Including you, no doubt.

... odds are pretty good that one is dealing with a MAGA, even if he has managed to hide that little red hat of his while company is over.

Some of them are good at playing games like that.

Says the racist who just casually slurred Middle Eastern people, everywhere

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and then complained about my supposed lack of open mindedness, when I pointed out how unreasonable the slur was.

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If it looks like a MAGA and talks like a MAGA ....

Again, that's AI. Cats don't drape limbs around each other like humans do. Instead, they'll curl up next to each other, or on top of each other.

I guess I've found the one woman on earth who never knew anybody who had a cat.

AI. Foxes aren't primates. That's an unnatural pose for a pair of foxes to be in.

We WERE discussing ethnic chauvinism, and now you've changed the subject to that of the fluid nature of alliances, while pretending that to be a uniquely Middle Eastern reality.

Whose side was Italy on in WWI? WW2? Now?

Also, are we supposed to not notice that you just moved the goalposts, while you were playing victim?

"I’m referring to the history of conflicts in the Middle East where many warring factions fought each other, turn around and form alliances, to serve a common purpose, then turn around and fight each other"

As if this had never happened in Europe. Or India or China.

"Hmm, read my original comment, without your close mindedness, for proper context."

1. The term is "closed-mindedness," not "close mindedness."

2. A willingness to call shameless bullshit what it is, is not evidence of a lack of open mindedness.

Reinis Ivanovs writes

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"Centrism is, in a word, claiming to be reasonable by definition so that any substantive criticism of your positions is definitionally wrong"

No, Reinis, that's not what it means. As I already said, I block strawmanners on sight, so this is goodbye.

Sorry, we're not in the same timeline. You might have noticed that the Eugenics Wars didn't happen, back in the 1990s.

But don't give up. We still have all of that imperial glory to look forward to.

I mean, seriously, have you ever met a European, a real European from Europe? Ever hear the French and the Germans talk about each other?

Give me a fucking break.

No ethnic chauvinism in Europe, China or India? How do you write that crap with a straight face?

Right. Are you seriously that ignorant, or just that dishonest?

By the way, Eastern Europe is part of Europe.

Would you be so good as to tell me where it's not ingrained?

Really? Well, I keep hoping that dog who keeps jumping up and barking at me as I walk past his yard really just wants some scritches. But I'm not about to reach across the fence to test that theory out.

"Have you ever noticed that when shit goes down, people demand that minorities be held responsible for their entire ethnic group?"

Yes, yes, oh Hell yes! And then it never stops.