If someone wants to tie their religious identity to a fallible government, that's their brain damage.
Bleach7297
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The stock market is perverse.
It is supposed to be a tool that allows people to support promising ventures that they believe in, and allows them to profit from the venture if it is successful.
Instead it's a race to the bottom, where companies have a feduciary duty to their investors to make them as much profit as possible. This is the ultimate driver of enshittification.
Adam Smith was a smart guy, but he never saw Milton Friedman coming.
I'm sure the struggle the meme referred to was the inferior quality of composite video.
#betacamgang
Here's a more concise response for you
they've conducted more than 22,000 strikes and only managed to kill 20k
How many have they displaced? How many hospitals have they destroyed? Their 22,000 strikes directly killed 20k but the indirect deaths that result from those strikes count as well. Also, the fact that they've done 22,000 strikes sure doesn't sound like a proportionate response.
That's the beauty, no one will be nuked. Israel just having them is enough to make sure no nation(s) move on them.
Having nukes that your enemies know you can't use isn't much of a deterrent.
the good thing is no matter what you do it won't stop Israel from doing what it needs to do.
If Hamas's goal is the destruction of Israel, this has been their most successful campaign by far. They've shown the world exactly how much Israel cares about Palestinians. The BDS movement will just get stronger and stronger the longer this goes on, to say nothing of the 'less civil' anti-Israel sentiment.
Being subject to the occasional terrorist/freedom fighter attack is simply the cost of having colonies. If they don't want to accept that cost, the options are to get rid of the colonies or wipe out the indigenous inhabitants.
We're up to 1.5% of the population, now. And I neglected to mention all the people who have been displaced and/or don't have access to medical care. Last count I saw was 800,000 people. That's genocide as well, according to the UN convention that Israel ratified.
#gazagenocide
Yes. They should also produce a video showing what Israel's bombardment of Gaza would look like if it were aimed at Seoul.
Intent does matter but actions and impact matter a lot more. Reality matters more than speculative alternate realities. Real lives matter more than hypothetical lives.
20,000 is 1% of 2 million. Israel has knocked off an entire percentage point of the population in a couple of months, mostly civilian. Sure, they could wipe out everybody in Gaza, but then even the US and Germany wouldn't be able to support them. Israel needs to maintain at least some pretext of legitimacy, as weak as it is, so their 'partners' can say 'Israel has the right to defend itself' and try their hardest to ignore questions of proportionality and international law.
If the IDF is trying not to kill civilians they are doing a criminally poor job. Reports indicate that IDF soldiers are actively targeting non-combatants. To dismiss these reports is to be complicit in these atrocities. Skepticism is healthy, but ignorance is not.
As for them not needing to use the nukes, I wouldn't be so sure. Their enemies have already demonstrated they are perfectly willing to 'martyr' themselves and civilians. If it's a bluff, it'll get called. If it's not a bluff, Israel craps in their own bed, irradiating their (and many other's) holy land -- which is why the bluff would likely be called.
Other significant context, when thinking about the legitimacy of the operation:
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IDF knew of the planned attack a year beforehand and didn't take it seriously, despite additional warnings https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
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Netenyahu supported Hamas for years https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
#gazagenocide #gaza
I love that!
I don't see what the big deal is. Exactly nobody is actually going to call it "Rob Ford Stadium" when "Crack Colosseum" rolls off the tongue so well. Like "Crappy Tire" or "Horny Tim's" it will become classic self-depricating Canadiana. Or Torontoniana. Besides, do people actually call the Skydome "Rogers Centre" or the ACC "Scotia Whatever"? (please tell me they don't, it's been so long since I lived there, I'm afraid the scary young people will make me feel old and out of touch)
Anyone? No?
Tennish. 🥸
Shay, doesh anyone know when Sean Connery will be showing up to Wimbledon?
Downvoted by #svhsgang no doubt. You know your format was never pro.