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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 20, 2019, 11:19:04 AM »
BTW, Josh. What a dumbass poll that is at the top!

If that's your template, why not ask:
"How often do you beat your wife?
A) Once a week
B) At least twice a week
C) When she needs it
D) She left, but when I catch her, I'll make OJ look like Mother Teresa
E) This one of the last one?

It must be said HamiltonIII, in reading your posts here I haven't thought particularly highly of your intelligence level, but if you truly don't understand the connection of the poll at the top of this page to current politics and certain current political leaders then you are a dumbass!  (how is that for command of the language!)

The question is stupid, and it isn't a poll at all. Anyone who answered it was equally stupid.

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Baseball / Re: Major League Baseball
« on: August 20, 2019, 09:12:49 AM »
You all wanted me to stop - so I did.

Do you see any posts after that early season stretch?

Banks can't stop. Josh doesn't make him. Part of the cartel. Special privilege. Be careful. Even the most innocuous post can get you banned, but banks rolls unchecked. Must have pictures or something..

Heh

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Baseball / Re: Major League Baseball
« on: August 20, 2019, 09:10:07 AM »
NL Wild Card
(38 left)

Nats
Cubs    1.5
--------------
Mets     3.5
Phils     3.5
Brewers   3.5

C'mon Phils - I had you in the Series!

You should have bet on injuries. You would have cleaned up.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 20, 2019, 09:09:17 AM »
BTW, Josh. What a dumbass poll that is at the top!

If that's your template, why not ask:
"How often do you beat your wife?
A) Once a week
B) At least twice a week
C) When she needs it
D) She left, but when I catch her, I'll make OJ look like Mother Teresa
E) This one of the last one?

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 20, 2019, 09:03:56 AM »
Object to Israel's confiscation of land? Then the folks who have taken the equivalent of Israel more recently should be on your radar and the folks who ate Tibet even more so.

Right. Because clearly the issue with Israel’s occupation can be quantified by hectares!

Why is that so hard to grasp?

Well for a start I’m pretty bad at geography. It would help enormously if you could rank global conflict by acreage so that I know which most deserve my attention in your eyes.  And then are we only putting illegal occupation on that list of offending territory or more general human rights violations?

Then I think time should be a factor. Something that happened 100 years ago, can not be changed and only viewed in a Museum should be ranked lower than a current conflict that can be read about in today’s news.

Some other questions:

Should we all submit resume/biographies that break down our family, professional or political connections so that you can judge if there is any personal experience that makes our interest in Israel and the surrounding territory pure?

Also shouldn’t there be a points or credits system?  If we don’t need to demonstrate our great concern over your ranked situations contemporaneously with current events then I think we need a way to bank our outrage.

That way posters here other than yourself and bankshot1 can comment next time the Prime Minister of Israel bans a US Congressperson at the behest of the US President in a political ploy to influence the US elections and is covered heavily in news in the US, without, you know, seeming to have an unspoken agenda.

Some people are just ignorant. Others are stupid.
But you have a fine command of the language, and yet demonstrate ignorance and stupidity in compound ways.

It's rather an art form you've shown on this topic. Be smart enough to know what you don't know, and wise enough not to repeatedly demonstrate your foolishness with such blatant disregard for reality.


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Previous Administration / Re: Shalom
« on: August 20, 2019, 08:56:17 AM »
Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.

Your post is Orwellian.
The US attacked and waged war on Afghanistan and Iraq, the neighbors on either side of Iran.  Destroying their gov'ts, killing and displacing large chunks of their population, unleashing sectarian violence, while unable to secure any kind of stable gov't in the war's aftermath.  Indeed fighting and insurgency have been their post-war fates for the past decade and a half.  Yet you claim it's Iran that is the threat to regional stabilization.  Unbelievable.

You think Israel is destabilizing?  You're lost on this issue, child.
Totally fucking lost.

