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  1. 20 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    people form opinions in a variety of ways, reading, pics, videos, friends etc. Out of a large population, pic and videos will affect someone. After all, most Americans became pro Israel somehow, the data came in a variety of forms - most likely Holocaust images and the legacy of WW2, along with the bible and other cultural factors. To say that NO ONE will EVER be affected by this form of data is a very limited viewpoint. After all, the world was moved by ISIS slitting the throat of James Foley in full video, a boring newspaper article doesn't have the same effect of this..  Images matter my friend, A LOT. 

    Foley.jpg

    I'm satisfied in my understanding of human psychology. Like I said, let me know if you change anyone's mind. I think your approach might come across as overzealous (literally), and actually turn people off. 

  2. 27 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    I forgot what commentator made the same point that the linked article touches on which is distinct to Trump. When it became evident the parameters of the ACA would prevent some patients from keeping their same doctor, the Obama administration ceased making those claims. When it became evident there were no WMDs in Iraq, the Bush administration stopped making those claims. Trump makes false claims, and when it becomes evident they're false, he continues to repeat them in some idiotic defiance of reality.

    Another example of how the Bush 43 presidency foreshadowed Trump. Despite every claim justifying the Iraq War turning out to be false: No WMDs; Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11; the oil didn't pay for it; it wasn't over in six months; we weren't greeted as liberators except by some, most of whom turned on us as soon as Saddam was deposed because they didn't want an occupying force of infidels in their country...

    Despite the shittastic results that strengthened Iran, gave ISIS its generals, failed to train a new Iraqi army to fight them, and destabilized the region for generations, Dubya still blindly insists that he believes invading Iraq was the right thing to do. At least Obama admits that Libya was a mistake. Bush doubles down on the worst foreign policy decision in the history of American politics. 

    Bush foreshadowed all of this. Trump just turned it up to 11. 

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  3. 20 minutes ago, NowThis said:

    strongly disagree. The world needs to see the full extent of Israeli evil, which is something very unfamiliar to the American audience. In our jaded world, there is very little shock value remaining, but there's a huge difference in blowing people's brains out and tear gassing crowds or pretending the shootings are in self defense.  A picture says a thousand words remember? It's a very efficient way of showing the truth. I see no difference materially, except for efficiency's sake, posting the pic or describing "a 60 year old Pal man was shot dead at a checkpoint" - we've seen that many times, pics of the situation tell the story with much more reality.  We should insist on pics and videos as evidence to the crime. I got that pic from FB feeds and i will post all of those that i can. 

    As for Israeli "victims"; it's actually Israeli policy to censor that so as not to give the Arabs a propaganda boost. This has been Israeli policy for decades, they don't want the world to see dead Jews, even wounded soldiers have blankets over them as they are being carried on stretchers.  And now the juicy part - Israeli victimhood is a fraud as they are the agitators, oppressors and dictators, so i cannot accept that idea in the least. 

    I think you're wrong. Post all the faces of death you want. Let me know the first time the picture is the difference that changes anyone's mind. 

  4. 5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    From supporting American military intervention to not supporting American military intervention.

    We'll probably still support drone strikes and killing brown non-Americans, but maybe we could save the lives of some soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.

    Maybe it wouldn't change all that many minds, but I still think we should portray the reality of war for all Americans to see.

    I suppose it probably depends on the war. It changed (some) people's minds about Vietnam. And we stopped televising pictures of American dead after that. They didn't have tv for WWII but pictures of American dead in Life magazine didn't change people's minds. That was a just and winnable war. 

    After 9/11, we had to invade Afghanistan. That was a just war and well executed up until we let bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. Until then I don't think images of dead American soldiers would change anyone's mind. Now that we're just an occupying force supporting a corrupt and ineffective government in Kabul, a government that will fall to the Taliban as soon as we leave, maybe they would. I don't know. 

  5. 10 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    If only he would have gotten his head blown off in the Israeli consulate office in Turkey.

    Jared's also in the pocket of friends with the head of Israel so the result would probably be the same even if the victim was a permanent legal resident of the U.S.  

  6. 6 hours ago, NowThis said:

    nope, spoiler alert is good enough and i had plently of description leading up to it. Don't be a baby, face up to the reality. 

    I'm not squeamish about such things but I really don't see a point in posting graphic images like that here. Both sides could post graphic images of death. The gross out factor doesn't make either of their arguments right. 

    American media only shows us one side of the story, that's true. But they also don't show us Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks. Keep posting news items. A photo of someone with their head blown off probably isn't going to change anyone's mind. 

  7. I tried Zoup! today. It definitely just opened in the past few weeks. It's in the building that used to house the Sears Tire and Auto Shop. There's also a Starbucks, an AT&T Store, and something else I didn't catch the name of. 

    It was about what I was expecting. A Chipotle for soups and sandwiches. None of the soups looked very appealing. I went with the gumbo. It was pretty lame. It was supposed to have chicken and sausage in it. I couldn't identify any sausage. There was a lot of shredded meat that I took to be chicken, and there were larger cubes that were fibrous like chicken but seemed kind of like processed mystery meat. I had to add a good bit of habanero Tabasco in order to give it some kick. I wouldn't order that stuff ever again. 

    I also got a half Southwest Turkey sandwich. The bun wasn't too bad. There wasn't a lot of meat. The best thing about the chipotle mayo was that there wasn't too much of it. I really couldn't taste the chipotle. I wouldn't order that sandwich again. I don't think I'd trust them to make a decent club sandwich either so I doubt I'll ever go back. 

    I'd give them 2 stars. 

  8. Pick!

    Ouch, Wilkins is down. That was weird. His knee bent the wrong way but the hit was up high. I guess he got hit right when he put his weight down on his plant leg. 

  9. 30 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    What's worse is that is has been since minute one.  This wasn't someone who got elected and let the power get to their head 3-4 years in or in their second term.  The entire plan from the fucking beginning was to scam the American people.  Period.

    And, given Trump's history, it was totally to be expected. 

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