CTHlurker [he/him]

I am well aware of that fact that Afghanistan doesn’t speak Arabic. However the invasion and occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan required the recruitment of a lot of locals who were able to translate for the occupational authorities. Said translators then had their applications for asylum denied in most of the West, despite being a pretty important cog in the imperial machine, because the west chose to prioritize domestic political concerns over the welfare of the people who had risked their lives to help them. Sorry if my last sentence seems too lib, but the way these people were so easily discarded was an important part of my radicalization and leftward movement.

I genuinely don’t know how to pronounce three consonants like S C W without a vowel inbetween, but thats a me-problem rather than a polish problem. Regarding the use of cyrillic, according to a brief wikipedia-scim, cyrillic was used in poland for a very brief period during the russian empire, but it seems like it was only as a temporary measure until the ruling class got russified enough.

The problem with pursuing the legal avenue here is that the US congress either just passed a bill or is about to pass a bill that directly equates anti-zionism with antisemitism, which means that Hassan is probably not gonna be able to bring a libel suit.

It’s basically just GenZ version of Talk Radio. It’s mostly the same formula, and Hassan is doing fucking God’s work trying to denazify young GenZ men, which is a tall order.

Given how hard the Americans fought against allowing any people from Iraq and Afghanistan to seek refuge in America, I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of Arabic speakers who want to work with the Democrats is a rapidly dwindling number.

After seeing that last-name, I’m starting to wonder if Polish should go back to being written in Cyrillic (also, you can have the little squid letter back if you do, and it looks adorable)

Orban is a huge fan of isreal because he fundamentally doesn’t think Jews belong in Europe, which is a statement that Netanyahu has also directly echoed. Orban is also the man of whom Netanyahu or his failson (can’t remember his name) said “he is antisemetic, but he is on our side”.

Hence why several prominent Republicans are now going out and distancing themselves and Trump from the “joke” in question. Clearly they also think everyone should lighten up.

Feels like Trump is doubling down on being racist, who could have possibly seen this coming. And Kamala is going to look at this and her declining poll-numbers and conclude that these freaks are who she needs to court.

I view these posts sort of like the ones about various historical figures being from the Balkans / Turkish. It seems fairly harmless to me at least, but I also don’t live in a country with a noteable black/african population (most non-whites here are either Turkish or Arabs, and most North Africans don’t seem to consider themselves “african” in any way).