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Brian Fantana

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  1. It would have been much wiser to never allow SpaceX and NASA to become as [somewhat irreversibly] intertwined as they have, where critical aspects of American spaceflight are directly under control of an unhinged drug addict, not to even begin to touch on what an incredibly massive national security problem Starlink is. Alas, here we are.
  2. If anyone that posts here ever earnestly calls me smart I'm hurling myself off the nearest bridge
  3. It's funny because he's accidentally arriving at the correct conclusion by approaching it from the point of view of wanting to suck Trump's dick from the back. SpaceX absolutely should be forcibly (should have been long ago, if we're being honest) nationalized considering it's already largely funded by the US government, regularly (and spectacularly) flaunts its regulations and laws, and considering the political activity of its owner.
  4. Shut up you weird slut
  5. This is a big part of the reason I exclusively play tournaments nowadays. (Unless it's somebody's home cash game that isn't taking a rake, of course)
  6. I honestly am shocked it took this long for them to start fighting
  7. I don't think Rex wants due process to be skipped, he just wants them deported. I think maybe he doesn't understand that ChickenSandwich actually does want due process to be skipped.
  8. Friendly reminder that the Due Process Clause applies to every person within the United States, including non-citizens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent. Anyone that continues to push the narrative that these people are not entitled to due process because they are not citizens is lying to you.
  9. That's how our justice system works. Someone has to be punished. It's stupid, but that's how it works.
  10. Instead they just say shit that isn't even true and blame progressives
  11. Yeah, no fucking shit. They didn't commit any crimes and due process must be followed. As I said earlier, if you want to make the argument that their asylum claim is invalid, that's fine, due process still must be followed. If you want to expedite the process, fine, due process still must be followed. I don't understand why so many of you have just suddenly decided that due process doesn't matter at all, considering that every American's rights depend on the government not being able to just do whatever the fuck out wants, the law of the land be damned.
  12. Read my post again
  13. Dems have apparently decided that the way to beat the propaganda is to outflank it by running to the right of it. e: Not on everything, of course, but certainly on things like foreign policy i.e. Iran
  14. Everyone that has ever told someone on this site to go fuck their own face really has it coming, apparently.
  15. It's not punitive in itself, but it becomes so if you, say, deport the family to Trump's personal El Salvadorian prison instead of their home country, but seeing as that won't happen here, your assessment is essentially correct.
  16. You can't just deport people because they might do a crime in the future, that's crazy my man. If you want to say that their asylum claim isn't valid and process them out that way, I'm fine with that, but you can't just precrime people because daddy is a psychopath that did a terrorism. Those kids lives are already ruined anyway.
  17. Hear hear. Well said.
  18. Hey fuck you buddy!!
  19. I wonder how related it is to the number of fish in the pond, so to speak. They have 5 owners that are famous poker players of varying levels of notoriety, and who knows how many other owners/partners/investors that aren't publicly known.
  20. You're not supposed to piss in the water?
  21. I don't think you're wrong at all about the lines being blurred within American society, but this is effectively entirely the fault of how Zionism and the Israeli state has been portrayed to the American public by the government and mainstream media outlets for decades. There is almost a complete lack of education on the subject, by design, which leads to the average American to simply assume that Zionism and Judaism are the same thing, and therefore if you are anti-Zionist you must be antisemitic. On the flip side of that, if you are actually antisemitic, conflating the two is beneficial to you because you can simply use Zionism as a bludgeon to shit on Jews, or worse, commit acts of violence against them. The general lack of public education on the subject also naturally leads to increases in levels of antisemitism across the board any time Israel does something fucked up and it gets reported on national TV. I do think you are absolutely correct that there are some uniquely bad actors in the movement that present and use anti-Zionist rhetoric in a very insidious way. With regard to my assertion that you're referring to here about Zionism effectively being equitable to Nazism, I feel like I should offer some clarification, even though I know it may be an unpopular opinion (though more and more people are seeing it for what it is every day). I consider Zionism, specifically as it is practiced by the Israeli government, to be functionally indistinguishable from the racist, genocidal/exterminationist practices of Nazism. I am not at all referring to the everyday Jewish person (or non-Jewish person, for that matter) who may or may not feel some type of positive way towards Israel or feels that a Jewish state should exist. Pivoting to the question "Does Israel have the right to exist?" that has again surfaced in this thread: Let's be clear in stating that no nation has an inherent right to exist, and especially no nation that behaves the way Israel does has the right to exist as it currently does. Do I think that Israel should exist? Yes! I am 100% for Israel existing as a safe haven, not just for Jewish people, but for all people and all creeds. That being said, it simply cannot continue to exist as the ethno-nationalist, religious supremacist apartheid state that it currently is. Such a state cannot be sustained permanently, and it should not be allowed to. Their society has been spiraling for some time now, and collapse is inevitable. Thus far it is only postponed, not prevented, by the unconditional support it receives from the Western world.
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