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Code that helped end Apartheid

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Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by fldskfjdslkfj »

ein0p wrote: post #190
fldskfjdslkfj wrote: post #188

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You are delusional. Iran lost most of its deterrence, its proxies have been decimated and its ICBM capabilities, although not nothing haven't really managed to cause any significant damage and have shown that they lack sufficient accuracy. Will the balance of power change a few decades from now? Maybe, who knows, but for now Iran is in a tough spot.

Uh-uh. The country which has just tested a nuke a couple of weeks ago and easily defeated the Iron Dome with its cheaper rocket stock is “totally decimated”. Sure buddy.

What are you even talking about?

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by pewpew2020 »

orkoden wrote: post #162
cyberax wrote: post #143

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> That's actually a really good insight. It explains why quite a few successful revolutions – e.g. Russia and China – happened in countries _without_ an established administrative bureaucracy Erm.... Whut? China was (and is) _the_ example of a country held together by a civil bureaucracy. Ditto for Russia.

China literally invented bureaucracy 3000 years ago. It’s the cornerstone of Chinese civilization.

They invented inventing 5000 years ago

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by ein0p »

fldskfjdslkfj wrote: post #191
ein0p wrote: post #190

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Uh-uh. The country which has just tested a nuke a couple of weeks ago and easily defeated the Iron Dome with its cheaper rocket stock is “totally decimated”. Sure buddy.

What are you even talking about?

Seek different news sources. That earthquake in Iran wasn’t an earthquake. It didn’t have aftershocks and USGS couldn’t determine the depth.

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by anthk »

psd1 wrote: post #186
anthk wrote: post #172

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So did the Italians, and I'm not sure if I would like Meloni ruling either Madrid or Barcelona... or the whole Mediterranean Europe and a chunk of Asia.

user fldsk means to say 6000 year history, of course. But I'm willing to come down on that, since Genesis is a bit of a chronological hand-wave. I'm relying on whatever Synod counted the ages of people in the talks and arrived at a creation date of 4004 BC, of course If we grant that Italy is Rome, which is a separate conversation, then we're still left with Roman conquest, which we don't consider legitimate today, a…

The Bible is not a valid source, neither is the Talmud. I would trust the Egyptians far more as they wrote down everything.

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by rougka »

oa335 wrote: post #145
klipt wrote: post #142

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> If the alternative offered by the Palestinian Authority is ethnically cleansing all the Jews out of Hebron, it seems reasonable for the soldiers to be there to keep the peace? So demanding that settlers who illegally occupied land is “ethnic cleansing”? And you seem to be ceding my point and agreeing that it is apartheid, but justified. > The Israeli government is obviously not perfect, but Arab citizens of Israel…

in your opinion these are settlers illegally occupying land, in their opinion they came back after they were ethnically cleansed from Hebron in the 1929 and 1936 massacres

sometimes life is surprisingly complicated

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by fldskfjdslkfj »

ein0p wrote: post #194
fldskfjdslkfj wrote: post #191

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What are you even talking about?

Seek different news sources. That earthquake in Iran wasn’t an earthquake. It didn’t have aftershocks and USGS couldn’t determine the depth.

Enjoy your speculative theories. Lots of minor earthquakes don't have aftershocks, not to mention that Iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world.

But please feel free to provide a trustworthy news source backing your claim.

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by Cyph0n »

daseiner1 wrote: post #83
submeta wrote: post #82

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No, it‘s not complicated. It’s straight and clear. Every human rights org says so, the UN says so, HR scholars say so. It is apartheid.

South Africa’s done great since the end of apartheid

Only a privileged fool would think that prosperity justifies the continuation of injustice.

Re: Code that helped end Apartheid

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Post by austin-cheney »

sceptical wrote: post #182
ein0p wrote: post #166

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You’re presupposing they actually survive the current events and come out victorious in order to “write history”. I’m not sure of that at all if things kick off in earnest there.

Quite a bit of wishful thinking here. Who exactly would be able to defeat Israel? Iran? They are cowering in fear right now. Hamas? Hezbollah? Please.

> Who exactly would be able to defeat Israel?

All it would take is for the US to stop giving them weapons. That's literally it.

Their military, the IDF, is in extremely poor state. This isn't the same military that made history in the six day war. Under the same sort of conditions today the IDF would have their asses handed to them.

When I say "extremely poor state" I am referring to their discipline, precision, and ability to move under fire. The current IDF operates more like the Russian army who are absolutely having their asses handed to them by a vastly inferior force. These are just my personal opinions from my own 27 years of military experience.

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