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  1. There’s always “context” and “circumstances” that lead to a far-right group gaining power. Imagine how you’d feel if you lost 19 percent of your country and had to tolerate enemy occupation in your industrial heartland! A stab in the back! As far as election margins go, Netanyahu received a far lower percentage than Hamas did and no one is racing to contextualize that or pretend like Israelis don’t bear some responsibility for who governs them.
  2. Second year in a row we are down to our 3rd QB and the year before that Zach Calzada got beat up. It’s math when it comes to racking up the hits. Steve Addazio should be run out of the business. Getting a very strong Mike Sherman vibe for this search. No one is going to be excited. Although he’s a guy I think should have gotten one more year, and I miss his ability to put together a roster.
  3. This is drone footage of Mariupol after the siege. Fuck right off with “outside of Bucha they aren’t that bad.” And— it cannot be said enough— no fucking Russians were killed by Ukraine. They just decided to take it.
  4. You’ve got some really fucking bad takes here and you’re clearly not paying attention. Russia has done all the things that Israel is accused of doing, but on purpose. Besides Bucha let’s go down the list: - Russia destroyed Kharkiv. Between 22 February and 8 March over 1.2 million people were gone from a city that had 2 million people before the war. - Russia leveled Mariupol, a city of 400,000, and laid siege to it for months. 90 percent of building confirmed destroyed. Official Ukrainian sources estimate 25,000 dead civilians and recent AP reporting estimates more than that. Russia removed most of the population and replaced it with Russians. Somewhere in there, they bombed a maternity ward on purpose (confirmed and then cried “crisis actors.” And a theatre with the word “children” written on top of it. - Russia has forcibly removed thousands of Ukrainian children and sent them to reduction and filtration facilities in Russia. Russia has set up filtration camps for Ukrainian civilians where they hunt sympathizers and torture. That’s just the beginning. Fuck off with your false equivalency, just because you don’t pay attention doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Russias invasion has been almost nothing BUT clear war crimes from day one.
  5. This op-ed in The Guardian is very clear eyed and scathing about Netanyahu. And I agree. I will also say that there appears to be serious momentum and pressure on Netanyahu internally and hopefully this will spell the end of his tenure, one way or another. It is equally clear-eyed about Hamas and the need to eliminate them as a capable governing authority. It really is adequate to compare them and their ideology to the Nazis. Adolf Hitler was quite clear in his ideology that if Germans could not win the war, they did not deserve to exist. They were willing to sacrifice every single German to accomplish their aims and did end up with their country ruined. People need to be clear-eyed about what it means to live next door to a political entity with similar fanatical aim and outlook.
  6. You keep repeating this line but it isn’t true. Hamas is the governing party and apparatus in Gaza. It is possible to destroy them just like it was possible to destroy the Nazi party and make it impossible for them to return to power, and it was possible to destroy Iraq’s Baathist party and governing apparatus. There’s a measurable end result and a level of violence that can be applied to these problems.
  7. I’m not sure what the point is. If you’re looking for a two state solution, then destroying Hamas’ capability to govern and replacing them with something that might be open to negotiate is a political-military aim.
  8. None of them want to be in one country with the other nation, although you could probably muster the will for two with a delicate dance. This is not at all surprising.
  9. The time asked for matters. Calling for a few days means that you want to regroup. Longer windows means you want a window for potential diplomacy.
  10. Fair enough, I had not seen that report from Axios. I think, though, that the idea proposed few-day ceasefire (max 5) proposed by Hamas is a far cry from what nearly every protester is calling for, which amounts to an open-ended commitment. And the Hamas proposals illuminate that they don’t want a window for real peace talks, they want a break to retrench.
  11. One of the things that never gets mentioned is that Hamas is still firing rockets at Tel Aviv, that Hamas has not asked for a ceasefire, and that Hamas has not proposed anything they’d be willing to do in exchange for one. One thing that’s remarkable is that they don’t want to exchange hostages for peace, they want to exchange hostages for prisoners. They care far more about fellow thugs than their own people. That’s why is so fucking disingenuous of Palestine supporters to call for a “ceasefire,” a ceasefire applies to both sides. And the Palestinian side doesn’t want one. And even more infuriating when they get mad at U.S. calls for a humanitarian pause, because that’s exactly what it is when Israel takes a break— one side takes a pause for humanitarian purposes and the other side keeps shooting. You can’t have a ceasefire on one side. But most Palestinian supporters are comically unable to say what they mean and they known “ceasefire” sounds nice while few Western publics would be on board with a “unilateral Israeli retreat.”
