Lizzardspawn
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I recall one American woman being run over by an Israeli bulldozer trying to prevent such an incident.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I like it when activism has consequences. Makes the game for the next players higher stakes and spicier.
Lizzardspawn
4mo ago
Running like a rat out of a flooded tunnel is rarely a stuff of legends. Hamas are hypocritical, where ISIS were at least sincere - Hamas are willing other Palestinians to die for their cause, but not themselves.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
Not facetious. There are no organizations there which are independent and which can guard their resources and supplies from Hamas. So whatever you send - Hamas will have dibs on it. And there is absolutely nothing in the way Hamas has acted so far that indicates that they will put the wellbeing of the civilians that they use as human shields instead of that of their members.
There may be organizations that are honest and will help but they will be working with the displaced civilians in Egypt, not with the ones in the cross fire.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
Bad analogy. Anyway look at the facts - the baby is with major brain damage, needs constant life support, it may not survive the trip, the logistics of the trip themselves are not trivial, and that care is terribly vague. All of the first were could be taken out of consideration if there was some serious data on the last. It is not blocking the way to the hospital, it is blocking the way to a quack.
Lizzardspawn
5mo ago
Generally speaking I am in - I want Russia to win in Ukraine mostly because of the prestige the EU and US have put there and because Zelensky is behaving like entitled brat. But any analysis that doesn't include at least couple of paragraphs on the Russian situation, and the challenges in front of them is incomplete.
Do we have any reasons to believe that Russia will be stronger next year or that at least the decline of Ukraine will be faster that the one of Russia (then the artillery theorem comes into play and Ukraine is fucked). That Russian economy won't crash because of the sanctions kicking in? That Russia's military industrial complex will be able to produce enough stuff that goes boom?
Lizzardspawn
2mo ago
"My health is at risk because if I'm not permitted to abort I might harm myself" is a free at-will golden ticket as long as you're able to memorize and repeat a sentence of that length.
I have a simple solution - allow abortion doctors and psychiatrists and hospitals to be sued by the patients if they have buyers remorse pre-menopause. Same with the ones that transition kids before they are 18 of age. If those are the unadulterated goods that proponents say they are - there won't be issues. People will think twice before rubberstamping one. There should be a skin in the game for the medical personal if they play fast and loose with life altering decisions
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
Gazans get your shit together? Israel has pulled out of Gaza in 2005 and there has been no attempts to resettle it.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
That is good - as with GMO ban. My concern in both cases are the long tail effects on the human body. In Europe and US we can afford the traditionally produced and expensive calories. I prefer the third world to be a test bed for such innovations for a couple of generations.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
If Hamas blows the tunnels and collapses the area to avoid giving Israel evidence, will anyone accept that it wasn't an Israeli bomb?
That is evidence in itself.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
I definitely have an issue with how you present the findings of the article. No one wants to kill the baby. They withhold care and not even on cost base, but because there is no benefit. Second - the article is preciously light with details about the treatment that the Vatican hospital proposes. I doubt that the UK doctors wouldn't recommend the baby to be moved to Italy if there was even a shred of evidence that their treatment there would potentially lead to permanent improvement. Or even to advancement for the medicine as a field.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
Wasn't some Israeli soldiers literally lynched and mutilated by a palestinian mob couple of years ago?
No man left behind means also coup de grace. With reports about mass rape, breasts cut off (thankfully the case I read about was post mortem) and people set on fire - if a hamas vehicle is taking hostages to gaza and you can lob a rocket into it - probably would be better for your people inside.
Latinos have always been white for me. If you are from European descent and culturally Christian you are white. You don't have to be A4 skin color.
Edit: To sound cynical - it is every American's god given right to look down to blacks and natives (the same way for Europeans with gypsies). And when you remove that right they become cranky. So one can expect a lot of Asian and Indian "white" supremacists in next couple of years. Not only Hispanic. The whole point of the social pyramid is not to be at the bottom.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
The bar for blowing hospital and it not being a war crime is quite high. Not impossible and Hamas has made sure to make Israel life easier by doing their best to make any civilian infrastructure legitimate military target, but still it is a big deal.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
In that case they are - otherwise they would have provided details what magic they would do that the UK doctors won't. No but I can block your way to the torture chambers - and invasive treatment without chance of improvement is exactly that.
