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. . . In the US Muslims still make up a vanishingly small percent of the US population with 1% of the population professing that faith. 1%. The fact they have so much political leverage with the Democrats speaks to how messed up Democrats are politically and how cultish they are when it comes...

I ain't gonna get directly involved in this slapfight, but to be fair to King Arts, he acknowledged he was wrong about PBS already.

. . . PBS, despite it's name and some of its funding, is not controlled by the US government. PBS also has a long, LONG history of bias against Israel in reporting on the conflicts in the region while whitewashing Palestinian actions. Bear in mind, when it comes to Israel this is one of the...

It's not talked about much, but many of the Indian tribes outright sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War explicitly because they felt they had a better shot of getting fair treatment with the Confederates than with the Federal government...

That may well be... but the Jews were not from a colder, wetter place... as we know. ;)

No pork makes a lot of sense historically. Pigs both often fed on garbage and thus were vectors for disease as well as the infamous trichinosis. It wasn't until VERY recently that pork production was clean enough to eliminate those risks.

Gaza. Withdrawing funding for all of Palestine would hit the West Bank under the rule of the Palestinian Authority too, and while they're corrupt (in the classic "we're pocketing most of the money you send us" sense) and teach things as bad as Hamas did in Gaza, they've at least made token...

This is one of those things a lot of even former leftist have trouble grasping: even in the 90s the Democrats and Mainstream Media were Corrupt Bad Guys. There were MASSIVE scandals regarding Clinton and how he sold technology and industry to China. He also was the one who decoupled human...

The value of messengers varies greatly between nomadic and settled peoples. Bear in mind, the Japanese ALSO killed the Mongol messengers to them. It was also a common practice in the Middle East going back centuries. This makes more sense when you consider that for a steppe people, a...

If we're nice. If we're mean Uncle Sam's Misguided Children will be paying a visit like they did to the Barbary Pirates back in the day...

Yeah, and the thing is even the most normie or normies and even a lot of center-left folks just kinda... hate the IRS. I mean, it is probably the most disliked Federal agency by miles and so most people aren't going to care much about funding from it getting taken.

The only unique thing about how the European empires acted was the scale enabled by being the first to really master the oceans and navigation*... All their other actions were typical of Empires throughout history, their reach just happened to be longer so rather than doing things to their...

Orthodox Jews, who are the most religious Jews, tend to vote for the right wing party in the countries they live in. In the US at least Orthodox Jews vote something like 70%+ for the Republicans and long ago split from the non-Religious Jews. This is why you saw so much hostility from the...

Except that... according to all the laws and customs of war as well as basic moral logic, and including all the major treaties, the blame for civilians deaths when civilians are used as human shields in war falls on the PARTY USING THEM AS HUMAN SHIELDS. Not the party that is launching the...

Look everyone, CS Lewis put it better than all y'all: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep...

. . . Have you not paid attention to the partisan support of Israel going back to the 1980s? Even back then Republicans and Conservatives were much more pro-let Israel off the leash and it was the Democrats, including Clinton and going back to Carter had been pushing for a two-state "solution"...

When it came to China, it was quite bright and distinct. For instance, publications that were much more explicitly Fusionist Conservative or Social Conservative were very much against normalizing relations with China (IE, Washington Times, World Magazine, and National Review), whereas the...

. . . Bacle, you do realize the stated Neocon position on China was that "we can convert China to a western style Democracy by continual engagement and free trade?" Yes? Neocons have been China doves since the 1990s when they allied with the Democrats and Libertarians to grant China most...

Ladies and gentlemen, while an interesting discussion the entire WW1/WW2 and American isolationism is wildly off topic to this thread and should be discontinued here. If you wish to continue discussing it feel free to create a new thread in the appropriate area. Thank you.

This is a point so many people so many people cannot seem to fathom in regards to Hamas. They are not acting based on economic or materialistic motives. There isn't a compromise position that Israel can agree to that will satisfy Hamas, yet for some reason so many in the western academics and...