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  1. 1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:

     

    What is winning? What is the alternative? 

    There is a zero sum game going on. Either the Israelis achieve dominance in the area to the point the Palestinians no longer exist as a cultural identity, or the Palestinians/Arabs achieve dominance in the area to the point where Jewish cultural identity is somewhere other than the Levant, like it was for 1900 years.

    For the Palestinians to give up fighting, means being 2nd class citizens and being powerless minorities in what they consider their own land. If you're Palestinian, what has peace looked like? Having political parties in Israel with no real voice in the government. Going through check points and being constantly dehumanized in Gaza and the West Bank. Watching settlers incrementally take over land, with policies deliberately designed to encourage you to move somewhere else. Anywhere else. 

    I don't condone Hamas, but I'm not sure why anyone expects a different behavior, in the past or the future. For all of the destruction Israel has wrecked on their enemies - and it's been impressive - Israel is more isolated than ever. World opinion is at its lowest ebb towards Jews and Israel specifically.  There's more of a movement against the US/Israel alliance from both the left and the right than there ever has been. I'm unconvinced it's going to lead anywhere. Jews have always been targets of people who see their culture with fear and suspicion, and use it for a path to power. But sometimes it does lead somewhere, as we all know. 

    There's practically a celebration in Jewish-centric outlets that I simply don't share. To me this all feels like short term victories. Important short term victories, but short term nonetheless. But allowing an organization willing to perpetrate October 7 to exist in a state where it was able to execute that day's events was impossible. Allowing Hezbollah to rain down rockets indiscriminately day after day was a no go. People decry the civilian deaths, but to me a completely ruthless response was the only response that was going to achieve this level of success. And it's not over. But there are consequences to all of this. I don't see any of the activity around Gaza and Lebanon as leading to long term peace. I believe it will harden attitudes and give rise to a new generation with a similar kind of resolve to strike back at the Zionists. I firmly believe October 7 will be celebrated among the Palestinian rank and file as a great victory. Sinwar and his cohorts, and all the Palestinian lives lost in the subsequent operation will be seen as necessary martyrs against evil. Future generations are going to willingly jump into the breach in hopes they can fulfill a similar purpose.

    I'm not sure why people see it differently than that. 

    You don't know what winning is? Seriously? 

  2. 6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Im not quite sure how you "file a default judgment."

    It might mean filing some kind of lawsuit, never bothering to serve it, and then taking a default by forgeswearing that it was served.

     

    You just file it. The clerks let you file anything. 

  3. Okay time to ask a stupid question for you hi-lo players. 

    I don't play PLO-8 or Big-O, but on this Big-O hand the PLO Professor has A-Q-J-4-7 on a 4-6-A-3 board. He says the turn was good because it gives him a "live 7." 

    I don't understand what his low-hand is on the turn. Does he play A-7 and 4-6-3 (or the functional equivalent) for a 7-6-4-3-A made low? What does he mean by "live 7"? That makes it sound like he's drawing. 

    The river is an 8, and he ends up chopping the low hand. Was the 8 relevant? 

    The hand is at 4:12 or so. 

     

     

     

     

  4. 3 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Just heard Amanda Knox on the ticket this morning and her view of coerced confessions was interesting. According to her research, a lot of innocent, intelligent people end up confessing because of the mind games they play in interrogation rooms. 

    I had an opportunity to watch police interrogate a serial rapist a few years ago. It was pretty fascinating how they got him to admit to the crimes. Of course in that instance he was guilty as hell. 

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-24/police-pressured-him-to-confess-to-a-murder-that-never-happened-now-fontana-will-pay-him-900-000

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  5. On 10/12/2024 at 9:32 AM, RomaVicta said:

    Is the speaker related to John Stewart or maybe a clone? Either way, he's a great voice for his generation.

    This tape is valuable because it's expressed so well and I can't imagine anyone other than MAGAs not listening to him.

     

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    Have I had my medicine yet?

    I really miss the tall blonde nurse who used to go everywhere with me.

    I was hoping to fuck her.

    I just shit. I thought it was a fart. Sad.

    A few years ago I got a quote to rip out some carpet and install flooring. It took me a couple months to do it and in that time the price went up $800 due to Trump's tariffs. A few weeks later I told my dad that story and he didn't believe me since "China pays the tariffs." Needless to say, my dad is a big Trumpkin. 

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    Watched the full replay of thr game. Tu sucks. Oh sucks even more. We are going to absolutely manhandle them. This has to be the worst ou team I've seen in decades and probably an average tu team at best despite what the liberal media says. They love liberal schools like tu so they pump them up year after year so they can get recruits. They hate America loving schools like us so they push recruits against A&M and towards those liberal institutions.

    https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3497560/0

    Hahahahaha good job whoever did this. 

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  7. On 9/2/2024 at 12:44 PM, TeeDubya said:

    It’s just not fair!!!!

    Rudy’s says it’s not fair that he was disbarred instead of Jack Smith. He says after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump has some immunity, Smith should’ve been disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct.

    Hahahaha he's fucking miserable and I love it. 

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