yet another conspiratorial malcontent who does not understand "semantics"


You argued that the Syrian govt wouldn't bomb their own hospital. I responded that the hospital was no longer theirs once fallen into enemy hands.


This dispute does not revolve around which word to use to describe a common meaning or a nit-pick about the meaning of some peripherally relevant phrase.

Your argument is simply unsound.

I am not very familiar with Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories. But it would be incredibly incorrect to describe most 9/11 conspiratorial thinking as "Bush allowed it happen". It would likewise be incorrect to think " Bush made it to happen".

No? I said the US should be subjected to trade sanctions until their support of the SA's actions in Yemen stops - not that "all is good".

I am saying the US culpability in Yemen is of a lower, not an empty, grade, respective to SA's. Thus, "indirectly responsible", which still means responsible. Yet again you fail to parse the distinction of "degree vs. kind".

Would you like the US to be bombed for its support of SA?

You are confusing my concerns with the US govt's, apparently.

some people have reading comprehension issues

eg, the difference between "obvious" and "not opaque"

Birdman pretending he cares about people starving and stuff is fairly hilarious considering his position on NK and Cuba

Also I think he's like, half valley girl like you know what like I like mean?

Yeah trumping out States rights has been a fun angle.

I hear the DNC is sueing Russia for rigging the presidential election by exposing the fact the DNC was rigging the Democratic primary.

- arundhati roy

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/17/...eremy-scahill/

This 'red line' is about as meaningful and effective as Obama's. What is the precise point you are trying to make with the bombing?

I don't think Birdman's heading down a path, really. The man's a tankie, capable of whitewashing pretty much anything as long as he believes it's in the best interests of the anti-capitalist struggle. However, he doesn't appear to believe that Islamic terrorists have a cause worth supporting, so there's no need to deny their crimes. If anything, the way the Assad regime and its allies in the Syrian civil war brandish their anti-terrorist credentials makes Birdman less likely to go full 9/11 truther.

Obviously he'll maintain a degree of skepticism of the official account, but that's just because he can't very well accept claims by the US government or reportage by Western mainstream media outlets at face value if he intends to maintain his world view.

Is this an articulation exercise? I think the answer is pretty clear...

There's also the aspect of the diminished capacity to continue the offending campaign, regardless of whether the message is, somehow, missed by the receiving end.

Did it work last time?

Now that question begs semantics!

Snapper. Yum!

Very nice.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173574.3174213

Cuban book club has got to be better than unrestricted internet!

At least it's human-centered.

I hear in Costa Rica their internet revolves around lizards and spiders.

Hurray for academic writing.

Likely they mean human-centered as opposed to, you know, corporation-centered. Weird paradigm for you, I’m sure.

Offline internet

Does Cuba have the infrastructure to put it online? Based on a quick search it looks like this paquette is underground but also might be approved by the govt since there isn't any anti govt stuff or porn in it. If they're good with the content in it and put it online itd be more interesting imo.

Idk it’s a terabyte if data. I’m not an expert in this kind of stuff but that seems like quite a bit of data to get to everyone in Cuba over the web with how poor Cuba is. I could be wrong though.

I don't know the specifics but I was thinking having the info on a server that people could access, but that's not really the point. It was more than an offline internet where you can't communicate or connect to anything isn't really something I would call an internet at all. It's a library.