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Jace, Extat

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  1. Amy Coney Barrett is a weird religious kook by American standards. 

    But to pretend she is the Ayatollah is just absurd. It is perfectly reasonable to disagree about abortion, even to have a religious reason for doing so. 

     

  2. 30 minutes ago, Werthead said:

     

    So far only Iranian Shahed drones are reported overflying western and southern Iraq. But if Iran is planning ballistic missile strikes, they would not launch until the drones were close to their targets. Using drones alone might be a signal of both taking retaliatory action but not escalating insanely.

    Israel has now confirmed an attack is underway against its territory. It is deploying AA defences. US, Israeli and possibly UK aircraft may be deploying to intercept the drones, which have a 2-hour flight time from Iranian territory towards Israel.

    Some Iranian sources reporting cruise missile launches but no video confirmation. No ballistic missile strikes as yet.

     

     

  3. 5 minutes ago, polishgenius said:

     

    For someone so outwardly cynical this is surprisingly naive. 

    You literally had a guy try to stage a coup on behalf of the theocrats at the last election. 

    Are QAnon crazies and MAGA Heads theocrats? I wouldn't call them such.

    Trump is a cult of personality. It will die when he does.

    4 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

    What about a man who has never ever had a moderately good day? Because that’s the alternative.

    I mean, by God of course Biden is better than Trump. He's still less-than-reassuring at his present condition.

  4. 16 minutes ago, polishgenius said:

     

    To be fair though that's gonna happen anyway when America breaks apart. 

    America is much better off demographically than almost any country on Earth. You'll be waiting for this a long time.

    15 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

    But this theocracy already has nukes, and plenty of them. 
    Oh wait, you meant Iran! I thought you were talking about the US! 

     

    14 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said:

     

    Bold 2: So America when Republicans are in charge?

    Ba dum tss. 

    There is a gulf of lightyears between a major party that courts religious voters and a regime specifically dedicated to a religious worldview that demands the killing of non-believers.

    17 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said:

    Bold 1: Shit! I'm older than you are? No wonder my hair is so thin. :crying:

     

    Huzzah to the Young Millennials! Our hour of triumph is near! :P

    15 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said:

     

    And I see no reason why President Biden could not lead the country against such a threat.

     

    Yeah... about that...

    Look, I appreciate Joe Biden. I think he did a great service to his country in 2020 and by all accounts he seems as good a man as a politician can be.

    But the best outcome I can forsee is that he wins reelection and then is replaced quickly by Kamala Harris as President. I don't like picking on him because he's old, but when the future of everything is at stake I can't feel confident in a man whose staff feels the need to hide him from public. It's not a nice reality to confront, but we have the systems we have. Some people fall apart as they age, it's just a fact of life, and a man whose best days are behind him is not who I want as the supreme executive on this planet. 

  5. 57 minutes ago, polishgenius said:

     

    Well I thought she was taking the piss out of the US politicians who think that way, but her last post says maybe I was wrong, since Iran's progression towards nuclear capability is such a 20-years-ago fear. 

    20 years ago I was ten... And that probably would have been a better time to handle this problem, really. But thanks to Bush we wasted our Regime Change card on Iraq instead. 

    25 minutes ago, A True Kaniggit said:

    Pfft.  That’s a problem with your anxiety’s then. 

    The world could end in thirty minutes due to the actions of nine political actors. As is, the nine have played rationally with their apocalypse machines. But what cannot come to pass is a theocratic regime, that expects to kill billions of heretics and non-believers as a precondition to paradise, becoming nuclear armed. No, no go. Can't be allowed.

    And to be fair to Iran, my personal position is that no more players are welcome at the nuclear table. 

    No nuclear armed Egypt, or Sweeden, or Japan, or anybody. If you try to attain nuclear weapons it should be policy that America will come and break all your shit real bad.

    Two nuclear powers is too many. Nine is insane. Ten is unthinkable.

  6. 1 hour ago, A True Kaniggit said:

    Hmmm. 

    @Jace, Extat

    Have you been apologizing for warcrimes when I wasn’t looking?

    Bad!

    I don't recall doing... but I do so love being bad. It's my nature.

    Only thing I can think of is my understanding of Israel's war with Hamas, maybe? 

    30 minutes ago, Conflicting Thought said:

    hard to know when she is "joking" and when she is not, if it was the first time it would be different, but she has said multiple times that she thinks that bombing iran is the right thing to do and its like she cant wait till it happens, its disturbing

    I'm always joking, and I'm never not serious. 

