Just an Earth-Bound Misfit: The Rantings of an Aging, Armed, Pinko Chick

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Monday, May 27, 2024

Name the Only Functioning Democratic State in the Middle East and North Africa

Other than Israel, that is.

I'll hold.

9 comments:

Jones, Jon Jones said...: Reducing everything to its simplest form is the sign of a mathematician.; 5/27/2024 9:50 PM
CenterPuke88 said...: While Israel is a flawed democracy, it still just bombed a camp of refugees in a designated safe area. You can’t give them a pass on that, or the other stupid shit Bibi has led Israel into. Israel is turning into that which it was created to shelter Jews from. This is bad for Jews worldwide. It provides no excuse for Hamas and its actions, but there is no justification for the level of civilian casualties that Bibi’s offensive has created.

Until the gangrenous Orthodox Settler issue is addressed by Israel, and not just simply placated and ignored, the future of Israeli democracy is uncertain.; 5/28/2024 12:43 AM
Ten Bears said...: Define "functioning" ~ boiled down to ones and zeros: no, there are no

Of course I'm not sure there's a "functioning democracy" anywhere today; 5/28/2024 2:59 AM
Comrade Misfit said...: What gnaws at me is that the world, especially the West, gives dictatorships a pass and holds democracies to account.

Nobody seems to give a shit that the Russians hit a large hardware store in a shopping center and killed well over a dozen people. It gets mentioned a few times and then the world shrugs and moves its gaze away.

South Africa, which brought the case against Israel to the ICC, doesn't not only give a damn about Russian crimes against the Ukrainian people, they count Russia as one of their friends.

So yes, fuck those guys, too.; 5/28/2024 8:01 AM
CenterPuke88 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/2024 8:24 AM
Stewart Dean said...: Israel is a functioning democracy only for some values of functioning. Not so much if you're not Jewish, even if you are a non-Jewish citizen, much less a DP of some of its conquered force majeure territory, pursuing Israel's own mountains to the seas irredentism. Or asking for justice or the rule of any law other than lex talonis. Given that its original grant, the Balfour Declaration, states:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
You must admit that its second half has been utterly violated. If we ask of Israel some semblance of morality, rule of law and the Geneva Conventions, it is because it was founded with an idealistic vision and utterly fell from that grace.
Nobody's hands are clean in all of this, for sure. But killing 23 Palestinians for each Israeli death may win in the short term, it admits of no peace in Israel's 75 years.; 5/28/2024 9:17 AM
Comrade Misfit said...: Steward, however flawed, Israel's still a democracy. The other countries in the region either pretend (Egypt, Lebanon, Iran) or don't even try (Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan).

CP88, do not tell me how I feel. About anything. Ever. Frankly, it's fucking insulting.; 5/28/2024 11:08 AM
CenterPuke88 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/28/2024 7:32 PM
Jones, Jon Jones said...: Quote:
What gnaws at me is that the world, especially the West, gives dictatorships a pass and holds democracies to account.

Nobody seems to give a shit that the Russians hit a large hardware store in a shopping center and killed well over a dozen people. It gets mentioned a few times and then the world shrugs and moves its gaze away.

The Russians have doing a double tap strategy. Hit a place, wait for emergency services to respond and hit them again.

Too bad Ukraine didn't have F-16's to defend against glide bombs. The West is full of Neville Chamberlains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-vmM5m-9rc

Carry on; 5/28/2024 10:59 PM