Meanwhile in Tunisia

[Meclazine for Israel]

Air Tunisia

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7Kflt1Jdnq/

Tunisia bringing their ultra violent best. That is insane.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Tunisian political spectrum these days is basically this to the Bourguibist tour guide I had last year, who said stuff like "Arabs...Arabs need a dictator" and "the only problem [with Emperor Hadrian] was that he was what we would today call a homosexual; other than that, he was a perfect man". With, least we forget, a massive population of decent, demoralized, grillist (or tajinist) normies in the middle.

[lfromnj]

There's huge protests in Tunisia about African migrants trying to get to Europe but then just staying in Tunisia.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

There's huge protests in Tunisia about African migrants trying to get to Europe but then just staying in Tunisia.

In that context I should mention that the Bourguibist tour guide was an at-least-second-generation Sahelian or Tuareg Tunisian who was an avowed atheist and disapproved of Muslims and Christians equally because "all used African slave labor".

[CumbrianLefty]

Well he's not wrong there tbf.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well he's not wrong there tbf.

Oh, by no means. The great thing about spending a day with him was that, while his worldview was both jarring and unpleasant from my and my friends' American standpoint, in the Tunisian context it made sense and I honestly couldn't fault him for...well, most of it, at any rate. It was the sort of human experience that international travel should be about.