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Well, many here were so excited about the Arab Spring(!) and so you have it... [View all]
PCIntern
Dec 2012
OP
If I could summarize the OP in a few words (as if the avatar doesn't already):
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#11
um... you are aware that a shitload of Israelis ARE these brown people?
ProdigalJunkMail
Dec 2012
#14
Jesus H. Christ, 20% of Israel's population is Arab. I have never been there, but
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#20
No worries. I hope to visit Israel one day. Always wanted to try my hand at
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#26
It's almost a truism among Marxist-Leninist critiques of capitalism that the
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#47
Well then, neither do you, for the same reason, so you don't know what you are talking about. nt
bemildred
Dec 2012
#127
No, you're trying to attack it, but you don't know what you're talking about.
bemildred
Dec 2012
#130
The Problem Is It Took Us Over Two Hundred Years To Build A Republic And Many Still Don't Like It
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2012
#16
How many years was it after we declared ourselves independent with 'liberty for all' and
grantcart
Dec 2012
#25
And how many before that were needed to get the philosophical underpinnings in place?
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#73
You're right. Those people needed to shut the fuck up and put up with their shitty conditions no
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2012
#32
There's a depressingly large pile of people here who believe just that. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#71
I was never too excited about the Arab spring, but I wish I could unrec your OP because it is bad.
JVS
Dec 2012
#40
Yes, I had noticed that a certain someone has gone conspicuously AWOL on this thread. Grr, that
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#48
Your failure to respond to pinboy3niner's substantive reply in post #6 ff. speaks
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#64
Well, it's not over yet. But it doesn't look promising. Then again, is it worse than before...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#58
I think that would be interesting. Still don't know how Belgium jumped into this discussion.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#92
Yeah, this was a classic 'hit and run' OP, as William Pitt observed. But had the OP
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#96
The whole time I've mainly seen people desperately hoping for it to fall on its face. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#69
He's a hit and run poster, without either the courage to defend his thesis, respond to his critics,
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#119
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing." ~ Albert Einstein
Zorra
Dec 2012
#110
You have conveniently forgotten what Israel did to one of its own dissidents, Mordechai
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#120