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Anastasis

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  1. The merging of the cuisine of the levant with that of Mexico. Al Pastor is the result of the influence of maronite lebanese immigration to mexico.
  2. The merging of the cultures prior gave us tacos al pastor, so lets not be so dismissive.
  3. Germany might be more appropriate. But that offends certain European sensibilities.
  4. @Nivek, B'TSELEM is a well resourced group with observers in the WB and Gaza. They are not a Hamas mouthpiece. You might consider spending some time on their website reviewing their documentation of what has been taking place for decades in the OT. https://www.btselem.org/
  5. As my granny use to say, wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which ones fills up first. I see no reason to be anything other than fatalistic wrt the current political reality.
  6. Well, the intents and support of the Palestinian and Israeli people mean about as much as the public opinion polls of Americans do when it comes to political reality. Probably even less actually.
  7. Israel will never allow there to be a functional and sovereign palestinian state. Vaporize Hamas, shit vaporize all the islamists or swap them out with secular or christian palestinians, doesn't matter. There will never be a palestinian state that is allowed to operate within the area now occupied by Israel.
  8. Witness the success of US diplomacy.
  9. The US is really good at wagging its finger and saying a few words. And then pushing the approval through for the arms sales. Ask MBS, he knows how it works.
  10. Other than the bolded, which is kinda the main point of what I was responding to, I think that we are in basic agreement.
  11. Don’t fall for the bait.
  12. It's amazing to me how hard it is for some people to differentiate between income distribution and class attributes.
  13. It’s kinda interesting all the non military goodness that magically happens when you subsidize everyone else’s military.
  14. You are confusing two very different dimensions, muddling class and income distributions. I understand why the politicians do it. Not sure why you echo it.
  15. Mid to upper middle class. People need to divorce themselves from the idea that middle income equals middle class. You are confusing two very different distributions. The American middle class has been defined by a few different aspects of lifestyle: 1) Attainable home ownership; 2) Security in the basic necessities of life; 3) Educational opportunity; 4) Leisure time; 5) Retirement security. There are some other aspects for sure, but I think those are pretty core. The reality is that middle income is not able to support those aspects in the US. It use to be, and not too long ago. But the disconnect between the income distributions and "class" segmentation is apparent at this point and only growing. But we can fix this. We just need more aircraft carrier groups on deployment.
  16. Now. Right now would be a very good time. This needs to be done.
  17. Congrats on stringing that many words together and hitting submit. Longest post from you on this thread, about me. Its funny when you give a little glimpse into your delusional inner dialogue.
  18. Ripe jap. 3# grass fed chili grind, maybe 10 guajillos, 5 anchos, some various other small peppers. Float one fucking jalapeno and I got wife and kids complaining about heat. I told them that that shit was like 0.5 X and they need to grow some balls. Not the wife though, tttiawwt.
  19. For as good as your posts are, well nowhere, your ad hominem and condescension in this forum is actually an improvement on your typical hall monitor schtick here.
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