French colonialism in Algeria committed genocide but receives far less attention than other European colonial crimes.

that's because the global north's hegemon is the anglosphere.

I don't think it is productive at all, the moderator practically dissolves most of the video. Ideally all of us should be yelling at the top of our lungs, understanding each other perfectly. Things feel eerily silent, like people speaking to me through deep water.

Had you said "all over the world" then your comment would have come across as simplistic but your phrasing suggests tacit bigotry.

I strongly disagree, because there’s no communication. Not having known either of them earlier, I feel like one’s a jerk and the other might have lied about his identity, but I don’t feel more informed about Saddam Hussein or the public response to his killing.

Maybe this hits differently if you’re better informed about who these people are.

They're definitely not numb or complacent and that is something too many of us have fallen victim to. But this is not a healthy debate. The moderator is barely there, and the speakers don't get any deeper than ideological hatred and disagreements on basic facts.

This is more of a bad dream which has already passed. Rather than sectarian lines the region is splitting on imperialism. It seems like you're painting the region as having some kind of innate barbaric cultural quality. The history is more complex and interesting than six minutes of yelling, even if it would make a good climactic moment in some Adam Curtis inspired documentary.

I hold this up as an example of what debates on television should all look like. A level of involvement in the discourse, chewing the scenery, gnawing it apart, that we should all aspire to

defending interests of settler-colonies

what was that defensive alliance doing in iraq tho

I hope the imperialists leave forever

Probably but i gave the benefit of the doubt 

A convenient loophole when they didn't recognize slaves and indigenous as citizens.

The claim isn't even true.

In the United States, the number of Americans killed by police each year has been a significant concern.

Over 1,000 people have been killed by police every year from 2013 to 2024.

In 2024, the highest number of fatalities was recorded at 1,375.

All you have is a lie about Iran killing 20,000 that has not been corroborated and we have no evidence for.

In Killing their own Citizens.

Not in Killing Citizens Generally.

The US isn’t the world’s most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful, it’s the most powerful government because it’s the most vicious. It’s the power structure which was willing to do whatever it takes to rule the world, no matter how profoundly evil. Genocides. Starvation sanctions. Nuclear brinkmanship. Imperialist extraction. The deliberate creation of failed states and humanitarian catastrophes. Policies designed to keep entire regions in a continuous state of division and strife. The United States and the globe-spanning empire structured around it have inflicted depravities upon our species which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. If you could truly comprehend the scale of the suffering it has created over the years, even for a second, you would never stop screaming.

Assuming this is true, they’re to replace the thousands they smuggled in before the astroturfed “protests.”

Now it turns out that Epstein had a plan to fracture Egypt and Syria, and the UAE was a willing participant. According to what have others said the leaks say, I haven't read them myself.

Now the plan is to further break up Syria by establishing a Druze state. Egypt was specifically mentioned but nothing happened yet.

It snows every winter, this is just the first time this winter. Jabal al-Lawz is where the 2029 Asian Winter Games will be held.

When did I say anything about Arabs? Here I thought I was being critical of an authoritarian absolute monarchy built on oil and blood that's trying to buy good press by making a street food market....

Yes, I have. I demonstrated how a centrally planned marketplace can thrive with a historical example. It is not like zoning laws and transit-oriented development are new things. But the effort was wasted on someone who already decided "Arab country bad" and won't look past their biases.

Do you think you've said something meaningful here? Yes, market towns were basically invented in the middle ages, the king granted certain towns the right to hold markets. 

That was 400 years ago

This is 2025, and street food 

A market town is a settlement (commonly in Europe) that obtained a market right (by custom or royal charter) in the Middle Ages, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or a city. In Britain, small rural towns with a hinterland of villages are still commonly called market towns, and is sometimes reflected in their names (e.g. Downham Market, Market Rasen, or Market Drayton).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_town

Nothing says vibrant street food hub like the state allowing vibrant street food only in their hub