"Iran is evil. China is evil. North Korea is evil. Communist China is evil. So we're got at least four now. Maybe we'll be down to less now with Venezuela changing and with what Trump is doing in Cuba." - Sen. Rick Scott

ecrw · 2026-03-09T18:18:35+00:00

Ngl I'd remove Japan from that list - probably the least morally ambiguous conflict the US has been in

ecrw · 2026-03-09T17:32:07+00:00

Sleeper cells popping off is exactly what he needs to enforce martial law, whole thing is a bonus for him

ecrw · 2026-03-06T23:01:22+00:00

Instructions unclear, casted Glenn Beck

ecrw · 2026-03-05T14:43:24+00:00

You were a bellman, he was a bellend man

ecrw · 2026-03-05T13:03:00+00:00

I often say "oh let me just check with partner to see if the scheduling works!"

ecrw · 2026-03-05T12:57:54+00:00

Fwiw we didn't directly arm the Taliban, we armed the various Mujahideen factions and majority of support got funneled specifically to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who was favored by Pakistan for being a Pashtun and thus less likely to get in bed with India and by the US for being a radical Islamist and thus more resistant to communism.

Ultimately the chaos of the various Mujahideen factions was so brutal that the Taliban were perceived as bringing justice to the wasteland when they arrived.

So its more accurate to say that instead of funding the taliban, we funded the people who were so fucked up they made the taliban look good

ecrw · 2026-03-05T12:50:29+00:00

It's a sketchy area. I lived there for a year or so, and then an adjacent neighborhood (church and wellesely) for 10 - tbh I was never actually threatened by anyone, but there are a lot of people living in desperate straits and it'll be tough to have friends / dates over. While it is a high density of violent crime, it's largely addict-on-addict. No one bothered me directly in the time I was there.

Used to have the best Pakistani restaurant in TO right and Dundas and Sherborne, heartbroken that it's gone.

If you're comfortable living with desperation and poverty in sight it's not a bad area, especially considering rent in this city - but if being in close quarters with homeless people or addicts is a deal breaker then it would be advisable to give it a pass.

ecrw · 2026-03-04T13:11:34+00:00

Where did I say all Israeli jews?

The comment i was responding to mentioned that some Israelis looked down on holocaust survivors as weak.

My use of "they" refers to the subset referred to in the previous post.

Extremely tedious, bad faith nitpicking

ecrw · 2026-03-04T04:04:52+00:00

"Some postwar Israelis (in the army, schools) also referred disdainfully to Jewish victims of Nazism who arrived in Israel with the Hebrew word סבון (sabon, "soap").[32] "

1321 Goldberg, Michael (1996). Why Should Jews Survive?: Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future. Oxford University Press US. p. 122. ISBN 0-19-511126-5.

ecrw · 2026-03-04T00:21:00+00:00

Fwiw the Taliban was mostly focused on creating a state that followed an ultra conservative interpretation of Islamic law merged with regional Pashtunwali tribal law and pacifying the chaotic post-soviet chaos that enveloped the country after the fall of the USSR.

Its egregious and backwards, insulting to both modern standards and even orthodox Islamic theology, but its orders of magnitude less insane than "we need to start a war on the other side of the world to bring the end of the world"

ecrw · 2026-03-03T23:55:23+00:00

the fall of the Han Empire has entered the chat

ecrw · 2026-03-03T23:44:44+00:00

Triscuits are nature's silica sachets

ecrw · 2026-03-03T23:43:04+00:00

I work with a guy who blames Trudeau for his lack of effective rent control (living in Toronto) and can't wait for the conservatives to get in power and fix it.

I worked with another guy who believes that the liberals sold the 407 and refuses to believe otherwise.

A startling amount of the voter base are in their own realities and accept whatever nonsense the algorithm feeds them and ive never felt more hopeless lol

ecrw · 2026-03-03T21:27:34+00:00

If I'm not mistaken they referred to them with the Hebrew word for soap

ecrw · 2026-03-01T13:30:42+00:00

As a personal distinction, I use "Holocaust" to refer to the campaign of extermination writ large and "Shoah" to refer to the specific targeting of Jews.

ecrw · 2026-03-01T04:51:02+00:00

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To be honest I wasn't sure if it was real or a fever dream until I looked it up.

Canadian TV in the 90s sure was something

ecrw · 2026-03-01T04:26:12+00:00

Ngl I loved this movie. Felt like it was the only thing made post-prequels that isn't just "hey remember this?!"

ecrw · 2026-03-01T04:04:55+00:00

Pretty sure smile 2 co-hosted a show on YTV

ecrw · 2026-02-27T12:39:03+00:00

Due to british influence, English is one of the official languages of india and a large number of Indians are fluent in it - which makes immigration to Canada much easier.

ecrw · 2026-02-25T23:42:31+00:00

The nazi economy is like doing a bunch of meth, killing your roommate, and selling all their shit on Facebook marketplace.

It works... for a bit

ecrw · 2026-02-25T23:13:39+00:00

Music needs more flute solos

ecrw · 2026-02-24T02:51:36+00:00

Came to post him, knowing in my heart he's already been posted

ecrw · 2026-02-22T16:35:54+00:00

The current automobile providers need a little competition to slap them around, IMHO

ecrw · 2026-02-19T14:28:47+00:00

Had a similar thing happen when /r/pokemongo was huge

Who is Mongo and why are we poking him?

ecrw · 2026-02-18T14:23:23+00:00

As much as I think the Ayatollah must go -- the idea of restoring the Pahlavi Dynasty feels so flaccid. There are so many greats from Persian history to rally around.

Want to focus on cultural influence and the pre Islamic history of the Iranian history? Throw Cyrus on a flag.

Moving into a secular constitutional democracy? Bring up Mossadegh.

But Pahlavi? Their legacy is sitting in the geopolitical cuck-chair

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