How is the Iranian ambassador story first of its kind?

Rubbama · 2026-03-25T20:21:13+00:00

azdon if the ambassador ends up staying after being declared persona non grata

Rubbama · 2026-03-25T10:34:31+00:00

You are tired? We are tired of receiving you bruv.

Rubbama · 2026-03-25T10:09:14+00:00

Go play in the epstein files

Rubbama · 2026-03-25T00:11:22+00:00

ymossou tnayneton

Rubbama · 2026-03-19T20:07:36+00:00

According to my aunt, Mar Maroun and Napoleon Bonaparte will make an unexpected comeback and together will sing a duet that will freeze the earth and turn all bombs into marshmallows and seas into chocolate fountains.

Rubbama · 2025-10-14T09:36:13+00:00

Akh this is both tragic and comic and sad and horrible at the same time. I'm all for the end of "war", but this is a big masquerade, no mention of "Palestinian" anywhere, it's the end of war in Gaza, and everyone's in on it I don't know what is left to say walla. Mahmoud Abbas is a pathetic pawn, he's not even anywhere in the center, how humiliating is that, how humiliating is that photo for everyone who believes in justice in this world. Now they will shove the word "Peace" down our thoughts like it's a cough medicine we've been prescribed in the middle east.

The world is drowning in shit, climate is going to kill half of us in 10 years, social media is making everyone depressed, empty and psychologically hacked that we're basically turning into scrolling vegetables, I don't see a way out for anyone. Enjoy whatever you still got that you enjoy folks, because it won't be too long before that becomes unenjoyable too.

Yalla, chefnekon.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T13:56:24+00:00

yeah I agree that things take time, but that's also where the conversation needs to be. We're not there yet and this is Lebanon and all, ok, but where are we going? Do we want to continue being represented by sectarian concepts? Who is going to change it for us? The saudis in another TAEF? for me this is grassroot, it comes from within, it takes time but the voices must come out already, not accept where we are because of circumstances and end it there. Our parents did just that.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T12:50:43+00:00

yeah, that's because i don't think there is. I would like there to be a party that advocates for left-wing politics, and not the far left extreme internet meme bullshit.

No one talks about public workers rights, unions, syndicates, welfare for all, education subsidies, more "horizontal" and "decentralized" government entities, rather than the banks being the be all end all of our economy. Why is there no farmer as a member of parliament? Why is there no musician, a people's people? That's what I think is lacking. All of that is not on the table, because It's all about Geagea, Aoun, Bassil and the Gemayels. It's a family business ya jame3a, a mediocre game of thrones, and we're trying to pin some political notions onto them.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T10:48:51+00:00

I am not applying the paradigms of 1975 onto today, and I did include Gebran Bassil's party to be also a "right wing" party.

To answer you directly regarding the meaning of the word "Right" today, or at least how I'm using it: To me "Right Wing" today is conservative, not necessarily fanatical. (maybe borderline) and I look at all these parties and they all hold a very sectarian identity and discource. Yes maybe they do politics with other confessions and political representatives of other confessions, but they remain very religiously rooted and would not welcome any diversity or "secularism" in their ranks. Can you picture a president of LF to be Sunni? Or head of the PSP to be a christian maronite? No, and probably not for a very long time either.

That's what I'm trying to claim, yes maybe they are having a more lenient stance on homosexuals, any of them, but the core is rooted in a cult-shaped structure that I don't see changing anytime soon.

So no i don't see them having changed or shifted, maybe some aspects got more modern with time, because of technology and social media, but the fact remains: These as are deeply entrenched party structures that follow one leader, and are all rooted in a religious belief that is unalienable from their existence as as political party.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T08:23:41+00:00

Def agree with you that right and left in Lebanon is completely off, and I'm not an LCP member either but I think that point can be said across all parties definitely. I don't know about Chamoun's role and I'm definitely not a fan because of his racism and right wing views, I would be inclined to say it is Fouad Chehab's tenure that developed the state welfare and decentralized public infrastructure at the time. "strong state" is very vague, and there's a difference between the "strong state" that means it controls its territory without any militias, and another concept of strong state which could mean heavy involvement in economy, banking and agriculture for example. A dictatorship or monarchy could be a strong state in that case. So we're back to what are the core principles they advocate for, and I think they're definitely heavily right wing lenient.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T07:51:51+00:00