  12. The issue here is that if we are drawing analogies, Hamas is more like the Taliban than they are Al-Qaeda. They are the government in Gaza. They control territory, resources, command security forces, receive funds from abroad, run social programs, and administer the local government. Like the Taliban, they offer safe haven to actual terrorist group, like IJP. But they are a government that has embraced terror as an offensive strategy and asymmetric insurgent tactics as a a defensive one. The differences between them and the Taliban are mainly: 1. They control an urban conglomeration and so instead of melting into hills and mountains they melt into hospitals and apartments to hide. 2. Their adversary does not have the luxury of packing up their shit and flying across the ocean with a promise to come back with B-2s and drones if they get froggy. For Israel, they are the Taliban next door. Looking beyond patriotic statements for tv consumption, the IDF has articulated clear military and political goals: to degrade Hamas to the point that they are no longer capable of governing Gaza or organizing complex terrorist attacks across the border. Those are legitimate and defined aims even if (see point 1) you can’t accomplish them without a lot of destruction.
  13. The whole rolling stop episode is just so emblematic of Musk, along with the defense of it. Musk just programmed his cars to break traffic regulations in a little ticky-tack way, when it’s ok to do so and other people are as well. Don’t know why those kill-joys at the NHSTA came in to bust up the party and say you can’t program robot cars to roll through stop signs, lots of people do it.
  14. German car inspections are FANATICAL. You never see hoopties or jalopies over there, even old ones, because they fail inspection and you can’t drive them. Even old cars are all clean and pristine. Tesla’s build quality has long been shit, and that’s what this is measuring. Side discussion, but I think a lot of German cars get bad reliability scores and expensive repairs in the US because the makers expect Americans to follow Germans’ maniacal maintenance regimes.
  15. Other FSD features: - Tailgates when the car in front is going under the limit, brake checks when getting tailgated - Uses blinker like 73 percent of the time - Speeds up so car entering freeway can’t merge in front of them You do realize that programming a car to break the law because honking is not the defense you think it is?
  16. The far left and the far right are both committed ideologues who are going to express extreme dissatisfaction with anything that happens within our current framework of liberal secular democracy. They want to dismantle that system and replace it with a cheap facsimile but gut the underlying principles. Their voices are amplified to 11 through social media and captured institutions which makes the centrists believe that the center is not holding, everyone is angry, and thus Biden is not doing a good job. This, fundamentally, is the problem with social media and new journalism, it gives equal time to voices that do not deserve equal time.
  17. There’s a very satisfying genre of video out there with German police using compliance grips to remove hippies from roadways.
  18. I’m looking forward to this thread going again. Last week I grill roasted a leg of lamb and used @jimmyjazz horseradish sauce and it was INCREDIBLE
  19. While Elon is announcing that Hitler was basically right on main, Gen Z is circulating Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” on TikTok and saying “yass queen, the Jews have taken control of our money, it’s all right here.”
  20. There’s not a massive, big-name hire out there. It is striking how rare it happens, moves like Brian Kelly to LSU or Fisher to A&M or Riley to USC just don’t happen that often. There was a flurry of them it seemed, which made it seem like the new normal. Of the four active HCs with a national championship, two were promoted from coordinator jobs and a third is Mack Brown.
  21. If indeed the hospital is just a hospital with refugees sheltering there, then the IDF should just be able to walk in, confirm that there’s no military or terrorist infrastructure, and offer aid. The people getting treatment will undoubtably be better off and no harm will come to them, because who’s going to be offering resistance at a hospital?
  22. So then you can take it easy because if there aren’t any Hamas fighters there, there won’t be any fighting.
  23. Just a thought, but it shouldn’t be possible for the IDF to storm or raid a hospital, as a hospital should offer no resistance if indeed that’s the only thing it’s being used for. I am assuming that any violence will be the fault of the IDF, since there are of course no terrorists there to go after.
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