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Good god Lemon.
Russia at war will always be the bigger story. It threatens Europe and the west in general.
Guppies have a Gonopodium AKA a fish dick because they give live birth.
You can see them flex it from time to time. Note the bottom fin moving on the colorful fish chasing after the fat drab female:
https://youtu.be/dqUFAY3Lnzg?si=UyEdYZd5Nmu3EC5_
That's just one species of livebearing fish but there are many others.
Yeah you hear about bookies going out of business from bad lines all the time. /s
The house always wins. Haley is 20 to 1 just to win the nomination.
And polls are off but rarely outside the margin of error.
Second, the polls are broken
Broken is a stretch but we do know which way they leaned and that's not a good sign considering Biden's numbers were overstated.
Most preelection polls in 2020 overstated Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump in the national vote for president
It's not hopeless but the margins are thin, Trump won by 77,000 votes in 2016 and lost by 81,000 in 2020. Biden doesn't have a lot of slack to play with and he's going to be hit hard from all sides including his own thanks to 10/7.
Between inflation, "the border", Ukraine funding, Israel and every country with a vested interest against America influencing people online more than ever before it's gearing up to be a disaster.
Betting on Republicans to do the right thing is a surefire way to end up broke.
Glad to be on this side of the great pond for the time being.
That time being 12 months.
If Trump does win, Europe can't count on America to respond properly to it's NATO promises. At best Trump will drag out processes that can't be drugout in order for NATO to remain effective. At worst he'll try and pullout entirely.
can't win a general with him.
You'd think so but he is leading in the polls and the bettting markets.
I think turnout amongst young voters will be lower than last time for Biden since they have been brainwashed by TikTok on the Gaza issue. Even though the lesser of two evils is clearly Biden especially on Israel and Gaza.
So unless a couple of key states kick him off the ballot Trump will win the electoral college vote. While losing the popular vote by the widest margin to date.
And yet there is no chance in hell she wins the nomination nevermind the general. She's a 30:1 long shot in current betting markets.
Trump is beating Biden in the polls and bookies have him as the favroite to win.
Unless some states that matter kick him off the ballot the US is headed for 2nd Trump presidency.
If it is to be said, so it be, so it is.
I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back.
I wasn't far behind you. My first laptop around that time came with Vista installed. Didn't take long for me to switch Ubuntu after that, haven't been back to Windows since.
Wow that's about one civilian
Exactly. It's extremely low for such a high density location. Bombing is neccassary and the civilian death toll will never be 0 but less than 1 death per bomb is stellar considering the bombs are up to 2,000 pounds and capable of leveling entire buildings.
Israel is the entity responsible for blocking supplies from entering Gaza, so yes.
I love how the Egyptian border with Gaza always gets forgotten about. No Arab country actually cares about Gaza but they do love to use them as pawns.
The bombing of Dresden is also a war crime.
Are you posting from Argentina?
And what makes this situation genocide is the willful military targeting of civilians
As of December 22 Israel struck Gaza 22,000 times since Oct 7th and yet the civilian death toll during that time was 20,000. Do you honestly believe Israel was trying to kill civilians looking at the numbers? It defies all logic.
If they were "willfully targeting civilians" as you claim the number of dead would be in the hundreds of thousands. The reality is Israel warned people to leave areas it was targeting. It actively avoids civlians, hence the low death toll.
and destruction of all civilian medical personnel and infrastructure among many other things.
You say medical infrastructure while ignoring the Hamas base inside. Like it or not hospitals become valid targets. They're not a safe space for Hamas to kill from.
the mass starvation imposed by Israel
As stated by Palestinians on the ground Hamas steals it but somehow Israel is to blame for that as well? https://youtu.be/NBjvYkNzuAA?si=uyjkIc7d6UMsnnqV
Life in Gaza will not improve until Hamas is destroyed.
Saying that the vast majority of innocent civilians supported it is such bullshit.
In what way is it bullshit. The polls are clear, 72% support the Hamas attacks. Is 72% not vast to you or something?
But please tell us how you justify
The bombing of Dresden in WW2 by allied forces had a horrific toll on civilians. It didn't suddenly mean that the allies were unjust in the war and should have stopped fighting.
Same thing for Israel. They have every right to fight Hamas and they are doing so. With a narrow strip of land like Gaza you're going to have civilian casualties. That doesn't make it a genocide. It's war.
I'm just impressed you've maintained this quaint notion of how the world works at your age. You seem to have an honest belief in international law and humanity.
I have a belief system based in reality. One where winners dictate terms. No one from a nation with nukes will face the same fate as someone from an African or Balkan country.
I even drink beer and smoke shisha with one, even though it's haram.
Funny how much better life starts to get the further one strays from religion. It's almost like it's holding us all back or something /s
The vast majority supported the Oct 7th attack and still do months later... Did They think Israel would let it slide?
Seventy-two percent of respondents said they believed the Hamas decision to launch the cross-border rampage in southern Israel was "correct" given its outcome so far, while 22% said it was "incorrect".
And saying Oct 7 attack doesn't do it justice. Watch the videos. Read the reports. It was humanity in it's most disgusting form:
NYT investigation: ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7
Gifted article, here's an archive link as well.
Excerpts:
- A two-month investigation by The Times uncovered painful new details, establishing that the attacks against women were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence on Oct. 7.
- In a grainy video, you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes....Based largely on the video evidence — which was verified by The New York Times — Israeli police officials said they believed that Ms. [Gal] Abdush was raped, and she has become a symbol of the horrors visited upon Israeli women and girls during the Oct. 7 attacks.
