Having spent a lifetime around hessians, I can't imagine a product I want less.

As per the very unbiased CIA influence launderers at the CFR.

I think auto-translate applies to all types of video, though? I once clicked on a 20+ minute Luisito Comunica video and found him speaking in very weird, stilted English. Can't even remember how I disabled it but it was a surreal experience.

It's a comment on the internet, dude, are you okay?

Islamism is also neither a 'culture' nor a reasonable characterization of Mamdani's political programme.

That is true but it must always be possible to crticize Islamism whereas the comment I was replying to was attempting to construct a taboo against it.

No it wasn't. It understood correctly that Maguire was making a deliberate conflation and treated it accordingly.

His program is actually pretty Christian imo.

The explicit comparison that started the contemporary discussion about Antifa was to MS-13 and Hezbollah, which is fractally inane.

>As with many things in the bible, they are symbolic, and not to be taken literally. This is also why we have hundreds, if not thousands of flavors of Christianity - they all interpret the bible differently because many of the translations and interpretations differed wildly from scholar to scholar.

Including many who don't have this perspective on scripture.

>It’s New Yorker shit

Two of the three principals in this story are based in California and employed by a Californian firm.

I think you should follow the citations behind that sentence. 2/3 are swift dismissals from outsiders - one from a dictionary and another from the UK parliament (and this is especially vague). The latter is from a Roma advocacy group and it seems pretty emphatic: "Amongst most Romani communities this is an offensive racial slur. It derives from the word "Egyptian" due to the misconception that Roma arriving in Great Britain originated in Egypt."

>China is not a free market.

Correct, China actually exists.

Funny, but even "mostly free market" is not accurate.

Well, yeah, it's hard to approximate a bullshit ideological abstraction.