Thu Zaw
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My advice to everyone on this forum, once the virus is over, get the fuck out of your little bubbles and explore the world and actually meet some people.
You spend your lives debating other Americans online, insisting you have a profound, intellectual understanding about humanity, civilization, and conflict. But it's all fucking theoretical and masturbatory.
Your main focus in discussing international politics is to one-up some other ego on some niche little message board frequented by spotty post-adolescent Americans.
Your actual understanding of other humans is so impersonal. Peoples' lives, as they try to survive war and terror, are simply concepts for you to debate from the comfort of your couch while munching on a box of Pringles with one hand and casually stroking your dick with the other. You're not political analysts. You're not on CNN. Stop trying to sound like you are. It's really childish and pathetic.
This whole thread reeks of
r/iamverysmart
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5 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
Yes and modern democracy kind of originated in "the west".
But please explain why Israel isn't a western nation?
So Japan, South Korea, Brazil, India, etc are Western nations too?
The definition of Western isn't concrete. It's an outdated, archaic idea, just like the idea of 'races'. Some take it in it's original geographic sense, some in an ethnic sense, and some in the sense of a civilization.
Off to bed. Nighty night.
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1 minute ago, cyanobacteria said:
>a dislike of humankind
it's pretty straightforward lmao, what mental contortions are you doing this time?
Misanthropy can manifest in many ways. I've been through my depressive "I hate everybody" phase. Now I'm at peace with myself. I don't hate people; I hate humanity. I hate it's innate traits of tribalism and ethnocentrism. I hate how the species is uncontrollably destroying the planet in the never-ending pursuit of reproduction. I hate the way tribalism blinds people to the humanity people share despite superficial cultural signifiers.
On an individual level, I can like some people very much. I'm even capable of love.
But I am a misanthrope in that I've removed myself from the trap of societies. I hold no national, cultural, religious identity. I was never indoctrinated into one, and I've resisted inclusion in favour of an independent approach to being a human. I align myself with no group of people. I'm a self-imposed loner.
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7 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
in theory upholds fundamental human rights.
Love that the definition of Western is this.
Lots of countries have democratic governments and trade with the UK and US.
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9 minutes ago, cyanobacteria said:
misanthropy is sociopathic and narcissistic
You have a strange understanding of misanthropy.
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Not sure I'd call Israel a Western nation
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1 hour ago, cyanobacteria said:
"I don't care about things that don't hurt me because I'm a sociopath so it must be that way for others"
pretty ironic that a post you make about performativity is so smug and performative, perfectly calculated to raise yourself above all sides
No, not sociopath, my dear. Misanthrope.
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14 hours ago, chenGOD said:
I think that's a big assumption to make. People ignore other conflicts for any number of reasons - lack of capacity to process that much information in a meaningful manner, more local issues taking up more of their time, or lack of awareness in the first place. Someone may know about the treatment of Rohyinga in Myanmar, but they may not know much in detail. Or they may not have read about it all, if their reading/information habits are more directed to local issues or issues where they are experts/work. That doesn't mean they are not concerned about the human cost.
With respect to your first point, there are a lot of angles for consideration, some will undoubtedly be vested interest (after all, International Relations are still largely based on realism, and occasionally offensive realism -as an aside, Mearsheimer and Walt's book "the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" is a very good read), some will be over concerns of war, some will be involved precisely for humanitarian reasons. Since the division of Palestine can be traced back in the modern era to the Paris Peace Accords (as a rough starting point), that's more than 100 years of context, which will inevitably lead to many positions being taken, some disingenuous, others not. I don't think that putting it in black and white terms such as "being led by vested interests and Western citizens choosing sides" is a very helpful position, because of all that context.
I've spent my adult life watching Western audiences comment on global issues entirely inconsequential to their own lives. I've concluded that interest is largely down to two factors:
1) being right in arguments with other Westerners, or
2) appearing virtuous in front of an audience of fellow Westerners.
Yes, it's cynical, but it's what I see. Either way, it's performative and empty rhetoric.
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14 minutes ago, brian trageskin said:
But fresh fruit and vegetables are good, so I still support these recipes.
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So am I to put this culinary apathy and incompetence down to you guys being Americans or IDM basement dwellers?
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If your partner has character traits that wind you up now, those traits are gonna drive you up the wall in a couple of years time and it will bring out the worst in you as a result.
One can never expect a partner to change their ways. Thinking you can wait for your partner to work on their insecurities and everything will be fine after is naïve.
The only person whose behaviour and response you can change is you own. So, you can change how you respond to and feel about your partner's behaviours, or maybe she's not the one.
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1 hour ago, chenGOD said:
People are still local to a large degree. Israel is a different story because of the longevity of the issue, the relationship the UK and the US have with Israel, and the Israeli population in the US.