- The Times viewed photographs of one woman’s corpse that emergency responders discovered in the rubble of a besieged kibbutz with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin.
- Sapir, a 24-year-old accountant, has become one of the Israeli police’s key witnesses. In a two-hour interview outside a cafe in southern Israel, she recounted seeing groups of heavily armed gunmen rape and kill at least five women...at 8 a.m. on Oct. 7, she was hiding under the low branches of a bushy tamarisk tree, just off Route 232, about four miles southwest of the party. She had been shot in the back...felt faint...covered herself in dry grass and lay as still as she could. About 15 meters from her hiding place she saw motorcycles, cars and trucks pulling up. She saw about 100 men, most of them dressed in military fatigues and combat boots, a few in dark sweatsuits, getting in and out of the vehicles. The men congregated along the road and passed between them assault rifles, grenades, small missiles — and badly wounded women. “It was like an assembly point.” The first victim she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back....While one terrorist raped her, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast.....“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,”....the men sliced her face and then the woman fell out of view. Around the same time, she saw three other women raped and terrorists carrying the severed heads of three more women....Yura Karol, a 22-year-old security consultant, said he was hiding in the same spot, and he can be seen in one of Sapir’s photos.... In an interview, Mr. Karol said he barely lifted his head to look at the road but he also described seeing a woman raped and killed
- Raz Cohen....saw five men, wearing civilian clothes, all carrying knives and one carrying a hammer, dragging a woman across the ground. She was young, naked and screaming. “They all gather around her,” Mr. Cohen said. “She’s standing up. They start raping her. I saw the men standing in a half circle around her. One penetrates her. She screams. I still remember her voice, screams without words.” “Then one of them raises a knife,” he said, “and they just slaughtered her.” Shoam Gueta, one of Mr. Cohen’s friends and a fashion designer, said the two were hiding together in the streambed. He said he saw at least four men step out of the van and attack the woman, who ended up “between their legs.” He said that they were “talking, giggling and shouting,” and that one of them stabbed her with a knife repeatedly, “literally butchering her.” Yinon Rivlin, a member of the rave’s production team who lost two brothers in the attacks, said that after hiding from the killers, he emerged from a ditch and made his way to the parking area, east of the party, along Route 232, looking for survivors. Near the highway, he said, he found the body of a young woman, on her stomach, no pants or underwear, legs spread apart. He said her vagina area appeared to have been sliced open, “as if someone tore her apart.”
- There are at least three women and one man who were sexually assaulted and survived, according to Gil Horev, a spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs. “None of them has been willing to come physically for treatment,” he said. Two therapists said they were working with a woman who was gang raped at the rave and was in no condition to talk to investigators or reporters.
My sympathy for those who support Oct 7th is at 0.
#gaza
Now, I could be wrong but you strike me as the sort who doesn't put much weight behind international law.
I'm old enough to remember what happended in Rwanda. International laws may as well be printed on the back of a CVS receipt. It's equally worthless.
Pretending "international law" or anything the UN says is worth mentioning is laughable at this point.
And I do agree the slow West Bank takeover over by Israel settlers is wrong. It needs to stop. However claims about Israel being on colonized land is bullshit rhetoric that doesn't deserve respect.
your country's history.
My point is it's every countries history. No one exists on land orignally belonging to their tribe. Most land has been 'stolen' many times over.
At the end of the day my positions are this. Israel has a right to exist. Palestine never existed. Arabs lost every war ever fought. Losers don't get to dictate terms.
Arabs refused every deal presented no matter how favorable throughout the decades. They want it all. They want to be free from the river to the sea AKA they want every Jew dead. They are always the one to initate attacks.
After Oct 7th Israel had the right to declare war and do the needful so to speak. Hamas will be eradicated. Gaza will suffer much more than they are now and theres not a hashtag in the world that will change whats coming. No international law will be enforced, no UN intervention.
Religion is a cancer on the world and the middle east is exhibit A as to why it belongs in the past. Forced to choose I'll back Judism over Islam every time. Islam kills non believers like me and spawns death cults across the globe. It's an abhorrent and barbaric religion that is incompatible with the modern world.
How many have they displaced?
Most respected the warning and moved to safer areas hence the lower civilian death toll. Would you rather they stay and die? Displacement isn't always a bad thing.
How many hospitals have they destroyed?
You mean Hamas bases? As many as they need to.
Also, the fact that they've done 22,000 strikes sure doesn't sound like a proportionate response.
The goal is to eliminate Hamas. Proportinality isn't a thing here. This will take months and Israel will sweep up and down the entire Gaza strip as needed.
Having nukes that your enemies know you can't use isn't much of a deterrent.
I wouldn't be so sure. Israel doesn't acknowledge their nukes and plays by it's own rules. A first strike option is on the table.
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.
You sure about that? People are tiring of the protests now and turning on the protestors blocking traffic and invading areas of normal life.
colonies
Oh come the fuck on. Colony my ass, the Jews have been there for thousands of years. They have more claim to the area than you or I do from wherever we're posting from. We are all colonizers compared to Israel.
My roots only go back on 150 years and I'm in fucking Wisconsin. If the Objibwa tribe mounted an attack on my people now they'd be eradicated and no one would balk. The moment passed for atacks, we are here now and not going anywhere.
It's time Palestine accept that as well because if they can't they'll be living in refugee camps permanently.
Reading the title I was like man the Onion is getting a little edgy until I read the source. Truth is stranger than fiction.