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BRING BACK BOQ

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The nation of Canadia will go under the sea and start our own OnA forums deep in the the depths if we don't get our lovely Boq back.
 
Sean Baird

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Boq is a fucking retard.

He DMd me a threat which I posted in the Boq Threats pinned thread. Nothing happened.

He continued to escalate in his replies to me, even while claiming he wasn't replying to me. So I pulled a classic move - the Ol' Pauly Special - I switched to my alt, started threatening him back, which he of course responded to with more threats, and finally one of the mods banned both my alt and Boq's primary. As they should have. He got rope-a-doped.

He'll be back. But let him stew for another week. He will learn nothing and we'll be right back where we started.
Enjoy the peace and quiet while you have it.
 
Africa.com

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Build Black Better said:
The geopolitical entanglements of Africa and the Middle East present a uniquely intricate tableau, where historical contingencies, socio-cultural nuances, and phenotypical variances interweave into a delicate fabric of power, influence, and identity. In addressing the region’s nuanced and multilayered complexities, one must traverse not only the topographical and territorial, but also the deeply ingrained morphological distinctions that underscore geopolitical affiliations and alliances. This satirical essay endeavors to engage with these complex issues through an ostensibly highbrow lens, unveiling the intricacies of the discourse while maintaining a gravitas befitting a technical analysis.

Geostrategic Convergence and Divergence in African and Middle Eastern Statecraft

Central to any discourse on African and Middle Eastern geopolitics is the legacy of colonial demarcation—a legacy which, through arbitrary partitioning, produced sovereign constructs whose borders remain impervious to regional and tribal affiliation. In both Africa and the Middle East, the post-colonial state model has required a delicate balance between pan-ethnic solidarity and the imperatives of national sovereignty. Sovereignty, as conceived in post-colonial contexts, thus becomes an apparatus of both unity and division, a locus of both agency and constraint.

Phenotypically, the sovereign entity—be it African or Middle Eastern—reflects, in a seemingly arbitrary manner, the aggregate of anthropological distinctions codified during colonial regimes. These distinctions, often co-opted into national consciousness, have been used to delineate “in-groups” and “out-groups,” effectively transforming physical characteristics into geopolitical markers. In East Africa, for example, the Nilotic and Bantu phenotypical contrast continues to play a subtle role in national politics, intersecting with regional alliances and antagonisms that extend into the geopolitical arena.

Phenotypic Reification in Regional Geopolitical Narratives

As we examine the geopolitical nuances of Africa and the Middle East, it is imperative to address how morphological markers have been reified into instruments of soft power. These phenotypic markers often become visual signifiers of political alignment, both within and beyond state borders. Consider, for instance, the regional influence wielded by Gulf states, whose perceived phenotypical “Arabness” both distinguishes and aligns them within a broader Islamic sphere of influence. Phenotypic demarcation thus serves as a mechanism for constructing concentric circles of geopolitical affiliation, a process wherein those closer to the core are, ironically, considered more authentically representative of regional identity.

Further complicating these distinctions is the notion of Afro-Asiatic hybridity—a morphological and cultural phenomenon that calls into question the very categories that underpin African and Middle Eastern identities. This hybridity disrupts the neatly delineated ethno-nationalist narratives propagated in post-colonial state-building and introduces a challenge to any essentialist understanding of “African” versus “Middle Eastern” identity. It is within this fluid, and often paradoxical, space that geopolitics unfolds, as states maneuver between pan-ethnic solidarities and intra-regional rivalries.

The Role of Phenotypic Symbolism in Foreign Policy

From the neo-realist perspective, the utilization of phenotypic distinctions as part of a state’s foreign policy arsenal is both an innovative and traditional strategy. For instance, pan-Arabism, which finds its rhetorical origins in the 20th-century quest for unity among Arabic-speaking nations, deploys a phenotypically coded Arab identity as a cornerstone of political legitimacy. This Pan-Arabism, however, is not without its limitations, as it must contend with the variegated phenotypical landscape across the Arab world—from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula—each group ostensibly embodying a unique subset of Arabness, with profound implications for geopolitical solidarity.

