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    infohackRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 10:50pm

    No, Donald, you pinheaded fuckwad, ISIS is what they prefer to be called. Why would you acknowledge their aspirations to create and govern a legitimate Islamic state in the region?

    Call them Daesh, I hear they hate it.

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      Unsophisticated Sophistinfohack
      12/06/15 11:39pm

      Its a myth that ISIS cares one iota over whether people choose to refer to them with the Arabic acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or the English acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

      Both DAESH and ISIS mean the same thing, only in two different languages. ISIS is the English acryonym, while DAESH is the Arabic acryonym.

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      Yog-Sothoth is the Gateinfohack
      12/06/15 11:43pm

      Fun fact: Daesh means exactly the same thing as ISIL. It makes no sense to use it unless you’re speaking Arabic.

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    mekkiRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 11:03pm

    After watching how Obama looks now, does anyone else just want to take the guy on a vacation? Some place sunny and relaxing. He has gone so pale that he is gray. His hair is matching. He has aged twenty years in the manner of seven years.

    This is what he looked like a year before he took office. Look at him. He looked younger than his years.

    It’s all due to stress on the job. The man needs a spa year after leaving the White House. Time to go back to Hawaii and relax by the beach. I wouldn’t wish the job of being president on my worst enemy. I am shocked no one has tied having a stress induced stroke while in office.

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      Snake Personmekki
      12/06/15 11:11pm

      Looking at the before and after pics on presidents is insane. Clinton and Bush both went basically white.

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      mekkiSnake Person
      12/06/15 11:30pm

      Someone at the very least should install a tanning bed in the White House. Get these people some sun even if it is artificial. It’s clear they spend most of their time indoors.

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    stephkat716Rachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 11:44pm

    Is there someone that can explain why President Obama says ISIL instead of ISIS? I tried to google it but the results seemed to be a lot of right-wing conspiracy theories and I was scared.

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      sukatrastephkat716
      12/07/15 12:39am

      Rachel Maddow explained it months ago and it was so confusing my eyes rolled back in my head. Basically, my understanding is this, paraphrasing the linked article below:

      ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Levant denotes a far larger region than just Iraq and Syria. By calling the group ISIL instead of ISIS, it implies that the group is not only a serious threat, it is a large one too.

      The linked article will also make your eyes roll back in your head. It took me a while to parse out what I wrote above.

      I had the same problem pulling up a shitload of right wing sites as well.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/w...


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      jinnisukatra
      12/07/15 12:57am

      In actuality, the Levant is the more accurate term in terms of translation. Syria is also accurate but in terms of: Greater Syria. “Al-Sham” in Arabic is “Greater Syria,” that is the entire Fertile Crescent; a term to which Western Cartographers also used to adhere.

      From Wikipedia:

      Greater Syria (Arabic: سوريّة الكبرى‎) or Natural Syria (Arabic: سوريّة الطبيعية‎), Bilad ash-Sham (Arabic: بلاد الشام‎), is a hypothetical united Fertile Crescentstate.[1] The term denotes the restoration of the Arab Kingdom of Syria. The proclaimed area extends roughly over the medieval Arab Caliphate province of Bilad al-Sham, encompassing the Eastern Mediterranean or the Levant and Western Mesopotamia at the peak glory of the Arab Muslim civilization.

      The pre-Islamic, Hellenistic name of the region, “Syria”, was used by the Ottomans in the Syria Vilayet until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The wave of Arab nationalism in the region evolved towards the creation of a new “Great Syria” over French-governed Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, declared as Hashemite Kingdom on March 1920, claiming extent over the entire Levant. Following the Franco-Syrian War, in July 1920, French armies defeated the newly proclaimed Arab Kingdom of Syria and captured Damascus, aborting the Arab state. The area was consequently partitioned under French and British Mandates into Greater Lebanon, various Syrian states, Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan. The Syrian states were gradually unified as the State of Syria and became the independent Republic of Syria in 1946.

      This being said: why not simply use Da’esh?

