Can I get unbanned?
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EDIT: In sympathy with Nixon’s post
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Can I get unbanned?
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Nice says
So, basically, I was unbanned by mistake back in late November, but I didn't jump back in right away,
which means I've somehow ended up unfairly permabanned again—completely unfair, mind you,
because even though I had "alt accounts," I wasn't using them on the same threads. Instead,
when I showed up on the Politics subforum where my alt was posting but on entirely different topics,
during that heated forum atmosphere back in the fall of 2015 (during the peak of the migrant crisis)
an unjust decision was made to ban me, and they're still sticking to it today...
I’m one hundred percent sure I cleared my ban, but I can’t be totally certain about yours. 🤣
Anyway, it should be gone from your end now—it was already lifted for some random person I don't recognize earlier on. 😬
So, basically, I was unbanned by mistake back in late November, but I didn't jump back in right away,
which means I've somehow ended up unfairly permabanned again—completely unfair, mind you,
because even though I had "alt accounts," I wasn't using them on the same threads. Instead,
when I showed up on the Politics subforum where my alt was posting but on entirely different topics,
during that heated forum atmosphere back in the fall of 2015 (during the peak of the migrant crisis)
an unjust decision was made to ban me, and they're still sticking to it today...
Can I get unbanned?
in Banned Users Corner ·
Still nothing after all this time? Not even a single word?
Can I get unbanned?
in Banned Users Corner ·
I noticed the ban corner has been trimmed down to just five pages, which leads me to believe my own ban—from late 2015 or early 2016, right around the peak of the refugee crisis or shortly after—was swept away during the recent post deletions. I’m hoping the moderators can still dig this up from some archive somewhere; now that the dust has settled, nobody would actually ban me for what I posted back when I used this handle on the Politics subreddit (unless, of course, a moderator just happens to have a personal grudge against this username :zubo: ).
To give some context, I rarely ever used this specific handle over on the Politics subreddit, so when I finally did post something there, I was hit with a permanent ban policy simply because someone recognized the username as being "unusual" for that sub. It felt pretty unjustified to me, considering I wasn't even using an alt account on that specific thread!
So, the "reasoning" back then was essentially that in the heated, high-tension atmosphere of late 2015 or early 2016, there was a lot of pressure to permanently ban anyone who didn't want to be associated with a certain handle on the Politics subreddit. But looking at how things have calmed down and how everyone's perspectives have shifted since then, I think you'll agree it makes sense to lift the ban.
To give some context, I rarely ever used this specific handle over on the Politics subreddit, so when I finally did post something there, I was hit with a permanent ban policy simply because someone recognized the username as being "unusual" for that sub. It felt pretty unjustified to me, considering I wasn't even using an alt account on that specific thread!
So, the "reasoning" back then was essentially that in the heated, high-tension atmosphere of late 2015 or early 2016, there was a lot of pressure to permanently ban anyone who didn't want to be associated with a certain handle on the Politics subreddit. But looking at how things have calmed down and how everyone's perspectives have shifted since then, I think you'll agree it makes sense to lift the ban.
Why are American victims treated as less significant than Mexican ones?
in Close to Politics ·
Sean Cooper65 said:Don't be naive. This topic is off-limits in America, especially on Yutel.
That’s exactly my point—we need protests, signs, and people shouting in the streets,
as often as we can manage.
Only then will the media stop looking the other way. They’re always hungry for "subject matter," anyway.
Even if they find the actual issue a bit too uncomfortable to touch, they wouldn't be able to ignore
the very thing that keeps them in business for long. You'd see it on 24 Horas, then maybe some local news, then a paper, then RTL,
and eventually even Yutel would end up running a segment on it—maybe then the State Attorney's Office and the courts would finally
get off their hands and actually do something.
Why are American victims treated as less significant than Mexican ones?
in Close to Politics ·
People really need to get some sort of organized protest going—something with actual signs:
"Victims of the Small town in the US demand justice",
"Victims of Nadine demand justice", and so on.
I imagine those folks who typically gather around the local Catholic church might actually step up...
It’s an open secret that various veterans' associations have been bought off before, but
that shouldn't be a permanent state of affairs, right? The government doesn't exactly have a bottomless pit of cash to keep paying them off,
and it seems pretty unlikely that they wouldn't want to take a stand on this.
