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  1. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    You are offended and want to be away from Christians who are so frustrated and sorrowful about the tragedies and wars that are going on that they think (and hope) that maybe it's part of the prophesied return of their leader via their canonical text? 

    There are literally no evangelicals or fundamentalists framing it in this way. If you can provide some examples of such, it will be the first that I have ever seen. But on the other hand, I have seen a lot of them talking about raising red heifers and collecting funds to rebuild the Temple, and framing the current conflict as part of their end times eschatology. 

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  2. 56 minutes ago, Smax said:

    Have to break a few eggs before you can make an omelette , the world is an ugly place man and alot shit happens behind the scenes that no one really wants to talk about to ensure we can live how we want.

    As long we are the ones on top, Im ok with that

    There is very little that you cannot justify with this logic. Grab the box and the jumper cables. The towel and board. Again at least you are honest about your perspective on American values.  

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  3. 3 hours ago, Smax said:

     

    My children and yours have reaped untold benefits from all of those "wars", can you imagine how different the world would be right now if the US sunk back into a non intervention reclusive country post WW2. Did we screw up over that time, yeah we sure as hell did but we also got some things right and at the end of the day, we're still speaking English, the dollar is the most sought after currency, we still have the strongest military and most of the world still looks to us on just about everything. 

    None of that would be possible if we didn't stick our nose in other peoples business to try and shape the world in our favor

    Yeah, I am just going to reject your counterfactual. I know that many here will accept it uncritically. We're still speaking English! JFC. The petrodollar! Yeah, tell me all about the pariah state situation. But I do appreciate the fact that you at least quite clear in your view that the American way of life post-WWII is inseparable from endless war making and naked self-interest, long run consequences and thinking be damned, we'll just muddle through the blowback. I think that that kind of cut through it honesty is worthy of some praise.   

  4. 2 hours ago, Bojack said:

    I love how you cry about someone else putting words in your mouth then in the same post and another 4 minutes later, you do exactly that to other posters.

    WW love him the MIC. He has explicitly told you this many times here. Like, "I love General Dynamics". That's a direct quote. Not words put into mouth. In another thread he is reading out articles from The War Zone, sponsored by Boeing. This is not something that he is ashamed of at all, you don't need to be defensive for him.

     

  5. 7 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    You look at everything through your western lens and not the lens of the people that have historically had control of their ancestral homeland.

    UW, I know that you are a sincere poster coming from a good place at heart. This above is wrong headed though. With sincerity, I would like to suggest a couple books that I think you might enjoy and would find some interesting perspective. I'd be happy to send you either one or both. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brothers-Dramatic-Palestinian-Christian/dp/154090217X

    https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Mountain-Journey-Christians-Middle/dp/0307948897

     

     

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  6. 17 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I've lost my mind and replied to the weird racist OSINT nerd haven't I gdit

    Twitter rots brains. The OSINT genre in particular. 

  7. 3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    LOL at citing a think tank mission statement. “Here at (think tank) we support good things and are against the bad things.” 

    I understand that unless they are funded by Raytheon, they are suspect to you. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Ana thinks that means one favors “endless war.” 

    If I had a dollar for every time one of you sought to frame your words as my own, tell me what I think, or just simply repeated questions that were asked and addressed like seven pages earlier while acting like they remain unfulfilled, I could retire early. 

    Back in reality world both your children and mine have been raised in world where the US has been engaged in war for the entirety of their lives. Maybe you don't favor the reality, but that doesn't change the reality. And it's hard to connect the dots between your rhetoric and aspirations and reality when you stand behind all of those wars in real time during the run up and the barking sounds a lot like warmongers like john bolton. 

  9. 26 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Israel makes a lot of their own shit. I agree about the heavy crap. But they make the small arms being used in the West Bank. They make a lot of their own drones, tanks, naval ships, missiles. Other than fighters, helicopters, and ammo, they are pretty self sufficient. Can you answer my points?

    Yes, I totally agree. They have a highly functional and sophisticated arms industry (admittedly built with our subsidizing). All the more reason to stop sending them more American taxpayer funded shit. 

    1- How to fix the animosity on both sides? Holy fuck if this is our responsibility to fix. I tell you that whatever we are doing right now certainly is not helping. Stop arming them to kill each other though may be a good start. 

    2- What to do about the hardlines? Stop sending them money and weapons. 

    3- How to integrate? Take a firm and unwavering stand against apartheid.

    4- Settlements? Maybe for one stop cock blocking every security council resolution on the matter and conditioning all further aid packages on winding them down and returning to a lawful posture.

     

    We have very limited ability to control the actions of either Israel or the Palestinians. We only control ourselves. And with that of course, we control the flow of American guns and money. So that imo is where we should start.  

     

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  10. 10 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    I think we will. And I agree about citizenship for those who want it. I think most will.

    The issue are these.

    1- How do you ever fix the animosity on both sides?

    2- What do you do with those who do not want this solution? The hardline on both sides.

    3- How to integrate?

    4- How do you stop the expansion of settlements?

    The existence of Arab Israelis, many who serve in the IDF, shows it can work.

    First, the things that we actually have direct control over. Stop just free dumping military arms and money into the region.  

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  11. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Quincy Institute produces poll that aligns with Quincy Institute. 

    I understand that you are going to fall in opposition to their goal to "promote ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war, toward military restraint and diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace". But it is certainly overrepresented among the posters of this board, and particularly posters like brisket, that such positions are considered indefensible. 

  12. 15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Because - and this is important - he knows that his actual position is indefensible.

