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Israel-Gaza Megathread #1
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Violent Revolution, so that Eastern Europe can do what? Bend over for Moscow? Balkanize into Rand-approved fiefdoms from sea to sea? You may not like the “right-wing” option, but I find it a more credible path to supporting your values than throwing your nation out the window.
Balkanize into Rand-approved fiefdoms from sea to sea?
Where do you think the verb 'balkanize' even come from?
but I find it a more credible path to supporting your values than throwing your nation out the window.
Good luck teaching half a billion Africans your 'values'.
There is no European civilization without Europeans.
This is how 'right-wing' voting works.
current immigration level 100K/year
right-wing talking head: "The left wants to take in 500K immigrants per year, but we listen to the voters and will reduce immigration!"
immigration level becomes 200K/year
Rinse and repeat
The people who control the media are the ones deciding what voters care about, and they will never give a platform to somebody further right than left-wingers 5 years ago.
I know exactly where “Balkanize” came from. I picked that to point out that a violent revolution in EE won’t create an ethnostate paradise. It’ll create a shithole, full of land mines and, if you’re lucky, NATO peacekeepers.
In eastern Congo, however, the problem is practically an epidemic. When a truce was declared in the war there in 2003, so many cases began showing up that Western medical experts at first called it impossible—especially when local doctors declared that most of the fistulas they were seeing were the consequence of rapes. "No one wanted to believe it at first," says Lyn Lusi, manager of the HEAL Africa hospital (formerly called the Docs Hospital) in the eastern Congo city of Goma. "When our doctors first published their results, in 2003, this was unheard of."
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Violent Revolution, so that Eastern Europe can do what? Bend over for Moscow? Balkanize into Rand-approved fiefdoms from sea to sea? You may not like the “right-wing” option, but I find it a more credible path to supporting your values than throwing your nation out the window.
Where do you think the verb 'balkanize' even come from?
Good luck teaching half a billion Africans your 'values'. There is no European civilization without Europeans.
This is how 'right-wing' voting works.
Rinse and repeat The people who control the media are the ones deciding what voters care about, and they will never give a platform to somebody further right than left-wingers 5 years ago.
I know exactly where “Balkanize” came from. I picked that to point out that a violent revolution in EE won’t create an ethnostate paradise. It’ll create a shithole, full of land mines and, if you’re lucky, NATO peacekeepers.
Balkan shitholes still look much better than what is probably in store for the future of Western Europe.
More references to look up: necklacing;
documentary Africa Addio
Are you even aware with current state of Balkan countries?
I am 100% sure it would not improve by adding 100 millions Congoleses.
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