In Africa, similar dynamics emerge within the African Union’s framework, where a continental unity is espoused even as states cling to phenotypically charged identities. Nations like Ethiopia and Egypt, despite their shared interest in the Nile, are partially divided by the phenotypic “divide” between the Afro-Asiatic and Nilotic groups. This juxtaposition introduces a unique strategic calculus into their diplomatic engagements, as each nation oscillates between leveraging shared historical narratives and emphasizing distinct phenotypical identities as sources of geopolitical legitimacy.

Conclusion: A Dialectic of Morphology and Sovereignty

Ultimately, the interplay of African and Middle Eastern geopolitics must be understood as an ongoing dialectic in which morphological symbolism, post-colonial sovereignty, and ethno-national identity intersect. The interweaving of phenotypical markers with geopolitical strategy presents a deeply ironic spectacle: nations are at once constrained and empowered by the physical manifestations of identity that their forebears once sought to transcend. As such, the phenomenology of appearance becomes both a burden and an opportunity within the political theater, shaping allegiances, fostering rivalries, and embedding itself into the very architecture of statehood.

In this schema, what appears as an intellectual exercise in geopolitical theory also becomes a tacit commentary on the absurdity of conflating phenotype with political legitimacy. Yet, as history attests, the continued relevance of these markers in regional politics suggests an enduring fixation on the visible, even as intellectual discourse aspires to transcend the superficial. Thus, the geopolitics of Africa and the Middle East remains suspended in a paradoxical state—forever seeking to reconcile the intangible ideals of sovereignty and unity with the tangible realities of morphology and appearance.
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Nice effort but doesn't work for me dog. Not enough stupid, made up words
 
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Boq is a fucking retard.

He DMd me a threat which I posted in the Boq Threats pinned thread. Nothing happened.

He continued to escalate in his replies to me, even while claiming he wasn't replying to me. So I pulled a classic move - the Ol' Pauly Special - I switched to my alt, started threatening him back, which he of course responded to with more threats, and finally one of the mods banned both my alt and Boq's primary. As they should have. He got rope-a-doped.

He'll be back. But let him stew for another week. He will learn nothing and we'll be right back where we started.
Enjoy the peace and quiet while you have it.
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did you post the DMs anywhere besides the initial one?

i wanna read the boq threats. hand over nape, balcony tossing, etc were all gold
 
Sean Baird

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did you post the DMs anywhere besides the initial one?

i wanna read the boq threats. hand over nape, balcony tossing, etc were all gold
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Well he said he'd crush my skull with his hand, but that was public.

The funniest thing is he had just dropped his new pfp and was all excited to show it off, only to get banned a half hour later.
 
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Nice effort but doesn't work for me dog. Not enough stupid, made up words
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Your not wrong, LBJster, is this revision quaint and multifaceted enough to be a ChatGPT quote fulfillster?

The geopoliticospere of Afrivast and the Mid-Orienst presents a unique hydroschematic entanglature where historicized contingencies, sociocultural periphonics, and phenotypal variabilities interflux into a complex fabric of dominancial structuration, ethnodynastic influence, and ethereal identity formations. Addressing the geomorpho-dynamics of these regions necessitates a traversal not only through topoterritorial paradigms but also through deeply ingrained morphosociological distinctions that underlay geopolitico-affiliations and allegiances.

Geostratal Convergeance and Divergeation in Afrivast and Mid-Orienst Power-Matrices

Central to any discourse on Afrivast and Mid-Orienst geopolitics is the legacy of colonial demarcationality—a relic of territorial exogenisms that produced quasi-sovereign constructs. These state-like artifices, whose delimitations remain impermeable to regional or tribocultural affiliation, foster an interstitiality wherein pan-ethnic solidarities collude with emergent sovereigntures. Sovereignture itself, in this post-colonial loci, is transfigured into both an amalgamative contrivance and a divisive axiomatic tool—an ethnojuridical locus of agency within constrainment.

