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Well, it's Daesh's fault for stealing an Egyptian goddess's name.
I forgot all about that and I actually did read that book (in middle school though so of course I forgot everything by now).
Alternatively, it doesn't mean anything special, that's also possible.
Wait, who's anti-Palestinian on HH? I don't know who is, or at least who actively is, and I've mentioned the Israel/Palestine issue enough times that I would think I've have noticed it by now.
Though it's not an issue that I primarily fight over. Besides, if an argument seems to be going the way I'd like it to go I usually just let it continue without jumping in myself.
Yeah, IJBM and HH are surprisingly different despite their similar appearances and userbases. I think there's a bit more sense of letting things just happen here on IJBM as far as raising controversies and arguing about stuff goes.
Ehh, sometimes simply trying to argue/convince/guilt/etc. people into agreeing just doesn't work, and occasionally if you get it wrong, the more you do it the worse it gets. Plus, sometimes it really is a matter of opinion, especially on basically anything that involves a value judgement.
Rather than trying to make people agree with my opinions specifically, I'd much rather try to make their opinions point them toward supporting the results I want.
And sometimes even that doesn't work. Lately I've run into a situation where I'm the lone Clinton supporter on a thread that's now dominated by a Johnson supporter (and obnoxious libertarian type) and a Trump supporter (who thinks that Trump will be a harmless, cloutless clown, and thinks Clinton will start wars with wild abandon) who won't stop responding to me no matter what I say, so I was like, screw it, not worth my time. Not a great feeling to have, but sometimes some battles just aren't worth fighting.
And more than likely, that change won't be something you'll notice until afterwards, anyway.
I am a bit annoyed that HH has more traffic than this, though. >
Speaking as myself, they pretty much agreed with both of us (including Palestine and Israel), but we were just unlikable.
DAE think the treatment of the Palestinians is actually a zionist plot to keep those leftie secular American/European Jews from wanting to return to Israel, thus safeguarding the country from the milquetoast values those pesky conspirators spread elsewhere?Let it be known for the record, that opinion on an issue and delivery of that opinion are not one and the same, and a quality or faulty delivery, tailored to or against a people's preexisting notions, may cause people to react better or worse to it and may be more or less convincing.
Who are the mods on HH, anyway?(Wait a minute, I checked.) Hmph. I have no memory of folks there being particularly ban-happy. But then, I might have had too little experience with them to know.Trout: sometimes it happens that we think we are arguing calmly, but that still steps on someone's toes. The worse if that someone is the mod. The more so if what we argue for seems self-evident or obvious to us, or the other position obviously bad, or something like that. But in any case, it boils down to mods.
In other news, we have weird-ass politics too. I told you that the choice we've got in here is between the thieving, the stupid, and the crazy. Currently it's pretty much the last in charge. They're also doing what technically could get them into the first category, but their reasons mean that it only strengthens the crazy classification (ie. while the outcome is pretty much identical, the reasons are closer to "we want total control so we'll place faithful nobodies everywhere" than to "cousin Bob flunked out of school and needs a job").