Jace, Extat

Snap guess:

Zelensky wants another offensive. The General knows better.

1 hour ago, Kalbear said:

What the actual fuck - there's a proposal to impeach a member of bidens cabinet, the house is killing the immigration proposal due to Trump, three us servicemen died in Jordan...

 

What's your take on that last one, Kal? 

I feel like it's some surreal illustrative on the fragmentation of our society. We're practically at war and, like... nobody seems to care?

I just didn't think it was very funny or creative 

Fuck YEAH! 

MVP! MVP! MVP!

5 hours ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

You got me a dilophosaurus one too, right?

Look, it's not that I didn't get you the 'saurus kid...

Went with my little sister and my dad to see the Jurassic World Adventure live show. It was... Pretty Good. Definitely something to take kids to.

It was a seven hour drive to get here and will probably be even longer drive to get back, but it was worth it to see my sister's smile when the big animatronic T-Rex came out. Good day.

A T-shirt and two dino plushies cost damn near $150. But it was her day and she got what she wanted. Sometimes life is good.

Peace and love, y'all.

Well, a man grows...

It's a different sport than 2000. 

Brady is and always will be the Goat because he played in a league that didn't bend over backwards to fluff quarterback performances.

11 minutes ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

Cognitive decline that's rapidly speeding up, neuropathy affecting both feet, long term alcoholism on an extreme scale, not exercising for two decades and obesity. I probably missed something in there. It's bad and he won't do a thing to at least mitigate his decline. Plus he's an asshole when I try to help him. 

That all sounds like a nightmare. It may not mean much, but I think it speaks well of you to still try and help him. 

Not everybody gets up when someone else is down and in need of aid. Good on you.

That's horrible, Ty. Do you have any idea what caused the discoloration? Does he have any known conditions that are making him fall?

1 minute ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

Maybe, but like I've said before it's reasonable to believe they don't want some of the horror stories to get out. We've heard some pretty bad things from the limited comments of the hostages already released and the ones still held, assuming they're alive, are going to be in bad shape.

 

I think it was the secretary of state who said that Hamas probably doesn't want to release the remaining women because they've been raped and tortured, that the ceasefire may have fallen apart for that reason. 

An assumption, but an educated one after reading and listening to those who have been freed so far.

17 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:

Agressive idealism that rejects nuance and demands acceptance by people who disagree is frightening to me regardless of the label that is attached to it.

More than acceptance, it demands capitulation. 

What happened to you tuesday stands out as a prime example: 

It was not enough for you to have said nothing wrong. 

Then, explaining you certainly meant no wrong merely added to the conflagration and admonishions that perhaps you should not speak so freely or so often. 

The pure sense of righteousness involved makes one want to gag.

I have some uncanny and accursed timing. Brought up the AP livestream thirty seconds before the orange bastard stepped up to speak.

Scott, you didn't say a damn thing wrong. Stop backpedaling, man.

37 minutes ago, DireWolfSpirit said:

Lmao, 

I thought it was-

"330 lb star going down on your Cornerback"

Small difference but just as perverted 

 

You're right. I was sniggering too hard to type it properly

Chris Collinsworth: ... and now you got a 300 pound star going down on a quarterback!

[That is all]

1 hour ago, Mr. Chatywin et al. said:

Was it worse than the Depp version? I remember watching it with a few people at the end of a big house party and we all thought it was shit. 

So I was like 12 when the Depp one came out, and I actually enjoyed it because I could do a really good Depp Wonka impression that slayed in middle school. 

At least Depp was being weird and memorable, even if the movie was crap. I like to be entertained in the theater. 

Wonka was just baaaaaad. 

The first song was ok. Not good, it was ok. And that's the last good thing I have to say about the film. It looked and sounded like it was generated by AI. Absolutely hideous CGI visual noise, none of the wit or charm of the original; to the point that I wondered if the ChatGPT program that wrote the thing had even studied Wilder's movie. 

I think I saw the love of acting leave Chalemet's eyes as the movie progressed. There were blatant continuity errors that I noticed and by the end it seemed like I could see the director just off screen shrieking "wrap this shit up!"

Took my mom and niece to see Wonka- 

What a piece of chocolate shit. My god, it might've been one of the worst movies I've ever seen... and I've seen Batman v Superman! 

It was terrible. Just terrible.

Mom and niece seemed to like it though, so 

Jesus, Ty. Is he okay? Lacerations? What made him fall into the table?

Also, congrats Spocky. That's some cool shit you got going on. Live the high life baby.

59 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

Damn Jace, and here I was starting to actually think that you were just messing with us, and that this was one of the most elaborate pranks the forum has ever seen. I'm kinda disappointed.

 

Not a prank, but perhaps an overindulgence in defensive aggression. And I'll admit to using rhetoric I wouldn't normally deploy out of a desire to function as -from my perspective- a necessary antagonist to the one-sided perspective of Israel that we've had in these threads. 

