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Andy1

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  1. 3 hours ago, Justice said:

    God blessed you all with a brain and some of you are actually intelligent but all logic goes out the window when it comes to the tax dollar vultures. 
     

    Question that I know you all won’t answer but maybe you’ll ponder in privacy is this. You all heard the total of deaths on 10/7 and you heard all of them being attributed to Hamas but what you never heard, not even once, is how many were actually friendly fire. Why is that? Marinate on that for a while. 

    Death from friendly fire is almost impossible for any nation to admit, especially while the war is ongoing. It happens in every war. Statistics are usually released years later. 

  2. 9 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

    Sometimes it's helpful to remember the old adages:

     

    "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can really offend me."

     

    Good for you, Andy, for standing up for those voters, uh, bullied in some way, um, by the use of a word that, uh, is used frequently without offense, in a non-bullying fashion to um, describe an  economic outcome.  

     

    #outlawbloodbath

     

    Oh my goodness! I can’t believe I misunderstood the guy who quotes Hitler. Why would anyone ever think he would be using bloodbath in a violent context? Of course, “bloodbath for the country” must mean bloodbath for the auto industry. 
     

    For a guy who knows “all the best words”, he sure has a hard time communicating. Almost like he has a mental disability or something. 

  3. Left and Right live in two different media worlds and received different information about how to respond to Covid. The disease exploded in Dem states NY, NJ & CT. Whatever controls the Dem states tried to limit spread must be bad so the right wing media decided that Republicans were the pro freedom, anti restrictions party. The rate of spread in densely populated urban areas was different than in rural areas. Hospitals in cities were overwhelmed, hospital staff were crushed with patients and bodies were stacked in the refrigerator trucks.
     

    Rural republicans felt that it was a city problem and it wasn’t going to affect them. Stories minimizing COVID severity and vax myths were the nightly images shown to the eyeballs of Fox viewers. By the time the disease slammed into red counties, people had already decided what side of the Covid response they were on. The dumbest thing was Republicans thinking they must be against whatever dems believe, so a good Trump republican was on the team of antivax, anti mask, ignore public health warnings, do whatever you want and live free. Public health policy was politicized. The sad part is all the people who died unnecessarily, believing the lies and misinformation they were fed by right wing media. Fox made their money spewing lies while Tucker and the rest of them were vaxed and protected. No one is cheering for deaths in red counties. It’s just what happened. 

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  4. In have no opinion on the ban but find it interesting that this is the first issue in forever that is not defined by partisan politics. Legislators actually have to think about it instead of going with the default party position. 

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  5. 6 hours ago, Justice said:

    It’s back to 1400 again huh? No mention of Israel killing many of the actual number. Ah yes. You’re a good dog. 

    22 hours ago, Andy1 said:

    The reporter in the Aljazeera video you posted above acknowledges that a “very significant majority of the casualties” were the result of Hamas actions that day. Are you saying that all the casualties were from Israel firing on or otherwise killing their own people? 

    Did I say that????!???!?


    Easy now. I was only asking for clarification on your perspective since you seem to assign more blame on Israel for what happened that day than to Hamas. I know you condemn Hamas. You have also emphasized there was no mass rape and Israel killed their own people. Some Israelis dying from friendly fire is probably likely, but that was not the main cause of deaths. The UN found evidence of many rapes, gang rapes etc. I have seen no evidence to indicate those reports were false. 
     

    If your position is Hamas is responsible for the vast majority of the deaths, the kidnapping and probably a lot of other horrible actions that day, we each view it about the same way. Netanyahu seems like an idiot for his actions and inaction leading up to that day. Maybe he had some sick wish for an attack to occur, I don’t know. Sadly, the result of the attack and war is what the extremists on both sides want. 
     

     

  6. On 3/11/2024 at 1:53 PM, Justice said:

    You can take your 1400, 1300, 1200… whatever the ***** the number is today and shove it up your ass! I told you morons from day 1 they killed their own on the 7th! Ain’t no babies in ovens… ain’t no mass rapes! Lies lies lies. 

    The reporter in the Aljazeera video you posted above acknowledges that a “very significant majority of the casualties” were the result of Hamas actions that day. Are you saying that all the casualties were from Israel firing on or otherwise killing their own people? 

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  7. 7 hours ago, Governor said:

    Really the biggest one is Privatization via the funneling of tax payer dollars into private hands.

    1000% right! First step is to cripple agencies and convince Americans that everything is horrible and government can’t function. Then create the dream that all problems are solved once the function of the agency is in private hands. There are now proposals to privatize the role of the TSA. 

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  8. Trump is a rambling idiot on stage. He has really lost some marbles compared to 8 years ago. His rally speech in Georgia was a classic ranting idiot. He can’t put two coherent sentences together. Every time he screws up, the reason is: “he said it on purpose of course”, because the orange king has no flaws. 
     

    General Kelly called Trump “the most flawed person he had ever met”. No one who worked for him has anything good to say about him. His former cabinet officials won’t endorse him. Haley would have been a much stronger candidate. What a mess, but that’s what the MAGA crowd loves. 

  9. Justice - Prior to the war, under Hamas rule, was there freedom of speech to allow public discussion of the topic of Israel’s right to exist? This is against Hamas declared policy so that’s why I’m asking. Would there be severe consequences if one advocated for that position? It would seem that this is a necessary first step, before a leader for peace can emerge. 

  10. 5 hours ago, Justice said:

    I wouldn’t be surprised if some Israelis were killed by friendly fire. It was probably a very chaotic situation. It still doesn’t erase the actions of Hamas that day. I appreciate your perspective as I try to better understand this conflict. 

  11. Back in December there was a public opinion poll of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank. At that time, only 10% believed Hamas had committed war crimes. Hamas was still the most popular political party. Support for armed violence against Israel increased to 69% compared to 58% before October 7. A rational person would conclude that decades of violence against Israel only brings pain and suffering to Palestinians with no progress towards their desire for a stable, peaceful future, but there is no evidence that they think that way. 
     

    It seems to me that the only (remote) possibility for peace is for both Hamas and Netanyahu to be gone from power. New leaders are needed on both sides. 
     

    https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll 90 English press release 13 Dec 2023 Final New.pdf

  12. I’m all for international standards in war but if you are going to apply them to Israel, they should also be applied to the actions and official declarations of Hamas.
     

    I keep thinking to myself, “What would America do if we had a neighbor like Hamas next to us, in a place like Gaza, who had a declared policy for our extermination, who also attacked us at a proportional scale as what Israel suffered?” I’m not sure we would do anything different. Would the American public be concerned about the lives of those people? Look at our response to September 11. 

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