autumntime
Oct. 23rd, 2019 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaA third of Lebanon is protesting. It's just too bad Lebanon is dysfunctional by design and there's a great deal invested in keeping Lebanon dysfunctional. I'd say best case scenario but really, the only good thing to happen to Lebanon would be if they can get rid of their armed political parties and the thing where their political party and their ethnic and religious identity are one in the same (Shi'ites vote for Amal or Hezbollah, Maronites vote for the Free Patriotic Movement or Phalangists, Armenians vote for the Dashnaks, Orthodox Christians vote SSNP) and also, certain religious groups are given certain political positions. The President is always a Maronite. The Prime Minister, who seems quite irrelevant, is a Sunni Muslim. Christians get favorable ratios in the Parliament despite their dwindling percentages. The country banned Mein Kampf for being too sympathetic to Jews. On the other hand, I think that people should read Mein Kampf so that they know what a wannabe dictator sounds like. If Mein Kampf is any indication, they sound like babbling lunatics.
Michael says the right wants to turn the US into a Christian Iran. I say Lebanon is a stepping stone to that.
ninja edit: the coalitions in Lebanon are based on whether they support Syria or not, for reasons that are shit but technically true (Syria is ruled by a rabidly anti-Jewish Shi'ite government) or reasons that are complete bullshit (no, Syria, you're not anti-Imperialist, you just support different kinds of imperialism).
There was some very expired diet Mountain Dew.
Rebecca brought up Girl, Interrupted and the chickens Daisy hid under her bed. Harry was eating a rotisserie chicken. Rebecca was eating coconut noodles and celery and other veggies that she got at a vegetarian Chinese restaurant.
Harry said “if I put this chicken under my bed, the Chicken Fairy will come and give me a new chicken.”
And Jacob responded with “if you do that, a voodoo warlock will curse you.”
A man had tattoos of Princess Toadstool on his hand and of a horse egg, a feather, a question block, a fire flower on his fingers.
burning question: why would you use a term like baizuo, which originates on an online community so toxic it makes Tool or Rick and Morty fans look like Batman or Simpsons fans? Baizuo translates roughly to “lefitst with ethics” or possibly “leftist who criticizes Fascist China.”
Michael says the right wants to turn the US into a Christian Iran. I say Lebanon is a stepping stone to that.
ninja edit: the coalitions in Lebanon are based on whether they support Syria or not, for reasons that are shit but technically true (Syria is ruled by a rabidly anti-Jewish Shi'ite government) or reasons that are complete bullshit (no, Syria, you're not anti-Imperialist, you just support different kinds of imperialism).
There was some very expired diet Mountain Dew.
Rebecca brought up Girl, Interrupted and the chickens Daisy hid under her bed. Harry was eating a rotisserie chicken. Rebecca was eating coconut noodles and celery and other veggies that she got at a vegetarian Chinese restaurant.
Harry said “if I put this chicken under my bed, the Chicken Fairy will come and give me a new chicken.”
And Jacob responded with “if you do that, a voodoo warlock will curse you.”
A man had tattoos of Princess Toadstool on his hand and of a horse egg, a feather, a question block, a fire flower on his fingers.
burning question: why would you use a term like baizuo, which originates on an online community so toxic it makes Tool or Rick and Morty fans look like Batman or Simpsons fans? Baizuo translates roughly to “lefitst with ethics” or possibly “leftist who criticizes Fascist China.”
