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  1. Because context matters and there is a long history and dark of accusing Jews of fabricating or fomenting atrocities against themselves in order to further sinister aims. I will again tell folks that taking in the propaganda room at the national holocaust museum is a must for any American.
  2. There is a lot of room for nuanced talk about intent vs. capabilities. Regardless of your take on the current Israeli military action in Gaza, one thing is undeniable: Israel has the capability to be exponentially more cruel and explicitly “genocidal” to Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) if they chose to be. They are clearly following a type of framework on the acceptable level of civilian vice military casualties, the argument is whether that framework is robust enough and proportionate. Hamas, on the other hand, has explicitly genocidal intent, it is stated. Hamas has also demonstrated that if given the chance, they will deploy their full capabilities in pursuit of blatantly genocidal aims. This was clearly demonstrated on October 7, if Israel could clearly treat Gazans worse, Hamas clearly gave Israeli citizens the absolute worst they had to offer. And this element of intent is mostly lost in the leftist neo-Marxist debate where the only moral framework is powerful vs. less powerful which may have some practical application in actually looking for a compromise but far too easily slides in the the morally bankrupt viewpoint of assigning higher or lower moral values to actors simply based on their capabilities.
  3. I’ve criticized Bibi’s government on this thread myself. I did say that the (completely unhinged) theory that the Israeli government “let October 7 happen” is super fucking anti-Semitic, and it is, even if you hide behind that “anti-Israel, not Jewish” fig leaf.
  4. Doubling down on stuff that’s both demonstrably full of untruths and also clearly foreign-origin autocratic agitprop is brainwormy behavior. LOL at Zionist being a slur, I do indeed openly support a Jewish-character independent nation in the Levant.
  5. Holy shit this is wild. This is some serious forward-leaning nuclear signaling: It’s a fairly open secret but almost never acknowledged that we have a nuke-sharing agreement with key Allies. Today the head of Dutch Air Combat Command posted this image of an F-35 armed with practice B-61 nuclear gravity bombs and a challenge coin referencing the deterrence mission. What this tweet really says: The Dutch Air Force is ready to deliver American nukes with their F-35s. This tweet was written for a few dozen people that work for the Russian MoD.
  6. The U.S. has a tremendously outsized impact on consumption and carbon and other non-sustainable practices. If the average American just trims a few percentage points from his or her consumption it has a cumulative impact greater than someone elsewhere cutting thirty percent. That’s why it’s shitty to call people out who are doing something even if it isn’t full Jeremiah Johnson. It’a still doing a lot and making a difference. Like how a small tax cut (or hike) on the wealthiest corporations and people can have a bigger impact on the budget than a comparatively larger increase or cut to the middle class.
  7. The great thing about using drones is that the U.S. can shrug and say no big deal or we can choose to end the Houthis as a political force. The strong pull is in the direction of the former, the preference here is for deterrence to work and there is a willingness to swallow a lot to make sure it does. There is a conscious effort from us to downplay these attacks and a conscious effort from Iran to make sure they can throw a proxy under the bus.
  8. It is a real open question whether that ice will ever get formed enough for armor. More likely not. The winters in that part of the world have changed and you’d need a lot of ice. During the siege of Leningrad there was an ice road across Lake Ladoga, they sent trucks but not armor that I am aware of.
  9. This and the recycling got me when I returned from six years in Europe. I nearly always turn down the plastic bag when the clerk goes for one. And as mentioned up-thread, I feel like a heathen just throwing my recyclables in with the rest of the trash. We use a LOT of plastic shit here. It’s really noticeable.
  10. I grew up in the RGV and would load up the back of my Dodge with Mexican cokes, haul them back to college, and sell cold Mexican coke out of the dorm mini fridge. If you brought the bottle back you got some money back. Then bring the empties back at next break and stock up on a new load. Helped pay for a Spring Break ski trip.
  11. The first time I felt really “old” was tuning into an NFL game and every player being younger than me. The first time I felt super gotdam old was when I went back to a football game and joined my grad school’s tailgate for a few beers with the professors I stayed in touch with and one of the students asked me whose dad I was. I was still on the left side of 40 at the time and took great umbrage.
  12. You have nothing to add to any discussion except pure edgelord bullshit and defense of Kremlin shit, every time. You’re a troll who carries their water.
  13. Northwest* and up from the Persian Gulf. And you’re a Kremlin troll. Fuck uou.
  14. Although, this has been an instructive insight into how information manipulation works, it’s as easy as sending out something that’s well produced and that vibes with your biases and all of a sudden you’re sharing content from an outlet stocked with Kremlin and PRC shills. https://www.thedailybeast.com/neville-singham-funded-breakthrough-news-is-pushing-moscow-beijing-propaganda
  15. But maybe “Breathrough News” are just peaceniks. Maybe they just really believe all war is bad. That’s a good take, right? What else are they caring about besides……. Celebrating Wagner Group organized coups in Africa. Calling Zelenskyy a welfare queen (note Russian spelling of his name in the screengrab) Hyping the Putin-Kim Jong Un alliance. Europe needs to undo sanctions against Russia! “The Eritrean government is good, actually….” Is a take. It is a take.
  16. Serious question, do you realize you’re sharing pure, uncut agitprop and disinformation? It doesn’t make it better when it’s delivered by a smarmy guy in glasses using the buzzwords that get you going. Fucking up the map of U.S. military installations this badly in the CENTCOM AOR alone is reason enough to tune out: Here’s a hint: all those alleged installations northeast of India and up from the Persian Gulf? They don’t fucking exist except in leftist fever dreams and Russian disinformation maps. Neither does the capability to “invade any corner of the globe in a matter of hours” although I’m sure there are people at the Pentagon who’d like to hear this guy’s pitch on how to do it. Speaking of Russian disinformation, what was “Breakthrough News” concerned about before October 6? Oh, carrying Russia’s water and advocating for the end of aid to Ukraine. That actually….tracks perfectly. Totally on-brand and easy to spot within the first fucking two minutes of watching your video. It is not better or smarter to fall for this shit from an “anti-imperialist” perspective.
  17. lol, you’re old as hell everyone knows that 1993 was 20 years ago.
  18. It’s exactly what people mean when they talk about structural racism and how the dreaded CRT isn’t just about vibes and hate for whitey but trying to remove real-life inequities in the way the law treats real-life people who are getting screwed. There’s also some non-structural old-fashioned racism in that this POS would not be pulling this shit with white people. But the point is that the individual-level racism can be defanged in a big way if it can’t be weaponized within a legal system that is no longer intentionally racist but that simply hasn’t been un-racised. Also tempted to get up on my soapbox about how this is a great example of why we need the dinosaur media and how the consolidation of local and regional media to corporate interests is not going to lead to a blooming of great citizen journalism. Citizens don’t have the time or ability to do a piece like this. The trend is moving to make it easier for the local shitheads to fuck your over.
  19. This would not necessarily mean that the equipment is in good shape, but the Russians (like us), frequently require that Russian techs be on-site to do maintenance on a lot of their high-value tech. Really common with aircraft. I don’t know the precise deals with these countries but it would not be surprising if they had factory techs doing key work.
  20. Update: They absolutely did use the wrong kind of UV light.
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