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Israel doesn't outlive its usefulness to the US because Israel/the Jews bring about the messianic age according to the evangelicals, who make up a sig...

In my example, I was thinking of a scenario in which you are unarmed and face an enemy in the process of arming himself. Nobody is talking about Israe...

To which the MRA would likely say, e.g., "It's not that we ignore the abuse of women, it's that we focus on the abuse of men." They hold the abuse of ...

It often describes events ~3000 years ago in the kill-or-be-killed world of the ancient Near East. No one is perfect in the Hebrew Bible, and commandm...

It's not hard. If one were to focus on, let's say, abuse towards men, one would likely become a men's rights activist. OTOH, if one were to focus on a...

How else am I supposed to interpret I focus on the violence that my country has a direct hand in.

Ok, just as the man who attacks a man reaching for his gun is also the attacker. Technically right. If a man comes at you with a gun, is the only just...

:yawn:

All you do is focus on the violence of some and ignore it from others. :yawn:

As a leftist, your ideology has more blood on its hands than Israel could ever dream of. So it's not about bloodshed for you, but about who sheds it.

Imagine you have a homicidal and fanatical enemy in your region that is building a mighty weapon. The world has tried to persuade your enemy to stop, ...

You live in a white supremacist state, and the entire world is also supremacist/racist/sexist. Nothing will ever be good enough for you, Mikie. Funny ...

I was often taught the contrary: That two nuclear powers would never go to war because it would be irrational and mutually assured destruction. Nuclea...

I don't even think Iran is claiming this. Nor does Israel, as a matter of policy, do such things. Unlike another group. Do the Jews have a right to se...

This current war was initiated on October 7, 2023. There was a ceasefire prior. Should we laugh off German women when they mentioned being raped by Re...

If it is acceptable to bomb "militarized" Israeli homes, then it's acceptable to bomb militarized Palestinian ones.

Now this would be interesting to see. How do you figure Israel-Iran works out with women in charge? Hopefully, Iran would have backed down with its nu...

It's crystal clear that Palestinians store weapons in non-military facilities. It's been documented countless times. Israel, OTOH, does have dedicated...

I can sympathize with using gas on Nazi invaders on the shores, but do you honestly believe everything from the Allies is justified? This view turns s...

Good thing that there are facts in these matters. Were rockets being fired from them? Were explosives and weaponry stockpiled there? And you can reply...

I don't make rules. See the Geneva Convention. If, e.g., a school building or a hospital is being used as a base for military operations, it becomes a...

Once those civilian areas are militarized, they lose that privilege and become legitimate targets.

Well, it is a war crime to target civilian areas. If Israel were firing rockets from these apartment complexes, that's one thing, but it's a war crime...

The Allies did some very questionable things in WWII. We also didn't have precision targeting capabilities back then. Israel has kept its strikes in I...

Iran has been deliberately targeting civilian areas, and I'm wondering whether international organizations will say anything. Seems like a war crime.

You mean Gaza? So, since I support fighting Hamas but don't support, e.g., violence against police officers and ICE agents, this makes me a hypocrite?...

Makes sense. Wait for the facts to come out. It's not looking promising; he was a Walz appointee. We've got the killing of the CEO of United Healthcar...

A man disguised as a police officer shot and killed Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband this morning. Police found his manifesto and "no king...

IMHO, the mistake would be for Israel to launch a ground invasion and maintain an occupation in Iran. Israel's objectives here are more limited.

Are you sad that Israel is ethnically cleansing Iran's nuclear capabilities from the planet? :fear:

Well, it's on. Israel uses precision strikes to target senior military officials, while Iran indiscriminately bombs Tel Aviv. Rockets are heading towa...

Could we compensate them in other ways besides letting unvetted masses breach our national borders and become our responsibility? Helping them stabili...

No need to mention the Laken Rileys of the world.

The protestors themselves seemingly don't want deportations. It's naive at best. There's also something very questionable about participating in a mov...

No, these riots are just extremely destructive. Maybe there's an argument for just letting California burn, though.

Orange man bad. Never mind the stores being destroyed and looted, the cops being assaulted, the cars burning on the streets, the Molotov cocktails, th...

That would be much better than the opposite, i.e., Trump not acting due to some "pure" motive (whatever that means), and the LA faces destruction by c...

Imagine if the topic were tax reform, and one of us kept bringing up the perceived impure motives of one of the parties. We could do it. I'm not sayin...

Parts of it. Yes. Ad homs aren't wrong per se, but you're engaging in classic ad hom: Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad ...

Ad hom. Focus on the action, not the character of the person initiating it. I'm seeing streets full of burning cars and absolute lawlessness in LA, bu...

"Protestors" are throwing molotov cocktails at law enforcement.

A government must be able to enforce something as basic as immigration policy.

Anyone who cheers on rioters flying foreign flags and burning the flags of their host country is not a "normal American." If they were, that's the end...

For normal Americans, rioters flying foreign flags and burning American ones is not a cause to rally around.

It's not about wisdom. When these universities accept billions from Qatar, their Middle Eastern Studies departments naturally promote certain views. I...

I think this needs to be challenged. A rich foreigner with an agenda can be quite dangerous—probably more dangerous than a foreign mugger. The latter ...

In a country where ~95% of murders are unresolved against a specific (minority) ethnic group, I wouldn't blame them for wanting to leave. Protection i...

I condemn anyone calling for the deaths of any ethnic group, whether Arabs or Boers. We all should. It's not acceptable in chants or songs.

I love how this discussion has essentially turned into the inverse of the Israel-Palestine thread. It's the funniest thing. I won't fan the flames, bu...

I don't want to get sidetracked and turn this into another discussion about Israel. We've discussed Israel enough. "Kill the Boer" is a prominent chan...