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What about me? My positions are quite consistently clear here. I don't change them every other post. You are trying to equate whatever morality, culture, and understanding you have (or me) with that of a Palestinian devoid of any context. You might as well ask what a Space Marine in the movie Aliens would do if he were in the shoes of one of the Aliens. You are either on the side of the people who want to kill all the Jews and just kill around 1000 of them, as well as the rape, torture, and Hostage-taking... or you are on the side of stopping that. I am on the side of stopping it. I hope Israel and the international community can take whats left and turn around the generations of brainwashing put upon the people of Palestine to hate Jews and want to wipe Israel off the map so they can live in peace and start building a future for themselves beyond how many Jews they can kill.

The purpose of this war is to defeat their enemy, Hamas, so they will no longer have to put up with the constant attacks and attempts to kill their people. It is not a tit-for-tat. You claim you don't support either side, only when your support for Hamas is called out for what it is. Who is going to force elections on them? Your positions here certainly are ignorant. You tried to act like letting Hamas live on will bring elections and "normal" and you can't offer anything more than they will have elections forced on them. Your obstinance in refusing to admit you are wrong is not a victory for anything other than your continued ignorant positions on the subject.

Here you are again... what happened to your focus on Iran, China, and Russia being the problem? As I drill down more into tearing apart your facade, we get to the real truth here. You do support Hamas. Now you are justifying their actions. Hamas and the Palestinians have been left to their own devices in Gaza since 2006. Instead of building a country, Hamas squandered billions on building tunnels to hide under their own people, to build rockets to hide in schools and around Hospitals and other civilian infrastructure. Instead of devoting their lives to building themselves up, they have chosen to kill as many Jews as they could. This is what you support.

No worries, when Democrats do it, they can apologize, and all will be forgiven. If it were a Republican, no apology would suffice and it would be evidence for how they were clearly a huge racist and the party as a whole has a problem with racism.

Not really. I mean, it might put a lot of pressure on Israel to stop... but their goal from the beginning was not the mere release of the Hostages. They have repeatedly refused to any ceasefire deal that calls for a complete end to the war or their military operations, as I don't know how they said it exactly, but they are going to end Hamas rule. Now, Hamas might be able to walk away with their lives if they surrender, but I am not seeing that Israel is going to just let them live on and continue to rule in Gaza for the Hostages.

Hamas surrendering would stop current events too. Hamas started the current events by, oh, you know, invading Israel and slaughtering a bunch of young adults at a party, gunning them down as they ran for their lives... by going into homes to rape, torture, kill, and take hostage families including women and children. We are getting to the truth here, and its that you support Hamas. There is no "normal" with them. Hamas never allowed elections since they first won them. But now you think leaving them in power will lead to elections? You are either being woefully ignorant about the situation or purposefully deceitful to support Hamas. Which is it? The discussion you jumped in on was eyeball first claiming he wanted to destroy Hamas. As it turns out, he really didn't and both of you want to see them survive this war and stay in power.

This is not an attempt to ban auto kits. They are already illegal. Try reading my comment, the link, hell even the title again. Maybe do a little google search of your own.

Huh? Peace with Hamas doesn't destroy Hamas. You say you want to destroy them, now you say you want peace with them.

Lets see... Universities are giving people of color their own spaces, their own dorms, their own graduations... they had been giving people of color special treatment in accepting them (well, not Asians, they don't count) and they are continuing to try to circumvent the law to do so. These are all things that folks would be screaming about 24/7 on the new media and raining down lawsuits if there were a white only graduation, etc... African history? We were talking about Black history and Black history month. I presumed in America, but perhaps whatever other Western nation you are from or thinking of... this meant teaching about prominent Black figures history in America, or whatever Western nation you are from or thinking of. So, now your big complaint is about how much world history is being taught? I am not complaining about the fact that there is a Black History Month in as much as such a thing would be an outrage if there were a Whtie History Month. You are conflating cultural things and National things with race now.

Well... now Democrats are pushing to ban any pistol that can be converted into a Machine gun. They are claiming that Glock should have done something about the kit that can modify their pistol into a machine gun. I would say this is just ignorance on their part. I mean, if you know anything about how any Semi-Automatic firearm functions, they have a sear that functions with the trigger to keep the hammer/firing pin/striker from releasing and firing the weapon. (the short version) You can modify basically ANY semi-automatic firearm to be fully automatic by messing with the sear. These are typically what you might call a runaway gun, in that once you pull the trigger, it will just keep firing until there is no more ammo. It is a bit more complicated, but you can modify almost any Semi-Automatic firearm to function with a sear/trigger mechanism, allowing the trigger to reset the sear to stop firing once it is released. It is not rocket science. However, it is all illegal to convert a firearm like this already. The point... is that Glock has a "kit" out there, made illegally by others, that can do this because Glock is a very popular pistol. But in reality, someone could build something similar for just about ANY other Semi-Automatic firearm. So... is it ignorance that Democrats are trying to push this law? I don't think so. Their attempt to justify a way to effectively ban all Semi-Automatic firearms is a deceitful charade. Even if they can pass it, I don't think this holds up in court. "In an unprecedented move, New York is pushing forward with legislation to ban the sale of pistols that can be converted into machine guns. This ambitious proposal positions New York to become the first state to tackle what many see as a loophole in gun regulation." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/new-york-proposes-crackdown-on-highly-popular-gun/ss-BB1m2arn?ocid=ientp

When the drunk is racking up bills on the credit card without regard, you take away the credit card and get him in rehab. You don't give him more money.

