic is that "they did it first, so we're going to do it second" leads to a never ending cycle of violence.

If you shouldn't respond to bad faith with bad faith, what should you do?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

It's very obviously a pun. The only question is if it was intentional.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I didn't. Re-read my comment; this was purely hypothetical.

As we all know, no one one won either of the World Wars. Being the bloodiest conflicts in history, they are furthest from the possibility of having a victor.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

You're supposed to do a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus so you don't get stuck in simple loops.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can't use one atrocity to justify another, otherwise you're justifying them all. That would be atrocious.

smh making puns at a time like this...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Dead tied, huh? Total standstill? I wonder if the available evidence supports this conclusion.

Because if it didn't, we might have to conclude that you're either propagandized to the point of delusion, or being dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you shouldn't respond to bad faith with bad faith, what is the solution?

 

How do you escape this vicious cycle? All I've come up with is drinking.

Edit: I got my last job by downing two shots before the interview...

And of course, as soon as I lost the job, I lost the health insurance and had to suddenly go cold turkey off multiple psychiatric meds.

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