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I think the threads are super annoying and Vamp was being especially annoying in them, but banning him over this rather than having some kind of intervention is really childish and irresponsible

Freudian slip here that Hamas is just another way of saying Palestine to them

Don't read the thread. It'd be a lot easier to dismiss Grover Furr if the people attacking him weren't such moronic revisionists.

I think a lot of people aren't paying very close attention, so normalizing this phrasing does a lot for how people think about this

I've been recommended this lecture on Caesar. What do you think of it?

You're just talking about appearances and not the reality of the thing

I can't make statements about anyone here, but I have a very low opinion of the people in my life who "believe" in this shit because, honestly, they don't really believe it, they just really love roleplaying a little fantasy that gives them a sense of purpose and empowerment. If they really believed it, they would be doing something about it, but you can tell that they don't believe it because it's just a dalliance to them, some social currency.

The one person I knew who took it seriously isn't around to talk about it anymore, and those two facts are closely connected, but in many ways I respect them more for having earnest beliefs compared to these fucking dilettantes of self-delusion that I've been left with.

If anyone here takes this stuff seriously, please be careful.

To anyone else, please consider putting firmer demarcations on what you think you have reason to believe and what it's fun to act like you believe. There's nothing wrong with games until you lose awareness of them being games.

You've had people be very rude to you in this thread, which I think is undeserved despite the fact that I also think your position is unequivocally false, but Jewish_Cuban here was being extremely reasonable in his critique of your approach.

Oh, fair enough. Part of the fire-eating myth is, naturally, that they don't get burned and apparently there's a real kind of salamander that is uniquely tolerant of the cold.

Please do write that invitation, Hamid's cool

Hamid is a cool guy and as a secondary thing, why is it that Iranians are so incredibly good at cursing people out? I remember back during the Soleimani assassination fallout there were some real bangers like "You child of seven generations of bastards"

Maybe we're thinking of different legends, but the one I know is that salamanders eat fire.