Is there one mention of, or reference to, Israel in my post above that you quoted?  I suppose you could find the letters that make up the country's name and construct the word Israel a la ransom-notes.


poor boz employs a little hyperbole when his hypocrisy was exposed.
Goodnight Adolph

Zero hyperbole from me.  The US destabilized the ME by invading Iraq, and overthrowing the Saddam/Baathist regime.  The war and aftermath/mess in Afghanistan similarly destabilized Central Asia.

Zero hypocrisy.  No idea even what you might be referring to.  Make arguments not assertions.

Adolph?
Jeez, you're an internet blowhard and representative of why I usually don't discuss politics here or on the internet in general.

Also, all the insults and harshness here is pretty unappealing.
This is an unusual forum.


Further, I read everything the same way NeedsA did, which seemed really the only way to interpret the insinuations and such, especially given their context.  Most of his posts the last few days I could have written myself.


Lastly, I'd encourage folks to go to Israel and to visit the West Bank.  See the land at issue, meet the people involved, get a deeper understanding of what is going on and where things stand.

Taken in context, my criticism is valid. But nice try at deflection, again. Iran is the enemy. Israel the Ally to the USA. As an American, it should be your priority. Being pragmatic, the USA, Russia, and China will need to work together to quell what's been coming out of central Asia in terms of radical Islam. It would serve each of those countries' interests to have a strong Ally in Israel, and to be United against Iran.

That's why we are developing relationships with some pretty creepy dudes running all those "Stans".
It's necessary. There's no Lone Ranger in this world, Tonto.


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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 20, 2019, 08:51:23 AM »
Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.

Your post is Orwellian.
The US attacked and waged war on Afghanistan and Iraq, the neighbors on either side of Iran.  Destroying their gov'ts, killing and displacing large chunks of their population, unleashing sectarian violence, while unable to secure any kind of stable gov't in the war's aftermath.  Indeed fighting and insurgency have been their post-war fates for the past decade and a half.  Yet you claim it's Iran that is the threat to regional stabilization.  Unbelievable.

You think Israel is destabilizing?  You're lost on this issue, child.

Totally fucking lost.
Sorry but under the banks.rule if you criticize one side you must.also criticize the other or you are an anti-Palestinian bigot.

Yes, because as everyone knows, I'm under banks evil spell.

STFU.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:45:09 PM »
Again NA its not my fault you jumped to an incorrect conclusion I was accusing Bo of being anti-Semitic.  I did not. My question as already stated was whether there were other factors, ("unspoken agenda") which may have formed his opinion of the issue, just as I have an agenda which helped form mine.

Cmon, Banks.

You do go from Zero to 60 in no time when you don’t agree with someone.

Oh, the irony here. Ha!


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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:40:41 PM »
Well, my normal response to something like that is no one is an omnibus. They get to choose the issues that matter to them.

Well, normally I would agree.  But we have established here that if Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is something that matters to you then you are either anti-Israel or anti-Semitic or both.

The only thing you've established is your proclivity to erect strawmen.

No one put forth that opinion.

You need to take better care of your posting.  The meaning behind your accusation that bodiddley has a dark “unspoken agenda” was clear enough and when he clarified your meaning you didn’t disagree.  You said “others might disagree with me” that Israel has a right to exist, and that nukes should be kept out of the hands of (Muslim) crazy religious fanatics as though posters here do. 

And you are not alone.  Both you and Josh, posters I might otherwise respect, seem to have spent the last few days here arguing “of course Israel deserves criticism, but if you criticize it, it’s because you don’t like Jews.”

Layered on to the many problems with that line of argument, its intellectually dishonest.  I put it in the same category as Republicans who renamed the Freedom Fries because if the French are against our war in Iraq then of course they are against Freedom.

Doubling down on pedantic idiocy, I see.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:37:00 PM »
Well, my normal response to something like that is no one is an omnibus. They get to choose the issues that matter to them.

Well, normally I would agree.  But we have established here that if Israel's treatment of the Palestinians is something that matters to you then you are either anti-Israel or anti-Semitic or both.

No, you're just willfully ignorant turd who is can't accommodate reality.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:34:22 PM »
Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.

