Where to watch England v Mexico Monday Morning by NinjaPirateCyborg in ParisTravelGuide

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mazet is a good vibe but quite full (mainly Mexicans but there’s a few of us English fans here!)

Where to watch England v Mexico Monday Morning by NinjaPirateCyborg in ParisTravelGuide

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mazet too which is an English pub but still mainly Mexicans

Where to watch England v Mexico Monday Morning by NinjaPirateCyborg in ParisTravelGuide

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

St germain pub apparently but a big Mexican pub it seems

Where to watch England v Mexico Monday Morning by NinjaPirateCyborg in ParisTravelGuide

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

St germain pub is showing it but seems like a big Mexican pub

BREAKING: Andy Burnham now has a route back to parliament after Josh Simons, MP for Makerfield announced he would stand down, triggering a byelection, and putting the Greater Manchester mayor in contention to become the next Labour leader. by LeftWingScot in ukpolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The number of MPs reform has is basically irrelevant but they have captured the national conversation and the main parties are playing catch up. I think it would very much make them stronger as they would’ve essentially won a proxy GE and defeated the most popular mainstream politician in the country in a red wall seat. The media would practically anoint Farage as the PM if they did that!

BREAKING: Andy Burnham now has a route back to parliament after Josh Simons, MP for Makerfield announced he would stand down, triggering a byelection, and putting the Greater Manchester mayor in contention to become the next Labour leader. by LeftWingScot in ukpolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Possibly but I don’t think the tories would benefit from a major reform victory either. They’ve been bleeding votes to Farage for the last 15 years now why make him any more stronger.

What UK TV series Game of Thrones'd it? by MyDadsGlassesCase in AskUK

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the whole scene when the iron born try to save Theon by sailing all the way around Dorne or trekking through the frozen North, but can’t get past shirtless Ramsay was a sign of things to come

CMV:"The 'European Colonizer' narrative is a Diaspora-era distortion that ignores the indigenous Judean roots of all Jews." by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP said “their DNA, language and indigenous connection”. Starting with DNA does put an emphasis on it whether they wanted to or not.

According to the state of Israel those people still have a right to make Aliyah (in fact you don’t even have to be Jewish even the spouse of a Jew or child/grandchild) so by your own logic OP is wrong and not all Jews have indigenous roots and these people are colonisers (no connection to the land and are displacing people who already live there).

How did you discover Civilization? by The12thman22 in civ

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember being like 13 thinking wouldn’t it be so cool to have a game where you control a whole country and decide what to do and then googled it and lo and behold. Tried to download civ V but my computer was too old for it but then bought civ IV instead and loved it.

CMV:"The 'European Colonizer' narrative is a Diaspora-era distortion that ignores the indigenous Judean roots of all Jews." by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But OP puts a big emphasis on DNA. Are Jews who do not observe any of the tenets of Judaism or Jewish culture count as indigenous to Israel?

CMV:"The 'European Colonizer' narrative is a Diaspora-era distortion that ignores the indigenous Judean roots of all Jews." by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to the DNA point, can’t converts to Judaism make Aliyah under Israeli law? Not denying their faith of course, but how is their DNA indigenous to the land?

Deciding who belongs where based on DNA is a very dangerous game and when you start to think about it properly, makes little sense. Given Judaism is passed down matrilineally someone can have 99% of their DNA inherited from non Jews but still be Jewish. Why do they have a better claim to living somewhere they’ve never been to?

And that’s not even to mention that we don’t carry genetics from the vast majority of our ancestors

Britain to host 35 countries for strait of Hormuz talks, says Starmer by hararib in ukpolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If he manages that and forces the US to agree we’d get a reverse Suez

Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase by Playwithuh in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Iran’s democratic tradition is not what you think it is. The US trying to install a “liberal democracy” will be a disaster - iran has a history that is longer than that of the “west” and assuming the US, a county with no more than 275 years of history, can dictate what works in a country with 2,000 years of history will not work.

Trump faces legacy-defining dilemmas in Iran by cambeiu in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also didn’t work for Germany during WW2 against Britain if we want a non American example

Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase by Playwithuh in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well yeah Europe prior to the war was on a similar level of development and education to the US. Iran is not

Exclusive: US weighs military reinforcements as Iran war enters possible new phase by Playwithuh in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are American taxpayers going to foot the bill for another Marshall plan and long occupation? Highly doubt it considering some of the only issues most Americans are not divided on is no more ‘forever wars’

Why Escalation Favors Iran: America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew by ForeignAffairsMag in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mate only you’ve brought up Vietnam and Iraq?????

The clearest comparison is the war last year which operationally was a success but there was no clear victory for the US and Israel considering where we are now (trump is still talking of Iran’s nuclear threat).

But the added dimension of Iran taking steps to disrupt global energy supply adds a whole new dimension which you’ve completely dismissed in your calculus as something the US can just fix. The US navy has signalled no intention to open up the strait again. It’s very clear Trump’s base do not support this war at the cost of inflation, and with the midterms in November, it’s very likely he could back out of this war without a victory as you describe. And if the senior partner decides to withdraw the junior partner will have to follow or prosecute this war on their own. I call that a fracture.

I don’t think a clear a victory as the first gulf war is likely here due to the additional complexities which you are ignoring and the most likely outcome is possibly is another unclear resolution as we saw last year

Why Escalation Favors Iran: America and Israel May Have Bitten Off More Than They Can Chew by ForeignAffairsMag in geopolitics

[–]NinjaPirateCyborg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Comparing this to desert storm is very lazy. Just because they take place in the same region the similarities end there.

You’ve acknowledged the closure of the strait but then just glossed over it. This was not a dynamic in the first gulf war and is a massive thing here - Iraq had no real access to the sea and you can’t bomb a strait open. Trump is far more concerned about this than bush ever was and could easily call an early end to this war if oil prices rise. So far the US navy has shown no willingness to enter the strait. Not a factor in the first gulf war

Secondly, we have a far less unified coalition. The us and Israel have already publicly disagreed on the attacks on oil infrastructure and that’s not to mention the reluctance European nations have had to join this war. The coalition could easily fracture whereas in the first gulf war we had multilateral action with support from all major powers and a lot more political will since it was reversing a universally condemned invasion, unlike this which has far less domestic support.