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  • They’ve edited the headline. When I saw it 30 minutes ago it said “joke country” in the headline. It was quite offensive, and all on the editor, so good choice to remove it. He didn’t actually call it that.

    Anyway, his explanation is still that it’s just a joke.

    Though Long said he could understand why the comments would have set off a reaction, he was adamant they were a joke and should not be taken seriously.

    Maybe I’m polishing my own halo, but I think it’s very telling of how old fashioned these people are. Everyone in that kind of position ought to know better than to make jokes by now. Where have these people been for past twenty years? It’s just not acceptable. I don’t mind a good offensive joke, but there’s a time and place for that, and that place is far far away from any media and never to be done in a position of power.





  • He is from Syria.

    I’ll assume you’re from USA.

    Imagine you’re taking care of your farm in some rural area in Iowa, minding your own business far away from the city and all the politics and all that shit. However, one day, out of nowhere, your farm got bombed in a civil war that had nothing to do with you. Everything is gone. No place to stay, nothing to eat, no work to get and nowhere to go.

    Someone offers to help you out of the country, to Mexico, and get a new citizenship and a place to be and work. The catch is that you have to enroll in the Mexican army temporarily. Ok, so they have a small military operation against some other country that you’ve never heard of, but don’t worry about that. If you have some cash you can bribe yourself to nice safe paperwork position far from the action, so no risk really.

    That would a reasonable thing to accept for someone who has nothing to lose and everything to win.

    Except that you got sent to the front line with no training and no way out.

    Sure the guy is an idiot, but the real asshole are the Russians.