      We didn’t anglicise al-Qaeda into “The Base” (its translation). And al-Qaeda is harder to pronounce!

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    sklayRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 11:03pm

    As soon as he started taking about Muslims being our friends and partners, Fox news in Detroit cut to commercial. Possibly an accident, but not altogether surprising.

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      Rachel Vorona Cotesklay
      12/06/15 11:25pm

      OH WOW.

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      sklayRachel Vorona Cote
      12/06/15 11:41pm

      Yeah, my eyebrows shot up pretty fast. I don’t know if the entire commercial played through because we changed the channel to watch the rest of the address.

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    the-fresh-prince-of-middle-earthRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 10:41pm

    I know for sure Obama is handing this very poorly; I don’t really have any real solution, but I’ll destroy ISIS. He can’t even call ISIS by its proper name

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      mummersdragonthe-fresh-prince-of-middle-earth
      12/06/15 10:54pm

      Well, considering that Wikipedia and a number of other places use “ISIL” primarily, I’m not sure he’s any more wrong than you are in this circumstance.

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      jinnimummersdragon
      12/06/15 11:56pm

      I think it was facetious?

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    jinniRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 10:50pm

    “Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our coworkers, our sports heroes, and yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that,” Obama said.

    Thank you. Love him.

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      Slow Mutantjinni
      12/07/15 12:30am

      That sports hero line is more important in pointing out idiots than you’d think. I’d like to see how the “I won’t serve Muslims” crowd treats Muhammed Ali.

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      jinniSlow Mutant
      12/07/15 12:36am

      Or Kareem Abdul Jabbar; or Zinedine Zidane.....

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    chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfishRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 10:48pm

    A careful, nuanced and thoughtful speech. It will no doubt be lost on the ears of the Trumpified media.

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      Jecht342chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish
      12/06/15 11:42pm

      In fairness, we all know nuances are for sissies.

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      chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfishJecht342
      12/06/15 11:56pm

      True dat.

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    MujerRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 10:44pm

    Cruz seounds like a 6th grader running for class president, smh. It’s interesting the President is asking Muslims to lead the charge on exterminating extremism.

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      Harvey ManfredjendsenMujer
      12/06/15 11:13pm

      The Venn diagram of his competitors, the people he’s wooing, and the emotional and intellectual capacities of actual 6th graders would shock you. Or maybe not, cttoi

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      jazmaniandevilMujer
      12/07/15 12:06am

      Seriously though.

      “I promise you won’t find a single brussels sprout in your lunch if you elect me! Pizza all week! I’ll lower ice cream prices and get rid of bullying!”

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    lady rainicornRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 11:42pm

    That Trump tweet with the 1000s of likes makes me so damn sad. It’s really quite unsettling that people like Trump and believe he would actually be a competent president and believe he’s what America needs. I’m going to miss the fuck out of Obama. I just feel so...bad for him, you know? I just feel bad that so many people hate him. Sorry for the sad trombone of a post, but I guess I’m just disheartened every single day by this damn country.

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      sukatralady rainicorn
      12/07/15 12:22am

      Ditto a thousand times

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      mwittierlady rainicorn
      12/07/15 2:06am

      It’s so damn idiotic as well: “We need a new President - FAST!”

      Regardless of who is elected, the inauguration will occur on the same date. Maybe he meant to suggest that our need for a new president is critical? Most voters don’t agree (Barack won two elections, and he’d likely win a third if it was possible) but regardless, we need our next president to be succinct and articulate, which rules out the Orange Scrotum with a blowhole.

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    NerdlingersRachel Vorona Cote
    12/06/15 11:11pm

    I’m just depressed that a classroom of first graders being murdered does nothing, but a Muslim American shooting up his office is apparently enough to to create some kind of tipping point.

    That being said, I feel a very strong desire to strike Daesh down. If they are now recruiting by saying, “Commit any act of violence, it is in the name of ISIS!” Than it is important to show impressionable dipshits that they are not in control.

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