Castile soap is an olive oil based hard soap made in a style similar to that originating in the Castile region of Spain. The origins of Castile soap go back to the Levant, where Aleppo soap-makers have made hard soaps based on olive and laurel oil for millennia. Early soap-makers in the Mediterranean area did not have easy access to laurel oil and therefore dropped it from their formulations, thereby creating an olive-oil soap now known as Castile soap.

In the 17th century, the soap caused controversy in England, since it supplanted the unnamed local soap after the Spanish Catholic manufacturers purchased the monopoly on the soap from the cash-strapped Carolinian government. Its ties to Catholicism caused a public-relations campaign to be established, featuring washerwomen showing how much more effective local soaps were than Castile soap. The sale of a monopoly in Protestant England to a Catholic company caused a great uproar, ending with the Castile soap company eventually being stripped of the monopoly.

Nabulsi soap is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine. Its chief ingredients are virgin olive oil (the main agricultural product of the region), water, and an alkaline sodium compound. The finished product is ivory-colored and has almost no scent. Traditionally made by women for household use, it had become a significant industry for Nablus by the 14th century. In 1907 the city's 30 Nabulsi soap factories were supplying half the soap in Palestine. Project Hope and other local non-governmental organizations market the soap in the West to raise funds for their other community projects.

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  • HalidBeslic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Never posting youtube drama on this site again. Worst mistake of my life.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Idk, as an old-head, its good to see the community scrap once in awhile. Gives the mods a chance to clean out some of the garbage that has been accumulated due to neglect. The Mega v.s. Ukraine thread posting cultures were bound to come to conflict at some point, it just happened to be on your post.

      Although, to be even more of a pedantic fuck than BE, what you posted isn't YouTube drama per se, as it wasn't drama between obscure YouTube personalities, which I am happy to say doesn't cause struggle sessions here outside of flushing out Vaushposters. Instead, it was an obscure leftist YouTuber critiquing a celebrity who just so happens to be one of Ukraine megathreads hexbear heros of the moment. Basically, the perfect bait for conflict. Now, I don't think you meant to do it, but it's pretty much a perfect bait because of the disdain that the Ukraine megathread has for any left wing YouTuber, let alone one that is critiquing their designated celebrity of the month.

      It's like me and any post having to do with the Brooklyn arts scene. I just love to shit on it.

      • HalidBeslic [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I honestly don't like conflict on this site, being that it is one of the only places on the internet that doesn't make my blood pressure rise constantly with dumb takes. So it makes me really sad to have orchestrated a fight by accident, however imminent it was. I still stand by my opinion that BE deserved to get dunked on, but had I known that a part of the users of this site don't agree with my views, I just wouldn't have posted.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Agreed for the blood pressure part. However if you want a little posting wisdom, it's that these sites are inherently like this. Cultural circle-jerks that inevitably come into conflict in certain areas over certain spaces, leftist YouTubers being one of the big sticking points that will never go away because of how trivial it is for them to make content to comment on.

          Sometimes you can pick the battle, but most of the time if you're not a sociopath these things will just crop up naturally. OP for this mega is being over-dramatic as fuck towards you and the ideas around 'anti-secterianism' in general (though not about the whole SA ick, mods need to get on that). Ultimately, it doesn't matter that much. It's just a shit posting website.

    • Venusta [any]
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      2 years ago
      CW hostile, I'm sorry should have been more charitable did not realize the user was new, don't associate someone coming here and immediately posting to the dunk tank

      good it’s mostly your fault, you should have posted it in c/strugglesession and not the dunk tank

        • Venusta [any]
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          2 years ago

          like legitimately you made a post dunking on a socialist / communist perspective you disagree with that is not what the dunk tank is for

          • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            comrade i have nothing to do with this argument, i barely even know what you're talking about

            • Venusta [any]
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              2 years ago

              It’s sectarian, I don’t go and put bayarea415 or Daniel Dumbrill videos in the dunk tunk bc I don’t like/agree with them, I respect other people being able to have their own opinions, not like let’s shit on this take that other people may well think is reasonable

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                2 years ago

                So I'm out of the loop, but are you pro or anti the argument advanced in the video

                Cause I'm pro-Waters and fuck any radlib, optic-baiting, red scaremongering post-berniecrat loser who thinks anything Waters said was remotely out of line

                Goddamm first breath of fresh air in the mainstream media in over six months and first world motherfuckers out there talking about "EVeRYoNE LoSES" nah son fuck that spinless disingenuous shit

                • Venusta [any]
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                  2 years ago

                  fuck any radlib, optic-baiting, red scaremongering post-berniecrat loser who thinks anything Waters said was remotely out of line

                  this is the reason there was a struggle session

                  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                    2 years ago

                    Look if ya don't want your friend in the dunk tank, tell em to stop making shitty videos

      • HalidBeslic [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I don't agree that it was 'mostly my fault', the thread devolved without any of my input. Although I agree on the other part. Had I known that this would happen, I would have posted it there or not at all. Sorry for that.

        • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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          2 years ago

          Nah nephew it was the perfect place to post it, video made a dogshit argument and it deserved to get dunked on

        • Venusta [any]
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          2 years ago

          That’s fair enough, I could have told you posting that in the dunk tank would start a struggle session in advance of doing it, but anyways it really should be just dunking on strictly lib / reactionary takes.

            • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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              2 years ago

              Hey comrade, just a heads-up, that guy you responded to turned out to be troll (an antisemitic one at that) don't listen to a word he has to say, you did nothing wrong posting that video, he derailed your thread and multiple others, just wanted to inform you so you don't get discouraged or put off

              We got your back friend :red-fist: :rat-salute: