I find it hard to believe Israel helps create a Palestinian state right now. The UN proclaiming them a state means... Hamas is given a state against it's will? I find it easy to picture the can being kicked down the road than that.
If Israel wins the war then it's not clear what they set up. Set up PA2 or create a royal family maybe and maybe that could end up a state eventually.
If Israel loses (can Hamas be destroyed?) then we will probably end up with Gaza as a prison camp again.
You have the funny hats, weird diet customs, and different holidays. You are also mentioned in the Bible more than once and have your own language.
"Fake and artificial" doesn't seem reasonable.
I think it's more that you're the real deal. A different culture that refuses to assimilate. Thus far for thousands of years so that's going to continue.
We have this weird thing from the left (DI) where they proclaim multiculturalism is good and all cultures are equal but what they really mean is "the same".
That's how they jump to "all differences are from racial bias". Culture has no impact at all because it's nothing more than different foods for dinner.
I listened to one the other day and my impression was he wanted Israel to exist but not as an ethnostate. Israel grants a right of return to Arabs as well as Jews and becomes a true democracy.
How that doesn't result in an Islamic Republic he didn't explain, apparently everyone wants a Western Democracy. The two groups will function peacefully in a democracy if the Jews just allow it.
InMD: all the 1/3 or so of them that say he is beyond the pale have to do is not show him for him specifically, probably just this one time, and that would be the end of Trump.
That's my plan. That's also why I think it's going to be a blow out.
Philip: Moral purity may be a myth, but right and wrong still exist.
Genocide is an act of intent. Ergo 10-7 was an act of genocide.
There is a conflict in claims in what Israel is doing. We have claims that Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
But if we count dead bodies, Israel seems to be killing one or two civilians for every soldier.
My impression is various groups are trying to claim a brutal urban war is illegal. In practice this would mean if Hamas hides in a hospital, Israel isn't allowed to attack them there.
Having said that, given where Israel's head is at I'm sure they're crossing lines. But they seem to think they're not.
Israel thinks that about a fifth of it's dead soldiers have been killed by "friendly fire". If they're occasionally killing their own soldiers and even their own hostages, then the occasional aid worker should be expected.
In this case, basically because he had to. Iran has serious mountains and a lot don't have roads. Like with Poland, he was going to a remote area because of politics. Recovery crew haven't even gotten to the crash site yet. Videos show serious fog, like "unsafe to drive".
Also, new theory. This was an old helicopter and they have trouble getting parts because of sanctions. If something goes wrong then they have to land... on a roadless mountain where the fog is so bad that they can't see.
Both the weather and the terrain are very difficult. This could easily be something more mundane.
We saw this in Poland. Combine flying in the fog, under dangerous conditions, with high ranking officials who can order the pilot to do stupid things, and that's what happens.
The counter point is the court is consuming a huge amount of his bandwidth. For all of the statements about how he's filled with energy and how "Sleepy Joe" doesn't have any, the constant falling asleep in court suggests he's the one that doesn't have a lot of energy.
All of the magic thinking. That it's possible to fundamentally transform human nature and make true communism possible. That it's possible (much less desirable) to remove human greed and human desire for self elevation.
At one point I took most of my life savings and started a business. It failed. If it had worked then I'd be off buying islands somewhere.
If the profit from the business were going to be collectivized, then I wouldn't have taken the risk.
If we treated DEI like we did Marxism, i.e. some good points but the over all philosophy was deeply flawed and has a lot of real world problems, then I'd be fine.
Or if you want, DEI and Plato.
We don't do that. We have DEI administrators trying to enforce DEI purity on the rest of the administration and the students.
From your link on what that DEI "consultant" actually thinks:
I can describe our culture as white supremacist and say things like, “All white people are invested in and collude with the system of racism,” without my fellow white people running from the room or reeling from trauma.
I can easily understand why people would "freak out" when dealing with that.
You have an expert, who is obviously a serious racist himself, who is proclaiming everyone in the room has to agree with him.
And he was hired by HR, and they can be fired for disagreeing with him.
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/27/2024”
Israel's reply: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B23hnCTfPPk
Includes a lot of raw military footage. They're not sure what happened. They may have accidently set fire to a weapons depo.
The overall numbers don't suggest "genocide". Calling it "genocide" is emotionally satisfying but a misuse of terms.
On “The Flag Flap”
Every time our team scores a goal it's well deserved.
Every time their team scores a goal they cheated.
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You want voters to elect Supremes? These would be the same voters that gave us Trump?
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You need a lot more data points, even if you're only trying to establish they have crazy wives.
On “Throughput: Fireball Edition”
Love this post.
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/20/2024”
All oppressed people are one big united (un)happy family. Intersectionality.
You-a-protester must support Palestinian rights, and the Palestinians will ergo support gay/trans/black/etc rights.
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Maybe. Depends on what happens after the war.
We're kind of over the edge of the universe.
I find it hard to believe Israel helps create a Palestinian state right now. The UN proclaiming them a state means... Hamas is given a state against it's will? I find it easy to picture the can being kicked down the road than that.
