Message from @Oliver Starley
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tfw we killed all the emus in the end
feelsgoodman
You don't rate to insult Americans you homosexual kiwi
Yeah, except the emu population persisted
henlo frens
You couldn't even settle in the outback, it's still a fucking desert
@Oliver Starley why are you drunk? Special occasion?
@Oliver Starley were taking the Aussie bashing to blood sports
@Whiskey-Vargas your acting like black even have reasons to drink
tfw all the insults apply to a time when the fucking British were still in charge
My school is having a special spring event so my friend decided to act as Dionysus and now we're inebriated as fuck
@Oliver Starley that is the nerdiest excuse I've ever heard.
Damn, my left hand is getting numb
Two beer queer
@Whiskey-Vargas Well, Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, and merriment
Daily Reminder that Assad has a leafy chin
He still can't be Mossaded
He's still overrated
Muh lion of Damascus
ME countries need dictators because they always lose their marbles with democracy
He tourtured Christians who opposed him back in the 2000s
Ouch
Looks like they need a better dictator
What happened happened. If he goes now, they'll likely face genocide
Man I wish we didn't have complain so much but the MQ keeps needing to be addressed. It's been a plague on the world for 1400 years
the problem with politics in the Arab world is that culture is upstream of politics
I wonder what MENA would look like without Islam
Mostly Christian, Zoroastrian, whatever existed before
All of North Africa used to be Christian and Jewish before the Islam problem
the Arabs have a very tribal culture. usually the only authority they can respect is wielded with an iron fist. it's not focused on everyone getting together and having a talk about their feelings, it's about one guy having the balls and power to tell everyone else "fuck you, this is what we're doing"
And Yemen used to be majority Jewish. Now it's 100% Muslim. The Jews didn't pack up and leave @Webley
such a culture is ill-suited for Western style representative democracies
it's the same problem Germany had post-WWI
they tried a republic, but the German people weren't used to it. naturally when problems arose, it was the first thing to go.
William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich relates a memorable anecdote from when he talked to some German farmers in 1935. he asked them if they were at all worried about losing their freedoms. one farmer said to him something to the effect of "sure, under the Weimar Republic we had plenty of freedoms: the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assembly, the freedom to starve..."
most of these guys didn't grow up with the republic in the first place, and at any rate weren't the products of a culture that valued democratic values. it wasn't that long ago that Germany had been an empire under a Kaiser. nominally, it had a parliament, but as in Russia's case, it was a mostly ornamental affair.
Love this one.
Sieg Heil, niggas