20,000 years of this, 7 4 more to go
Except it’s the same “flowery language” my fire and brimstone preacher gave at my grandma’s funeral where he said in the eulogy that my immediate family would burn in hell for not believing.
Excuse me for having a bit of religious trauma that comes out sometimes
I will say, when I see these things translated it does set off the alarm bells I developed being dragged to Southern Baptist services by family.
Full support to Hezbollah in their fight against “Israel,” but god damn why is it that most of the good guys lately are also religious nuts. In any other situation I’d hear this language and run far the fuck away.
Something something the capitalists will sell us the rope
“Overcapacity is when we can’t sell things at as high a price as we’d like”
“Overcapacity” just means “We can’t sell things at as inflated of a price as we’d like to”
Syria was just standing its ground against trespassers
Not mentioning in the headline of anything about the US in Syria that US presence there is illegal is journalistic malpractice
“US forces illegally in Syria hit by airstrike”
Nuclear armed submarine, or nuclear powered submarine? Those are two very very different things.
AP is the most garbage “news organization” in existence, and I despise the way they’ve set themselves up as this decentralized entity that somehow both protects them from any actual accountability while also granting them legitimacy as a neutral arbiter
Every other news source cites AP completely uncritically as if their articles just pop up out of the ether and are simply a list of the facts, when in reality they’re a right wing mess
Yeah. We know.
It’s such a cool world we live in where if a few rich dudes in Japan make a decision it can ruin my life. Awesome, that.
To be clear, the illegal base maintained in violation of the orders of the Iraqi parliament for the US to GTFO
Are we thinking of the same guy? The one that looked like every basement dwelling 4chan groyper?
So the sanctions are going great
Ah yes, I did not know that. That seems like a bad idea. I know Germany does something similar and it seems like a bad idea there too.
Another hot take, tests you take as a high schooler should not impact the rest of your life
I’ll be honest I don’t think there are limited resources when it comes to medical schooling, at least in large and/or wealthy countries. The United States could train 10 times as many doctors as we currently do.
I also don’t really see how entrance exams fix that problem even if it does exist. They aren’t entrance exams you take right out of high school, you take them after already taking several years of advanced schooling. So those people are still taking up resources.
You can have “entrance exams” in the same way community colleges do, which is “Can you do algebra and read? If not we’ll have to go back over those.” and then have the first couple years be the fundamentals premed students learn in undergrad. If you couldn’t pass organic chemistry before you still wouldn’t be able to in this version.
Privatization of education isn’t really the problem with medical school (at least in the US), most med schools are at public universities. But they still artificially limit admission and the total students admitted across the country is less than the number of doctors we need and less than the number of students who want to be doctors.
Exactly, which is why I say, every time I see them translated I’m taken aback. I am very aware that there’s a very different context. It still throws me off when I see it because I (rightly) do not normally think of Hezbollah and the white supremacist preacher as the same and so seeing them use the same language feels super fucking weird.
I guess this is a better way to say it: Because of my background, those words to me have a white, Christian supremacist implication to them. When I hear people talk like that (in English) it is a very reasonable assumption to make that they’re a psycho that should be avoided at all costs. And that is not the case here, which is why it’s strange.
I shouldn’t have said “religious nuts” I suppose, that was my bad. Idk, could we maybe translate to synonyms that aren’t exactly how the Christian far-right talks?