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@quarter_n_dime @GrkStav @_ZachFoster America first is for billionaires and you think youre on the same team lol

@GrkStav @_ZachFoster No that's the America First position , idiot. If you want to support a foreign country, set up a charity and do it voluntarily. Leave MY money out of it

This CBS interview w Thomas Massie is insane. Massie: “my policy has always been, no country is special and no country deserves my constituents’ taxpayer dollars. So I’ve never voted for foreign aid, to Egypt, to Syria, to Israel or to Ukraine… but the ones in Israel … they are the biggest recipients so they are mad.” […] CBS: “…are you antisemitic?”

@economicalcliff @Abdul10292 @Doctor_Doomie @Canada4Europe @Polymarket Why wpuld I respond with substance to something insubstantial?

@voydboiii @Abdul10292 @Doctor_Doomie @Canada4Europe @Polymarket You said nothing of substance in your 4 replies all you did was bitch about nonsense 😭

NEW: Stanford researchers found that overworked AI agents began embracing Marxist views.

@GiovanniMi53549 @MagnusPharao How could you possibly do that? Lol

@MagnusPharao By transposing the ideas and the intent behind the text as faithfully as possible, avoiding as much as possible to insert one’s own ideology; this operates a sort of democratization of the text, as the masses are allowed to come close to understanding the value of the original

Homer was translated into Syriac by Theophilus ibn Tuma in the 8th century and Ḥunayn bin Isḥaq translated it into Arabic in the 9th. So yes they were indeed preserved in Arbic translation prior to any non-Greek Europeans reading the text. Wilson does not say "only preserved".

@GiovanniMi53549 @MagnusPharao Ok so no one should be allowed to do anything new or different and if they dare to well a thousand screeching incels will fall upon them as well as a thousand thousand "um ackshuallys"

@MagnusPharao Ok then we disagree on that. In my opinion what a good commercial translation should do (especially one geared at the “non-nerds”, who will at most possess just one translation) is make the original text accessible to the people that do not know the language…

@thenikomedian @MagnusPharao Its so funny that you dudes who dont read fucking shit let alone relatively niche things this are pretending to be BIG PRESERVERS OF CULTURE. Youre actually just weird crybaby running around going "you cant that! I said you cant do that! Wahhh" Like why the fuck do you care?

@MagnusPharao You can't impose 21st c moralism onto a 8th c piece. Homer and the Ancient Greeks themselves thought that they were heroic. That's literally what *Epic* poem means. She has an issue with an ancient text not aligning with her 21st c ideological views, so she does anacronism.

Wbat percent of current reactionary thought is being in hysterics over shit that isnt happening, doesnt matter, or theyre lying about? 99%? I do hear some of them bitch about rent or bills sometimes.

@brehnowaybreh @PYeerk Lol yeah man three whole sentences explaining how think this doofus sucks is me being oh so angry. I understand that writing a couple sentences might be super labor intensive for you tho, sorry about that.

@PYeerk @voydboiii He is super assmad lol

Do you think that Homer is one of the characters?

At what cost? Oh its about 0.0127% of elons wealth. Incrsdible you never di the "but at what cost" for letting shutty billionaires ransack state funds huh? Scumbag

@EF7687223546836 @31ashii @IanLotsanumbers @MouinRabbani Youre a bot or a paid account. No 9ne believes this shut not even Israelis. they say "yes it was genocide and we love it" Youre entire narrative is undone by simply going to israeli twitter and hitting the translate button

@31ashii @IanLotsanumbers @MouinRabbani First Palestinians didnt control Palestine, British and Turks had the power. Second ,Jews were buying land from Palestinians so no one was stealing it. And Third Jews came in peace, and wanted to live side by side with Arabs , but they started murdering first

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day. The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961. Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing. I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth. Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders. Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops." This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units. I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist. While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth. In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime. Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not. As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion. Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective. Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary. Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence. Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.

@kanbar @CookStevenD @MouinRabbani Literally blinded by a genocidal ideology. Why should we believe anything from you when you want yo bomb kids, fuckwit.

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@kanbar @CookStevenD @MouinRabbani Ah right no jews have ever converted to another religion. Makes sense.

