Same here. I even still remember my phone number from 40 years ago, living as a child in Tehran, Iran. Numbers just stick in my brain.

Well, I got a friend in the deal that made my life worth living, so I’d consider some dog food to be a negligible cost to pay.

The Nazis had good engineers too. What’s the point of your comment?

Getting a dog. Also the most value for my money I’ve ever gotten for any purchase in my life.

Over 500 of the dead were agents of the government. Iran doesn’t even have a 2A. How many government agents have you Americans gotten this far with your guns? 0? And how many of you will be murdered by government agents if/when government agents are killed? Iran is just a couple of steps ahead of you.

Yeah, these genociders are independent thinkers with morals, unlike those genociders who are the actual trash. I’m sure the mothers of murdered Palestinian children will be comforted by the fact that their children were slaughtered by moral and thinking genociders.

Some shit stinks less than other shit. Still shit though, so good riddance.

Why is it Greenland and not every other country he fucked over that’s your redline? Let’s face it, no one in the Western world has a redline and all will keep sucking on Donnie’s rectum until the end of time. The west is a clown show that has clearly proven its lack of any principles.

You seem to have a particularly bigoted view of Asian women that you seem to have found an outlet for in this thread hiding behind people’s anger at this murder. But there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of daylight between this racist murderer’s attitude towards immigrants and your attitude towards Asian women. “Such women cling so much”? You wish buddy. Despicable.

You think that the military was more restrained in Iraq than ICE is in the US? Really? We all know the name of this murderer, his victim’s name, how it all happened from several angles and so on. There were hundreds of thousands of victims of the US military in Iraq. How many of those murderers can you name, along with how they killed and the names of their victims? It’s amazing that even after scandals and atrocities like Abu Ghraib, people can utter nonsense like this. The military completely destroyed a civilisation in Iraq, but the suffering of Americans at the hands of ICE is somehow worse?

Where I am (Europe), I haven’t seen a single article calling this what it clearly is. Maduro is just a captive in every article, never a hostage. But they have no issue calling an Israeli pow a hostage despite him being taken from his damn tank in occupied territory. The west has become a total and very visible clown show, and I don’t think changing Trump to the next Obama can do a lot to change that perception internationally. Specially Europe has shown itself to be a particularly pathetic entity with very little independence from ‘daddy’ Trump.

I wonder how and when narco-trafficing becomes narco-terrorism. Presumably they’d have to explain that distinction in the kangaroo court?

Rachel Dratch is one of the funniest sketch comedians of all time imo. She’s a treasure, I miss her Debbie Downer so much.

Math and science aren’t history.

They are not, but they do involve the need to “compare, authenticate, calibrate, and contextualize”, which you stated was a western philosophical tradition. I was objecting to that characterization, because it implies that other cultures have had to learn from westerners that it’s desirable to “compare, authenticate, calibrate, and contextualize”.

Yes we owe an incredible debt to Islamic scholars for contributions to mathematics. That ain’t history.

Again, you’re selling the Islamic golden age very very cheap. Islamic scholars contributed far more than only mathematics and science. Among other subject, there’s a rich traditions in the study of history and a long list of muslim historians starting from the seventh century. Major figures like Ibn Khaldun have made massive contributions to the study of history. Likewise within the field of philosophy, where Islamic scholars have made major contributions. Isalmic philosophers have also played an important role in the survival of greek litterature and philosophy when Europe had regressed to the dark ages.

If you took a university course in history, you studied from a western perspective.

There’s big difference between this and the statement that the desire to do actual study of history is a western tradition. The west has been hegemonic worldwide for a good while, so it’s not strange that the dominant hegemonic power has had the largest influence on how the study is conducted in universities today. But even today, a major part of that western perspective that is dominant in the universities is bulit on the work of other cultures. To reduce everyone except the west to “oral traditions”, as if everyone but the west were hunter gatherers is strange, and ironically completely disregards the rich history of the study of history.

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The desire to compare, authenticate, calibrate, and contextualize is a Western philosophical tradition

Huh? You don’t think the Asian civilisations of East and West Asia knew of studying history? I guess the Islamic golden age was western too? Because ‘the west’ during the dark ages wasn’t exactly known for comparing, authenticating, calibrating or contextualizing. While the Islamic world was the center for most contemporary sciences. It’s really really weird, and ironically extremely eurocentric to assume that analytic thinking is a European invention. The Mayan calendar is astronomically more correct than the contemporary western Julian calendar for example. How do you suppose the pre Columbian Mayans got there without any contact with this imaginary superior western philosophical tradition? Do you assume it was through ‘oral traditions’? JFC

Louis CK. He was my favorite comedian, but the first special after ‘cancellation’ had all the hallmarks of a washed up has been with grievances. But he’s been back to his old form lately, and I still consider him the best comic of his generation.

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