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> It's of note that while there about 20% muslims in Israel, there's about zero jewish person in Gaza (there are some israelo-palestinian though) and zero jewish person in Iran. Or…

> I thought ISIS gained power in Syria first, taking advantage of the Syrian civil war which the US explicitly did NOT participate in. The US absolutely participated (and continues…

Depending on where you are getting your recordings, what you are hearing isn't necessarily the quality that the pilot and ATC hear.

I guess Navalny is a dissident but, man, seeing his name next to Mandela is jarring considering his views.

I noticed in the video that many people onboard A359 were wearing masks. Would those have helped significantly to prevent smoke inhalation?

They have their own origins, motivations and agency; it's a mistake to assume there's someone pulling all the strings (and this goes for all sides).

Like I said, that comment was by no means exclusively negative and I don't recall where I read the more critical take, but it might have been one of the other (many!) posts about C…

Trying to remember where I've read this in the past. I used to follow AskHistorians on Reddit and a quick search shows questions about him being asked quite a bit, for example here…

I don't listen to his podcast, but I understand that Carlin is discredited by most serious historians in general.

What if you were denied opportunities because of your race or gender or something else? Wouldn't you want to know that there barrier is now gone? (Ignore the Saudi case, since this…

That's only if you look at the population of the named cities themselves rather than the population of the city plus the surrounding populates areas. In Geneva's case, it is compos…

How many American expats in other countries bother to learn the local language?

To be clear, I am saying it was probably deliberate but only the decision of the local forces rather than from up on high.

It was probably an individual decision rather than high-level but that's only because the Israeli leadership has normalized killing Palestinian civilians and the military personnel…

It's a problem when offices have to operate according to Beijing time.

I had to click the pencil/edit button first.

Have you been to China? It's time zone make sense for Beijing and the coast but forces the "Chinese" of Xinjiang to do things at unnatural hours for the convenience of the ruling e…

So you have to kill all the civilians to make sure what all the terrorists die? Otherwise how can we be sure?

But if they were in the way, you'd be totally ok with it, right?

Israel explicitly pursues collective punishment as a strategy. Always has and it's obviously what's happening in Gaza now.

> Not that simple. You think Palestinians love being beholden to the terrorist leadership that refuses to allow elections, is known for stealing their humanitarian aid to enrich th…

Not an Arab or speaker of any languages that use the alphabet but yes despite it having the potential to be very beautiful, most of the typaces they use are very ugly. This free fo…

It's obviously your choice to believe this despite all the evidence to the contrary. For me it just underlines how people need a flimsy excuse so they don't have to openly support …

So you look at the aerial and satellite photography and you really believe that every last building was justifiably destroyed as a legitimate military target? If that's the case, t…

> I wouldn't count on anything coming from the circle of Netanyahu. It's not about whether I trust them or not (I don't!). It's that everyone is following the same playbook. Israel…