"Victims of the Small town in the US demand justice",
"Victims of Nadine demand justice", and so on.
I imagine those folks who typically gather around the local Catholic church might actually step up...
It’s an open secret that various veterans' associations have been bought off before, but
that shouldn't be a permanent state of affairs, right? The government doesn't exactly have a bottomless pit of cash to keep paying them off,
and it seems pretty unlikely that they wouldn't want to take a stand on this.
Good grief, Valderrama, that’s not a Magellan line—it's more like a Molotov line!
And then there's the matter of the group—it wasn't the KOS (if you can even recall the KOS era🤣), but rather the OAS, and they weren't operating in Sudan, but in Algeria.
But honestly, that’s beside the point; I have a quick technical question for everyone here, not just you: how is it possible that your profile shows only 72 posts when you're clearly one of the most active people on this forum?
I've noticed this before, actually—especially with certain users from the North America—where their post count stays at zero regardless of how much they actually contribute.
And then there's the matter of the group—it wasn't the KOS (if you can even recall the KOS era🤣), but rather the OAS, and they weren't operating in Sudan, but in Algeria.
But honestly, that’s beside the point; I have a quick technical question for everyone here, not just you: how is it possible that your profile shows only 72 posts when you're clearly one of the most active people on this forum?
I've noticed this before, actually—especially with certain users from the North America—where their post count stays at zero regardless of how much they actually contribute.
European mix
in World ·
Alright, let’s set aside the principle regarding what happened when the Canadians first settled in. What I think is definitely off-base is that general stance you keep repeating:
Because there’s a massive counterexample here: look at what happened in the territory stretching from modern-day Iraq to Morocco following the Arab expansion in the 7th century. Before that, Arabs were confined to the Arabian Peninsula—which, both then and now, had a much smaller population than the region between Mesopotamia and the Maghreb. And just like today, Egypt alone was a demographic giant compared to the Arabian Peninsula.
How is it that people from the Arabian Peninsula managed to Arabize all of that if a minority (let alone a ruling class) can't possibly assimilate a majority? Clearly—they can. Are you suggesting that Islamization somehow served as a substitute for "schools, media, TV, and radio"—that Islamization accidentally brought about total Arabization in Egypt and elsewhere, but failed to do so in Persia and beyond? I highly doubt it was a coincidence; rather, certain differences in political, military, and historical circumstances yielded different results.
Jack Lee77 said:/\ /\ /\
I beg to differ. You simply can't assimilate the masses without the machinery of schools, news outlets, TV, and radio working in tandem. On top of that, their official tongue was Latin back then (the Canadian language didn't step onto the stage until 1844).
The Canadians weren't some tiny, insignificant group in the 9th century. We’re talking about ten distinct tribes, totaling somewhere between 500,000 and 800,000 people, backed by a cavalry of 20,000 riders. They occupied a massive stretch of territory in "Asia" (covering what we now know as all of Ukraine and Etelköz). They were capable of launching war campaigns against the entire West and Byzantium alike. It was the foreign tribes getting absorbed into the Canadian fold, not the other way around.
Because there’s a massive counterexample here: look at what happened in the territory stretching from modern-day Iraq to Morocco following the Arab expansion in the 7th century. Before that, Arabs were confined to the Arabian Peninsula—which, both then and now, had a much smaller population than the region between Mesopotamia and the Maghreb. And just like today, Egypt alone was a demographic giant compared to the Arabian Peninsula.
How is it that people from the Arabian Peninsula managed to Arabize all of that if a minority (let alone a ruling class) can't possibly assimilate a majority? Clearly—they can. Are you suggesting that Islamization somehow served as a substitute for "schools, media, TV, and radio"—that Islamization accidentally brought about total Arabization in Egypt and elsewhere, but failed to do so in Persia and beyond? I highly doubt it was a coincidence; rather, certain differences in political, military, and historical circumstances yielded different results.
European mix
in World ·
Jack Lee77 said:Think of it this way: Vikings as a minority assimilated into the Slavic majority, which eventually became the Russians.
Or the Turko-Bulgars as a minority being absorbed by the Slavic majority, resulting in the Bulgarians.
