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Thetexashammer

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  1. Yes, but I don't have the time to go down that rabbit hole. The article tweeted about: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, Dead at 100 (rollingstone.com) I endorse the entire, with one exception. In the public mind, Kissinger is responsible. However, he was merely an advisor. He was never chain of command, he had no legal authority to order anything, not since his time in the military. He was merely a staffer. Obviously a good adviser is persuasive and wields influence effectively, and you are certainly morally responsible for your advice. But his status as an advisor mitigates his responsibility, somewhat. So not a war criminal in my mind. Despicable, outsized impact surely, but not philosophically different than a thousand other establishment assholes.
  2. Henry Kissinger has died at 100 : NPR Oh, he was a cool kid celebrity. I didn't realize he was an early Taylor Swift type. Now I know. Never saw an act of violence he didn't like. Just the worst of the worst. However, he was not unique. This is pretty much typical foreign policy nonsense,CFR, establishment, neocon, whatever. Just like the near universal support for the 2003 Iraq War which Kissinger supported as well. Exactly right. Resulting in the deaths of countless numbers. Why would I hold this guy up as a hero? It's embarrassing. From wikipedia. LOL what an idoit. Also from wikipedia. Henry A. Kissinger Looks Back on the Cold War | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org) When Ronald Reagan and the Pope teamed up to humiliate the Soviets and win the Cold War, Kissinger et al fought them tooth and nail, every step of the way. For the course of my entire lifetime, dude has been wrong about everything. Baseball has the concept of "wins above replacement". My only response is confusion. What wins are they talking about? All I see is bad decisions that got lots of people killed. Why do they glorify the guy instead of pointing and laughing at a lifetime of failed policy decisions? He is a shining example of what not to do.
  3. Who made him some kind of hero? The foreign policy establishment. It's like giving Yasser Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize. I never heard him contribute anything good or insightful. It's like doubling down on stupidity. I don't condemn him nor approve of him. I just wonder why people thought he was relevant to anything.
  4. I find the show to be highly entertaining. Just certain woke people who feel the need to piss in everyone else's Wheaties is kind of a problem.
  5. Why not take the A train? Just make sure to get an Express. But it's not bad. The trains are kind of fun if it's a novelty to you.
  6. I think the only answer (and it's no answer at all) is that you need standoff from Israel for the Gazans. The only real threat comes from their missiles, which they lob into Israel, aimed at civilian populations, on the reg. And they have been doing this for years. It's why all Israeli buildings are required to have bomb shelters. Before 7 OCT, the only thing the Israeli's controlled was Gaza's border, they had no presence in Gaza at all. Any Israeli who went there would be killed. When I was in Israel last year, our tour guide told us as we were passing Jericho "If I try and go there, I will be killed for being Jewish". So to protect Israel, you have to get the missiles out of range. Otherwise you are engaged in a constant low-level war. Unless you move the Gazans onto the Sinai or further into Egypt, there is no chance of an actual, stable peace. Just keep mowing the grass. The hope that Gazans are going to stop hating jews is not realistic. I mean, if life handed me a beach, I would build a beach resort, but they chose poorly I guess.
  7. I was in Europe for the last four years. So I know what I am talking about. But this thread is about Elon. Only news I had was CNN International and Sky News sometimes.
  8. Would you believe, they are having riots again tomorrow? I was in Marseille for a week this summer (they rioted the day after I left), in the Calanques, it's freaking lovely. Paris the last two Christmases. Sorry not sorry. I love the country, but the Utopian Paradise may not be working out so great. Or maybe you're right, it's nothing but champagne and caviar over there.
  9. I don't think we are going undefeated next year. We've got three probably top ten teams, one on the road in the Big House, one in Dallas, one in Austin. That must be the hardest schedule in football.
  10. The plan is to kill them, not give them a trial.
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