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I mean, it’s a tool. It can be used for good things or bad things. A carrier strike group has more firepower than many nations. But they are also logistical marvels and are used in humanitarian missions. You basically have a floating hospital and power plant with professionally trained personnel. Having a carrier group off the coast of a troubled area allows for a safe and stable base of humanitarian relief efforts, in addition to its offensive and/or power projection functions.

Aircraft carriers are one of the most impressive things we’ve ever some up with. Incredible force projection.

You’re doing it again. You’re assuming what I believe based on your own projections. Why do you keep doing this? Is it really that hard to engage actual words and arguments that you need to rely on just making stuff up about anyone you have any disagreement with?

Nah, they are assumptions. Because they are wrong. But they fit your narrative so you need to place your feelings over the facts. Your arguments are weak as hell and so you need to make up a fake position to argue against.

I think it’s telling that you seem incapable of not projecting your own assumptions on me. Are your arguments so weak you have to pretend I said things I never said or believe things I do not believe? Do you need that crutch so badly?

I’m not sure what nits you’re trying to pick here but it’s fairly clear that the Dems wanted to have universal healthcare and had to settle for less because of GOP opposition. Like, this isn’t controversial. It’s just what happened. Maybe ask your parents about it if you weren’t old enough to see it happen in real time.

Maybe you’re just too young to remember, but instead of pushing for single payer, the Dems based their healthcare plan on one devised by the Heritage Foundation and enacted by a GOP governor in the hopes that a market-based approach would appeal to some Republicans. But since it was a policy proposed by Dems that would help the average American at the expensive of the insurance companies, it was roundly opposed by the GOP. The Dems managed to pass it anyway.

Yeah, turns out a lot of people get big mad when you don’t want Americans to suffer or die if it gets in the way of the rich making money.

Classic Strawman. Where does it say he has examined all of Twitter? You made up that claim simply to dismiss it. His specific claim, is that as an OSINT professional, he has never had a harder time verifying facts on the ground via Twitter. And to any rational person, the idea that eliminating verification and allowing bad faith users to boost their posts through money makes it hard to find accurate information seem… well, obvious.

I’m old enough to remember when the Dems had a supermajority in the Senate and banned guns. Oh wait… they tried to get people healthcare… Nevermind.

Here’s a fun idea for you to try once in your life: respond to what someone has actually said instead of what you imagine they believe.

Yeah, this is why I try to just engage people on what they say instead of who they say there are or my preconceived notions of who they might be. Then again, I was a bit concerned about the possibility of a doctor out there who has a really hard time reading…

Here’s how you evaluate the credibility of a source: Does it support MAGA propaganda? Yes: This is a trustworthy source No: Impossibly biased and obviously made up

Nihilism as a cover for willful ignorance must be fun.

Reading is fundamental: ”When Peden covered the escalation in Gaza in 2021, the sources he was seeing in his feed were from people on the ground or credible news agencies. This weekend, he says, verified content or primary sources were virtually impossible to find on X. “It’s getting incredibly hard to find people that actually live in Palestine or in southern Israel,” Peden tells WIRED. “It’s been incredibly hard to find their preliminary information and share their videos and photos. You have this perfect storm where on the ground, preliminary sources are not being amplified, especially those that maybe don’t speak English, which is a large majority of users in that area.” Boosted by the algorithm that promotes users willing to pay X $8 a month for a premium subscription, posts from those with a blue checkmark shot to the top of news feeds for people seeking information about the conflict. Rather than being shown verified and fact-checked information, X users were presented with video game footage passed off as footage of a Hamas attackand images of firework celebrations in Algeria presented as Israeli strikes on Hamas. There were faked pictures of soccer superstar Ronaldo holding the Palestinian flag, while a three-year-old video from the Syrian civil war repurposed to look like it was taken this weekend.”

Is anyone surprised? The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen. “For many reasons, this is the hardest time I’ve ever had covering a crisis on here,” Justin Peden, an OSINT researcher from Alabama known online as the Intel Crab, posted on X. “Credible links are now photos. On the ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expensive blue check mark. Xenophobic goons are boosted by the platform’s CEO. End times, folks.”

Iran almost certainly gave the green light. Aside from multiple outlets reporting on Iran’s involvement, Hamas had to know that an attack at this scale would have strong blowback on their biggest sponsor. No way they go forward if there was any doubt this action would cause a rift with Tehran.

Iran is very much involved. They gave the green light for the attacks when meeting with Hamas in Beirut. Also, these supplies and arms didn’t just materialize. Early reporting is showing that some of the weapons are Iranian. I have a very hard time believing that Hamas would be this bold without the support of Iran.

There is reporting from the WSJ that Iran met with Hamas in Beirut to plan this attack. That doesn’t mean Russia was involved but if Hamas was taking advice from Iran, I am not going to rule out that any of their other allies were also involved.

Russia has been publicly supporting Iran and Hamas for a while. Their goal is to weaken the west and I would honestly be surprised if they weren’t aware that something was in motion.

The $6 billion of Iran’s money that was part of the deal is in Doha and remains unused and not in the possession or control of Iran.

They don’t.

Please explain to me how Iran not having the $6 billion means that they were able to do this attack because they had the $6 billion even though they don’t have it. I am pointing out that the specific claim that the $6 billion from the deal funded this attack is wrong because Iran has none of that money and none of that money has been spent.

Wow. Went straight to the antisemitism, huh? I think you dropped these, ((()))