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  1. I don’t think we are ever going to get anywhere so long as we insist in treating October 7 as an awful and unfortunate side effect of war and not as the end-goal. We keep going around in circles on this even though there’s a a substantial body of international law dedicated to exactly this. Parsing out your examples: - SS: Committing atrocities is their raison d’être; it is both sanctioned and directed by political leadership because leadership viewed the extermination of undesirable groups as a strategic aim. - Wehrmacht and IJA: Committing atrocities is an integral part of their strategy while pursuing a military aim. Political and strategic leadership directed and sanctioned the atrocities as a means to pacify a civilian population and bring it under full control. Perpetrators are celebrated and promoted. - U.S. Armed Forces in Vietnam: Atrocities are committed during the pursuit of a military aim. Leadership does not direct and sanction the atrocities on a political or strategic level but may do so at the operational or lower level; perpetrators are subject to a spectrum of discipline. Atrocities are not a central aim nor critical to the military mission. There’s an argument to be had as to where Hamas and IDF fall on that spectrum (I’d say Hamas trends towards the SS end and the IDF to the U.S. end) but it’s a grave mistake to wipe away the spectrum completely.
  2. I have no doubt that Stefanik had a bunch of garbage gotcha questions lurking farther down in her paper. But instead all of them walked into the doorframe so there was no need for the bucket of slime to crash down, she just sat there and watched them bonk into it again and again.
  3. Такер Карлсон will talk to Alex Jones about 9/11.
  4. It’s almost like there’s a pattern out there of how excusing leads to tolerating leads to coddling leads to accepting leads to party capture and that loons need to be policed and excluded. Not excused. It’s also almost like for extreme edge-lords, it’s the extremism and the anger that’s the draw and not the politics and they will go where they can get that fix.
  5. Sorry, but it isn’t just deli harassment. It’s targeting of individual students, of Jewish organizations, demonstrating and targeting Jewish and not Israeli organizations. It won’t do to say “the people on my side are just confused kids, the ones on the other side are evil and really it’s my political opponents fault .” We’ve heard that from the right long enough, that these are just people who feel alienated and condescended to by the democratic elite. It’s just the classic reframing of “maybe (my erstwhile allies) are wrong but it’s not their fault.
  6. It’s an easy call to say “calling for a genocide of Jews or any other people is a violation of our code of conduct for students.”
  7. You seem wound a little tight, @Brian Fantana, if a click hole article affirming that Elise Stefanik is a total piece of garbage who stumbled into being right about calls for genocide has you this upset. You OK out there?
  8. Jews aren’t a race for sure, as a survey of Jews in Israel and outside will reveal. The impetus to treat them as a race in our sense came from the (literal) Nazis who sought scientific and genetic justification for supposed Jewish inferiority and so I’d be cautious of referring to them as a race in the modern sense. I think it’s accurate to refer to a Jewish culture or nation or “people” with religious customs being a significant cultural marker but not necessary, there are secular and even atheist Jews. It is unique but then again the Jewish experience is unique as a people maintaining an identity formed in the Bronze Age and maintained and further shaped during a forced diaspora of millennia.
  9. Those La Marque teams were scary. Texas City had some good teams, too, I think it was 1997 that both of the old 4a champs came out of that district with those two. The other time that happened in the 1990s was when the old 26-5a won with Roosevelt and Judson. That district used to be maybe the deepest in the state.
  10. The existence of no country is “fair.” Not a single fucking one. It’s only a function of time and attention that their existence comes to be accepted. Show me a country and I’ll show you an atrocity that happened at a key moment in its creation. And if the only one you give a shit about enough to protest is the existence of the world’s only Jewish country, then suck it up buttercup and accept how people will view that choice.
  11. We are suggesting that one reason the deal fell apart is that Hamas didn’t want the women they raped to talk about what happened to them.
  12. This is exactly it. Making any kind of equivalence to Hamas and Israel or the IDF is offensive and horribly informed. And we all understand the implication. If Hamas (a fanatical, totalitarian, terrorist organization) has no right to exist, then neither does Israel when you make those equivalencies. And moreover the voice that are the loudest in saying “Hamas =/= Palestine” are often the first to say “Hamas and Israel are equivalent.”
  13. All the teams that were up for debate had some unimpressive wins, but they won. Bama looked mighty unsteady against USF and Auburn. A three point win over TCU and a TD win over Houston that fired its coach is unimpressive. I’d go so far as to say that shutting out a ten win UL team without your all conference QB is not the shit performance you think it is, it’s a damn good coaching job. The key player rationale is in the stated reasoning and it’s what they’re gonna rely on. I’m on Texas’ side here and think the committee needed to suck it up in the real world. But let’s not pretend that they do anything other than the easy “take four undefeated P5 teams” if UGA had won.
