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Anastasis

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  1. Twitter rots brains. Rupar’s has had holes in it for a long time now.
  2. Have a cup of coffee, buddy.
  3. At a minimum, I think you should care because we have been indirectly funding and running cover for the occupation for decades and in this particular recent exchange are sending one side planes full of bombs to execute a collective punishment program that intends to obliterate Gaza at best and genocide the people at worst. I think that we should all care about how our tax dollars are used overseas and the potential long term implications of our actions. We cannot control what anyone else involved does, but we can control the role that we play.
  4. How many servings did you get out of each on those batches as an estimate? Looks like a big pot of chili is in my future for a family (~25 heads) get together over the holidays. Thinking the 12# batch is about right with leftovers for the freezer?
  5. Aircraft carrier-backed ponzi scheme.
  6. Don’t worry, the “rules based international order” is about to really kick in. We got shipping lanes to protect. Which we clearly value more than the lives of Palestinian babies and children.
  7. Surly does a really bang up job of vetting obvious propaganda.
  8. Another, two women sniped inside a monastery in Gaza.
  9. NYT report seems to have left this part out...they were unarmed and waving a white flag on a stick at the time. The reality is that this is representative of the de facto rules of engagement implemented by the IDF. Just caught up some Sons of the Light insteads of the Sons of Darkness this time. Haaretz According to the investigation, a soldier who was stationed on one of the upper floors of a building in the area has identified three figures who held a long stick that had a white fabric attached to it. The report states that, for some reason, the soldier felt threatened and opened fire on the group. Two hostages were hit and fell to the ground, and the third managed to escape into a nearby building. At the same time, the soldier reported to his commanding officer that he had encountered who he had believed were Hamas members. The commander then arrived at the scene, while another IDF squad that was nearby followed the third hostage, who managed to escape into a hiding place inside the building. The report says that as the soldiers approached the building, they began to hear shouts in Hebrew, asking for their help. The Israeli hostage who was hiding inside the building came out and ran inside again. According to the soldiers, they believed that it was a Hamas member who was trying to "pull them" into a trap. They proceeded to enter the building, where they killed the hostage.
  10. Thread interest is about right. Nobody gives a shit about this stuff, not the liberals nor conservatives. Unless they can make some hay.
  11. Unsustainable. We need catastrophic loss backstops, but this shit is crazy
  12. Nobody would shed a tear over mossad doing some mossad shit targeting Hamas leadership holed up Qatar.
  13. Is the "they" in that question the civilians, or Israel?
  14. Great. So it should be easy for you to register your objection to US arms funded by Americans being used to enact collective punishment. This is not hard. At least it should not be.
  15. Stop existing. /Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security
  16. Going south isnt particularly working out for the civilians.
  17. We're well past that and into the realm of collective punishment. You know this. It doesn't require anyone being particularly clever to draw these lines. That you are unable to grasp this reality is not an indictment of anyone but yourself.
  18. oh look, another terrorist barbarian. what a fucking ghoul.
  19. Y'all see how seamlessly he replaces "Palestinians" in this exchange with "terrorist barbarians". Brisket is a smart lawyer and wordsmith. He buys ink by the gallon. And he knows exactly what he is doing here rhetorically.
  20. That's not how this works. If you point out the absolute absurdity and inconsistency in American foreign policy you are basically a terrorist. If you ask for an assessment based on long-run outcomes, you are called aggy with no hint of self reflection. If you consider historical context behind any of this, it is [boogeymen of your choosing] talking point. There are no objective rules. There is no order. And there is only Pax if you squint your eyes. Just punch the fucking ticket.
  21. Clearly endearing our interests and values to the world. Hard to tell, but is the 7 of clubs that time we hooked that guy up to jumper cables and made him stand on a box, cause that was cool as shit.
  22. FIFY. We can do this all fucking day. We both know that this is a deep and fundamentally broken geopolitical situation. You are just happy to keep on with the status quo sending C130s full of bombs paid for by American taxpayers to one side so that side can do the slow and just-acceptable-enough-to-you genocide thing to the other. This is the decency of the rules based international order and the Pax Americana afterall at stake.
  23. You can take the brisket out of the GOP, but you can't take that good old fashioned jingo neo-con out of the brisket.
  24. But maybe it will all get better if we just keep supplying and flying bombs into the region. /GeneralDynamics
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