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wildcat09

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  1. Sure, but even if they did that they’d still get blanked in the playoffs.
  2. Would it help if we all tried to jinx pressly?
  3. For the love of fucking god can we tack on two here?
  4. That's good use of the indefinite article there. You can't be too sure there's not another imploded submarine down there somewhere.
  5. Jewish anti-Semites do unfortunately exist. Just look at Ben Shapiro.
  6. I've lost track of much of that thread, but there are some guys in there throwing that kind of language around who I don't think have ever given a shit about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, so I've found their sudden moral outrage, um, interesting. I did see Viper post a tweet from someone with 8888 in their twitter handle though, which ain't great.
  7. We know Hamas uses people as human shields, but some of y'all have what I think is an incorrect assumption that Israel's strikes are all targeted at Hamas targets. Their intelligence wasn't good enough to stop the initial attacks and things have been pure chaos ever since. I don't see any reason to think they have a good idea where Hamas militants currently are. They're reducing whole neighborhoods to rubble and they've bombed the crossing into Egypt, where tons of Palestinian civilians had fled to hoping to get out. There's no way to completely avoid civilian casualties in war and I wouldn't expect Israel to do so, but I think it's reasonable to expect them to not commit war crimes. All that's asking them to do is adhere to their own training.
  8. He pays them to do precisely that kind of shit.
  9. Especially with the degradation of Twitter, I think it's more important than ever to be very careful about not spreading unverified information. There's a whole lot of shitheads involved knowingly spreading disinformation to drum up anger and hatred, and now Elon fucking pays them to do so. Then we've got many many more people who unwittingly spread that disinformation, earnestly believing it's real, but who are ultimately serving the aims of those who spread the disinformation in the first place. We've been talking about the beheaded babies story, but there's also plenty of similar clips and videos going around of dead Palestinian babies, plenty of which are real and plenty of which are not (or are from prior events). It's not helpful to any moral cause to spread disinformation. That only serves the ends of the worst people who want to stoke these fires as hot as they can. That doesn't mean there's not going to be tons of horrific stories that are true.
  10. The one election that Hamas won, they had a smaller share of the vote than Trump did here in 2016 or 2020. And that election was 17 years ago. Literally nearly half of the people of Gaza were not alive then.
  11. I'll stop at saying it was morally good or acceptable for them to kill children, but in the spirit of the old Chris Rock skit about never hitting women, "I understand."
  12. Ben Shapiro and Andrew Tate are fighting on Twitter. It's mildly entertaining but not really worth linking to as neither of them deserves the attention.
  13. Let's get this shit wrapped up tonight so we can start a huge We Want Houston chant at home on Sunday.
  14. Um, some absolutely did that.
  15. Brisket, you're treating this like two nation-states at war. This isn't that. The majority of the Palestinian people are not "Party A." They're not a party to this at all. Netanyahu made sure of that. I don't even know what you have in mind as a possible form of plain statement from the Palestinian people that Jews have a right to exist. Even when they're not being bombed, given the control Hamas has in Gaza, how are they supposed to do that? It's a ridiculous expectation to have.
  16. That sound you hear is every historian losing their minds.
  17. We would've been smart to listen if someone had. Our response to 9/11 is one of the most self-destructive series of actions any nation has ever undertaken. Hamas should be annihilated, but I think there's a real question if the type of campaign Israel is waging right now is capable of doing that. Hamas may very well emerge from this strengthened in the long-term. Hell, look at the Taliban in Afghanistan. I don't know that there is a military solution to a group like Hamas (at least, I don't know that there is one that doesn't look like complete genocide). I think a political solution is more likely, and would certainly be preferable in that it would require less innocent bloodshed. But a political solution would require Likud to lose power, because they're pretty much full on fascist right now and fascists don't go in for political resolutions to problems. As long as Likud is running things in Israel, they're going to empower Hamas or someone like them. But if moderates could take power in Israel and begin working with more moderate Palestinian groups? If they could get other Arab states to buy in to investing in developments in the Palestinian territories? Something like that could help minimize Hamas' influence and control, and ideally the Palestinians would eventually be able to deal with them themselves (it was, after all, primarily Iraqis that eliminated ISIS). There are a lot of people on both sides who want a peaceful resolution and the only reason a peaceful resolution isn't possible is because they lack the necessary political power, because Likud and Hamas are very fucking good at helping each other maintain their political control. Obviously this would take a long time and doesn't answer what Israel should do today, but as a moral matter I think it should guide how Israel responds today. I said it yesterday, but if the Irish and the English could make peace, it's possible here too.
  18. I blame Game of Thrones. It’s the second worst thing they’re responsible for, after season 8.
  19. We're very possibly like 5 years away from the Texas GOP doing this shit.
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