anti_dan
4mo ago
Also, the US has leverage on Israel and no leverage on a Hamas that's already maximally sanctionned.
Not at all, Hamas is fully dependent on NGO aid to maintain its rule. There is almost no government in the world that would be easier to smoke out with a US led coalition that does the easy thing of "doing nothing."
anti_dan
5mo ago
Oh I disagree. You can't have such a standard practice without willing participation of the vast majority of the population. Almost everyone over age 10 knows why they are there and is agreeing to it.
anti_dan
6mo ago
Is there a path forward besides: wait for Palestinians to undergo a complete spiritual and cultural transformation? ( Or for the international community to give Israel a freebie on genocide)
No, and we should.
Why isn’t it also on Israel to try to find a leader like, I don’t know, a charismatic Jesus kind of guy who loves the Palestinians even though many of them will terrorize?
Because then we would lose 8 Million productive humans so some crazy people can occupy a really cool coastline.
anti_dan
7mo ago
I've rarely seen HBD ever deployed, even on the internet, in any context except for as a defense against unhinged allegations of racism.
anti_dan
9mo ago
Most prevent implantation, not ovulation. IDK the ones that even prevent ovulation.
anti_dan
9mo ago
Fat shaming is bad because it isn't solving the issue of population becoming more and more obese it just makes lifes of unhealthy people more miserable.
Maybe, maybe not. We don't particularly know.
anti_dan
9mo ago
He claims that we should ensure that even stupid and untalented people still have some minimal level of material comfort.
To what end?
anti_dan
6mo ago
The whole of Israel knows that they will be blamed for everything that happens. A fat guy has a heart attack 12 miles from a place the IDF conducted a raid. Israels fault. Etc. Hamas houses most of its weapons and operatives in schools, mosques, hospitals, etc. So its basically a long debate for the IDF whether they want to be even mildly effective in their response and have to defend themselves in front of antisemites at the Hague, or if there is another means of resolving the situation.
If this was 1833, there wouldn't be a single Gazan alive by Christmas. And this would be just.
anti_dan
7mo ago
The official policy of the last two Democrat presidents of the US has been to fund Iran via "nuclear agreements" which results in funds directly flowing to Hamas and Hezbollah. It aint 6/430. It has been 1/1.
anti_dan
7mo ago
I feel like in the post Gun Germs and Steel world
In the world of an almost universally mocked book that has been shown to be a laughingstock over and over?
anti_dan
10mo ago
I agree with this. Unlike MMR, which I have actively observed children suffering from, and are horrible for babies, some of the vaccines seem way too early.
anti_dan
11mo ago
The comforts of the West having been provided to me because some of my ancestors took the hard road. Look at the Constitution wise men wisely put in the word "Posterity".
anti_dan
4mo ago
We are talking about a specific false flag tactic though. When you're country's military consistently uses underhanded tactics its going to set the opposing military on edge, which will lead to such things.
anti_dan
4mo ago
Why should Gaza accept being locked in a small open air prison in which they are under a blockade?
They shouldn't. They should become a normal nation like the rest of us. The only reason they are under a weak blockade (its almost insulting to call it that TBH) is because they keep making war with their neighbor.
anti_dan
5mo ago
US support for Pinochet's coup against Allende in Chile.
So saving hundreds of thousands of Chileans from poverty?
anti_dan
7mo ago
Because they know that they will be spuriously accused of war crimes and that those accusations are much more important than deaths of soldiers in the long term. It is unfortunate, but it is the reality we are dealing with.
anti_dan
11mo ago
Ok? Basically every-time we try breeding naturally tame traits these days the experiments show that the only real limit is them actually breeding enough and within our patience for trying.
anti_dan
11mo ago
Breaking being used by me as a synonym for taming. One of the main points of a domestication program is to breed tamer traits while not breeding wilder, more rambunctious individuals. Zebras have a decently long reproductive period (similar to horses) which makes the program more ambitious than a dog, cat, or chicken taming process, but considering how easily manipulated they were by Europeans, and how they love to bump uglies it indicates that either:
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Domesticating zebras would have been easily done by whoever domesticated horses; or
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Domestication of zebras was actually partially done, and the modern zebra is a 50/50 (or so) hybrid wild-type/domesticated animal, similar to how no truly wild type aurochs have existed for millennia.
anti_dan
3mo ago
No. My statement is Israel needs nothing, but Palestine would be zero without aid. Every dollar provided to Palestine has a significant percentage eventually funneled to terror campaigns against Israel. Without international aid Palestine would cease to exist.
anti_dan
5mo ago
Yes I agree that the civilian/combatant distinction is useless in the vast majority of cases. I further assert most people asserted to be Palestinian Civilians would fail all but the most lenient tests if given a questionnaire with a perfect truth detector.
anti_dan
6mo ago
If the hospital was also the site of a military installment (they all are), why would that be bad?
anti_dan
7mo ago
$2565 is the median household income multiplied by 0.0344. Unless you are increasing the 6.2 (x2) % SS tax by merely 3.44% which would take the total tax rate to 12.8% instead of 12.4% (while I thought you were increasing it from 12.4 to 15.88%) my math works out perfectly.
Wasn't this just recently part of an ambush in the area? Mentioning it makes me think you are uniformed or trolling.
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