Pasha
Defend Kebab
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Pasha
Defend Kebab
14d ago
Yes they obviously thought about it quite hard and the solution is to bribe and blackmail enough American politicians (with child rape) to get the American military to complete the job.
“Best” is a meaningful term because Israelis don’t have the means to actually destroy the facilities themselves. If they would, this would change the strategic picture massively.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
Sorry for discrediting myself by describing killing a couple hundred thousand people out of a population of 2 million as genocide.
Eager to hear more of your genocide-free strategy of starving them instead and bombing those “meat shields”. Oh and the final option forcefully cleansing the land of them.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
11mo ago
Israel has changed an incredible amount demographically as a result of its mass immigration approach and birth rate imbalances. This is reflected in every aspect of its politics and society.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
11mo ago
The words occupied and apartheid don't mean what you seem to think they mean
When Israel was much more of a liberal western oriented country, its western supporters had an easy time wordcelling such arguments. It’s definitely not that country anymore and this is broadcasted very effectively to rest of the world thanks to online video sharing.
That's not the behavior of a country consistently struggling to take over land
Israel created massive refugee camps of the native population of its lands and then tried to dump the problem onto the neighbouring Arab states. I can’t gather a lot of sympathy for them for failing at this and having to deal with the consequences of its actions. Also it lost Sinai in a war (incidentally: a war that displayed how extremely vulnerable the country is if its enemies can act with even a tiny bit coordination. Israel’s short sighted and frantic actions are pushing its enemies into such coordination right now)
And your last paragraph is quite telling unfortunately. I mentioned “20th century example” on purpose, as you might be aware that since mid century a western taboo emerged against conquest and ethnic cleansing. Ironically this taboo is what sustains Israel ever since as many western states and peoples feel very bad about what happened to the Jews and thus give Israel massive amounts of material support and turn a blind eye to break the same rule within limits.
If the world started operating on pre-20th century assumptions of ethnic conflict again, Israel would have a free hand to exile or kill the Arab population of course. But then it could also not expect much sympathy or support from the West when the hundred fold more populous enemy surrounding it did the same to Israel. So be careful what you wish for.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
If you bother to follow the actual thread, you will see that my comment was written on October 11t 2023. In the last year Israel has murdered about 50k. I am not IDF high command but it’s clear they would gladly work up this number if they weren’t under tremendous international pressure.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
7mo ago
Rust's default indentation that cargo fmt forces on everyone is pretty solid and I am super happy that literally everyone uses the same style everywhere.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
9d ago
There are many (much much greater) injustices in the Ottoman collapse and many people who constantly try to “fix” them. You see them often standing trial in The Hague or topping CIA most-wanted lists for crimes against humanity. Kurds didn’t get a state because they are a loose combination of mountain tribes who speak a somewhat similar language to each other with zero history of having a state or associating with each other politically. It’s not a coincidence any Kurdish political group immediately becomes a proxy servant for a larger state.
Speaking of proxy politics, did you ever actually wonder why Iraqi Kurdistan is a relatively stable safe and prospering place? Would you mind googling a bit about the Turkish military bases (136 of them according to BBC) in the country providing this security or how much of their economy is based on trade and investment from Turkey or how Iraqi Kurdish politics actually manage to stay stable? (Hint: it’s totally controlled by two clans which are both Turkish state proxies and compete/rotate for offices peacefully via negotiations with Turkish foreign ministry)
I understand you have some personal grudges against Turkey and Iran but how much more do Syria and Iraq need to be weakened for this great pro-western Middle East to emerge in your imagination? Have you by chance checked any news since year 1999?
What are these “secular people” in Turkey going to do once in power to please you? Can you give me some examples of how Turkey is a more Islamic country today than in 2001? Also I am looking forward to some examples of any Islamitising influence out of Turkey that caused anyone ever any trouble. Somehow Sunni jihadi movement is entirely funded and armed and manned by the Saudi and Qatar, both hardcore American allies/clients, but the grand strategies for fighting it never involve fixing any great injustices in those countries
Edit: yeah kebabs are good but they are good literally everywhere. Is Erbil the only place you ever visited in the Middle East or something?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
3mo ago
Border police is what happens when you have police with almost no checks. It’s often pure anarcho-tyranny for its own sake. You can wave through literal millions of third world immigrants enough to cause total demographic change. But as long as the police makes one random English backpacker suffer for minor procedural violations (and often not even that), everyone feels good.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
4mo ago
I don't have any advise sorry but how automatable do you think this job is by some combinations of OCR/LLM/GUI to keep humans in the loop when needed?
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
If you bother to follow the actual thread, you will see that my comment was written on October 11t 2023 and describes a future hypothetical based on the statements of Israeli politicians at the time. That hypothetical turned out to be more correct than not.
Stop masturbating with words. If you want to mass murder people have the courage to actually say so.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
5mo ago
For some reason it didn’t occur to me that people pay for any of this AI stuff
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6mo ago
Perhaps the unexpected Zerg rush of HTS was all Biden’s doing to beat the curse
Pasha
Defend Kebab
6mo ago
most of my favourite destinations have been quite out of the way and not on the average tourist's radar. The ability to make these discoveries is an integral part of travel for me.
How does this combine with lacking free time then? Do you just spend a lot of time researching
Pasha
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10mo ago
They have both been dead for about 50 years now so that might be difficult.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
10mo ago
Is this at all possible if you don’t live on the ground floor?
Pasha
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11mo ago
lol I didn’t expect that. It’s mostly electronic design though I think
Pasha
Defend Kebab
8d ago
I don’t think I understand your cop-out unless you are saying “some women like bald men”
Pasha
Defend Kebab
10d ago
That is a very strange assertion to me. Why is Erbil a nice place to live? What does "uniting" Kurdistan achieve for you?
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