Lizzardspawn
7mo ago
Really? The US has only client states and adversaries. No allies. There is no such thing as equality when dealing with the US. Look at the charming way they reacted when the idea of United European army was raised.
Lizzardspawn
10mo ago
To me it seems that the Koreans genes have sharply diverged around the mid 1950-s. So is with the German genes in the mid 1940s
Lizzardspawn
10mo ago
She will be totally in place in the godfather as southern Italian wife. Or some time piece situated in Costa del Sol...
There is a weird type of skin color that could mean anything depending on culture and behavior and other cues.
Lizzardspawn
11mo ago
In the same order of magnitude. Just different things you cant say. British libel laws are notorious. And the police is quite active in anti bigorty and hate speech online.
China cares about things people say that towards the state, UK - what people say to each other. Since I am quite fond of China retaking Taiwan, suppressing Tibet and don't give a fuck about Tiananmen - I don't think I can get in trouble with my speech in China ...
Lizzardspawn
4mo ago
Easy - kill the men, deport the women and children.
Lizzardspawn
6mo ago
Average americans have precious little disposable income. there are numerous studies that show that X% of americans lack the capacity to cover emergency expence of Y dollars where Y is some trivial sum compared to the GDP per capita. And the things that are excluded usually from inflation measures include stuff like food, fuel, housing etc.
So the americans are squeezed hard and obviously the economy is not doing well. The cost disease has been fucking up americans since the 70s with couple of boom years in the 90s excluded. And I don't think it is slowing, let alone reversing.
In my neck of the woods prices of food, especially animal products almost doubled since pre 2020. Now the absolute price per shitty calorie is still low, especially if you cook at home. But you enjoy either lower quality diet or less discretionary spending for trips to italy. either way your standard of living is lower. If for enough people standard of living is getting lower, the economy is obviously not doing well, no matter what metrics say.
Simple math - if food, gas and housing are 50% of your income, 10% increase in their cost leaves you with 20% less discretionary money.
Lizzardspawn
7mo ago
The most important thing for Israel is that it moves toward firing squads and summary execution of perhaps 10,000-30,000 fighting age men in Gaza, as well as the entire political leadership, mercilessly but quickly and professionally. But then again, I’m a Zionist.
Support that plan. Unfortunately the only way to deal with monsters is to show that you are the bigger monster and right now you are wearing a leash of your own making and won't it be wonderful if we are to put on both our leashes. Or else. Every Palestinian grunt and thug that has entered Israel today must die. Every part of the command chain that has approved - also. And the political leadership should be decapitated (figuratively, but literal is also acceptable). Then you go to the top survivor and ask nicely - you are now leader. Are you going to behave. If they refuse - shoot him and move to the one under him.
Lizzardspawn
7mo ago
The best thing Israel could do for the Palestinian people is to straight up occupy Gaza and the West Bank and declare them to be parts of Israel and their inhabitants citizens
RIP Israel. This will be the end of the state. Much better idea is to talk with Egypt to annex it and move them somewhere beyond the Aswan dam
Lizzardspawn
7mo ago
Don’t fear. Newsom has promised to appoint a black woman. The only relevant qualification to the Democratic Party.
Not a mod, but lets try to unpack a bit - Don't fear - when you start it is obliviously that at least some sarcasm will follow, more probably snark up to culture warring. Not that first two are against the rules, but are discouraged.
Second sentence - statement of truth - there is link (although a quote to give context would have been more appropriate) and it is fine.
Third sentence - here is where I think the OP got in trouble - statement of fact, that will be inflammatory to a sizeable chunk of the people here. Now if you start fires you better bring facts or quotations. Those are missing. There is not even attempt to soften it as expressing it as an opinion or at least saying it is a trend. I don't think that this is established fact when half the people think otherwise. It is established fact in an echo chamber.
Lizzardspawn
7mo ago
In a way that makes you Jewish. The true essence of being a jew is that whichever way the world turn you are always the one in the least favorable position. Sources - let's start with the old testament and then move to history books.
IDF. The sooner and thorougher they finish eradicating Hamas, the sooner the Palestinians life will start improving.
Edit: Not a satire or sarcasm. Hamas has entagled all military and civilian spaces so that enormous civilian casualties are unavoidable, hamas has made the life of any palestinian in the gaza strip hell, hamas made the coexisting of Israel and Hamas impossible (how israel helped creating hamas is matter for another time), the best way to save palestinians is to help Hamas lose.
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