Your post is Orwellian.
The US attacked and waged war on Afghanistan and Iraq, the neighbors on either side of Iran.  Destroying their gov'ts, killing and displacing large chunks of their population, unleashing sectarian violence, while unable to secure any kind of stable gov't in the war's aftermath.  Indeed fighting and insurgency have been their post-war fates for the past decade and a half.  Yet you claim it's Iran that is the threat to regional stabilization.  Unbelievable.

You think Israel is destabilizing?  You're lost on this issue, child.

Totally fucking lost.


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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:31:35 PM »
The coverage and slant of news in the US greatly favors Israel.
I don't this is self-evident and not debatable.  All the terms and presentation favor a pro-Israel view of the situation.  I can pick examples out of almost any general news article if you want.


Israel and the US mount fierce diplomatic campaigns and apply pressure to prevent countries and the UN from recognizing Palestine as a state.  Isn't this well-known?  They especially don't want the Palestinians having access to international criminal courts, who would likely rule against Israeli violations of international law.

The Palestinians are allowed a very limited gov't, overseen and restricted by Israel.

Gaza.  Israel maintains an air-sea-land blockade.
Only allowing enough basic supplies in to keep mass starvation at bay.
IL also shoots people on their own territory who approach a fenced border.

Israel has divided the West Bank into three sectors, the majority of which is controlled and policed by Israeli soldiers.  IL controls movement and construction throughout the WB.  Israel collect taxes and decides how and when to pass that on to the Palestinians.

Iran is the enemy of the USA, not Israel. Wake up.
So is Russia, if we are being non-sequitorious. Just because Israel is an ally shouldn't mean we do not.raise.issues when their actions are wrong, or are harmful to our long term self interest.

Haven't heard those two Congress women say anything about Iran. Don't be distracted by Israel. Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.
Israel's failure to deal effectively, justly and humanely with the Palestinian issue is a  long term threat to stability in the region and our national interests and would be so regardless of Iran's international ambitions. Wake the fuck up.
Those would be the Palestinians Iran supplies with weapons and other means of support. Shut the fuck up.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 10:29:33 PM »
Haven't heard those two Congress women say anything about Iran. Don't be distracted by Israel. Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.

Its a bit like saying you can't say anything about police shootings of black men until you first criticize black-on-black violence.

The US has been consistently checking Iran's ambitions since the 60's.  Most recently, with the reinstitution of the largest sanctions package ever imposed.

Did you have a point? Because you're  off topic.

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 02:50:00 PM »
This is for the idiots in the left wing of my Democratic Party who think Israel is the problem:
https://www.rferl.org/a/u-s-again-names-iran-as-leading-terrorism-sponsor/29498883.html

Nice pic at the top. Kind of says it all.

Wake the fuck up

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Previous Administration / Re: Trump Administration
« on: August 19, 2019, 02:31:11 PM »
The coverage and slant of news in the US greatly favors Israel.
I don't this is self-evident and not debatable.  All the terms and presentation favor a pro-Israel view of the situation.  I can pick examples out of almost any general news article if you want.


Israel and the US mount fierce diplomatic campaigns and apply pressure to prevent countries and the UN from recognizing Palestine as a state.  Isn't this well-known?  They especially don't want the Palestinians having access to international criminal courts, who would likely rule against Israeli violations of international law.

The Palestinians are allowed a very limited gov't, overseen and restricted by Israel.

Gaza.  Israel maintains an air-sea-land blockade.
Only allowing enough basic supplies in to keep mass starvation at bay.
IL also shoots people on their own territory who approach a fenced border.

Israel has divided the West Bank into three sectors, the majority of which is controlled and policed by Israeli soldiers.  IL controls movement and construction throughout the WB.  Israel collect taxes and decides how and when to pass that on to the Palestinians.

Iran is the enemy of the USA, not Israel. Wake up.
So is Russia, if we are being non-sequitorious. Just because Israel is an ally shouldn't mean we do not.raise.issues when their actions are wrong, or are harmful to our long term self interest.

Haven't heard those two Congress women say anything about Iran. Don't be distracted by Israel. Iran is the threat to stabilization in the region, and in Central Asia. Wake the fuck up.

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