If Israel wins the war then it's not clear what they set up. Set up PA2 or create a royal family maybe and maybe that could end up a state eventually.
If Israel loses (can Hamas be destroyed?) then we will probably end up with Gaza as a prison camp again.
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So we're pretending that Team Blue cares about ethics and not only Blue judges?
This new focus on ethics will last only as long as it's connivant.
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You have the funny hats, weird diet customs, and different holidays. You are also mentioned in the Bible more than once and have your own language.
"Fake and artificial" doesn't seem reasonable.
I think it's more that you're the real deal. A different culture that refuses to assimilate. Thus far for thousands of years so that's going to continue.
We have this weird thing from the left (DI) where they proclaim multiculturalism is good and all cultures are equal but what they really mean is "the same".
That's how they jump to "all differences are from racial bias". Culture has no impact at all because it's nothing more than different foods for dinner.
Jews disprove a lot of their core assumptions.
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I listened to one the other day and my impression was he wanted Israel to exist but not as an ethnostate. Israel grants a right of return to Arabs as well as Jews and becomes a true democracy.
How that doesn't result in an Islamic Republic he didn't explain, apparently everyone wants a Western Democracy. The two groups will function peacefully in a democracy if the Jews just allow it.
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InMD: all the 1/3 or so of them that say he is beyond the pale have to do is not show him for him specifically, probably just this one time, and that would be the end of Trump.
That's my plan. That's also why I think it's going to be a blow out.
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Philip: Moral purity may be a myth, but right and wrong still exist.
Genocide is an act of intent. Ergo 10-7 was an act of genocide.
There is a conflict in claims in what Israel is doing. We have claims that Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinian civilians.
But if we count dead bodies, Israel seems to be killing one or two civilians for every soldier.
My impression is various groups are trying to claim a brutal urban war is illegal. In practice this would mean if Hamas hides in a hospital, Israel isn't allowed to attack them there.
Having said that, given where Israel's head is at I'm sure they're crossing lines. But they seem to think they're not.
Israel thinks that about a fifth of it's dead soldiers have been killed by "friendly fire". If they're occasionally killing their own soldiers and even their own hostages, then the occasional aid worker should be expected.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/one-third-millennials-believe-flat-earth-conspiracy-statistics-yougov-debunk
Basically it's bad polling and/or trolling.
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/13/2024”
In this case, basically because he had to. Iran has serious mountains and a lot don't have roads. Like with Poland, he was going to a remote area because of politics. Recovery crew haven't even gotten to the crash site yet. Videos show serious fog, like "unsafe to drive".
Also, new theory. This was an old helicopter and they have trouble getting parts because of sanctions. If something goes wrong then they have to land... on a roadless mountain where the fog is so bad that they can't see.
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Both the weather and the terrain are very difficult. This could easily be something more mundane.
We saw this in Poland. Combine flying in the fog, under dangerous conditions, with high ranking officials who can order the pilot to do stupid things, and that's what happens.
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Iran's President and several top officials are apparently missing after their copter went down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D83BHkVrJM8
On “Libertarians for Trump?”
Point.
The counter point is the court is consuming a huge amount of his bandwidth. For all of the statements about how he's filled with energy and how "Sleepy Joe" doesn't have any, the constant falling asleep in court suggests he's the one that doesn't have a lot of energy.
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Biden can fly wherever he wants.
Trump is on trial in New York. Either he campaigns there or he doesn't campaign.
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/13/2024”
All of the magic thinking. That it's possible to fundamentally transform human nature and make true communism possible. That it's possible (much less desirable) to remove human greed and human desire for self elevation.
At one point I took most of my life savings and started a business. It failed. If it had worked then I'd be off buying islands somewhere.
If the profit from the business were going to be collectivized, then I wouldn't have taken the risk.
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The comparison is between DEI and Marxism.
If we treated DEI like we did Marxism, i.e. some good points but the over all philosophy was deeply flawed and has a lot of real world problems, then I'd be fine.
Or if you want, DEI and Plato.
We don't do that. We have DEI administrators trying to enforce DEI purity on the rest of the administration and the students.
"
From your link on what that DEI "consultant" actually thinks:
I can describe our culture as white supremacist and say things like, “All white people are invested in and collude with the system of racism,” without my fellow white people running from the room or reeling from trauma.
I can easily understand why people would "freak out" when dealing with that.
You have an expert, who is obviously a serious racist himself, who is proclaiming everyone in the room has to agree with him.
And he was hired by HR, and they can be fired for disagreeing with him.
"
Wiki reads like he should have stayed in prison. Conservatives shouldn't have made him a cause.
On “From Josh Barro: “This Is the Economy We’ll Be Going Into the Election With””
Mostly it's the economy. However we're in new territory with Trump.
On “Will the Real Free-Trade Party Please Stand Up?”
We are not trading with Russia to hurt their economy, at the expense of hurting our own. No one is claiming this is "free trade".
On “Open Mic for the week of 5/6/2024”
Since the start of the war the IDF has lost 626 soldiers.
They've killed about 35k people. Maybe a third of them Hamas (sources differ).
Those numbers don't suggest the IDF is really bad at what they're doing.
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