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Map of genetic admixture of individuals from different Tunisian cities 🧬🇹🇳 - Berber ancestry is predominant for most - Arab ancestry is common, high in the South and rural areas - Pockets of high Sub-Saharan DNA in Centre and Northwest - High European admix. in coastal Tunisia

@wilmerr181 Peace compared to other historical periods =/= total absence of wars The metric is war events not number of casualties (modern day casualties always going to be bigger anywhere bc of modern warfare tech) Arab spring led to no wars in Maghreb except in Libya

@punicist The present era isn't peaceful at all, 20 years ago Algeria went through a bloody civil war where 300k people died, the arab spring nearly set the region ablaze, we're literally holding to a thread, and it seems like you ignored 2 centuries worth of colonialism.

North Africa today enjoys a period of unprecedented peace. Across nearly 2k years of recorded history, the medieval Islamic period was the most war-saturated in the region. By contrast, the Roman (excluding Byzantine) period was the most peaceful, the Pax Romana suppressed internal warfare across the region until its fall led to a cascade of violence: by the Vandals, the Berber Moors, and later the Arabs and Muslim Berber dynasties. The present era is, by any historical measure, the most peaceful the region has ever known.

Interesting thank you so much Do you think Paul’s Christology grant Christ full equality with God, or does he stop short of that (placing him in a subordinate but uniquely exalted and pre created position)? Because of the ontological ambiguity in his texts (I don’t know if you agree with that or not)

@punicist Depends on what you mean by that, and Paul's view of the spirit is quite confusing. I think it's fine to use that description for Philo and there's certainly a lot of similarity. What is the main distinguishing factor, as I see it, is in the incarnation.

A critical evaluation of the church father's polemics against the Marcionites does support the thesis that Marcion edited (something like) Luke's gospel.

@Chud12346 Only if the retarded Algerian regime goes away ASAP tho

@Chud12346 Unironically yes

Over the next decade: 1. Algeria must scale up its gas export infrastructure and reduce its domestic energy burden 2. Morocco and Tunisia should aggressively accelerate their renewable energy export pipelines 3. Rerouted flows going from Israel/Haifa toward Southwestern Europe or the Atlantic means Tunisia must finish its deepwater port project immediately If Iran isn't completely incapacitated (it doesn't seem like it will be) West Asia doesn't seem like it's going to be a stable region anytime soon because there's not going to be one hegemon capable of imposing a regional order I can't think of a better mid/long-term opportunity for the Maghreb than this (short term we'll likely be hit by energy problems like the rest of the world). This can't be another missed opportunity

@FaustianArab I don't think a country being created by Britain/France is better or worse than a country who wasn't. There is no value to these things. It's just history.

Listen, you know my political views, and it’s obvious that I don’t want any of these countries to go away. But I don’t think you really believe what you wrote. Even if these countries enjoy popular backing now, that doesn't mean they were organically established. Trucial States were treaty relationships with Britain. Kuwait was created in the 1922 Uqair Conference and its independence itself was defended by British troops against Qasim's Iraq in 1961 Bahrain's dynasts are unpopular for a big part of Bahrainis who are not Sunnis. As for Kuwait, it was Anglo-American hegemony that saved it from being swallowed by by Iraq and more than once. Without America Bahrain would have been swallowed up by Iran too. This is certainly not something I personally want and personally I think my own country should have been led in *most* ways like the UAE has been It's obvious that an eventual retreat of America or an expanding Iranian influence there means those countries' very existence is going to be threatened, unless they create a "GCC NATO" led by Saudi Arabia.

