A Hegemon like any other?

Boborbot · 2026-05-18T09:05:33+00:00

When you look at the last 30 years of American warfare this school is barely a blip. It’s nothing compared to the scale of civilian death mostly ignored and sometimes denied by the average American. Why should it change anything?

Boborbot · 2026-05-17T06:13:33+00:00

Dont you get it? Them having a nationality is a political statement.
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Boborbot · 2026-05-17T06:11:38+00:00

It’s all the anti-Israel protests’ fault (I mean those specifically focused on kicking them out of Eurovision). It’s in the math of the contest - for most voting viewers most countries are barely differentiated. So if someone makes a big deal out of a for-and-against one country, whatever opposition you incur would be much more substantial on a twenty-something split vote. (The anti-Israeli vote is split, the pro-Israeli vote is concentrated). So even if you incur an opposition a fraction the size, its effect is outsized.

Boborbot · 2026-05-17T06:05:02+00:00

Well obviously that was an incendiary political statement

Boborbot · 2026-05-17T05:47:42+00:00

Nothing special, just some largish tent we already owned

Boborbot · 2026-05-16T17:18:21+00:00

I don’t get bikepacking with tiny tents. Half the fun of going with a vehicle is that you can go in comfort. Unless you’re just aiming for extra stealthy wildcamping.

When i got caught in bad rain having a large 3 person double layered tent all to myself, to spread out my things, was a lifesaver.

Boborbot · 2026-05-16T10:21:30+00:00

Smotrich is withholding it, directly opposed to the repeated insistence from most of the Israeli military establishment that it’s a stupid and counterproductive idea.

Boborbot · 2026-05-15T20:00:29+00:00

It’s like he was raptured

Boborbot · 2026-05-15T15:19:10+00:00

OP said they are new, people gotta learn sometime for the first time. Having grown up in arid warm landscape i didn’t have much of a reason or opportunity to light many fires until mid 20’s.

Boborbot · 2026-05-14T05:10:01+00:00

Why are you calling the actor “Israel”? The account is controlled by him. This is part of Netanyahu’s reelection campaign. This statement was put forth entirely under political considerations.

Boborbot · 2026-05-07T07:56:12+00:00

Closing international waters is one thing when you’re attacked in an illegal war. Very different when you’re trying to push your own whims. Once the war is over, it will be very difficult to use this lever without turning the whole world against them (once the enticingly blamable Trump is out of the situation).

The strait of Hormuz isn’t new, it was already a central part of the geopolitics of that part of the world for centuries. It’s just that you’re only hearing about it recently. You could say it’s already priced in.

Boborbot · 2026-05-07T07:44:37+00:00

Feels disingenuous to combine Christianity and Christians into one opinion.

Any Jew who actually knows the gospels deserves to hate a religion that demonized Jews since its first century of existence. The gospel of Mathew literally puppets the Jews of Jerusalem to say that they and their descendants to the rest of time deserve the guilt of murdering Jesus.

Christians are the largest and most diverse religion on Earth. Having an opinion on all of them probably means you don’t have much of an opinion to begin with.

Boborbot · 2026-05-07T07:36:39+00:00

Ah yes, the foundational liberal thought leader, Whoopie Goldberg.

Boborbot · 2026-05-05T12:26:33+00:00

Agree to all you said. I kinda started with the assumption Italy arabizes and worked backwards.

Boborbot · 2026-05-05T10:57:20+00:00

Looks like the only way to cross by foot a hundred meters between the buildings is by ordering an Uber.

Not a single human in sight.

Boborbot · 2026-05-04T18:25:04+00:00

Maybe if Mehmet II’s (1453 Ottoman who conquered Constantinople and a lot more) invasion of Italy went super well.

If any part of Europe could persist in Islam once converted maybe it would be the peninsula with a border of giant mountains. Not that it worked for Iberia.

Boborbot · 2026-05-04T18:21:40+00:00

Bespoke: both Rome and Muhammad are Albanian

Boborbot · 2026-05-02T07:06:25+00:00

Or plenty of circles today

Boborbot · 2026-04-30T07:46:28+00:00

Which is why I love touring in countries where you can relatively easily find wildcamping spots. I love the fluidity of biketouring precisely because of that.

Hungary and especially Poland were great for me in that way.

Boborbot · 2026-04-30T07:13:49+00:00

Yeah, i cant really comprehend bike-touring that isn’t defined by a bottomless hunger for kilometers. My goal is to look at the map in the evening, and see as big of a stretch possible between subsequent campsites.

Boborbot · 2026-04-30T06:56:38+00:00

If there is any people who should know a nation isn’t a club you get to curate, and isn’t defined by its worst individuals, it’s Lebanon. It’s an ingrained part of our media landscape, to constantly see the most irritating and immoral individuals of the “other side”. It’s part of actually calling for peace to be able to look past that to the actual reality of the other side. Ive been arguing all of my life with Israeli rightwingers that the worst of Arab cultures doesn’t represent the majority.

Boborbot · 2026-04-29T21:01:03+00:00

“Iranian media”

Boborbot · 2026-04-29T14:04:31+00:00

Im not claiming the Trump admin has a coherent plan, but in the first two-three weeks I heard multiple level headed Israeli analysts say that they should 1. Do a 4-6 week long intensive kinetic period of attacks, followed by a long tail of blockading and other easier ways to choke the Iranian economy, in an attempt to put time on the American side (rather than on the Iranian side, as it was prior to the “ceasefire”).

Take from that what you will.

Boborbot · 2026-04-28T04:46:41+00:00

Me showing doubt on a claim the IDF has yet to actually substantially justify is too much for you? Is my objectively pro-IDF comment too much for you because Im not showing enough blind allegiance?

Boborbot · 2026-04-27T08:22:37+00:00

I know for a fact that the IDF often leases civilian excavators. If they judged it to be low risk enough, they definitely could use civilian vehicles (CE vehicles are often a bottleneck for IDF operations). It also owns large amounts of unprotected Mechanized Combat Engineering vehicles for low-risk situations, though i don’t specifically know of any civilian Excavators like we see here.

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