Stuck here out of gas Out here on the Gaza Strip

hahaha she's a real left winger cause she's been down south and held peasants in her arms

oh frank, you're so great

there you go, that nailed it.

ride the tiger down river euphrates

askljrasrrasgghahhshahnngnh!!!!!

*TYRE/tire

or is it tiger anyway?

i'm pretty sure it's tiger

bram you are an untroo fan

i'm definitely not an untroo fan.
and i'm pretty sure it tyre. mainly because he says "tyre" and not "tiger".

plus one for tiger

1:08 tiGER

JFGI! it's right there "tiger was made official by pixies.com"

i think you're right. there (and at the end of the song, at 2:16 and 2:23) it's tiger. everywhere else it's tyre though. so it's both.

and if you listen to the re-recorded version on the gigantic single (also included on complete 'b'-sides, for example), there's no tiger at all. tyre everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G77mnuY6_g

link?

pixies.com doesn't exist, by the way. the official website is pixiesmusic.com these days. and there it says "tire": http://www.pixiesmusic.com/song/river-euphrates/

still sounds like tygre to me

you're all being silly, he clearly sings 'i went bowling'

gen·o·cide


/ˈjenəˌsīd/

noun: genocide; plural noun: genocides

the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

synonyms: mass murder, mass homicide, massacre; annihilation, extermination, elimination, liquidation, eradication, decimation, butchery, bloodletting; pogrom, ethnic cleansing, holocaust

"a tyrant guilty of genocide"

I would agree that civilian casualties of war would not necessarily warrant the term Genocide if civilians were not the aim or targets of a military. But only to an extent.

It doesn't mean that a mass killing has to approach the scale or organization of the Jewish or Armenian Holocausts to garner the term. The term "Holocaust" was applied to the Jewish genocide specifically because the term genocide was not sufficiently strong or weighty to convey the scale and intent involved.

You can therefore apply the term to other forms of mass killing.

Fire bombing Dresden or Nuking two cities in Japan might be considered Genocide. Since the goal was to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Would, however, might be

Aren't most wars against specific nations or countries? Or groups of people? Like always?

i completely disagree. that's not what genocide is.
and was that even the goal?

Doesn't sound like there is a general agreement how to use the term at all.

"deliberate killing of a large group of people"



the goal was to destroy the infrastructure and industry of the city and take out the workers who were employed in heavy equipment plants. The bombing campaigns by both the Axis and Allied forces were designed to weaken the populations of those countries. The allies killed over 200,000 civilians alone just in Dresden. That's a conservative estimate. I've seen some claims that it was closer to 500,000 people.

Based on the definition of genocide, that fits. You don't have to attempt to eradicate every single person on Earth of a particular ethnicity or religion to qualify as committing genocide.

Look at pictures of any German city that sustained heavy bombing. Koln was nothing but rubble. The only thing standing afterwards was the cathedral. Was every apartment house in Koln a military target?

After a war the winners always define the language used to remember it. Which is the only reason we don't refer to Hiroshima or Dresden as genocide.


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that's the "problem" with english. it's never static. the use and meaning of much of the language is constantly changing.

that's not the definition.

I posted it above. what the fuck more do you want?

apparently we have a 12-hour ceasefire.

i hate life.

Just read about this thing that Bibi said in '07 that should put the "is this genocide?" question to rest.

http://972mag.com/when-zionism-is-ra...-record/75515/

ride my DICK down river euphrates

you're an idiot scotty