mozz

Yes, but I’m asking what you think. There are a variety of opinions on it.

Hey, what happened when the wrong people started winning elections in Iraq when we set up democracy there?

“That’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT”

As I remember, it was just too much powder in the cartridge. I could be wrong though.

Do you see any scenario where the IDF can allow itself to truly stop Innocent people? A soldier is being fired at from a school, should the soldier allow himself to get killed in such situation?

The whole concept is bankrupt. An IDF soldier is being fired at from a school because he is on Palestinian land, occupying it by force to maintain the land that was stolen from the Palestinians and facilitate the taking of more.

There are degrees. If he’s sniping schoolchildren, then that will inflame the conflict more and promote more October 7ths. If he’s “only” firing back at the school, so “defending” himself… well, it’s “better” I guess, but if you break in my house in the middle of the night and I attack you, you’re not “defending” yourself even if you limit yourself to fighting with me and not hurting my wife.

And vice versa, considering what you know about setlers in Israel, do you really think that they will not get even more violent in the west bank if they know that their actions has no cost?

Their actions don’t seem to have a cost though. Or rather the mechanism of retribution is so indirect and random that I don’t think that Hamas’s counterattacks make all that much difference to their calculus of what they can get away with doing to the Palestinians. I could be wrong, but that’s my impression.

And don't get me wrong, I wish for Hamas to vanish, and I wish for the IDF to kill only militants (even that definition is not clear), just like you. But I don't see any realistic scenario (considering the human spirit) that this can happen. Not in the current political situation.

Like I said, even “killing only militants” leaves Israel in the position of the war criminal. They are invading and stealing homes, farms, anything they can find and pushing the Palestinians into a vanishingly small series of refuges which they then invade in turn. Why would “militants” not fight back in that scenario? What should they do instead?

I do agree with your take on how unrealistic peace is in the present climate. It needs to be imposed from outside by force in order to happen, which won’t happen, because the US would need to be actively involved in making that happen and the US likes things more or less as they are (or at least as they were before the counterattack after October 7th got so genocidal that it started causing political issues for leaders in the US).

I don’t know a single person who was in the military who has good things to say about it.

After training, sure, they’re all for it. After doing the job for real (combat or not) and getting out, not a single time that I can remember.

Not true. I already gave you some valuable feedback on your hustle. I can’t promise that you’ll make any more money if you implement my recommendations, but it will improve your job performance, if you take it on.

It’s okay though. I am happy to provide it for free.

What in your mind is a normal salary in an American business? Out of businesses in America, how typical do you imagine one would be that pays every single employee $400k per year? You seem to think these things you are claiming are pretty plausible, so I imagine you picture it as being pretty typical (or at least not comically outlandish), yes? Or no?

Fuckin serious up

Imagine to yourself what the Venezuelans should do about this, to safeguard their future. Let Maduro win and hope for the best? Peaceful protest? War? What should they do? Really think it through, with the comfortable objectivity of distance and safety.

And then, get fuckin ready. We got 3 more months. My best quick recommendation is, allies. Allies in the real world who are marching, working, voting, putting time in. Solidarity will help you resist, and if the resistance fails, they’ll help you survive.

Also: Vote. Are you registered? vote.org

Ha - I thought the exact same thing; I just edited my thing specifically to talk about McCain. Yeah, he was the last of the old guard; already out of step (telling that woman at his rally not to attack Obama as an enemy of America). But at least in his day you could be decent and run for president as a Republican. Now they’ll throw you out of congress for trying to be a normal human person as a Republican. Maybe next year it’ll be prison.

Dude, Reagan suffocated the soul of the GOP. And Nixon before him. Back in the Eisenhower days when the Democrats were the racist party, they had some solid things to stand for, but those people are in the ground at this point, and have been for a long, long time. McCain was arguably the last of his kind, back when you could be a decent person and still have some standing in the GOP, which is why they’ve now edited him out like Emmanuel Goldstein.

A lot of the Democrats are shit, too. But the thought leaders of the Democratic Party are, by and large, the relatively decent ones. We’ve reformed (somewhat) since Clinton. The Republicans have been digging down to new levels of hell with every new generation for roughly 50 years now, and Nixon was already psychotically bad.

Or that my business is setup as a coopt where everyone makes an equal portion, has equal equity, and equal input in the direction of the company?

Everyone in your business makes $400k per year?

How many employees do you have?