    My positions are generally aligned with the majority of Americans. As posted earlier. 

      

    On 2/22/2024 at 7:51 AM, Anastasis said:

    Here is another recent poll that gets more to policy.

    https://quincyinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Quincy-Institute_rev-tabs.pdf

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-peace-talks-poll/

     

    Full data at first link, excerpts from the summary article: 

    The Harris/Quincy Institute poll involved an online survey of 2,090 American adults from Feb. 8 to 12. The results are weighted to ensure a representative sample of the U.S. population. The margin of error is 2.5% using a 95% confidence level.

    ...

    Roughly 70% of Americans want the Biden administration to push Ukraine toward a negotiated peace with Russia as soon as possible, according to a new survey from the Harris Poll and the Quincy Institute, which publishes Responsible Statecraft.

    Support for negotiations remained high when respondents were told such a move would include compromises by all parties, with two out of three respondents saying the U.S. should still pursue talks despite potential downsides. The survey shows a nine-point jump from a poll in late 2022 that surveyed likely voters. In that poll, 57% of respondents said they backed talks that would involve compromises.

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    As the House weighs whether to approve new aid for Ukraine, 48% of respondents said they support new funding as long as it is conditioned on progress toward a diplomatic solution to the war. Others disagreed over whether the U.S. should halt all aid (30%) or continue funding without specific conditions (22%).

    This question revealed a sharp partisan divide on whether to continue Ukraine funding in any form. Fully 46% of Republicans favor an immediate shutoff of the aid spigot, as compared to 17% of Democrats.

    Meanwhile, 54% of Democrats and 40% of Republicans favored conditioning aid on diplomatic talks.

     

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    You seem to have missed a question, accidentally I'm sure.

    It's been discussed a few pages back, with the same posters.  I am sure that you missed the exchange. Accidently I'm sure.

    13 minutes ago, Serak The Preparer said:

    @Anastasis Do you think that the U.S. has been giving the appropriate amount of military aid to Ukraine, too much, too little? Don't need to get too specific but it is difficult to understand what your criticism of U.S. policy here is vs criticism of the tone of this board. Apologies if you've stated this before, I may just not be recalling.

    Prior posts below. If you want full context you can start at page 185 or so.

     

    On 2/10/2024 at 11:34 AM, Brisketexan said:

    Then let me ask the questions that follow that:
    Do you think the Ukrainians would choose some version of the map has Russia excluded from Ukraine either in whole or in large part (i.e., no more territory than it already holds)?
    And, do you think the Ukrainians should receive western support, including weapons, to help them achieve/get closer to that goal?

    I’ll even give you my answers first: they want Russia gone completely. But they will likely settle for something less, eventually.[emphasis mine] And we should continue to supply them the ammo and weapons they request, at similar levels to what we’ve done the past two years (it has varied, I’d prefer towards the higher end).

     

     

    On 2/10/2024 at 11:44 AM, Anastasis said:

    We are not too far apart. I agree that the bolded probably reflects reality.

    I don't think that the US taxpayer should be on the hook for a blank check. To the extent that our solution to the issue is to dump more arms and weapons into the region, I think that we need to have robust controls on arms and money from US taxpayers. I know that unintended consequences are not real though, and we shouldn't spend any time thinking about them with a longer run time horizon.   

     

     

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  14. 12 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    "I haven't been openly rooting for Russia" isn't the strong rebuttal that you think it is. 

    Sorry I guess for directly responding to the specific charge and in the same terms that it was made. Oh, and below still suits. 

    On 4/16/2024 at 9:40 PM, Anastasis said:

    “Ana openly roots for Russia since this thing started”

    ”You won’t find a single post where I have openly rooted for Russia”

    ”aha, he admits that he secretly roots for Russia. Got ‘em.”

    You guys actually make John Bolton look compelling in comparison.

     

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  15. 14 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

    It's okay, they didn't mean to hit a playground. They were aiming at a food convoy.

    Not enough Brits or Australians on the playground to generate a full blown western media outrage.  

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  16. 11 hours ago, JohnnyRage said:

    Not seeing this in a mainstream places. Did this happen, a playground in Rafah being droned?

     

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/24258389.gaza-children-killed-israeli-strike-playground-leaves-11-dead/

    It’s a refugee camp in central Gaza. CNN has a blurb on it but it’s been reported in AJ more extensively. Video of the aftermath is out there, but you can only watch so many videos of parents weeping while they cradle their dead child before they all start to run together. 

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  17. On 4/15/2024 at 5:03 PM, 'stache said:

    But setting that aside, let's suppose that someone can prove pretty strongly that China is responsible by either developing it and releasing it intentionally or negligently, or were negligent when it was discovered at a wet market, what next?

    Crazy thought here, but maybe we stop using US taxpayer dollars to support off-shored risky virus research through funding cutouts without adequate audit procedures and  controls in place. This is like crazy world that these things are obvious.  

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  18. 41 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    See, guys…he doesn’t OPENLY root for Russia to steamroll Ukraine and have total military success against the west from the Baltic on down. Nope. He just opposes every single measure, step, or action that might stand in the way of or impede in any way Russia doing just that.
    And you morons can’t see the clear difference. Brain worms.

    lol. What a bunch of clowns.  
     

    “Ana openly roots for Russia since this thing started”

    ”You won’t find a single post where I have openly rooted for Russia”

    ”aha, he admits that he secretly roots for Russia. Got ‘em.”

    You guys actually make John Bolton look compelling in comparison.

     

     

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