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smltwnrckr

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  1. Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't give a phuck about the answer to a BS question. I was never pushing anyone to answer it in the first place.
  2. It's a nonsense question, asked by apologists for state violence. I mean, there was a time when giving people their rights was something you believed in. At least, that's what it seemed like at the time.
  3. You ever seen an Israeli settler talk? You're right, it's tough to reason with a lot of those people.
  4. This is the result of policy decisions and the exercising of brutal and extreme power by one party, though. They put the fish in that barrel, and now are shrugging that it's hard to target the rotten ones with a grenade.
  5. LULZ... I'm sure that will be the conclusion of anyone who reads the posts here after this one. Dipshit.
  6. I dunno, you tell me. I mean, answer your own question if you think it should be answered. How many Palestinian children need to die to avenge the blood of one Israeli child? Adults?
  7. Lol, yea i didnt think so. Keep hunting that white whale, smart guy.
  8. No, I sound like a historian. We don't do counterfactuals, cuz they're dumb. But it doesn't take much education to compare the numbers... you shouldn't do 20,000 bad bad things in response to 1400 bad things. At least in my opinion.
  9. The most pathetic thing about you is when you walk it back like a scared little chihuahua you are doing it right now. Lean into it, friend. Be a man, and go to bat for you own bullshit posts. Come at me with real substance. I dare you. You know, something beyond the typical misogyny with period jokes and such. Do it, smart guy.
  10. I'm laughing at the entire premise here. But the US did significantly more in the war in Iraq to minimize civilian casualties and use the military for humanitarian aid than the IDF is doing in Gaza right now, full stop. And I don't think anyone mistook American forces in places like Fallujah for Doctors without Borders. To use your own words, the idea of a humanitarian war effort is +++++ing retarded. Women have been unable to breast feed because they're dehydrated due to the siege. The Israeli forces will never allow any of those people to go back home after they are done levelling it. The actual dead are already staggering. The damage beyond those numbers are even more so. You said it right - war is hell. So let's not pretend the agents of war are angels.
  11. I said in the first place it's a pointless question, and explained why it is pointless and its answers are meaningless at this point except to justify violence. What they should have done from the beginning is give an occupied people their rights. What they shouldn't have done is kill 20,000 people. If you think that's deflection, that's on you.
  12. The California State Assembly said something, and the dumbest poster on this board thinks this should be embarrassing to the organization funded by that legislative body. Please wake me up when SJSU actually claims through its own official channels, in any sort of real capacity, to be MWC champions. California has more than a half-dozen D1 football teams, and the state assembly is full of idiots. We could all get a chuckle every time the assembly presented any of those programs with something dumb. But we don't, because no one cares. Unless its @TheTedfordTrain who is pathetic and weirdly obsessed with SJSU athletics. I am happy to point that out when I can, in case anyone ever forgets.
  13. Well, there were jews in Palestine before 1948. You can go look at rhe history for yourself and compare what life was like for them then and what like is like now for Palestinians in Gaza.
  14. I have no problem walking into casa de dipshit to remind anyone who thought it would be fun to wander in that you're an idiot. This is a great look for you, though. I'm definitely embarrassed for one of us.
  15. Yes, violence is a tale as old as time. But this tale is not as old as time. This tale has a history, that started at a particular time, not all that long ago. 1948 is not as old as time. But, let's assume this is a tale as old as time. There is, then, an answer to that question about what to do. Give people their rights.
