@LibyaLiberty I low-key respect Harris for keeping the bit going. His Islamophobia during WoT wasn't that obvious unless you were Muslim but today being pro Israel new atheist is niche.
@EthanHiguain@Filmantopia@PpollingNumbers As someone who studied this stuff, what normies don't get is you never take 1 specific poll as the truth. It is the overall picture all the polls show. You always have outliers both too high and too low.
@nikicaga I remember when for 2 years people were trying to strip Qatar of the previous one. It's funny how even suggestion to revoke this one wasn't even raise by anyone serious.
@shashj Issue with research around this topic is that very few are actually "racism is actually good". Most people reject elements, i.e., biological racism and champion social or cultural racism.
@LibyaLiberty The charge is "aiding and abetting terrorist org" so does this mean under dutch law Nelson Mendela was a war criminal? I honestly get terrorism charge since kid was a minor but what is the point in conflating it and war crimes charges.
@qunfuz2 I think another argument that the actual factions that did the crime should be punished is solid and I agree. The real question is what evidence after a decade is there?
@qunfuz2 HTS and Douma factions who did this were at that time different type of Islamists. Mostly HTS let liberals protest in Idlib without much actual repression aimed at them. (HT and AQ post 2017 was where his concern was focused on)
@RenaNetjes The army in Egypt was both intact and somewhat praised for kicking the former guy out. Sharaa would 100% have problems if army was around. The lesson is when outsiders aren't keen on you, make sure you are the only option.
@QalaatAlMudiq I suspect they'll won't say anything. Their whole thing is "yes were lying, we know you know were lying but you can't do anything about it".