Do you think, in that case, the attention given by the West in the situation of Israel/Palestine is led, not by concern of a potential war and humanitarian crisis, but by vested interests and of Western citizens choosing their side, and by doing so, stoking inter-religious tensions and hatred?
People ignore other international conflicts because they haven't got a vested political or religious interest. The humanitarian fallout isn't of concern.
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So maybe an IDM forum isn't the place to ask about food.
Sheesh. Tough crowd.
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I feel very passionately about what's happening in Myanmar and Pakistan right now. But I don't talk about it here, cos I know people don't have an interest; ideas would largely be ill-informed and the thread would quickly die.
The West takes its cue from the press and from their peers as to which conflict they're going to give a shit about. And most of the discussion is completely inconsequential to those saying pretty radical things (eg "Abolish Israel").
It's not a competition or distraction of "whataboutism". It's just a phenomenon worth pointing out. Certain conflicts become bigger talking points in the West than others.
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15 minutes ago, chenGOD said:
Sorry, but these two posts are terrible takes. https://www.google.com/search?q=yemen&client=firefox-b-e&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=ar:1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN2umxn-XwAhXkMlkFHWkFAZoQpwV6BAgHECQ&biw=1440&bih=771&dpr=1
That was literally 5 seconds on google typing in "Yemen" clicking the news tab, then selecting archives from the drop down menu.
Yeah, the gliterati on WATMM might not have posted anything about Yemen getting bombed, but we're not really the place for that for the most part. This thread came about because of some reasons that I won't assume, but just because no one posted about it here doesn't mean people didn't care.
It's also hardly surprising that people in the US would talk about Israel-related matters, considering the Jewish population in the US is only slightly smaller than the Jewish population in Israel.
I'm not necessarily talking about news coverage, but general discourse; for example places like this forum.
There's this huge thread dedicated to Israel/Palestine where everyone has very strong and self-assured ideas about what the conflict is about and what must be done. We see protests all over the planet, twitter trends that never die down.
The same doesn't exist for countless other global issues.
Where the HK thread, Taiwan, Myanmar, Cyprus, Sudan, Somaliland?
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2 minutes ago, marf said:
remember when Saudi Arabia was killing Yemenis and causing a famine a couple years ago? With American weaponry I might add. No, you didn't care.
And Yemen is still a humanitarian disaster. There are dozens of instances of conflicts, oppression and human rights abuses going on in the world right now. But only a select few are fashionable talking points for Westerners.
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10 years later...
I like to cook. I like all food (but rarely cook fish myself). I tend to veer towards foods from asia (from middle-eastern, persian, south asian and south east asian. I'd love to cook more variety of food.
I don't know many dishes from Sub-Saharan Africa and South America. Also keen to get into making breads. Started with simple unleavened breads, like chapati and paratha. Tried to make a focaccia, but it didn't rise (might have been very old yeast).
Since moving to rural France, it's harder to get my hands on exotic ingredients and condiments, but there is an Asian Supermarket an hour away which I can get to a handful of times a year.
Got any good recipes?
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Finally achieved 100%. Proud of myself.
Re: Kosovo - yes, and there can also be disputes about Taiwan, Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara, Palestine, South Ossetia, Somaliland, Artsakh.... but y'know...
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3 hours ago, Jed said:
When the electric guitar and electric bass were widely released, Jazz Fusion appeared w/ Bitches Brew pretty quickly after the technology was introduced. Some technology advancements can make some pretty profound changes to the music scene pretty quickly.
The pianoforte
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4 hours ago, Nil said:
I hope you won't mind posting a pic of Siam and I. Siam died this Saturday and I have no words to express how much I love him, how important he's to me / who I am, and how much his absence hurts. A truly exceptional being, one of my very, very favorite ever. Living 17 years together was an exceptional gift, can't help wishing it lasted a few decades more.
Je t'aime mon chat.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Having had cats all my life, I know the pain.
We lost our boy Bébé a couple of weeks ago. I miss him, and so do our other cats. He was very young. We think he was poisoned by bait left out by hunters to kill wild foxes. Hunters are bastards.
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One of my favourite photographers captures street images in Israel and Palestine.
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http://www.burnmyeye.org/barry-talis
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1) if I were an alien, I'd have no interest in ensuring humanity maintains itself.
2) why are we so certain it's humans they're interested in? Maybe aliens have an alliance with dolphins or octopuses.
3) how come electro music is so content-focussed on space/technology/alien matters
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Lesser known trivia: Russia also created a Jewish autonomous region (in the arse end of nowhere, and with my the gayest flag) in the 30s.
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38 minutes ago, coax said:
Thanks. i shouldn't have made the post tbh but my brain is retarded and forgot what it was like to have a mini-crisis. ill get out of it by trying some of the stuff you said, but today was just -really- shitty so i couldnt help myself
shakespeare gets it
No sweat. We all find ourselves in those places. And if can seem like we'll never feel joy again.
Meditation works for me too.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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