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I saw that comic the other day. The answer to this is “It was a Hamas base of operations.”

To over-egg this comment: “What gave you the impression Hamas were there?” “There were Palestinians there.” “…” “…”

C’mon Joe, you’re the guy who said “I’m Irish” when talking about the relationship between Britain and Ireland. The parallels here ought to be keeping you on your toes.

Can’t fully agree with the sentiment there. There are innocents in Russia who very much don’t deserve any of this.

But Putin though? Yeah. Him specifically and anyone who supports him.

Yeah, I’ve seen their name before. I notice they haven’t responded yet, so either they’re not online right now or they’re conjuring a really epic take-down of my point.

I was actually slightly afraid of coming back here to check because I didn’t know what I’d find.

The other possibility is that I’ve made a point that can’t be refuted within their ideology. After all “The West” as they see it is precisely the sort of big guy stomping the little guy that I clearly don’t like. And I’m not sure I completely disagree with that point.

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Are you somehow closer to the truth, or are you, like the rest of us, getting news from various sources and making your own mind up?

Because if so, my ad hominem kind of applies to all of us internet forum idiots and armchair politicians. Those of us without obvious declarations in our profiles could be argued to be the stealth ones, trying to swing people this way and that with who knows what agenda.

Why do we reach the conclusions we do anyway? Do we stand to gain anything?

At least in your case, it seems more obvious why you do, wearing your colours on your sleeve (metaphorically speaking) as you do.

If you would like an inkling of why I think the way I do: I’m never in favour of it when a larger power goes in, guns blazing, to override a smaller one, like there’s literally no other way. And they always, always go too far, refuse to back down, and a huge number of people die senselessly because some ideologue thinks that a lesson needs to be taught. (Curiously, the ideologues themselves tend to be a long, long way from the bullets.)

It’s happened in history so many times. My own damn country has been the aggressor. It wasn’t right then, and it’s not right when it’s done now.

Please note that you literally cannot tell which conflict I’m talking about here. There’s at least three.

Your profile picture (at time of writing) is literally a Russian cosmonaut. Your bias is showing. (Pretty sure your profile banner is from Russian propaganda too, though I’m sure you’ll correct me if that’s untrue.)

But I suppose that does make you more overt and honest. Not necessarily right, but definitely honest.

(Unless you’re an anti-Russian double-bluff. I can’t profess to be an expert on the psychology of this sort of thing.)

Were they sugar free and were they to help him do that thing that we often ask if bears do in the woods?

It’s not like Israel needs any more weapons against a rag-tag bunch of terrorists whose existence they - arguably indirectly - continue to foment.

Yes, I know Israel’s take on the matter is that the existence of Hamas is precisely why cruelty to Palestine is “necessary” rather than the other way around, but at this point does it matter whether the chicken or the egg came first? Those who say yes on both sides - even if they differ about which came first - are using it as a crutch at this point.

The whole thing now is a big kid stomping the ever-loving f**k out of a smaller kid because “he kicked my shin! he kicked my shin!” so that obviously makes whatever they do OK, and in fact, let’s have some other big kids (one wearing a stars and stripes shirt of all things?!) help out with the stomping.

And tomorrow, had this not suddenly escalated, the original big kid would have gone through the smaller kid’s pockets for lunch money, and maybe a house or two like usual.

(Please note that - goofy metaphors aside - I’m not happy about the civilian deaths that have occurred recently, regardless of what the dead might have believed while they were alive. In war, it’s almost always the wrong people who die.)

The Jewish god (and thus that of the Christians and the Muslims because it’s the same guy) was once part of his own pantheon. He even had a wife at one point.

It’s not thought he’s the same god as Zeus/Jupiter, but his name is suspiciously similar if you squint a bit (a bit more than you do to compare Zeus-Piter, Zeus’s “full name” anyway, because that’s more of a “holy shit” realisation if you don’t know). Almost like the name might have mutated slightly under the influence of neighbouring religions.

Consider: When you’re frightened of saying your god’s name even though you think you might know it, it can help to make it sound a bit more like other peoples’ main god, after all. Your god can’t get mad because you’re not saying his name, and the heathens might start to like the comparison and convert.

Another thing to note, regarding pantheons, is that Jewish god is quoted as saying “you shall have no other gods before me”. That, depending on interpretation, could imply that the other gods are still around twiddling their thumbs and playing solo paddle-ball or something, but we mortals aren’t allowed to talk to them any more.

YHWH will pitch a hissy fit if we do.

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Hot take

Aw man. If the photo is anything to go by, they might have cured it of racism, which you’d think was a good thing and that I’m a racist asshole, but the fix could actually increase its use for racism.

That is, ironically, a system that’s only really good at identifying one race (usually white people like a large percentage of the people who made the systems) is a bit harder to (mis)use that way.

The only way to (mis)use an accidentally racist facial recognition system is to persecute everyone it can’t identify, and you wouldn’t need an expensive system to do that. And it’s a lot easier to get called out for what you’re doing, either way.

When the system works on all people of all skin colours, this can allow a racist user of it to pick and choose and plead innocence.

Slightly more mainstream hot take

Facial recognition is dystopian and should be yaten into the sun.

A lot of other religions and nationalities have “customs” going the other way, that is pertaining to the abuse of Jews. I’m sure he’s somewhat less in favour of those.

As am I, disturbingly enough. That is, I wouldn’t spit on, or otherwise persecute him for being Jewish.

For being an abject asshole on the other hand…

Maybe the warming and freezing will cancel out and the much smaller islands that will be left after the sea levels rise will still be temperate and worth living on.

Edit: This is not an “I’m alright, Jack” comment. I’d rather this wasn’t even a vague possibility and that the planet wasn’t warming out of control.

Isn’t our species wonderful? All races, religions and creeds; every single one of them has absolute nutjobs.

Centauri Prime probably.

When the right-wing party moves so far right that the left-wing party now stands where the right wing party once stood, it’s time for everyone to do a little soul searchi…

hahaha no! fuck that! profits! profits are all that matters! hahaha. bow to your corporate masters! dance, peasant dance! or die! we don’t care! we have all the money! hahahaha!

harassing political dissidents

Mm-hm. There are good bots and bad bots. This being a subjective categorisation, and Uncle Elon wanting very much to be friends with Uncle Jinping, these bots are undoubtedly most welcome on the platform.

“Nothing to see here. Move along.”

Going to assume Americans left them behind.

Nah. They need their skivvies. There’s no way they’ll get other men to do those things for them, and they’ll be damned if they’ll do it themselves.

Dude can’t have any family if this is true, because they’d no doubt be getting special attention from Uncle Vladimir right about now.