ahh 1904, a fine vintage
Finally, Netanyahu is like the sifaka lemur, which I got to observe in Madagascar. Sifakas are primates that use bipedal sideways hopping as a primary means of walking. They advance by moving sideways, waving their arms up and down, which makes them appear to be moving even more than they are. That’s Bibi, always shifting side to side to stay in power and avoiding going decisively backward or forward. This week he may have to.
Imagine writing an article and calling a Jew a shifty monkey being the least racist thing you said in it.
I refuse to believe this isn't an elaborate bit
You cannot convince me that is a sincere line of thought
The U.S. is like an old lion. We are still the king of the Middle East jungle — more powerful than any single actor, but we have so many scars from so many fights that we just can’t just show up, roar loudly and expect that everyone will do what we want or scamper away. We are one tired lion, and that’s why other predators are no longer afraid to test us.
The animal kingdom consists of 4 animals, parasitic wasps, caterpillars, lions and lemurs
We are still the king of the Middle East jungle — more powerful than any single actor
Oh, so that's why we have to constantly beg and plead to Iran that we aren't gonna bomb them, don't worry about it, please don't respond to our moves, we don't want to start a war with you? That's typically what you do if you're the greatest power in the region, sure.
Thomas Friedman has been the ur-caricature of a ridiculous Lanyard type who still thinks it's 1997 and is constantly surprised history keeps happening for decades now
It isn't meant sincerely they just feel they have to say SOMETHING before they do what they are going to do anyway
This is so incredibly stupid, half the posters in this site could come up with a better article in an hour if tasked to do so
And he just had to add that lowkey flex that he observed them in their native Madagascar and not in a zoo like the rest of us plebs.
Referring to your adversaries as insects and genocide, name a more iconic duo
Not to mention, literally advocating for destroying the entire environment and everything inside of it because that’s your only strategy lol
Where’s Bedbug Brett with the google search when you need him?
wait wdym? is this an expression I'm missing from being esl or something. Because otherwise wasps very much do live in jungles
Imperialism's biggest and dumbest defender with more deeply important insights.
Yeah so this guy apparently had a Pulitzer prize? Just if you needed any more reasons to have zero confidence in "journalists".
This is my favourite part
the wasp “injects its eggs into live caterpillars, and the baby wasp larvae slowly eat the caterpillar from the inside out, bursting out once they have eaten their fill.”
Is there a better description of Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq today? (-snip-)
Gee idk is there? could there possibly be a better way to discuss geopolitics than describing four entire fucking nations of human beings as nebulous caterpillars? Could there be some sort of framing that might provide insight? These are hard questions from award winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman
Oh wait, there's more:
(-paste-)They are the caterpillars.
Oh! Well ok then, thanks for clearing that up.
2004 - "the world is flat"
2024 - "flatten the Middle East"yea but I meant thomas friedan in particular
although he prob had the same position back then so whatever
Yeah that's why he's shitty and also he perfectly represents the liberal mindset
You can't enact crimes against humanity if you dehumanize your victims
The bizarre part that stuck out to me personally is: why do you wanna kill that kind of wasp? Its those caterpillars that are the agricultural pests, and that kind of wasp is a pesticide free way to handle those fucking caterpillars that ruin so much food. Some places even breed the wasps and mail them to farmers. And we could kill them, if we wanted, they die to pesticide like a lot of things, "burning down the jungle" is still an absolutely over the top overkill.
Honestly I don't even fully understand what they were trying to say with this. The wasp thing distracted me
