What part of Israel (or Palestine for that matter) is the "Euro" in Eurovision, anyway?
I thought Eurovision was...Europe. It's not Middle-East-Vision or Western-Asia-Vision"
I'm not saying I have a problem with making it a world event, but at what point do they bother changing the damn name?
No. I believe we are likely witnessing the inevitable answer to the drake equation.
The same lizard-brain instincts that allowed our ancestors to survive (competition, resource hoarding, power centralisation) are fundamentally self destructive to that same society as it approaches post-scarcity capability.
In other words, when you have a society that evolved on selfishness and power imbalances, potential post-scarcity will always see those in power try to artificially create scarcity in order to remain in power.
I used to think we could rise above our baser selfishness when the time came. Now I don't believe we will, nor that its even likely possible.
That lizard-brain instinct to protect what's "yours" at the expense of everyone else is what got our civilization here in a resource poor world, and will cheerfully destroy it in order to maintain that scarcity for the sake of some.
How were these discontinued if I specifically remember using them in the mid-eighties as catapults?
The Christian "dark ages" quite literally didn't end until they reestablished normalised contact with the Muslim east, which GAVE them mathematics, advances in medicine and science.
In return, the Christian West crusaded...
Literally the opposite of what this idiot is claiming.
"willing victimhood" is certainly a thing.
On today's episode of "beaurocratic horse-shit"...
Holy crap this is ridiculous. I feel terrible for her. As a child born only a couple of years after my own parents immigrated from Portugal to Canada, I can't imagine.
Conservative Politics is about giving their base something/someone to be angry at.
LBJ summed it up the best:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Back then it was the african american population. Today it's trans/lgbt/migrants/muslims/etc... Insert your group of choice here and that's the Conservative political machine.
It's hard to say. I use a keyword block that auto-blocks any community with "meme" in its title. So it could be dozens, or even hundreds. I've never counted. I have similar keywords for things I'm not interested in like "waifu", "anime", and most stuff adjacent to those topics.
Of course I agree.
I'm sure with India becoming China-lite, there won't be any problem with Bangladesh becoming India's Tibet....nope. none at all.