The first Western power to take Hormuz was Portugal. Then the Safavids and the British threw them out. The British era in the Gulf resulted in the creation of the Trucial States (the UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which Mossadegh tried to nationalize, but the CIA removed him and America stepped into Britain’s place. If the Anglo-American hegemon is pushed out, the order it built collapses with it. The UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, these states were conjured by Anglo-American civilization. They are its artifacts. They were also created to stop Al Saud from taking over the whole peninsula Now their very survival is at stake if Iran wins

An Iran that is unable to pose any threat is, by definition, a weak Iran. The degree of tolerance to an Islamic Republic's power is of course much lower for Israel’s vs if it were a secular monarchy, but it seems clear that Israel doesn't want a strong Iran regardless. That does not mean Israel doesn't want a secular Iran, ofc it does. Think of Israel's attitude towards the Arab countries it has peace treaties with. Do you think Israel *now* will ever agree to Egypt getting a nuclear program? Or that they're happy or serene with Egypt's military spending?

@punicist Agreed that Israel clearly doesn’t want any negotiations but I disagree that their goal is a weak Iran (regardless of its flavor), per se. Their goal is an Iran that poses no threat. If that means Iran becomes a military dictatorship, I think that’s perfectly fine for Israel.

That is the conclusion that immediately presents itself when the de facto leader is killed in wartime. To end a war, you have to negotiate. So if an order is given to kill everyone in a leadership (=negotiating) position, it simply means there is no intention of negotiating. Israel wants a weak Iran, whether it's Islamist, secular, or monarchist, I doubt it matters at all. The goal is to seize this opportunity and inflict structural incapacitation of the largest country in West Asia.

@Aminekakakaka عريبة متع زبي نيك أمها الماء يقص نهار على زوز و هل المبعبصين لاهين في الحوثي الأرهابي و القومي السوري حتى السوريين بيدهم مش عاطينهم قيمة ما انيك رب عيشتهم

عمري لا كنت نتصور الشعار القذر هذا للقومية السورية انو يرفرف في قلب بلادي .. علاش؟ كيفاش؟ وقتاش؟ عندكم فكرة قداه من روح بريئة لقات حتفها على ايدين الحزب هذا ؟ فاش قام أصلا؟ مانيش عارف اما نعرف انو بلادنا الي كانت يحلو فيها العيش سابقًا دخلت في متاهة الخروج منها صعيب ياسر

Israeli energy infrastructure (the Leviathan and Tamar gas fields) is in Med sea so far offshore. Hitting them requires either long-range precision missiles (which risk interception by the Arrow/Iron Dome systems) or submarine/naval assets which Iran doesn’t really project into the Med. GCC energy targets are geographically much much closer to Iran’s missile corps and drone networks. Abqaiq is basically next door to it

whats genuinely perplexing is this following equation; israel strikes iranian energy + iran strikes gcc energy = israeli energy remains unstruck why is iran not retaliating by striking israeli energy? is there any logical explanation for this?

@Chud12346 Fatalism is thinking it's pointless to try to maintain 10% body fat all year round because God decided I should be a fat ass by giving me fucked up metabolism genes

@punicist Fatalism whats that will it make you 10 percent body fat year around?

Fatalism is one of the defining features of traditional Muslim societies and it’s probably partly because many of them lived in dry areas with no reliable rainfall A 19th-century anthropologist observing rural Tunisia described its peasant population as “radical fatalists” and for good reason: their survival depended entirely on rainfall. The absence of reliable rainfall undermines planning and agency itself. So a good season meant abundance and a dry one meant hunger. You can’t control your fate. And Islamic jargon has a term for this fatalism “Qadhaa’ wa Qadar” (=An act of God). In North Africa we also call it “Maktoub”, meaning “written”, as in “everything is already written/predetermined by God”

@Chud12346 @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen Chad: what did you do for the weekend Punicist (subhuman): I was..uhm..I was reading about Roman Africans being 20% Berber only Chad: Haha is that a new supplement?

@punicist @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen Do chads know about 6 th century Moorish byzantine relationship?

Holy shit

@Chud12346 @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen No Chad knows what “Kurdish Jew” is don’t worry about it

@punicist @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen Kurdish jews is that a looksmaxxing method?

@Chud12346 @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen AI going to replace us all chud might as well just looksmaxx and cultivate autistic interests like whether Kurdish Jews are Kurdish or not

@punicist @ReinceNiebuhr @jewandahalfmen Will that make them AI experts that Open ai pays millions a year?