That era ended when Arafat turned up his nose at the offer of the two-state solution. What can you do when only one party wants peace, and the other wants peace over your corpse?

I mean… it’s a metal box already, and you can take sedation if you like. No need to make the box smaller, lol.

Smart move, get out before Wagner and the Junta try to frame you for another one of their mass graves. In terms of regulating terrorism in the region, drones and special operators have always been a better choice.

I wouldn’t argue that those beliefs should be imposed, if anything I’d say the response should be “You’re on your own, assholes.”

As if 20 minutes with a rubber hose wouldn’t get the same results and more, for less money and exposure.

There’s a lot of hardship and hard situations in the world, in quite a few cases you have a clear and unambiguous division between victims and the groups victimizing them, such as the case in Myanmar, Ukraine, victims of pogroms in Sudan, Australian immigration camps in Papua New Guinea, the US separating children from families in camps. A lot of that kind of thing. Few of those events get the sort of the lasting, intense, coverage and attention loaded with inflammatory buzzwords that the “Israeli Palestinian conflict” does. Few of those events are treated like a team sport for decades, often by people the furthest away from those events.

The only other comparable thing I can imagine is the “Free Tibet” movement, but even that has largely petered out as people realized that China wasn’t going to listen to them. But not this, not Israel. It’s always the same fury, the same certainty and the same muffled hatred, even when the “victims” of the conflict are not especially sympathetic and the conflict is far from one-sided. Funny isn’t it? How that works.

So I hope you understand why it’s so notable that this is the thing that makes people this intent on vilifying one party to an ongoing conflict. That’s doubly true when the party in question just happens to be the largest group of Jews in the world, and when so much of the “criticism” comes in the form of ahistorical and hysterical rhetoric.

Classic, it’s a pity they won’t extend the same courtesy to LGBT people that they do to dogs. That recent beheading in Hebron was just another in a long line of atrocities.

FTX right now: “Hehe, I’m in danger!”

You forgot the 2, and you’re arguing in some of the worst bad faith I’ve seen in a while.

Well good news, I have a source.

China — 11680.42 United States — 4535.30 India — 2411.73

Top three all time.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/carbon-footprint-by-country

Now lets look at the trend lines.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC

Oh look, India’s trend line is straight up, but Europe and North America’s is plummeting. People need to stop playing bullshit nationalist games with this, or fudging the overall numbers.

It’s almost as though low contributions from 1.4 billion people adds up! Especially when those contributions are steadily rising, with no end in sight, as though people scrabble for a lifestyle that more closely resembles a Western one, in terms of consumption.

And guess what, yelling, “It’s per capita” at the sky as it falls? Changes nothing.

The West is a whole sphere of influence, India is one country, I’m not surprised.

See, I understand hoping for that, but if you really expect that to happen… oof, you are in for a brutal wake-up call.

Something is going to replace Twitter.

Speculating?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-twitter-will-charge-8-blue-tick-2022-11-01/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/01/twitter-reportedly-limits-employee-access-to-content-moderation-tools-.html

I wasn’t speculating.

Mastodon, Discord, or any startup that’s positioned to move right now and occupy the impending vacuum.

Basically it’s time for someone to do to Twitter what Reddit did to Digg.

Monetize it and tie the hands of moderators until it’s a cesspool. And they’re right.

It’s hurting their growth, but the destruction of their housing market is what’s really underlying their economy’s problems. Put together with inflation and Zero Covid and my god… they’re going to be in so much trouble. The question is how long it takes, how long can the CCP cover the holes up before people realize they’ve broken the social contract? “You make me more prosperous, but in return I have no freedom.” That was the deal, and the CCP are covering up the fact that they can’t hold up their end.

Reminds me of a bit from ‘The Fires of Heaven’ by Robert Jordan.

> "I once saw a man hanging from a cliff. The brink was crumbling under his fingers, and the only thing near enough to grasp was a tuft of grass, a few long blades with roots barely clinging to the rock. The only chance he had of climbing back up on the cliff. So he grabbed it." His abrupt chuckle held no mirth. "He had to know it would pull free."

The terrorism in question when talking about Afghanistan isn’t anything they did after the US invasion, it’s about harboring OBL and AQ.

They didn’t really get steamrolled, they just dropped their uniforms and ran. Once the US was out, why would they still play the US’ game? The day the US left, everything just reverted to the tribal and family loyalties that always really mattered in Afghanistan.

They didn’t forget, they never learned. It was a total cultural and technological mismatch, and it would have taken a few generations to really work.

All Russia is going to get are possible US assets in their ranks and a bunch of guys with no loyalty and a lot of historical loathing for Russians.

If you say so, but I think the difference between fighting off a foreign invader on your own land, and attacking civilians a world away really is pretty different. If you feel otherwise I’d love to hear how you think that is.

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan, and the Afghanis fought them on their own land. You think that’s the same as harboring AQ and providing them a base to plan and launch attacks on the US and EU?