    Although it's true; my greatest anxiety these days is Iran's progress towards nuclear armament, and the fact that neither U.S. presidential candidate is equipped to lead the country against such a threat. I express that discomfort in art and song, and am not sorry if it offends.

  7. 1 hour ago, SeanF said:

    The notion that one does not possess any rights unless one is represented by a sovereign government is ludicrous.

    Israel can be a Jewish-majority State, in which case, the West Bank Palestinians must be given freedom. Or it can incorporate Judaea/Samaria, in which case, the new Palestinian citizens will form a vast voting bloc.

    Governments grant and enforce rights, though. That's what rights are. Some governments grant certain rights to non-citizens, but pretty much only when those people are inside that country.

    1 hour ago, Conflicting Thought said:

    not enough. seriously though you should fell ashamed of yourself, i know you dont but you should

    The last thing I was ashamed to have come out of my mouth was my step-father. :rofl:

  8. We're gonna 

    Bomb

    BOmb

    BOMB

    Iran...

    C'mon, y'all it's fun in the sand

    Everyone should lend a hand 

    When we

    Bomb

    BOmb

    BOMB 

    Iran

    All the breaks will go to plan 

    All the bombs, because we can 

    Get some sun, get a tan 

    I'd rather that than see them fan

    The flames of war in over-there-istan

    It isn't fair, it's not our fight

    But we're super and Israel's right 

    We cannot let them have The Bomb 

    And that's the moral of this song! 

    We're gonna 

    Bomb

    BOmb

    BOMB 

    Iran

    Come now, Persians 

    Get your due

    We can do this, we and you

    It'll be just like a dance 

    Time to snap out of our trance and see that the only way through is to...

    Bomb

    BOmb

    BOMB

    Iran

  9. 43 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

    There’s nothing supposed about any of many many evils happening in many places around the globe,

    Yeah, waddaya gonna do? Our dear, beloved, Zorral has a flair for sweepish commentary. I just mistook the focus of the post as Palestinians as a nationality, not ethnicity.

    3 minutes ago, Zorral said:

    O my goodness.  Five letter words are now soaring rhetoric.  As They Say, Americans' intelligence and comprehension falls every decade. :P

    Oh, you! :smileysex:

    You're not allowed to be cynical or snarky, even in jest. I count on you for unbridled empathy. 

  10. Comprehension, surely. See, with your soaring rhetoric I sometimes lose track of what, exactly, the great evil entities are suppposedly doing.

    I really did think that that was how you were describing the entirety of the Israel-Palestine relationship, though. 

  11. We already had this discussion didn't we? 

    I thought you were referring to Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank.

    But anyway, and to this point: 

    24 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

    They’re most definitely not, just like this Israeli government btw.

    There's a wild, wild, difference in having a government underperform in upholding individual rights and having no rights at all.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Zorral said:

    Supposedly those who are Israeli citizens do, or should have, right?

    Well, Israelis are citizens because they constitute a state right? It's the state that offers, guarantees, and enforces an individual's rights.

    Is there an organization or entity that looks to guarantee, with enforcement, Palestinian rights or civil liberties? 

    The Palestinian Authority has no popular support, or enforcement power. And Hamas is not exactly a Civil Liberties kind of group.

    :dunno:

  13. 1 hour ago, Zorral said:

    Maybe if the Likuders etc. halted the theft of Palestinian lands, repression of their civil and legal rights, etc. Palestinians wouldn't have to die.

    Do Palestinians have civil or legal rights? 

    One would think not, since they have no legitimate representing structure to guarantee them. 

  14. So there's this cartoon on Prime Video called Hazbin Hotel

    I firmly recommend. 

    It's about the princess of hell, Lucifer's daughter. She's started a hotel where she attempts to rehabilitate sinners and get them into heaven, to help with hell's overcrowding problem. 

    It's just delightful! It's like a Disney cartoon, lots of singing and looking for the good in people... But in hell.

    The concept alone, bravo I say. And the execution is delightful. Y'all should check it out.

  15. I think you could do an opening montage of the jihad, narrated by Chani, that ends with Paul and she reconciling. That would be a good way to show the passage of time, at first Paul is leading alone but he returns to Arrakis for her. 

    Then they're back together for the events of Messiah. You could even have Paul be one of many Fremen returning disaffected from the jihad at the end of Chani's narration.

    "What would I do, when I see him again?" She might ask the audience. 

    And when he steps foot back on Arrakis you see them embrace.

    - Then we're back on track for the events of Messiah and the God Emperor's Golden Path.

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