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[PTTG??]

All men are secretly five years old, but only in america do men of power get to act like it.

Or maybe also in Great Britain and France and Canada and Germany and Israel and...

Don't forget backwards Arabic-not-muslim-but-middle-eastern-traditions-closely-associated-with-islam cultures where grown men feel superior for shooting or poisoning little girls.

[RedKing]

All men are secretly five years old, but only in america do men of power get to act like it.

Or maybe also in Great Britain and France and Canada and Germany and Israel and...

Don't forget backwards Arabic-not-muslim-but-middle-eastern-traditions-closely-associated-with-islam cultures where grown men feel superior for shooting or poisoning little girls.

If you're talking about the Taliban, you mean "Muslim-not-Arabic". They're Pashtuns.

[Karnewarrior]

I don't think that's muslim OR arabic culture, that's just a bunch of total douchbags let run unchecked.

Who fucked up Arabia so bad? They used to be a center of learning. 

[RedKing]

I don't think that's muslim OR arabic culture, that's just a bunch of total douchbags let run unchecked.

Who fucked up Arabia so bad? They used to be a center of learning. 

If you're talking about the Arab Crecent broadly: the Mongols, the Seljuks, the internecine conflicts between Shi'ites and Sunnis, Western imperialism, reactionary anti-imperialist Islamists.

If you're talking specifically about the Arabian peninsula (which was never quite the shining beacon of knowledge that places like Baghdad and Damascus were): the ibn Sa'ud clan. Which basically came riding out of the Nejd like early 20th-century Fremen warriors to overthrow the Ottoman-supported Hashemite clan. And promptly discarded the erudite, urban, moderate Islam of the Ottomans for the uncompromising Wahhabi Islam of the desert.

[GlyphGryph]

"Nuh-uh! You missed!"
"Nuh-uh! I didn't!"

Do you know they actually did this for about a dozen seconds during the debate?

It was literally "yes I did" - "no you didn't" - "yes I did" - "no you didn't".

I was laughing my ass off.

[RedKing]

"Nuh-uh! You missed!"
"Nuh-uh! I didn't!"

Do you know they actually did this for about a dozen seconds during the debate?

It was literally "yes I did" - "no you didn't" - "yes I did" - "no you didn't".

I was laughing my ass off.

If Obama had had the presence of mind to morph it into Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch, he would have won all the votes. ALL OF THEM.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Who fucked up Arabia so bad? They used to be a center of learning. 

The last time Arabia was a center of learning was about 1300 or so.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch

Link, for those sad souls who haven't seen it?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch

Link, for those sad souls who haven't seen it?

Enjoy.

[sluissa]

"Nuh-uh! You missed!"
"Nuh-uh! I didn't!"

Do you know they actually did this for about a dozen seconds during the debate?

It was literally "yes I did" - "no you didn't" - "yes I did" - "no you didn't".

I was laughing my ass off.

If Obama had had the presence of mind to morph it into Monty Python's Argument Clinic sketch, he would have won all the votes. ALL OF THEM.

I feel like Biden MIGHT have been able to pull that off... not so much Obama though.

[SealyStar]

It's sad that politics has devolved from actual anticipation and debating to mathematical models and tireless calculations on how to sway chances of victory by >1%...

[RedKing]

I'm not. I love the quantification and the mathematical modelling, because in part you're answering the age-old question, "Of what measure is a man?"

There's a certain magic in gauging how many thousand people will change their vote because of a particular turn of phrase, or a particular campaign ad.

Now I'll grant you that it's perhaps a bit..."impure" that the politicians themselves are so in tune to the numbers as well (despite the universal proclamation that they "don't pay attention to the polls"). It's a sociology experiment where there is no control group and no blind.

[Flying Dice]

Or perhaps more literally, an asylum run by the inmates.

[10ebbor10]

I'm not. I love the quantification and the mathematical modelling, because in part you're answering the age-old question, "Of what measure is a man?"

There's a certain magic in gauging how many thousand people will change their vote because of a particular turn of phrase, or a particular campaign ad.

Now I'll grant you that it's perhaps a bit..."impure" that the politicians themselves are so in tune to the numbers as well (despite the universal proclamation that they "don't pay attention to the polls"). It's a sociology experiment where there is no controol group and no blind.

*Hides pocket universe

[palsch]

This article has to win some sort of prize.

I mean, sweet Jesus who would actually buy this? Even the National Review commenters, not exactly a left wing mob, are tearing this to shreds.