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it does mean that if Donald trump gets back in power, we risk another coup attempt. You don't need all of a group to do something terrible for somethi...

Most Palestinians aren't going to be the ones creating boat loads of dead Jews. You don't need most of them to accomplish that

I don't. I think you open the borders of israel to all of the west bank and gaza and you just get busloads of dead jews. Unless what you mean by 'trea...

it was almost certainly a made up number. the hospital doesn't house that many people, not even half that many people, and the number came out immedia...

It's not conclusive, no. Al Jazeera is of course just a propaganda machine, AP at least has a history of being more objective. We don't have conclusiv...

That was quite the ramble

Fyi AP seems to be confirming now, based on the evidence available to them, that it was most likely a Hamas rocket. https://apnews.com/article/israel-...

I don't see why you would expect the sound of the missile to be different. I understand that incoming and outgoing missiles sound different, but from ...

from what point of view was the video taken? Near the hospital?

Egypt ethnically cleansed their Palestinian population?

Do they? That doesn't look like that's what's playing out to me.

I don't think those comments matter right now. I can agree with every single word of what you said about Israel and the old testament and still not ha...

He's simplistically boiled down the issue so that he can take the opportunity to criticise his rival to the world. "Give Palestine independence and so...

Of course Putin the peace keeping expert can teach them how to achieve peace.

looks like less than half of Israelis support a 2 state solution. Looks like a huge portion of them recently were in support of the "status quo", whic...

maybe I'm just disagreeing with how you're stating it as a general principle, rather than stating it just specifically as what you think about this sp...

oh I thought you were referring to something more robust than general ignorance

No not really. If you're analysing the choices available to you, and "do nothing" is an available choice, then the risks involved in doing the other c...

I don't know what you're referring to here

Of course they are. If doing one thing now raises the risk of some other terrible thing happening in the future, that's absolutely something to consid...

I kinda agree with this.

I don't see it that way at all I don't think I am. The rating algorithm is one part of the program, I don't think my words implied otherwise. There ar...

I never said it should be a death sentence. I brought up the statistics to support my statement that a really, really large percentage of Palestinians...

No. That's high. How in the world do you interpret those numbers as low? https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34...

https://coopwb.in/info/how-many-palestinians-support-hamas/ What is the current Palestinian sentiment towards Hamas? According to a PCPSR survey, 58% ...

Majority of Palestinians support Hamas, which lists in its charter a goal of eradicating the Jews entirely.

Majority of Palestinians don't seem to want it.

That doesn't seem at all obvious to me. An agent who doesn't know what the future holds can still undergo a process of "decision making" even if that ...

As far as I can tell, both NATO and the UN have investigated claims of Hamas human shields and found them to be truthful.

I also don't understand what they wanted to accomplish with this. But it's obvious Hamas doesn't care about civilian deaths. There's a reason they set...

I share a lot of your view. I personally doubt that it's something Palestinians would accept, but two-state seems to be the only viable solution outsi...

about half way through but what a beautiful video. I've seen quite a lot of veritasium, he's great at making all sorts of math and science things more...

Wonderful study. However, you said prior in the conversation that this couldn't be accounted for in materialism. Why not? Everything involved in this ...

I don't understand why you're complaining about it. You would praise Trump for building it, would you praise Biden?

They tried quite a lot in 2020. I expect their 2024 efforts will be even further ramped up. They're convinced leftists are cheating because they know ...

This must be historically unprecedented in the United States, maybe with the exception of Nixon, right? To have so many turn on you? What frustrates m...

I hope everyone here is capable of asking themselves that question seriously from time to time whether they support Donald trump or not, about any of ...

I hope you don't think trump dropped fewer bombs https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/09/donald-trump-is-dropping-bombs-at-unprecedented-levels/

Because it's incredibly inappropriate, just in terms of basic decency and values, for an American president to talk that way about American POWs

" That's not a statement about only John McCain. It's not a leap. It's his words. If I was being critical of some guy who happens to be white, and I s...

But the words he said about John McCain are applicable to other veterans who got captured. He aimed his comments at "people who were captured", which ...

Trump, the same guy who said I mean, it all fits the kind of way he talks about veterans. I don't find it unbelievable.

what context for you makes Trump look good given this paragraph?

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/politics/john-kelly-donald-trump-us-service-members-veterans Trump's attitude on full display here. "What's in it for t...

no need to apologize, but this post of yours looks very unnecessary in retrospect, doesn't it?

what does "on record" mean? There's a reason why when I Google "Donald trump witness tampering", the only results I get are articles about what he hyp...

he's not being charged with witness tampering, regardless of the title of the statute. You and I both know that.

I think you've mistakenly read the title of the statute and stopped there.

(c)Whoever corruptly— (1)alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair...