TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Um.

Does Ev have an Iron Cross on his hand?

Edit: questions bad?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 24 points 10 months ago

Too cowardly to do anything useful to make amends. Just let another conscript fill his space.

Brave enough to drive over Palestinians and call them "terrorists in their hundreds". Not brave enough to stand up to criticism from his countrymen. This is what spending billions of dollars on an asymmetrical war gets you: a system in which the weakest people can still take the lives of hundreds before being thrown away themselves.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fun fact! Halloween and Dia de los Muertoes are on the "same" day!

Halloween is "Hallow's Evening". ie the Evening of All Hallow's Day, aka All Saint's Day, and directly related to Dia de los Muertos. But it's the calendar day before, right? October 31st? Sort of. In Catholicism, the liturgical day begins and ends with prayers at sunset. The day had ended and a new day had begun, usually between 4pm and 6pm. So the order of the 24 hour day goes: evening, night, morning, afternoon. Therefore 6pm on the 1st of November would be too late to celebrate All Saint's Day, so it was actually celebrated the calendar day before.

The same is true of Christmas Eve. Why do we have the "Evening" of Christmas the day before? Why do many cultures begin full celebration the night before? Precisely because as a Christian event on a Christian calendar, that is when the day actually begins.

As a former Catholic it's important I acknowledge all of this overlays the local traditions syncretised into these far more secular 'holidays' today. It wouldn't be important for Halloween to be celebrated in the "e'en" if Oiche Samhain wasn't a night time thing.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

A role-playing instance where disaffected middle-class American boys act as third-world revolutionaries from the mid-1980s.

Oh and they like to communicate by image reactions because that's how Twitch raised them.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Does this mean exclusively for bikes? Because it sounded from OP like this is not the case.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

That's why you got to wait until you're beekeeping age.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Right. Not something we knew 30 years ago, though.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There were nukes in Ukraine. This is not the same as Ukraine having nukes. They couldn't control, and worse, couldn't maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Im pretty sure you don't know what a curb is.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, the only way to erase a nation or culture's hatred of your violence is with enough violence to literally genocide them.

But there really aren't that many. You just put it down for a generation until it comes back, usually with a different name.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Stop making violence the only thing you'll react to in any way? Or indeed, stop responding to peaceful resistance with violence (eg the civil rights marches in Northern Ireland).

It might seem like Palestine has been a hopeless mire forever, but there was a point in the 90s where the last reasonable leaders of both sides were coming together for a peaceful solution. Hamas and the Israeli right wing - the "both sides" of today - were on the fringe.

Then Yitzhak Rabin was killed by an Israeli right-winger, Israel inexplicably responded by killing a Hamas leader, Arab civilians were massacred at the Cave of Patriarchs by an American Israeli, and Hamas responded with more bombings, Yassar Arafat died under siege by the IDF, Hamas took control of Gaza, and well, here we are.

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin is probably as impactful to history of that of Archduke Ferdinand, but seems to be being forgotten.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 29 points 10 months ago (25 children)

As an Irish person, you can't end terrorism with violence. You just create martyrs to a cause, a cause which looks more and more legitimate the more civilians suffer and die because of said violence. "Kill the rebels" every 20 years did nothing for peace on Ireland for 800 years.

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