  16. Oh, we know you do. Again, sharta fans are definitely the pathetic ones here. Clearly.
  17. Definitely NOT a pathetic display by our most pathetic poster.
  18. Also, look into why drug stores were ACTUALLY closing about a year ago too. Hint: not petty crime.
  19. Here is what the pro-life contingent has stated in the wake of all this. https://www.mediamatters.org/live-action/anti-abortion-media-attacked-texas-woman-seeking-emergency-abortion-likening-procedure (and I get Media Matters has a bent, but these are all statements made by people who are very influential in conservative legal and policy circles who DID say these things) Kristan Hawkins, leader of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America, decried the situation as “eugenics and selfishness.” Hawkins mocked Cox’s motivations for seeking an abortion and described her thinking as, “I don't have to have to watch my child die in front of me, so I'm going to pay someone to kill her now.” Deirdre Cooper, a policy analyst with the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, said terminating a pregnancy because of fetal abnormalities amounts to “discrimination.” “Once given a fatal diagnosis, parents are now on a unique journey of preparing for the death of a beloved child,” Cooper told the Houston Chronicle. “But abortion robs that child of the chance at life, no matter how short.” Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson: “A child is worthy of life even when its biological parents don’t want it.” She continued, “A child is worthy of life when they have special needs. Abortion is always wrong because every child is worthy of life.” Lauren Muzyka, president and CEO of the anti-abortion group Sidewalk Advocates for Life, praised the Texas Supreme Court for affirming that “there's never a reason to directly kill a baby to preserve mom's life.” She also wrote, “Trisomy 18 is not a reason to murder a child.” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins called Cox’s situation “tragic” but asserted that “allowing an abortionist to kill her [the fetus] will only magnify the pain and suffering this family is experiencing.” Anti-abortion outlet Live Action News argued that while fetuses diagnosed with Trisomy 18 often do not survive birth, “every single child is a gift and their lives should be honored with love rather than being tossed aside as unworthy.” After a lower state court ruled in Cox’s favor — a ruling that was later put on hold — anti-abortion outlet Life News published an article titled “Texas Judge rules a baby can be killed in abortion just because the baby is disabled.” The article also claimed that there was “significant question about whether the baby has Trisomy 18 in the first place … because prenatal tests often fail.” Live Action founder Lila Rose: “Very sick or disabled unborn babies don’t deserve the abortionists lethal needle or forceps—they deserve medical care, & in the cases needed, neonatal palliative care.” Texas Alliance for Life posted: “Center for Reproductive Rights advocating for aborting disabled babies is like Margaret Sanger saying we need to exterminate minorities and aim for a cleaner race. Eugenics by any other name is still eugenics.” EWTN Global Catholic Network radio host Grazie Pozo Christie called abortion “assassination” while also acknowledging that Trisomy 18 is “incompatible with life.” “There’s another option, which is to end the pregnancy through a delivery and love the baby until the end,” she added. These people are monsters. These people are maniacs. These people are the ones who conservative judges, lawmakers and prosecutors look to for guidance on this issue. Disgusting. Shame.
  20. I mean, see my response above. If we're gonna play the counterfactual history game, we should go back to the causes of the causes. I would have more sympathy for the good faith question if the the state of Israel didn't immediately send spokesmen to international media sources to tell the world that we should absolve them of all their actions after Oct. 7 because of what happened. So, they didn't ask the question you are asking. Why should I ask it for them? But, again, IMO what you shouldn't do after a brutal attack that killed 1,400 people is to brutally attack and kill 16,000 and counting and demand that the entire international community (and God) absolve you of it. That is the opposite of the answer, IMO.
  21. I didn't mean to imply you were not asking in good faith. It is a reasonable question in narrow contexts, I think as an addendum to my earlier statement. But the state of Israel is quickly turning to asking for forgiveness instead of permission after thousands of children are dead. But before the children died, the IDF stated over and over that we should allow them to kill children without questioning them because Hamas brutally and terribly killed children. The fact is that, if we are going to look backwards and ask the question of what Israel should have done after Oct. 7, then we shouldn't stop there. We should also look back further and reckon with the very real fact that Hamas being in control of Gaza was a desired policy outcome for the Israeli government. But, in all of that, the short answer to the initial question is: "Not do what they did."
  22. I mean, the same lawyer believed the exception applied to her client. The texas ag disagreed.
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