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  1. 22 hours ago, Lobo said:

    ^
    you know the centuries old practice of loading one of the weapons with a blank round to give psychological cover to the firing squad members who may second guessing their participation?  
     

    I would offer a blindfold and cigarette to each insurrectionist.  And lean in to whisper, “all weapons hot.  All rounds live.  Final orders from our President Trump.  Said to tell you ‘Dead Men don’t Talk and  We honor your sacrifice.”  Then step aside and give the execution order.
     To see their face of eternal confusion, thinking it was Trump who gave the order for their death.  In that final second, to see that “wait, what the fuck?  Hold on!” Expression on their face.  
    when you finally get to see someone break and question everything they though they knew.  It’s usual very gradual In life, but every once in awhile it delivers itself on one brief instant.  Seeing a human’s belief system completely implode like that……I assure you it’s the most addictive rush on Earth.  Nothing else comes remotely Close.  

    Nothing comes close?

    Not even a shorn scrotum?

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  2. Here's an essay from The Economist. 

     

    THE FIGHTING lasted less than two weeks, but there was no shortage of explosions. By the end Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, had fired some 4,000 rockets at Israel. Most were intercepted by Israel’s missile defences. Israel responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a cramped enclave ruled by Hamas, which had no shield. More than 200 people were killed, all but 12 of them Palestinian. The battle began to wind down on May 20th; after nightfall Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. Assuming that calm returns, who knows how long it will last?

    Fighting between Israel and Hamas has become almost routine. Since the Islamist group grabbed control of Gaza in 2007, the two sides have fought four wars and several smaller battles, costing thousands of lives (again, mostly Palestinian). The spark for the latest outbreak came in Jerusalem—but were it not Jerusalem, it would have been some other cause. Israel and Hamas are stuck in a perpetual crisis, trapped by the logic of war, which dictates that they keep going through the same motions.

    Start with Hamas, which sees fighting “the Zionist invaders” as its raison d’être. Its campaign of suicide-bombings in the 1990s and 2000s bears much responsibility for destroying the Oslo peace accords. Because of its incessant attacks, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The group expelled Fatah, its Palestinian rival, two years later. Today most Gazans see Hamas as authoritarian and corrupt. Unable to point to any achievements, it instead blames Israeli aggression and poses as the one true defender of the Palestinian cause. It had no plan to attack Israel; it merely saw an opportunity to assert itself after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, indefinitely postponed legislative elections.

    Hamas’s attacks are futile: its rockets inflict relatively little damage. But Israel feels it has to respond. “If it happened to Washington or to New York? You know damn well what you would do,” said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on American television. So the cycle has continued. Israeli bombs hit Hamas’s offices, rocket launchers and tunnel complexes. Several of the group’s commanders were killed. Israeli officers say they have significantly degraded Hamas’s capabilities. But even they don’t think the group will be down for long. When the next spark comes, the militants will undoubtedly be there to fan it.

    And be in no doubt that it will come. Both sides are content to leave Gaza a festering pit of misery that periodically erupts. Hamas’s control in some ways suits Mr Netanyahu, inasmuch as it weakens the Palestinian leadership and dims the prospect of a Palestinian state. Israel will still try to keep the group down, though. It and Egypt have kept Gaza under blockade since 2007, making it harder for Hamas to arm itself—and making life grim for ordinary Gazans. Restrictions on travel mean they cannot leave. The isolated, impoverished territory draws comparisons to an open-air prison.

    Hamas’s policies make it more like a shooting range. The group sometimes shows little interest in actually governing. Its schools and hospitals can be used for storing weapons. The idea is that Israel won’t attack such sites or, if it does, Hamas can use it for propaganda. The militants were surprised by how hard Israel hit back after they launched their first barrage on May 10th. Still, even as the death toll mounted, they did not stop.

    Yet there were new elements to this round of violence. A wave of clashes between Jewish and Arab citizens in Israel itself unnerved Mr Netanyahu. There are new types of pressure from abroad, too. Whereas President Joe Biden emphasised “Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself”, some fellow Democrats called for putting conditions on American aid to Israel.

    But for now, none of that is likely to stop the cycle of violence. Israel and Hamas will come out of this battle much as they went in. Nothing has been gained; nothing has been resolved. And yet they are likely to do it again.

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  3. 30 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

    I used to fish offshore with several people that insisted on carrying the whole time. Never know when you need to fend off pirates or some drug smugglers in a panga.
    One dude ended up putting a huge hole in the side of some dudes boat when he tried to shoot a shark in heavy seas.

    Like I said- uses to fish....

    I'm sorry/not sorry but that's damn funny. Thank goodness the boat took the damage and not you. 

     

  4. The NYT had a good summary of the situation.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/briefing/israel-hamas-conflict-fighting.html

     

    This may be the biggest obstacle to peace:

    When the United Nations proposed a two-state solution in the 1940s, Arabs rejected it, David Harris recently wrote in The Times of Israel. When Arab countries controlled Palestinian territories in the 1950s and ’60s, they could have created a nation and did not. When Israel and President Bill Clinton offered a two-state peace deal two decades ago, the Palestinians said no.

