Maybe I’m just ignorant and/or snorting copium but isn’t it better for them to have consolidated their forces / be less overextended? At least in the short-term to medium-term? Besides, isn’t the northeastern area they still control the part of Syria that’s majority Kurdish (aka their “heartland” where they enjoy the most popular support")?

Right, I saw the first 2 movies (there’s 3 right?). They just completely slipped my mind.

Sorry, which movie is that second one?

How’s the popcorn? Is it fragrant?

Now draw her asking your other characters to bring her to their leader.

I was referencing Fallout and so was the person I was replying to.

If you’ve seen one war, you’ve seen them all because war… war never changes.

So you just hate humans?

I always get that one mixed up with “Harry Potter and the Irish Republican Army”.

Yep, Exodus 34:14 : “For thou shalt worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God”

This strongly implies that (in this theology) there are multiple gods if Jehovah/Elohim can be jealous.

The gnostics figured out an explanation for this 2000 years ago.

According to them, the “God” who created the material world and is talked about in the Old Testament is an evil and/or ignorant lesser deity and that’s why the world sucks.

The “real” God rules over the immaterial (souls, knowledge, and the likes) and is called “the Invisible Spirit”.

Both the snake and later on Jesus were agents/emanations of this “Invisible Spirit” sent to bring knowledge (“gnosis” in Greek) to humanity in order to help them break free from the prison that is the material world.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t matter how logical and internally consistent your ideology is, the one who is more organized wins out in the end. This doesn’t have anything to do with any currently ongoing political situation. 🫠

“WHERE IS SHE?!!!” - Achilles, talking about Helen of Troy

I didn’t realize “Le Joueur du Grenier” had become an international meme. When did this happen? 🤔

So Outer Manchuria and Buryatia? I’m not condoning it but I’m also not surprised that there are nationalists making irredentist claims to these places.

It’s been 20 years.

Demeter talking to Persephone be like:

The movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him is much better than the movie about a mentally ill man who set out to destroy the society that wronged him.

Thanks Doug the Dog from the movie Up, very cool. 😎

You know what they call cheese in Paris?