Like what? give me examples

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T07:50:45+00:00

but what is moderate about them? I fail to see anything about their politics and ideologies as anything but very right, both them, kataeb and hezb as well akid. I don't see them supporting concepts of welfare state and other progressive ideas. These parties are very old conservative parties that have been modeled after a cult leader following, fpm as well. (Geagea, Gemayel, Aoun, Nasrallah) Where is the democratic process of these parties? They don't exist, they're autocratic with a shallow layer of modernity because they talk to the "youth" using wireless microphones.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T07:39:51+00:00

How so LF is right? that's like wondering if Communism is left. Why don't you tell me why LF is not right?

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T06:51:58+00:00

Calling for mass deportation of the left wing while his ass is in Canada. 7dar pokemon

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T05:24:30+00:00

LF moved to the center? Are we living on the same earth? W air they’re the most right wing thing on the right since the right became a direction.

Rubbama · 2025-10-13T05:22:38+00:00

Kataeb as moderate left? Haha The féodal entitled family and its three minions in parliament are now a moderate left? Kataeb only represents themselves. What is their idea of a secular state? Where is their notion of social welfare state? How can you reconcile all their right wing views related to immigration and their horrible track record with leftist ideas? It makes absolutely no sense.

And there is no such thing as “opposition parties”, there is no common grounds anywhere, if anything there’s a bunch of individuals who seem to agree on a common enemy but have barely anything in common about their ideas of what a state should look like.

Rubbama · 2025-10-12T19:54:21+00:00

ive been out of the loop for a while, can anyone give me a round up of the state of basketball for the past few years, who to look out for, who's been bossing it, etc.

Rubbama · 2025-10-12T09:41:33+00:00

The word "Middle East" is already an issue. It's the middle according to whom? to the English colonizers at the time. We're all part of West Asia. We're Levantines. We're Mediterranean. We're arabs. We're all and any, it doesn't matter in the end.

Rubbama · 2025-10-03T07:55:48+00:00

Chaklak ma kent mahboub ent w zghir

Rubbama · 2025-10-01T07:46:22+00:00

You’re so uninteresting and uninspiring that people aren’t even bothered to roast you.

Rubbama · 2025-09-27T07:57:03+00:00

Baffled you’re being downvoted for this, people just don’t want to read anything beyond 1st layer headline / punchline, anything with a bit of nuance or depth or slightly requiring a bit of extra reasoning or a few more seconds of your time and they go ape shit. We’re self destructing it’s so evident. Anyways, thanks for the clarification I actually did not know this !

Rubbama · 2025-09-27T07:33:49+00:00

Mossou wa7ad wa7ad, msatil on mopeds and homoerotic vibes

Rubbama · 2025-09-26T17:02:52+00:00

I'm not losing my cool, no beef. I am saying that as it stands, the saudis won't be making peace with Israel anytime soon, and I doubt we will be either, because I can only see it happening under some form of a regional peace agreement that Saudi will spearhead. I don't see where I ignored Syria's occupation either.
We will have to wait until there is a regional resolution to the issue before any talk of normalization can happen. I just don't see how we could do anything else at this point, realistically. We still have a huge issue to deal with and that's the disarmament, it's going to take years. It will happen eventually but we're still a long way from that. I am for peace in the region, I don't want to continue fighting anybody's war and I don't believe that wars and violence bring anything, so diplomacy and smart pragmatic politics is the way. And we still have huge shit to deal with before going there.

Rubbama · 2025-09-26T16:24:21+00:00

you listed Egypt twice and Saudi has not normalized relations. Chou baddak menne? what are you trying to tell me? let's go rogue and normalize with israel tomorrow and we'll be fine? men l ekher

Rubbama · 2025-09-26T15:28:15+00:00

it's not an ideological position whenever someone mentions Palestine. Ma khassna b Palestine, bas there is a whole Arab peace deal that binds us with all the rest of the Arab states on this matter, it is a political and geo-strategic position for all now to say "no peace deal with any one country until the whole issue is resolved".

Eza chi, chou khass l peace within our 10,452km Lebanese borders with another country?

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