     

    Even many supporters of Israel who despair over Netanyahu’s leadership believe the larger problem is the Palestinians’ unwillingness to empower competent political leaders, rather than militants like Hamas. Israel can’t make a peace deal, its supporters say, until it has a partner more interested in building a prosperous society than trying to destroy Israel.

  5. 1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

    My guess is that as long as there are two people left alive in the area they will be hunting one another in the rubble. 

    Yep, the jews and arabs are essentially two sides to the same coin. 

  6. 10 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    18 months ago, I predicted that DeSantis would use obscure governor's powers to keep Trump from having to be removed to New York to face civil/criminal/federal charges.  He's not so much at Mar-a-Lago for retirement serenity, as he is effectively living there under the protection, mafia style, of DeSantis.  

    Since the invention of the airplane, there is no President that didn't take some sort of trip for either relaxation/leisure or business/former head of state purposes in the first 6 months of their post-presidency.  The self-described workaholic who had to constantly tour Trump properties all over the world suddenly won't even travel to Manhattan---his homebase for three quarters of a century?  Hasn't wanted to play at one of the other 18 Trump golf courses around the globe?  Shit, I play maybe one round a year and if I have to play the same course twice in a row, even I get bored.  He's playing the same two near Mar-a-Lago on a weekly basis. 

    Let's be honest, Jimmy Carter is likely going to die sometime between now and November of 2024.  He will receive a well-deserved state funeral in D.C. before being laid to rest in Georgia.  Trump will conveniently miss both of those events, unlike all the other former Presidents.  And why?  Because he's as scared to step out of Florida as Joe Jackson was to step off the field in Iowa.  

    Trumpers---the next time your guy goes back to New York City...it'll be in a coffin so he can be buried next to his cunt parents.  

    That's an epic post. 

  7. 1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Liz Cheney is the same person who went to her sister’s wedding and the came out against gay marriage so she could run for office (Not even he dad did that.). She then ran against her dad’s friend in a Senate primary because after a lifetime in DC, she felt entitled to one of Wyoming’s Senate Sears.  She’s also the person who flirted with the birthers.

    Fuck Liz Cheney.

    Yeah, I get that, but it's politics, dude. Be an optimist.

  8. 2 hours ago, Lobo said:

    This does beg a question that should be easily dismissed as lunacy.  But here we are...

    If Trump were to die on natural causes between now and November of 2024...how many of his followers would refuse to believe he was really dead?  I think Qanon and MAQA nation would invent clues that suggest he was still alive and in hiding and waiting to pounce on the global cabal after they drop their guard.  The body show lying in state would be a fake.  They'd either not vote for whoever the GOP nominated or they'd write Trump's name in.  I'm willing to bet about 10-15mm would think like this.  

     

    Lol, great point. 

    I'd say that of those who would accept his demise, a lot of them would believe in a resurrection. 

    And y'all thought the second coming was about Jesus. 

  9. 7 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    *Generalizes all Palestinians as the same as Hamas*

    What is the level of Hamas support among the rank and file Palestinians? I don't know. I'm sure that ALL of them don't support Hamas, but what about that generalization is a material misrepresentation? Maybe there are poll numbers out there. 

     

  10. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    There’s no version of this story that doesn’t end with Israel getting wiped out.
     

    That's a really scary comment b/c I don't think the US will allow that. So if Israel goes down so do we. 

    Which I don't think will happen.

  11. 25 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Just say "I like it when Arabs and/or Muslims die" and get on with it.

    I don't know how you get that.

    But I will say that I don't like it when Americans die. And I don't like it when other groups celebrate those deaths.

  12. 2 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    Israel won't allow Arabs to assimilate.

    Should they? Even if the result of that is a Jewish minority in Israel? Maybe. 

    About the only group more incompetent and ham-handed than the Israelis in this mess is the Palestinians. 

    At least the Israeli jews weren't celebrating in the streets when 9/11 happened. Can't say the same for the Palestinians. If the US has to pick a side over there....

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  13. On 5/8/2021 at 11:10 AM, Neonmoon said:

    This will keep being an sore issue until someone has the balls to rip the bandaid off 

    Which to me means telling those "students and faculty" to get bent. 

    Keep the eyes. 

    Do not cave in to these woke assholes. 

    Just my opinion. 

  14. 1 hour ago, hookemATL said:

    I would be cool with prayer in school but you have to do ALL the prayers.  Pray to Mecca, Pray to Jeebus, Pray to ALL the Hindu gods, Pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pray to the Lord They God Vince Young 2005.  By the time they are done, school is over for the day.  The Aristocrats!

    Lol. 

    I consider myself a god. Not THE god, just A god. Kinda like Phil Connors, but of a lesser sort. I wouldn't presume to be on the level of Phil Connors. 

    So, what I'm saying, is that all the prayers would include me.  And of course, Phil Connors. 

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