Phenotypal divergence becomes a sovereign symbology, codifying identity matrices that manifest in the variomorphology of anthropological demarcations. These morphoscapes, oft-codified by colonial penultimate regimes, continue to inscribe "in-group" and "out-group" stratifications within an ostensibly homogenized geopolitico-regional landscape. Consider the Niloto-Bantucentric phenotypal contrast in East Afrivast: an ever-subtle, yet geopolitico-effective factor that modulates regional inter-allianctics and antagonisms into an interfluxing arena of morphopolity.

Phenotypal Reification within Geonarratological Constructology

As one probes into Afrivasto-Mid-Orienst geomatrioscapes, it is imperative to underscore how morphoconfigurations transmute into an apparatus of soft-strategemo-diplomacy. These phenotypal demarcatives function as visual symbologistics of politico-alignment, permeating beyond state-bound geoterritorials. For instance, the Gulf-axis states wield their morphodynastic "Arabesque phenotypalism" as a unifying core within a pan-Islamic epicenter. Here, phenotypal demarcation subserves a radial geoconstructive logic, arranging concentric alignments of allegiance predicated on phenotypic morphology.

Intertwining further within this morphotopology is the phenomenon of Afro-Asiatic hybridity—an antithesis to traditionalist ontogenetic schemata that dissolves binary differentiations between Afrivasto-Mid-Orienst identities. This hybridity induces a semiotic rupture in state-built ethno-nationalist narrative symbioses, challenging essentialistic Afrasto-Mid distinctions. Thus, the hybridity paradigm sustains geopolitical transcendencies, enabling states to dynamically reconnoiter between pan-ethnic solidarities and tribocoalitional rivalries in a semi-permeable geopolitical constructum.

Phenotypo-Symbolistic Instrumentalism in Transsovereign Diplomatics

Through the neo-dualist prism, phenotypal distincities are repurposed as metageopolitico-strategemo instrumentals in the synthesis of foreign policy machinae. The Pan-Arabesque ideal, rooted in the oratoric drive for a cohesive Arabicograph sphere, mobilizes a morpho-coded Arabity as a fundament of legiti-nation. However, Pan-Arabesque geosymbolics are not without constraints; the variomorphology across the Levantian-Arabesque continuum complicates essentialist narratives of regional Arabity, and phenotypic substratifications bear profound connotations for geopolitical solidaristation.

Analogous paradigmatics pervade Afrivasto geopolitico-arena within the framework of Africanist Unitarism. Continental pan-unity predicates itself on a quasi-reification of phenotypal identities, allowing states like Ethiopique and Egypte to engage in diplomometric maneuvers around the hydropolitico-Nile intermodality, leveraging phenotypal distinctions as both cultural markers and morphodynastic legitimacies.

Conclusion: Morphocentric Dialecticism within Sovereignity’s Schema

Ultimately, the Afrivasto-Mid-Orienst geopolitico-dynamics unfold as a dialectic between morpho-symbolistic semiologies, post-colonial sovereignture, and ethno-nationality constructs. Herein, phenotypal symbologistics weave into a framework of strategic instrumentality; national bodies are at once confined and empowered by corporeal visibilities transfigured from a bygone colonial era. The phenomenology of appearance, paradoxically, becomes both an impediment and an asset within the politicomorphic sphere, shaping allegiance structures, engendering rivalries, and embedding itself into the ontology of modern statehood.

In this constructum, what might appear a highly intellectualized examination of Afrasto-Mid geopolitico-discourse belies a deeper commentary on the continued valorization of morpho-aesthetics within political theory. The persistence of these markers within the contemporary regionalism discourse indicates a sustained focus on the tangibility of morphology as a politicogeographic symbology. Thus, the Afrasto-Mid geopolitics perpetually oscillate between the idealism of sovereignity and unity, and the reality of morpho-phenotypic apparency, immersed in an ontologically paradoxical state.
 
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