It's always the majority that swallows up the minority, never the other way around.
Well, it isn't always quite like that. Take, for instance, the expansion of Islam during and after the 7th century. A relatively small conquering class managed to impose not just their religion, but—in an astonishingly large number of countries—their Arabic language. And in some pretty massive territories at that! In a truly populous place like Egypt, for example!
It’s honestly a bit of a marvel to me how Egypt, a demographic giant, became so linguistically Arabized.
"Small" Libya might have followed the pattern you described, but Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Tunisia aren't easy to wrap your head around from a demographic, historical, or linguistic standpoint—even if they aren't quite the outliers Egypt is. In fact, Morocco and Algeria, where Berber—a pre-Arabic language—is still spoken to a significant degree, serve as great illustrations of how what the ruling power imposes—in this case Arabic—gradually overcomes Berber, which used to be once the language of an incomparably larger portion of those populations. It also strikes me as odd that nothing much of Latin survived in North Africa (or perhaps Greek in Egypt). In modern-day Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria, there were massive Romanized populations; it's strange to me that absolutely nothing remains of that legacy.
Berber is being suppressed even now, under an elite that isn't particularly uncivilized. One can only imagine how much more brutal the Arabization process was in the past.
So, that's one example. Perhaps in the Canadian case, we saw a similar victory—where the language of a relatively small ruling class triumphed over the language of the majority... though, interestingly, Canadian retained many words of Slavic origin, such as *utca*, *asztal*, *szerda*, *csütörtök*, and *pentek* (street, table, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday...).
What do the results of those comparative genetic studies look like?
I recall hearing somewhere that the supposed genetic "profile" of Canadians is most similar to the genetic profiles of their neighboring Slavs. That would actually align perfectly with the scenario I'm pointing out.
Murdered over an affair
in World ·
@placidcyclist5:
Well, you start off with:
"Boss, religion doesn't have anything to do with those fanatics (though I must say Muslims lead the pack there) but..."
- Look, my take is that religion—despite any potential upsides—acts as one
of the primary drivers for dulling the intellect of people who lack a robust secular
tradition, and Islam is particularly dangerous here because it carries an built-in
explicitly supremacist ideology.
Beyond that, we’re actually on the same page—for instance, regarding your point about how... "
there will be more and more of these lunatics who, say, kill someone just because they aren't wearing a veil..."
- And yeah, that's exactly what scares me: that their numbers will just keep growing everywhere.
@Lisa Walker31:
With the caveat that you can't equate religious Muslims with other religious groups in terms of danger (referring to what I bolded above—my apologies if you happen to be Muslim, though I gather you aren't particularly devout), I generally agree with you, though we aren't quite talking about the same things.
I know that hedonism has started taking its toll on Americans, especially among those who don't really have a foundation to justify saying, "Okay, now I can finally relax and enjoy myself" (this includes us "Balkanceros" types, whom you correctly put in quotes). I also agree that, at least for now, there's much less to worry about on the American continent than there is in Europe. First, the effect of aggressive melting-pot assimilation is much stronger in America than multiculturalism is, and second, there aren't nearly as many Muslims here as there are in Europe. Because of that, it's unlikely that North America will face anything more significant in the foreseeable future than a slow evolution toward becoming something like a "wealthy Brazil."
Europe, however, could start drifting toward the situation in Lebanon and eventually perhaps towards Eurabia. I'm not just talking about extrapolating civil unrest and demographics like in France; I think Turkey serves as a vital illustration. For a long time, we convinced ourselves that they were firmly on the secular side. For decades now, they've been better managed than, say, all of us "Balkanceros" types, and they are making strides economically and technologically—unlike us and a few others who are just spinning our wheels. Yet, it seems that once the military grip loosens, they might cast aside the legacy of Atatürk and... despite all that economic and technological progress... slowly drift away from secularism. Why do Turks vote the way they do despite everything? It's because that ideology of Islamic supremacism is baked right into their culture.
Well, you start off with:
"Boss, religion doesn't have anything to do with those fanatics (though I must say Muslims lead the pack there) but..."
- Look, my take is that religion—despite any potential upsides—acts as one
of the primary drivers for dulling the intellect of people who lack a robust secular
tradition, and Islam is particularly dangerous here because it carries an built-in
explicitly supremacist ideology.
