Tzeentch

I don't think you're understanding the full gravity of what you're describing, which is essentially Israel becoming an aggressive, nuclear-armed rogue...

Take the example given by the report - 25 strikes on military targets. It would inflict a lot of damage, but Iran would remain largely intact. So it d...

Personally, I don't find that a very realistic strategy. It's thinkable that Israel would launch a nuclear strike if its survival is directly threaten...

Good points. 'Irreversible changes' is I think exactly the right term to use. It has set back normalization another 50 years, while Israel may not eve...

It's quite understandable. Israel being able to normalize relations with its neighbors and garner allies in the region would be a fundamental step tow...

The reason I point out the flaws of government is because you seem to be arguing in favor of cracking down on social media, which would have to be don...

Note that I acknowledge the problems of social media. I am pointing to a deeper problem which has to do with the way modern governments function. Noth...

People sharing bullshit wouldn't be much of an issue if democracies such as ours would foster healthy public debate. Governments are trying to crackdo...

Zaluzhny has now come forward and openly stated he was against the Kursk incursion plan, but that Zelensky chose to go ahead with the plan anyway. By ...

The term 'misinformation' should be replaced simply by 'propaganda'. All sides use propaganda. All sides want people to believe their bullshit, while ...

What kind of a clown are you? Mearsheimer states verbatim he believes Trump is running against the deep state. The level of dishonesty with you is off...

Alright. Done wasting my time on you. You're obviously here begging for some kind of argument in which you can paint me as a Trump lover. Go take a hi...

Thanks for the tip. I've heard of them, but never actually visited their website. I'm going to check that out.

I simply don't view any of the mainstream news outlets in the Netherlands as trustworthy information brokers. They all seem bought and paid for, and t...

When I'm talking about 'the establishment', what I'm talking about are for example the foreign policy establishment, aka 'the Blob', the neocons, etc....

I don't watch US news, so I wouldn't know about that. 'Right-wing' news barely exists in my country. It's mostly establishment-owned, not really 'left...

I don't recall ever making the argument that the US establishment controls all news.

All US news being fake news is kind of a given, regardless of whether it's unflattering to Trump or not. European news doesn't do much better either, ...

I should probably have put that differently. European media exclusively reports negatively on Trump, and that's given me the impression everyone hates...

This is unlike you. A page ago you were arguing an AK can't hit shit at 200m 'because of MOA'. Do you stand by that?

Well, everyone in Washington seems to hate his guts.

I asked about iron sights. Previously I also asked about how you would feel about taking the place of the torso-shaped target in the Type-56 video, si...

So you understand that firing at a torso-shaped target at 500 yards with iron sights is pretty tough, correct?

Have you ever touched a gun, ?

Of course I watched it. Seems like a perfectly decent showcase of marksmanship to me, that clearly shows 500 yards is well within the maximum effectiv...

It's not a trick shot. You see the man in the video do it twice at various ranges in sequence, using a gun without a scope that is not his own. Say we...

Here's a video of someone taking shots at up to 500 yards with a Type-56, which is a Chinese-made AK variant, using only iron sights. https://www.yout...

400 yards is definitely within maximum effective range for a modern AKM-style rifle.

Whether they staged a hit or groomed an extremist isn't really all that significant. They're capable of both. The idea that enemies of the establishme...

Interesting. In that case the establishment must still be fearing a Trump victory, despite what 'the polls' show. :chin:

If Israel cannot find the culprits and instead sees as its only option to wage a bloody revenge campaign on a civilian population, the answer is obvio...

Ironically, young people now are having less sex than ever.

An important question we should be asking is why the US is insisting on escalating the war in ways that do nothing to improve Ukraine's position on th...

Neither do I, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the Biden administration carries responsibility for things going to hell in a handbasket o...

I didn't say there weren't any differences. I know environmentalism is very important to you. The Biden administration's colossal failures of diplomac...

Comparing the Trump and Biden presidency, I think there's zero basis to argue that Trump was worse in any meaningful way.

Your choice is between Psychopath A and Psychopath B, and whatever groups of psychopaths they represent. People may seek to keep Psychopath out of the...

Have you ever traveled to Israel, and did it include a trip to the West Bank?

You're repeating the exact same pattern with different words - connecting all men to rape, this time through masculinity.

So you're a sexist too. Great.

People aren't fruit. We don't treat fruit as individuals. We do with people. Kind of proving my point there, buddy. Which begs the question why you ca...

As I've made clear, I don't live in the US, so my taking of responsibility has nothing to do with it. You're saying things that are overtly racist, an...

Yes, and clearly so. The practice of trying to simplify large demographics into monolithic groups with a fixed set of characteristics is inherently de...

I said nothing about solutions, but such generalizations to me seem the product of dehumanization, and a part of the problem. One might have to ask th...

I live in the Netherlands. :up:

In my opinion, thinking in terms of monolithic 'Black People' and 'White People' is inherently damaging, yes. That's why I can never quite understand ...

We both know a lump sum will solve absolutely nothing. (Nor did any of the better ideas that were thrown at these types of problems) I don't live in t...

Keep clownin', bud.

"B-but Hamas..." Ehud Barak said it best:

No - a hundred years ago, maybe - and I am rather skeptical about people claiming victimhood in this case. It's not like the US hasn't ran countless p...