[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 1 week ago

Oh okay, so trannies are your thing... whatever, colonialism and white supremacy were examples. You can say whatever you want, dude, and you clearly have on any number of occasions. Don't mistake us calling you out for your bullshit for suppression of your free speech. As a self-proclaimed retard, I'm guessing you probably don't fully understand the issues you're talking about. I'd be more likely to call you ignorant, which is fine, because ignorance can be cured.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 6 months ago

If you read the full article, it seems as if the Saudi religious establishment was infiltrated by Egyptian extremists fleeing a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood following the assassination of Sadat. Their ideology meshed with Wahhabism and Bin Laden's religious vendetta against the United States. The Saudi state apparatus did not have effective oversight over the religious establishment and so this all happened under the House of Saud's nose. The countries in red are (at the time) places with either US puppet regimes or some form of Arab Revolt descended, nominally secular/socialist regimes. The religious extremists pushing Islamic rule operated in these countries under various militias and terrorist groups, notably Al Qaeda, backed by the newly radicalized Saudi Wahhabi establishment, and of course, Iran.

From that perspective, the US was waging war against militias and terrorist groups with roots and support in Saudi Arabia, but the House of Saud was not considered to be complicit. The article goes on to say...

Astonishingly, the attacks of 9/11 had little effect on the Saudi approach to religious extremism, as diplomats and intelligence officials have attested. What finally changed royal minds was the experience of suffering an attack on Saudi soil. In May 2003, gunmen and suicide bombers struck three residential compounds in Riyadh, killing 39 people. The authorities attributed the attacks to al-Qaeda, and cooperation with the U.S. improved quickly and dramatically.

Interesting stuff, to be sure.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

I'm creating cities that look way better than anything I was able to make in CS1 even with all the DLCs, dozens of mods and hundreds of custom assets. Saying this game sucks is a dead giveaway that you've never actually played it. There are problems, sure, and CO's communication has been... awkward. But, the game itself is quite playable and enjoyable.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

200k people is nothing.

  1. What a horrible, neoliberal thing to say.

  2. It's not just 200k people, it's hundreds of thousands more that lost their livelihoods when the main economic driver in their area shut down.

I'm not arguing for coal (it's 2024, why are we still using it at all?), I'm arguing against abandoning an entire population of people who made their livings off of it and its cascading economic effects.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 10 months ago

Women aren't dying of drug overdoses in Appalachia and the Rust Belt?

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 10 months ago

Hah, I kinda glossed over that one. Not sure what the downvote is about, it's a joke. JS and PHP are the two I'm most familiar with and they're scripting languages, not "proper" programming languages. That doesn't make them any less serious. Anyway, React, being a library for a scripting language, is two steps removed.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

I suppose that's because parliamentary parties are much stricter with their membership. A small difference of opinion could lead to the expulsion of a member. US parties can't really do that, so instead we have caucuses within the parties that vote along party lines most of the time, but differently on some important issues. In a parliamentary system, the caucus members would be expelled and would have to form their own party to have their views represented.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 11 months ago

I have a 3070ti and over 100 hours in game so far, and I'd consider it the best city builder I've ever played in 33 years of obsession with city builders. All my graphics settings are maxed out at 1440p and I get about 20 fps average in a 100k population city. I could turn the settings down and get 30+ probably, but I'd rather have it look good, and it's not any kind of action game so I really don't give a shit unless it turns into a literal slideshow.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I wonder why two things can't be outrageous.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't call people morons when you're completely ignorant.

In 1576, the Jewish community of Safed faced an expulsion order: 1,000 prosperous families were to be deported to Cyprus, "for the good of the said island", with another 500 the following year. The order was later rescinded due to the realisation of the financial gains of Jewish rental income. In 1586, the Jews of Istanbul agreed to build a fortified khan to provide a refuge for Safed's Jews against "night bandits and armed thieves."

The 17th century saw a steep decline in the Jewish population of Palestine due to the unstable security situation, natural catastrophes, and abandonment of urban areas, which turned Palestine into a remote and desolate part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman central government became feeble and corrupt, and the Jewish community was harassed by local rulers, janissaries, guilds, Bedouins, and bandits. The Jewish community was also caught between feuding local chieftains who extorted and oppressed the Jews. The Jewish communities of the Galilee heavily depended on the changing fortunes of a banking family close to the ruling pashas in Acre. As a result, the Jewish population significantly shrank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_looting_of_Safed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hebron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine

Edit - Folks, how is it controversial that this conflict extends further into the past than 1948?

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure there are any good arguments in geopolitics.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

The context is that it's true, but only in a limited number of cases. Many African craftsmen were brought here, and many others were apprenticed to white craftsmen here. The vast majority saw the fruits of their labor stolen for the benefit of their masters, but a lucky few were able to make money and in rare cases even buy their own freedom.

Slavery is a complex subject and you have to remember the slaves were strong, smart individuals who would have been constantly trying to make the best of their situations. The fact that some of them had some success in forging their own paths doesn't mean the triangle trade & chattel slavery were any less horrific or criminal.

Frankly, the curriculum reported on is perfectly acceptable, and the reporting is disingenuous. Whether Florida schools will teach it in a balanced way is an entirely different question.

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