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Anonymous Tue Oct 2 20:12:16 2018 No.11874594 [Reply] [Original]

The only government that follows this mans words is also the government of the best country on earth.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 20:19:10 2018 No.11874628 >>11874594 Saudi Arabia?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 21:09:00 2018 No.11874834 Fuck off shill

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 21:10:55 2018 No.11874847 Who is this Arab man?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 21:15:36 2018 No.11874861 Who is this 21st century Legatus?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 21:16:48 2018 No.11874868 File: 133 KB, 499x484, CapitalIsDisplacement.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 2 21:26:07 2018 No.11874903 >>11874868 I always viewed these posts as inherently ironic

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 00:20:04 2018 No.11875419 >>11874847 He's not Arab he's Greek and a Christian. You would know that if you actually read his work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 00:23:52 2018 No.11875433 >>11875419 He looks like an Arab. He was born in an Arab country. He speaks Arabic. His name is Nassim Taleb. He's Greek you say? Interesting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 00:33:57 2018 No.11875458 >>11874903 Why do you say that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 00:36:08 2018 No.11875464 >>11875458 What do you mean? Say what?

Anonymous Wed Oct 3 02:24:33 2018 No.11875775

>>11875419
You can be Arab and Christian. That being said, he's as much an Arab as an Irish household that speaks English is English, not very. Probably wouldn't call him Greek though, I'll stick with Lebanese.

>>11875433
>looks like an Arab
As well as a hundred other nationalities in West Asia and Southern Europe
>born in an Arab country
Born in a Christian Maronite country
>speaks arabic
I'm not English, yet I type this to you

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 02:29:53 2018 No.11875788 >>11875419 t. dumbass Ive seen "white" lebanese but that man is certainly an arab

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 02:39:07 2018 No.11875807 >>11875775 You do know he calls himself greek, even phoenician in jest right? Go to his twitter if you havent noticed.

Anonymous Wed Oct 3 06:07:59 2018 No.11876323

>>11875807
I do know these, and I can say that that's erroneous of Taleb. If he was an ethnic Greek, which I'll admit there is some degree of evidence for, but not enough, then he is far removed enough from the Greek identity to have to refer to himself as Lebanese instead. Phoenician, too, is a bit of LARP.
But the term Arab in the middle east has become far too widespread, and groups together various nations that are extremely culturally and ethnically different.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 07:25:36 2018 No.11876495 >>11874868 I think this is meant to be taking the piss, but its a pretty great image.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 11:01:49 2018 No.11877174 Isn't this the guy who wrote about the anti-fragile concept?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 3 12:03:03 2018 No.11877377 >>11877174 he's the guy who popularized it, heh

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