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evilsoup wrote:

Flagg wrote:Allah Akbar.

fuck off

evilsoup wrote:foreign armies invading wouldn't make anything better
there might be a case for Libya-style airstrikes of chemical weapon stores or something, maybe

Oxymoron wrote:

evilsoup wrote:foreign armies invading wouldn't make anything better
there might be a case for Libya-style airstrikes of chemical weapon stores or something, maybe

Probably, yes. The problem is that if it would MAYBE (and that's a big hypothetical there) manage to stop at least the worst atrocities, it remain that right now, Syria has pretty much disintegrated as a country, and both sides pretty much stink the same (the only difference I see is that Assad's forces got access to meaner weapons).

Unless you managed by some miracle to get everyone to sit at a table, discuss and by some miracle manage to solve their problems diplomatically, I don't see any issue out of the bloodshed that doesn't involve a third party getting highly involved, indirectly (supplying to one side arms, supplies, strategic advices and intelligence, etc...) or directly (boots on the ground).

Phantasee wrote:in other news my grandfather died yesterday morning

Phantasee wrote:i've just been busy with real life shit y'know and i think los is the same way

in other news my grandfather died yesterday morning

he left here a few days after my birthday last month and went back to the farm in the old country

month later he's gone

we both knew his time was up, i'm glad he died where he wanted to instead of spending who knows how long hooked up to machines here

Phantasee wrote:i've just been busy with real life shit y'know and i think los is the same way

in other news my grandfather died yesterday morning

he left here a few days after my birthday last month and went back to the farm in the old country

month later he's gone

we both knew his time was up, i'm glad he died where he wanted to instead of spending who knows how long hooked up to machines here

RogueIce wrote:Giant Military Hovercraft Lands on Crowded Beach Because Russia

RyanThunder wrote:

RogueIce wrote:Giant Military Hovercraft Lands on Crowded Beach Because Russia

holy shit I didn't know they could build those that big

Infinity Biscuit wrote:On a specific level, Internet atheism is often incredibly socially conservative in many senses, and has been for a while.

I wrote:I actually kind of have a bias toward thinking leftist sexists are more toxic than right wing ones.

Traditional sexists at least have a somewhat consistent thought-out system and tend to actually like women, albeit in the same way adults like children. Left-wing sexists on the other hand seem to tend to fit into two categories:

1) Smug head in the sand hypocrites without a scrap of self-awareness who are completely in denial about how sexist they are, often while righteously judging minority groups like Muslims for oppressing women.
2) Completely toxic MRA types who actually believe men are some kind of oppressed minority and see women as class enemies and are filled with righteous anger toward them.

It's the difference between noblesse oblige aristocrats and Randroids. The former at least tries to bandage with one hand the wounds they inflict with the other. The latter is a selfish self-righteous narcissist who thinks he's the real victim.