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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Explaining the middle east to a burger: "Imagine fucked up insect animal fascism I smell burnt toast"

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a better description of Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq Today? They are the caterpillars.

Um... yeah i think there's probably many better descriptions of those countries. Who the fuck wrote this Thomas Friedman?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

michael-laugh no one does analogies quite like Friedman. Damn i hate that guy lol

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is trying to explain why Iran is a bad actor in the region.

Lists 4 countries completely ruined by US foreign policy over decades.

???

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago
[–] wopazoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure that Iran is an old lion, and the US is a parasitoid wasp.

[–] bananon@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

It’s actually an apt description. Just as lions should not be in jungles, neither should the US be in the Middle East

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

a recently discovered

god leave it to that dweeb to add that entirely unnecessary qualifier like 'bug that lays eggs in other bugs' isn't a fucking trope jesus christ

tell us what you were eating for lunch when you came up with that banger tom

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

The racism is off of the charts. I'm expecting ancient racial slurs in the next paragraph

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago
[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Wasp are good tho. Natural pest control