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Y'all keep trying to apply rational solutions to an irrational problem.
It doesn't matter what the Israelis do, we do, the world does, the Palestinians (for lack of a better term, since Palestine is mostly a British construct) hate the Jews. A visceral, religion-driven hate. Many of them live to kill Jews. Proud to kill Jews. Many times, in the most grotesque and painful way possible.
The Israelis will do their best to root Hamas out. They'll get a lot of them. If they're lucky, maybe a majority. But the seeds of hatred are still there. How long before the rocket attacks begin again? How long before another terrorist invasion starts? How many times does it have to happen, before effective counter measures are enacted?
If the Palestinians wish to live in peace, that's wonderful. Give them aid - medical, food, fuel, electricity, material goods, housing - but don't give them a penny of money. If they do not wish to live in peace, let Israel annex the West Bank as a sovereign part of Israel and let them deal with the Palestinians as they wish.
Personally, I think the only way to permanently deal with the situation is to make the Palestinians A)leave or B) die.
Hey, Putin seems to like them. There's a lot of land in East Russia...
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 13:09 last edited by Renauda 11 Apr 2023, 13:55Personally, I think the only way to permanently deal with the situation is to make the Palestinians A)leave or B) die.
Right now your option B is the accepted rational and practicable choice.
Hey, Putin seems to like them. There's a lot of land in East Russia...
Ain’t going to happen. He does not like them that much. He has enough domestic Muslim problems as it is without importing more.
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@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides in this war
Just gonna put this here:
Link to videoShapiro talks moral equivalence at 19:00.
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 16:15 last edited by@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides in this war
Just gonna put this here:
Link to videoShapiro talks moral equivalence at 19:00.
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
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@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides in this war
Just gonna put this here:
Link to videoShapiro talks moral equivalence at 19:00.
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 16:20 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides in this war
Just gonna put this here:
Link to videoShapiro talks moral equivalence at 19:00.
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
Same can be said for Jordan Peterson.
The public shape of a person who advocates for a tribe as a full time job, will inevitably become grotesque. It doesn't say much about them as a person or a thinker. It's just how public perception works on the internet.
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@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
There is zero moral equivalence between the two sides in this war
Just gonna put this here:
Link to videoShapiro talks moral equivalence at 19:00.
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 18:53 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
Yeah. A few years ago I heard him on Sam Harris’s podcast and thought he’s a lot smarter and more nuanced than he comes off in the various viral clips I had seen. So I subscribed to his podcast. Listened for 10 minutes and realized he’s a totally different persona there.
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@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
Yeah. A few years ago I heard him on Sam Harris’s podcast and thought he’s a lot smarter and more nuanced than he comes off in the various viral clips I had seen. So I subscribed to his podcast. Listened for 10 minutes and realized he’s a totally different persona there.
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 19:06 last edited by@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
@LuFins-Dad said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Wow, he is so much better in that type of setting as opposed to just trying to fill an hour on a podcast.
Yeah. A few years ago I heard him on Sam Harris’s podcast and thought he’s a lot smarter and more nuanced than he comes off in the various viral clips I had seen. So I subscribed to his podcast. Listened for 10 minutes and realized he’s a totally different persona there.
Watch the Oxford video George posted in the other thread.
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wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 19:07 last edited by
For several folks, the setting is everything. Mark Levin, to be charitable, is grating on the radio. OTOH, his tv show on FOX (Life, Liberty, and Levin) is much lower key. And much better.
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For several folks, the setting is everything. Mark Levin, to be charitable, is grating on the radio. OTOH, his tv show on FOX (Life, Liberty, and Levin) is much lower key. And much better.
wrote on 4 Nov 2023, 19:19 last edited by@Jolly said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
For several folks, the setting is everything. Mark Levin, to be charitable, is grating on the radio. OTOH, his tv show on FOX (Life, Liberty, and Levin) is much lower key. And much better.
Levin’s real life persona is milder than both.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 10:53 last edited by
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Like Phibes, I have no issue with the physical annihilation of Hamas and its leadership. That would also include Salafist imams who stoke the fanatical cadres of Hamas through religious psychological corecion and bloodthirsty propaganda.
That does not equate to the physical extermination or ethnic cleansing of Arab Palestinians. There is no moral justification for either, both are indefensible and reprehensible.
wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 11:45 last edited by@Renauda said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Like Phibes, I have no issue with the physical annihilation of Hamas and its leadership. That would also include Salafist imams who stoke the fanatical cadres of Hamas through religious psychological corecion and bloodthirsty propaganda.
That does not equate to the physical extermination or ethnic cleansing of Arab Palestinians. There is no moral justification for either, both are indefensible and reprehensible.
There you go again, making sense. Both the imperatives and the moral implications are quite clear here. Where it gets tricky is the manifestation of both. We expect Israel to walk a very fine tightwire, but I think they are capable of it.
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@Renauda said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Like Phibes, I have no issue with the physical annihilation of Hamas and its leadership. That would also include Salafist imams who stoke the fanatical cadres of Hamas through religious psychological corecion and bloodthirsty propaganda.
That does not equate to the physical extermination or ethnic cleansing of Arab Palestinians. There is no moral justification for either, both are indefensible and reprehensible.
There you go again, making sense. Both the imperatives and the moral implications are quite clear here. Where it gets tricky is the manifestation of both. We expect Israel to walk a very fine tightwire, but I think they are capable of it.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 17:44 last edited by
Ta Nahisi Coates visited Palestinian territories expecting to need to study and observe and think deeply about the situation, but was struck by how obvious the immorality of the situation was. Why is he wrong?
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wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 18:15 last edited by
Fafo. Principles should have consequences. First time in either of those two’s lives that a principle had a consequence. They didn’t like the taste.
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wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 18:21 last edited by jon-nyc 11 May 2023, 18:34
I first thought the guy on the left was a woman, without paying close attention. But the aggression was the tell, even more than the voice or the subsequent closer look.
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I first thought the guy on the left was a woman, without paying close attention. But the aggression was the tell, even more than the voice or the subsequent closer look.
wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 18:29 last edited by@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
I first thought the guy on the left was a woman, without paying close attention. But the aggression was the tell, even more than the voice of the subsequent closer look.
I thought so too. But the body language was also unmistakably that of a man who has no physical capacity to back up the tone of voice.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 01:06 last edited by
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@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Hilarious.
Writing is simultaneously less sophisticated, but funnier and far more aware than anything SNL has done in the past decade.
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@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Hilarious.
Writing is simultaneously less sophisticated, but funnier and far more aware than anything SNL has done in the past decade.
wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 01:33 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
funnier and far more aware than anything SNL has done in the past decade.
You meant "century."
Also, I didn't find it "funny" in a SNL sense of "funny." I found it a bit disturbing in the sense that is reveals how ignorant these asshats are.
But, kudos to SNL for having the balls to air this.
I wonder what the pushback will be.
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wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 01:43 last edited by
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Fafo. Principles should have consequences. First time in either of those two’s lives that a principle had a consequence. They didn’t like the taste.
wrote on 6 Nov 2023, 03:20 last edited by@Horace said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Fafo. Principles should have consequences. First time in either of those two’s lives that a principle had a consequence. They didn’t like the taste.
@Horace said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Fafo. Principles should have consequences. First time in either of those two’s lives that a principle had a consequence. They didn’t like the taste.
I agree. If you have the thought to do the actions, then be willing to explain them.