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No, it's not. Civilians are civilians and militants are miltiants regardless of their fashion choices. You have to consider the logic of the alternati...
December 20, 2023 at 02:48
Here's where nuance comes in, for me at least. There's a difference, for example, between a targeted missile strike on an apartment that kills an enem...
December 20, 2023 at 02:41
Thanks for clarifying.
December 19, 2023 at 21:13
It confuses me that it's so fucking stupid. Superior in every way possible would include e.g. intelligence, which would make you a racist. So you ough...
December 19, 2023 at 20:12
Your claim was not limited to morality. Your claim as it is written is that the West is superior to the non-West in every possible way. Are you saying...
December 19, 2023 at 20:00
This is the quote under scrutiny: The sweeping nature of which makes it obviously false. But I still want it admitted so and withdrawn without any BS ...
December 19, 2023 at 19:52
Just read @"Hanover"'s post.
December 19, 2023 at 19:48
Lol. You know what you wrote is amazingly stupid at best and now you're just going to try to babble it away. Withdraw the comment and get it over with...
December 19, 2023 at 19:44
I'm just going to keep doing this until you both realize how amazing (ly stupid) you are being and withdraw the comment / endorsement thereof. And no ...
December 19, 2023 at 19:20
It's amazingly amazing for example how superior and more civilized American politics is to, say, Japanese politics. Trump is probably the best example...
December 19, 2023 at 19:15
No one said they were. Have fun with your irrelevant comments before looking at the words you actually endorsed.
December 19, 2023 at 19:11
It must feel amazing to feel superior in every way to every one who's not Western, morally and in every way possible all the time every day, like I gu...
December 19, 2023 at 19:10
I don't expect anything of you but I think one day Hanover is going to wake up and have a serious D'Oh! moment over that comment.
December 19, 2023 at 19:03
Good read. Thanks.
December 19, 2023 at 18:30
Interesting. I could and have at times kept going for twenty pages of that trash and sometimes something good comes out. But yes, the only thing stopp...
December 19, 2023 at 18:17
Ok, we do agree on something at least. :up:
December 19, 2023 at 17:40
Just take the UN off the table :lol: . The UN represents world opinion, you know, the whole world. But let's just take that off the table because the ...
December 19, 2023 at 17:38
What's insane is that you on the one hand claim to be against killing civilians but think my idea that Israel stop killing massive amounts of civilian...
December 19, 2023 at 17:22
To be clear, in case I'm misinterpreted again. I think certain cultures are better than others. I think Swedish culture is better than Saudi Arabian c...
December 19, 2023 at 17:16
The IRA blew up pubs full of off-duty soldiers and civilians, killed old folks at a remembrance parade and bombed the entire British cabinet in a Brig...
December 19, 2023 at 17:07
You've moved the goalposts here. The fear of Israel being destroyed by Hamas is invented. The fear that Hamas will unjustifiably attack and kill innoc...
December 19, 2023 at 16:08
Agree. What I'm primarily against is the escalation of violence by whatever side does it. Both sides seem too willing to go to the extremes and I see ...
December 19, 2023 at 14:43
It's an impossibility for Hamas to militarily defeat Israel, a nuclear state backed up by the U.S. Talk about an invented fear. Are you also worried a...
December 19, 2023 at 14:36
It's almost like making excuses for war crimes and then claiming our values are superior because we're Western would make us sound like some opium-add...
December 19, 2023 at 14:16
Have you considered the options for defending the value of civility that don't involve bombing schools and designated safe routes, shooting white flag...
December 19, 2023 at 14:12
Satire to be exact and much deserved. And Israel is doing a very comprehensive job at this. Who's more destabilized, ruined, and fearful? Over a milli...
December 19, 2023 at 14:05
More good stuff from Haaretz. Sorry, full articles behind pay wall but it's worth noting there are plenty of moderate and sensible voices within Israe...
December 19, 2023 at 08:56
Anyway, Hamas's unique combination of strategic idiocy and murderousness combined with Israel's opportunism and utter lack of restraint = the end of G...
December 19, 2023 at 07:21
This is the worst of the gaslighting. That these Hamas militants with their tiny rockets, rifles, and hang gliders are a real military threat (even an...
December 19, 2023 at 07:14
You can conceptualise a sculpture by the rock it's formed of or by the empty space chiselled out to make it. Either way you have a structure. So, ther...
December 19, 2023 at 06:01
The way I interpret the story is as a commentary on the dynamics of society in general, not as seriously presenting the ostensible ethical dilemma (th...
December 19, 2023 at 05:29
My writing right now is pruning the weeds that obscure my exotic plants and flowers. The weeds keep growing and so much so that that's all there seems...
December 19, 2023 at 05:02
I either a) come up with a "seed line" and just keep following it or, failing that, move my fingers across the keyboard until something good comes out...
December 19, 2023 at 04:38
Nada. Yet.
December 18, 2023 at 08:39
My first intervention on this recent iteration of this thread was to call Hamas butchers and animals. But of course the strategy of you and other weak...
December 18, 2023 at 05:53
Au contraire, morality works like this: in the decades long conflict of Israel vs Palestine, when Israel attacks and kills Palestinian civilians, that...
December 18, 2023 at 03:24
Leaving the kindergarten level commentators behind, here are a couple of interesting headlines from Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which tends to try at l...
December 17, 2023 at 14:56
But that's what the police do. When the bad guys do something and go hide in a city, the police kill everyone in that city until they have killed all ...
December 17, 2023 at 14:43
It's telling me what to write again. Stop it. STOP that. Heeeeeeeelp
December 07, 2023 at 17:17
Please tell me I am not abmarmalade.
December 07, 2023 at 17:11
It's not exactly hearing it because it doesn't sound like sound but like silent sound. But I identify with it so it sounds like me, Bugger. Am I abnor...
December 07, 2023 at 17:09
I can turn it off too but usually requires effort. Have to concentrate on my body.
December 07, 2023 at 17:03
It sounds like me saying "it sounds like me saying ''''It sounds like me saying. ..
December 07, 2023 at 17:01
And why would there be stories like this if this person is in the majority? I don't buy it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-experi...
December 07, 2023 at 17:00
"Regularly" have. I'm shocked it's not close to 100'/. tbh. Let's take an unscientific poll here.
December 07, 2023 at 16:53
I gave up fags when I was 24. Not a biggie. Didn't take me 50 years to tell everyone how easy it was. Just 10. :razz:
December 04, 2023 at 14:14
It took you 50 years for a reason, dude.
December 04, 2023 at 14:09
America is one of the few places where you can get away with being simultaneously anti-semitic (damn liberal Jews and their evil Hollywood, media, ban...
December 02, 2023 at 13:38
This overlaps nicely with Un's post above. You see, populations of Hanovers overshoot unless culled regularly, so by doing for nature what she can't m...
December 02, 2023 at 13:29
I think you've got the cojones for it. And 'tis surely a life, roaming the gusty wilds from Connemara to the Burren, hunting Hanovers (a type of noctu...
December 02, 2023 at 08:08