  14. One other thing that I can’t take credit for— penalizing a team for losing a player to injury incentivizes staff to either lie about injuries or rush players back before they are ready. Like I said earlier, the proper choice was for the CFP to bite the bullet and tell SEC, “sorry, your one loss champ lost its H2H with the other 1 loss champ.” The committee had a Sophie’s choice between Texas and the SEC they didn’t want to make and decided to grab someone else’s kid, LOL.
  15. We have been extremely inactive and are paying the price at this point. People need to know that shooting at an American warship means you die. This defensive bullshit is garbage.
  16. They absolutely would have been in. Like I said, this was a cowardly decision not to piss off the SEC.
  17. FSU got fucked. Big-time. I’m a known Aggie and if you forced me to bite the bullet, I’d have said this is the proper slate: 1. UM 2. UDub 3. FSU 4. Texas by virtue of H2H. It physically hurts to type that but it’s true. If Georgia had won like everyone thought they would, then there’s no convo. Four undefeated conference champs, four slots. FSU got punished because Georgia lost and that’s a cowardly joke.
  18. Also— and in a serious and not snarky way— please read some women and feminist historians, survivors and conflict scholars before saying that it doesn’t really matter whether someone is raped and killed in a war zone or whether they die in an air raid. Rape as a weapon of war is a big deal. It matters very, very much. I
  19. @Gatorubet, this take strikes me a deeply wrong on both a legal and moral level. On the legal side, it’s perfectly fair to say “the dead and their families don’t care about intent,” but third parties most certainly should and do. I even think you’re a lawyer, right? Every legal system in existence assigns different levels of culpability and guilt and takes intent into account and treats people and their crimes very differently. Intent is nearly always the core of what it means to be criminally liable. On a moral level, you’ve also argued yourself into a weird place. Assigning equal equivalence to the United States and Imperial Japan (it’s always Japan and never the Germans in these comparisons) should give anyone with a sense of scale and history pause. The IJA and its crimes were so vast and so traumatizing it’s difficult to explain here. It’s 2023 and we celebrated a trilateral summit between the U.S. and its two most important Pacific partners (ROK and Japan), both wealthy democracies with basically no competing geopolitical interests. Why was it such a big deal to get them in the same room? Because of what the IJA did to Koreans during WWII, that the United States stopped. It absolutely makes a difference why someone is doing the bombing, and it makes a difference whether the atrocity is the goal or if it was a crime committed as part of a defensive war, or if it was a mistake in targeting (back to intent). Not to mention you’ve also argued yourself into “perfect equivalence” between the 8th Air Force and the Wehrmacht and even SS. To quote you: I shouldn’t need to point out that Nazi Germany killed very few American and proportionally few UK civilians while we killed a great deal many German civilians both in air and ground combat. That’s what it meant to lose a war, and there were very grave outcomes at stake. You go on to say that it matters little whether a child is killed in an air raid or raped to death. Was it morally equivalent whether a German child died in an air raid as when a Jewish child was stuffed in a gas chamber or shot in a ravine in western Ukraine? Those deaths can—and should— be weighed extremely differently and the armed forces that caused them are in no way and you know that very well.
  20. I am so damned proud of Brownsville Vets and what this means for RGV football. And I’d say that it’s hard for me to think of a better team to get this if it couldn’t be my Cardinals or Port Isabel, the other RGV football king that can talk about having a multi-generational program. First of all, Cameron county and the lower valley continuing to show that we just got a bit more of that grit than the upper valley. Maybe it’s the salt air. Second, Brownsville and El Paso are maybe the most unique communities in the state and get shit on so I love when they get a boost. They’re in a different class and don’t have history with Harlingen really, so the success doesn’t pain me. And they did it the hard way, pulling two of the biggest playoff upsets of the year against the clear regional favorites. Lastly, I hate PSJA North and always have. They play dirty and with attitude and like they’ve done more than they ever really have. A defining moment in my fandom was in the 1990s, when valley coaching legend and full-time loudmouth Tony Villarreal coached them, and they lost a big showdown for the district championship in 31-5A back when there were two valley big school districts. He went on TV and told the reporter that it was a tough game but “I’ll tell you what, any team from this district can beat any team from that other district down there.” And next week 32-5a swept 31 in bidistrict with Harlingen stomping the shit out of PSJAN. Lol. Warms my heart when they faceplant against the lower valley. Then I tied an onion to my belt as was the style….
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