Great-grandchildren are being punished because their relatives (might) have fought against Israel

Fighting against settler colonists who came and established an apartheid regime is not a crime.

I am only criticizing the Israeli government, […] Israel in general

Israel is a settler colonial project, an Israel that provided equal rights to all Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in its territory would be less related to the current state of Israel than modern South Africa is to Apartheid South Africa.

not Jews

Yes, we agree that it’s antisemitic as fuck to associate Jewishness with Zionism. When Israel is murdering children in public view, implying that Israel represents Jews is just blood libel with extra steps.

I’ve never seen someone haul a whiteboard into a coffee shop.

In 1948, during the Nakba, Israel ethnically cleansed much of Palestine. From that (and a good portion of the ethnic cleansing Israel has done since), many of the people were driven into Gaza.

In 2006, when Israel got kicked out of Gaza due to an uprising, they built a wall around it and restricted the amount of food, fuel, and other items, and banned the gazans from constructing wells, water containers, and other things that would allow the people in Gaza to stay alive longer if Israel cut off food/water supplies.

Yes, there’s a monochrome display in the middle. It’s kinda like a TI-86 calculator aimed at children.

It’s not the democratic politicians who were robbed. It’s the democratic politicians who were complicit in us getting robbed of our rights.

Yup, the only reason we got Harris to replace Biden was that it was made clear that Biden didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.

Sadly, it was not made clear enough that it was a policy issue, so now we have Harris adopting every unpopular republican policy she can manage.

It’s kinda crazy that 3 nuclear armed countries have periodic armed skirmishes.

They promise to punish the people republican voters don’t like (poor people, minorities, and “elites”). And then they fulfill the first two.

It makes it pretty clear how insanely unfeasible a ground invasion of Iran would be even with the most optimistic assumptions.

1.3 million just for the occupation of an 88 million pop country, and that number just comes from other occupations, without taking into consideration the terrain or people or last 50 years of preparation for asymmetrical warfare.

If anyone wants, here’s an extremely optimistic 2009 Brookings Institute white paper on how various hostile actions against Iran would play out based off numbers and history.

Chapter 3 analyses a “boots on the ground” invasion (the occupation would require a draft), Chapters 4-6 analyze American and Israeli airstrikes. Neither of them expect Iran to employ masses of drones or close the strait, and they consider ballistic missiles against US assets unlikely.

While they have an extreme western bias, there’s no way you can twist the numbers to look good.

it’s different from people refusing to evacuate since that’s on them

It isn’t though, you need to examine why those people were unwilling or unable to evacuate.

This is a systemic failure; our systems failed to adequately enable and incentivize people to evacuate. Do you judge a country’s covid response by the number of people killed by covid, or just chalk that up to people’s individual choices too?

The lack of regulations requiring sprinklers of course.

Individual choices are different from government incompetence resulting in mass casualties.

There’s a systemic criticism here; people not evacuating Helene properly demonstrates we don’t have proper systems in place to facilitate evacuations in the case of a hurricane.

Someone who chooses not to evacuate because they didn’t understand the severity or don’t have a car or anywhere to go isn’t an individual choice.

I’m sure the next country the US wants to proxy into oblivion will learn from Ukraine, right?

That would be Taiwan, possibly alongside Korea and Japan, right?

Iran’s soft power is only as good as its word.

Does whether or not Ukraine can win affect the calculus for the Biden admin in any way? Politicians on both sides have described the war as a way of killing Russians without spending a single drop of American blood, and every bomb sent justifies/enables more campaign donations.

The only thing that would be problematic for them would be a quick victory or loss.

I am blocked by WSJ for using an adblocker, do you have an archive link?

That last one a depressingly common perspective among people in power in Ukraine, including Zelensky.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/5/zelenskyy-says-wants-ukraine-to-become-a-big-israel

The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief

The phone tracing one is misleading. It might take hours for the police to get the location from the ISP (I doubt that), but the phone call doesn’t have to be hours long.