TheSanSabaSongbird @ TheSanSabaSongbird @lemdro.id

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No.

Defeatism is even worse than neutrality.

This is not a coherent position. You're basically just talking about feelings, not actual facts or policy.

Also, where can I find this "Americans second" message you speak of? Where did you see or hear that? Are you sure you're not making it up?

This is how the tankies roll; they want to define the terms of the argument however they want and then expect the rest of us to go along with it.

"Yer squashin' my smokes, Pa."

Sometimes but not always. There's more to it in international law. That said, I realize that in arguing caution before leveling accusations of genocide, I am in the minority in this instance. My take is based on what I've read of expert legal opinion on the subject and not on my own evaluation of the IDF's moral position.

The long and short of it is that there are matters of intent that have to be shown in order to have a case for genocide. Thus far, regardless of how we think about the IDF vis war-crimes, I have yet to see a convincing argument for genocide on a legal basis.

You may say that this is a distinction without a difference, and while I'm sympathetic to that idea, I still think it's worthwhile to maintain these sharp legal definitions.

I too can spout religious gibberish.

That's a paraphrase of a famous Bertrand Russell quote. The original is as follows; "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

There's also the William Butler Yeats corollary; "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Podcast Republic. I don't know if it's the best, but I'm used to it and it does everything I want and nothing I don't want. It's also open source.

Same, but I still use Google docs to store copies of all my published work.

I like Podcast Republic because it's easy to keep it simple for troglodytes like myself who don't want or need all the bells and whistles.

I think a lot of people are in denial about who and what Hamas is.

You don't understand basic game theory.

That's begging the question in the traditional sense of the term in formal logic. First of all you have to establish that it is in fact a genocide. While what the IDF is doing probably counts as war crimes, I have yet to see a convincing case that it's genocide in a legal sense. We'll see. I'm more than willing to change my mind in light of new evidence or a stronger argument than I have seen thus far.

No.

Yeah the Amazon is a trip. I was down there for about a week, and except at night, there was no point at which I was not basically dripping with sweat. I'm told that your body eventually acclimates and it becomes less of an issue, but a week was definitely not long enough for me.

I did too, but what we do have proof of, in the form of hours and hours of grisly trauma-inducing footage, is quite bad enough. While we can rightly condemn its overuse, there is no universe in which the Israelis can be blamed for reacting with force.

Yep. You don't need a fancy graduate degree in IR to know this. US policy in the Middle East has always been a pretty open book. The fact that it's often been disastrous isn't evidence of some vast conspiracy to keep the Arab world down. To the contrary, it's evidence of deep stupidity, hubris, arrogance and wilful ignorance on the part of US leadership. Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be attributed to stupidity.

Oh good, whataboutism always takes a conversation to interesting places, said no one, ever.