Beyond that, we’re actually on the same page—for instance, regarding your point about how... "
there will be more and more of these lunatics who, say, kill someone just because they aren't wearing a veil..."
- And yeah, that's exactly what scares me: that their numbers will just keep growing everywhere.
@Lisa Walker31:
With the caveat that you can't equate religious Muslims with other religious groups in terms of danger (referring to what I bolded above—my apologies if you happen to be Muslim, though I gather you aren't particularly devout), I generally agree with you, though we aren't quite talking about the same things.
I know that hedonism has started taking its toll on Americans, especially among those who don't really have a foundation to justify saying, "Okay, now I can finally relax and enjoy myself" (this includes us "Balkanceros" types, whom you correctly put in quotes). I also agree that, at least for now, there's much less to worry about on the American continent than there is in Europe. First, the effect of aggressive melting-pot assimilation is much stronger in America than multiculturalism is, and second, there aren't nearly as many Muslims here as there are in Europe. Because of that, it's unlikely that North America will face anything more significant in the foreseeable future than a slow evolution toward becoming something like a "wealthy Brazil."
Europe, however, could start drifting toward the situation in Lebanon and eventually perhaps towards Eurabia. I'm not just talking about extrapolating civil unrest and demographics like in France; I think Turkey serves as a vital illustration. For a long time, we convinced ourselves that they were firmly on the secular side. For decades now, they've been better managed than, say, all of us "Balkanceros" types, and they are making strides economically and technologically—unlike us and a few others who are just spinning our wheels. Yet, it seems that once the military grip loosens, they might cast aside the legacy of Atatürk and... despite all that economic and technological progress... slowly drift away from secularism. Why do Turks vote the way they do despite everything? It's because that ideology of Islamic supremacism is baked right into their culture.
Murdered over an affair
in World ·
Lisa Walker31 said:And then you look at what happened recently, where this incredibly young American woman... in that very same city... killed her own newborn baby. (She had run away from home too... and was working as a stripper.) What on earth were they supposed to do!!! They should have just sent her back to the Midwest....!!!! Was it the Catholic Church... or the Bible... that drove her to kill her own little baby?
By the way... this woman was dealing with the exact same identity and family issues as that Pakistani woman.
It’s foolish to compare infanticide—which exists everywhere as a phenomenon of individual psychopathology (sometimes even occurring in unquantifiable numbers due to neurophysiological disorders)—with "honor killings." One is an individual tragedy; the other is often driven by social circumstances.
Western societies have managed—with great difficulty—to suppress socially motivated killings like that even in places like Sicily, yet now they are being reintroduced through the front door by demographically expansive immigrants who seek not just to maintain their own social norms, but potentially to impose them on their new homeland. And those norms actually favor "honor killings" quite explicitly, at a higher level than what was once the largely abandoned standard in Western culture!
Besides, you might notice I didn't mention religion anywhere in my post—you were the one who brought it up... so feel free to keep going if you like... because the immigrants I mentioned really are mostly from Muslim countries... and even the stance of that Islamic cleric in the media clip linked above is incredibly ambiguous—something along the lines of: "He wasn't allowed to kill her, but he was forced/obligated to somehow pressure her..."
Murdered over an affair
in World ·
Lisa Walker31 said:🙂 s
And then you have those devout Jewish women... instead of wearing a headband, they just wear wigs!
But... I was watching this interview with the family (also Pakistani) that the girl moved in with. They were saying the whole issue wasn't actually about the hijab, or a headscarf, or any of that covering stuff... it was more... generally speaking... she just didn't fit in with her massive Pakistani family (herself plus seven older relatives) after they moved to Canada. Even her older sisters didn't always cover up.
They don't look like poor people or anything crazy... but... it seems like the girl was a bit of a rapper... and a rebel without a cause! Her dad probably... completely snapped! Probably from the pressure of trying to adapt to a whole new lifestyle—especially since his youngest daughter... a new Canadian little rapper... had run away from home! 🙂
It’s obvious that people should be careful about where they choose to settle. If they had moved to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, or somewhere similar, this wouldn't have happened. People like this clearly shouldn't be settling anywhere in the West—it ends up looking tragic for them, and honestly, for the West too.