First of all, how do you think Arab Muslims ended up in the area known as Palestine? It was the 7th century Arab Islamic conquests, when Muslim Arab armies expanded out of the Arabian Peninsula and defeated the Byzantine Empire. This is how most of the Muslim world was created. In fact, conquest was how most of the world's countries became what they are today. The fighting between the Jews and Arabs took place when Jews started migrating back to their ancestral homeland, and that led to the movement (Zionism) to build a Jewish homeland. To appease both sides, the UN eventually agreed to create two countries, one belonging to the Arabs and one to the Jews (this land never belonged to the Arabs). The Jews accepted it and the Arabs rejected it. Instead, the neighboring Arab countries decided to go to war to take it all, which obviously failed. Had they won-and this was no secret-they would have expelled the Jews just as they had done in every other Arab country.

@kanbar @CookStevenD @MouinRabbani You see we HAD to do genocide and force a mass exodus bc um then they might do the same to us. Fucking abuser logic.

Yes, there would have been a single state, and all the Jews would have been expelled from yet another Arab country. Meanwhile, 20% of Israel's population is Arab and they enjoy all the same rights as their Jewish neighbors, enjoying careers as doctors, lawyers, judges, and members of the Knesset.

@Hohounk @Canada4Europe @Polymarket Nope lol

@voydboiii @Canada4Europe @Polymarket are you saying it is not about people collectively sharing what they have so everyone could get their fair share?

@Gramsterwheel @taste_of_tbone We agree youre stupid. Thanks.

@voydboiii @taste_of_tbone I’m not the one calling LIRR union members reliable democratic voters

i'm a pragmatic liberal. leftist policy ideas are nice if you believe in unicorns, but this is America and this is politics and you've gotta play to win. That's why I'm spending my weekend coming after public unions, a reliable source of Democratic voters and money

@VoidWinnower @PYeerk "I havent read anything and refuse to evrr learn info. Anything that doesnt automatically confirm my preconceived notions? Super scary! Also I pay for a free site" - how you sound cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

@voydboiii @PYeerk >Someone wrote it >they used the name Homer They're a real person. Same as other authors that use even more ridiculous made-up names like RhinoZ and Shirtaloon lmaooo

@AryTexasRE @PYeerk "Im afraid of thinking for two seconds also im really really scared of being ignorant. In fact im so scared of both of those things Id rather be confidently resolutely ignorant and act like jackass while paying for a free site" - you rn cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

Sewing doubt about the existence of Homer is a modern phenomenon and you're inventing a level and burden of proof that is irrational and not applied to other ancient writers. There are even physical descriptions of him and apocryphal texts that were not viewed as legitimate in antiquity meaning that even in antiquity there was a "real" Homer vs the apocryphal. The fact is that the Iliad and the Odyssey exist and were written by a person who was called Homer. Claiming that it could hypothetically (without evidence) be a pseudonym or something similar is a distinction without a difference. The work is the Odyssey and the Author is Homer.

@tonvald @PYeerk No. People misunderstanding it isnt the same as it being discredited. I used it as an insult, and not as an academic attempt to actually describe some real phenomenon. Happens with lots of academic things.

@voydboiii @PYeerk While you are right, there is truly no evidence to Homer being a single real person. You screwed up by mentioning the Dunning Kruger effect, it’s a largely discredited idea by any serious figures and is considered as pop psychology

@Hamm1234James @PYeerk Welcome to language

@voydboiii @PYeerk Bro learned words and used them, congrats.

@fica14_ @PYeerk Doesn't really matter. The idea that its absolutey Homer and has to be real is the weirdo reactionaries pre-determining that eveything they already know has to correct bc well....they dont like questioning anything unless its like a black pilot or some dumb shit

@voydboiii @PYeerk So who wrote it?

@Hohounk @Canada4Europe @Polymarket Well see youre stupid bc you think you understand what marxists believe in when in fact you believe weird shit made up by people who hate them. Not the same thing! Youre perception of Marxism is predicated on not hav8ng ended with Marx nor Marxist.

@voydboiii @Canada4Europe @Polymarket Why am I stupid for marxists not practicing what they believe in?