But as a very wise lurker may or may not have informed me, it's possible that I've let my passions get the better of me.

Just now, fionwe1987 said:

 

And of course, it liberated those three hostages that escaped. Except they were liberated from life itself. Bravo. 

Whoa!

47 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

Ironic, when you obviously believe Israel has the luxury of turning millions of people literally living on its doorstep into mortal enemies for the foreseeable future. Not to mention the fact that there are Palestinians living in Israel.
But I suppose your vision of the future entails continued surveillance and oppression, combined with maintaining military strength, doesn't it? The alternative would be full-blown ethnic cleansing of course. Do you stilll oppose that at least, or does your "end justifies the means" philosophy allow for this as well?

 

Well I didn't think it was pragmatism vs naivete until just now - 

I mean, did you really think anything else was possible? Serious question, before I return serve on the rest of your post. What did you think was gonna happen? 

Because my heart broke on the 7th. For Palestinians and Israelis both. I knew what was going to happen and I spent like five days trying to wrap my heart back together. I couldn't bear to watch the news any more than to see if there was any update on the hostages. 

I view this all as a horrid inevitability, and have since the first bomb dropped. I'm salted to it now because I didn't expect anything else. 

(Palestinians in Israel are Israeli, as far as I understand. Citizens of Israel.)

47 minutes ago, Rippounet said:

 

Do you, really? I thought you hated Trumpism, but you've already embraced most of its core principles.
Behind the pretense of despair, you were hiding just how much you love these ideas all along. The resoluteness. The determination. The raw strength. "The first duty of a state is the security of its citizens." The courage to do and say what is right, even when half the board will hate your guts for it. The "not a single soldier should be sacrificed for political gain" line. The enemy "hiding behind international law."
You love that shit, you really do. ROTFL, you're the real deal, and you can't even hide it anymore.

Jace, baby, you just made my fucking day.

Yes! Yes! More! Gimme more, baby!   This is the best shit I read in a year. 

I've never denied being a Red in Blue clothing. It's in my name.  But I chose Blue. I didn't get raised into my beliefs in some idyllic chateau or braindead peer pressure incubator. I paid a lot to be a Democrat, and I don't think I'll join the Reds anytime soon at all thank you very much. 

Man, I like you.

Eta: I wrote "title" when I meant "name".

2 hours ago, straits said:

They have not "embedded" themselves in an urban center. They grew up in the ghetto that it is. And all of their violence and resistance - organized or not - has adapted to the surroundings. There is no scenario where Israel will tolerate well-delineated army barracks and military areas without actually destroying them the moment they can be called a proper military institution. This outcome is entirely logical.

 

Then maybe they should have spent the billions of U.N. dollars they took on something other than tunnels and rockets to facilitate the killing of Jews. 

This outcome is entirely logical.

23 minutes ago, Clueless Northman said:

Just wondering: Weren't the US "freedom fighters", or "colonial rebels", depending on who you ask, actually embedded in the colonies' urban centers, the towns and the overall civilian population? As does, basically, every resistance movement, every guerrilla, including the numerous anti-Nazi resistances across Europe? Aren't right some Ukrainian troops more or less embedded across the major cities, be it Kiev or Mariupol during the siege? Isn't this quite a given, as long as armies don't go the old way and do typical field battles between standing armies, out in the open, far from urban centres?

I don't think those organizations fired missiles out of hospitals, but you make a fair point.

As far as it goes, though, it doesn't change the realities of fighting them out of Gaza.

2 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

They got some back but not because they liberated them. The ones they did get back, they got back through negotiations.

They got them back by raining hell on the organization that took them. Then they got as many back as negotiations would allow. 

24 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

 

The big difference is that the  Iraqi army saw the citizens of Mosul as their people. Israel, clearly, does not do the same with Palestinians. 

Palestinians aren't Israel's people. I mean I could as well tell you water is wet. The Iraqi and coalition came as genuine liberators. 

26 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

 

But...Israel is already doing that. They could easily do more with conventional weapons if they so chose. So you're disagreeing with how Israel is already waging war and want them to drop more bombs more often? 

 

 

Yeah, they already have determined which weapons they have to use that are appropriate to this conflict... I do not want Israel to change that for the sake of PR. If you have a weapon in the arsenal that is approved for use you use it. 

29 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

 

Israel is routinely using tanks in Gaza right now, dozens of them. They disagree with your military assessment. They also use armored bulldozers - again, in active combat. 

 

 

Yes, as an infantry support vehicle in areas they've already hit with artillery and missile fire, at least as far as I've seen. I thought you were suggesting armored spearheads into the city in lieu of indirect fire methods, which is a no-go. 

31 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

 

So what? I'm quite serious - let's say they steal it. They can't sell it, they can't barter with it, they can't use it to control the populace given there are no active places to control anyone right now. What does it matter if they steal it? 

 

It increases their fighting capacity. More supplies = more will to fight.