That’s just too funny. The amount of paranoia in those parts of the world is just really 
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Well, some people would disagree with that statement
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Just remember this crap when people wonder why we can’t make peace. It’s awful hard to make peace when you opposite number is not only religiously homicidal, but also bat-shit crazy.
The comments about the trained sharks (attacking Egyptian tourists) and spy vultures (some university was tracking the migration of an endangered bird species with collars, so the Arabs shot them as spies) were not jokes. Those were real stories, posted here before.
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Well, it’s better than saying you’re somehow the descendant of apes and pigs and can turn into a bat or rat, and bathe in the blood of Muslim children, all which is what the palestinian Arabs seriously tell their children about me and my people.
So, you’d be one step up from the bottom on the ladder of racial discrimination!
Progress!
Now, it’s getting late. I need to ~ fly ~ away.
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Yes, it’s true to some extent, but the “crazy” label is largely dependent on one’s viewpoint. What may seem crazy from - to quote Steve Bannon - a Judeo-Christian perspective now made perfect sense 400, 1000 or 2000 years ago.
Looking from the perspective of a Palestinian youth in Gaza or in the West Bank, what do they have to gain with any kind of peace?
As we’ve covered before in this thread, sexual intercourse, spouse, family life and offspring are off the table for those on the bottom of the social ladder. So is any form of social advancement and meaningful employment as everyone’s unemployed with entire families living in single room apartments - the birth rate is skyrocketing. Oh, and they’re living in what are basically giant overcrowded open-air prison camps which they pretty much can never leave - even their Arab brethren have walled them off (and pretty much viscerally hate them, but that’s another story). No job, no sex, no money, no prospects and your religion looks sternly upon anything remotely resembling entertainment -what is there to live for? That’s why Palestinians obsess over European soccer - there’s nothing else to do. Well, that and throwing stones at Israeli soldiers or joining the only employer around - Hamas. So for them fucking themselves and other people (both Israelis and Palestinians) up is more appealing than status quo or “peace” because they literally get nothing.
So they’re colossally fucked, and they know that - you’d be surprised, but people living in shitholes (yeah, I used that word) know that they’re fucked and the smarter ones are pretty angry about that - the location of their birth made their lives a never ending stream of misery and violence. And if their parents emigrated somewhere in the West, they could have worked at Starbucks and worried about First World problems.
Driving a Toyota technical with a mounted HMG in the desert high on ketamine, shooting people and stuff up and rounding up slaves, including women that were so tantalizingly out of reach is abhorrent for your First World Starbucks baristas, but for example for some Yemeni villager, in a country where entire houses cost five dollars is a most tantalizing career prospect.
What do you think drove (young) men to become Vikings, Conquistadors, Huns (yeah, you pretty much joined the Huns) or Mongol raiders?
So in short, their logic may seem "crazy"of abhorrent but makes perfect sense if you apply the moral criteria from 1000 years ago. Same with the radical Sunni revival - abhorrent, crazy, this-and-that - no, simply how everyone acted in the 7th century.
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And their so called leaders don’t have any problem with taking advantage of them. I once spoke with a writer for the Jerusalem Post and he said that Israelis could understand the idea that Palestinians believe they are fighting for their land but they could never understand how they can send their own children to die on suicide missions.
How many kids do you really need, anyway? Payments to families of martyrs is an attractive incentive when you’re living in a shithole.
I am going to assume that driving a Tesla across Mauritania requires a gasoline powered Ford truck to carry a portable charging station?
Defeats the point if you need two cars to get across as a publicity stunt.
“Goes anywhere! So long as you can generate hellacious amounts of electricity on demand…”
EDIT: Looking at picture again I am not sure if the truck was a power station or an ISIS kidnapping in progress…
Mossad don’t play…
Nope. These guys are the “government” - hence the black Toyota, denoting them as servants to Allah. It’s a really simple color scheme for Toyotas in Mauritania - black is for the Islamist government, white is for AQ/ISIS offshoots and other colors are reserved for slavers.
Actually, you’d be surprised - the Saharan nomads have generators and standard rules of desert hospitality apply - if you don’t mind waiting for a day you can fill up a Tesla after MacGyvering a matching socket onto the cable.
Or you find an urban center and nicely ask these guys for an electrical outlet…
The only reason the Tesla guys are not dead is because the locals haven’t figured out yet what a Tesla is - they only value camels, Toyota pickups and old Mercs for “urbanites” (that’s Senegalese influence - the Mercs)
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I like the American Express, Bosch, Ernst & Young etc… logos all over the place.
The E&Y one in particular. Because every slaving business could use a good audit.
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Old Spice has a nice bick anvil, and a hell of a bench vice, mounted to the floor no doubt.
Very instructive thread from the resident experts @loppar and @Jewbacca.
I won’t say it’s a delight to read, but it is interesting.
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Obviously the ISIS thing was a lame attempt at humor, but that pic of the Tesla getting juice is priceless.
Thanks to ‘Top Gear’ and later, ‘The Grand Tour’ I am familiar with the term merc (Merk) for Mercedes. That episode with Hammond driving the Hellcat with two truck load of tires following him was hilarious!
Have you been to Mauritania? Or do you just happen to know about it from the region?
The bottle of water looks fishy to me… This is Detroit, isn’t it??
I am with Jewbacca on this one. Just because peace is, and was, and has been so easy and yet refused.
And I am unabashedly pro-Semitic and pro-Israel.
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No shop class to learn proper workbench arrangement!
We used to get slapped on the head for making pipes to smoke weed.
Those guys are making parts for AK’s and heroin!
That’s advanced shop class… You should have stuck around longer.
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