Hey, now we are getting somewhere. So... if you think they deserve to be destroyed, why do you spend so much time criticizing Israel for doing so? In this situation, yes, only Hamas has it coming. No, that doesn't mean I have anything coming. Please explain how it has anything to do with me.

Your position seems to be that you will say anything other than actually directly criticizing Hamas for what they are doing and making excuses for them. When pushed to criticize them, it is the vague F, everyone.

Here you are again... attacking Israel with your spin on "murder" Hamas is responsible for the death of their people when they conduct military operations among them. You said: "I'm to busy criticizing the real root causes of the current outbreak of hostilities - Iran, Russia and China." No, you have and continue to be too busy going after Israel, over and over and over again.

Which is why instead of actually responding to what I said... you come up with some phony DURRRRRR "MAGA Crowd" DURRRRR response?

I am not the MAGA crowd. So... spare me your attempts to avoid having to put up an intelligent, well-thought-out response.

Like how? Which ones do you take issue with? This is all you have?

So, you are a big believer that Putin is a decent and honest man now? That while he is moving massive amounts of troops, weaponry, aircraft, and the logistics to stage a full blown invasion... that oh hey, Putin says he isn't going to invade! So we totally have to believe him. I bet you think he really won like 80% of the vote too! (or whatever the absurd amount was) Trump did not stage the withdrawal Biden did or how he did it nor was Biden beholden to any deal if the conditions changed as they did. But sure... Biden can undo everything Trump did on day one. Change border policies, change Iran policies, blow up the Middle East peace deals Trump was working on, reverse course across any number of executive agencies decisions and functions... but sure, he couldn't do anything other than what Trump made him do on Afghanistan. LOL My version of history is just fine, as it is based on facts here.

Not really. You are throwing it around in leu of any kind of actual argument to support your position. I never offered a position here other than criticizing your use of conflating terminology and pushing the argument from authority. So, your mocking is ignorantly done here. Regarding your comment that the "scientific question isn't settled,"... that is not a position of science. Science is built on continuing to ask questions and challenges. You are pushing a dogma, not science. There certainly is climate change, and it is ever so slightly increasing, but the extent to which we are contributing, how bad it is, and what we can even do to stop it are all but nowhere near being "settled," as you like to use the term. No, everyone doesn't know that about being carbon-neutral, but that certainly is the fanaticism being pushed.

What are you talking about? Deaths from natural disasters have decreased as our technology and ability to mitigate them, avoid them, and respond to them as increased. Never mind, vastly more people die from cold than heat...

By sending aid BEFORE the invasion. By collaboration with NATO to send weapons packages BEFORE the invasion. By being more forceful instead of inviting Russia to invade just a little bit: When you have this clown leading America after watching him run from the Taliban like he disgracefully did...

No, not stupid at all. However, you are certainly not being earnest at all. You made a post about an Israeli protest blocking the Mitzpe Ramon entry... and when I made a point about how Israeli forces have routinely broken up those protests to allow aid through... you then pivot to a completely different argument about how the current war effort has temporarily closed the Rafah and Kerem Shalom entry points. You know, because when Hamas is fighting near them and attacking IDF forces near them, it makes it hard for drivers and the UN to coordinate trucks. Israel continues to try to reopen them though... I did not merely critique the source. I clearly critiqued the fact that the source did not provide any evidence to support their claim. So, again, where is the evidence for all these people starving to death? The UN certainly doesn't have any. Do you need me to quote that from the source you provided? Did you even read it? Wow, what an intelligent and well-thought-out response.

Incentives? Um, no. It was punishment for failure to comply, and to the point, it was ruled unconstitutional. Biden abused his authority. You cheer him on here and try to justify his actions when he acts like a dictator instead of condemning him. Oh... so how exactly is Trump going to be a dictator, as you fearmonger about then? Yet again, Biden is losing in court here because he abused the power of the federal government to silence and censor people. You cheer on his abuse of power. Lying, is a protected 1st Amendment activity and it is not Biden's job to determine what information is a lie and what is not, and then silencing what they choose is a lie. Again, you cheer on his dictator attempts. Yeah, just like a mafia boss doesn't have to order his hitman directly to take out someone... Give me a break with this nonsense. The AG reports to Biden and acts at his discretion. Biden picked him up, Biden supported him, and the AG is now carrying out the political vendetta on Biden's behalf.

Feel free to explain what ignorance it is you are accusing me of, if you can. I doubt your ability though, since this is the best you could come up with over a week later...

No, it did not. You said: "Sure. So Republicans can BLAME Joe for provoking the invasion. " Russia invaded either way. Russia was staging an invasion. We knew about it for months. It is not like Putin secretly hid an entire Army building up on the border for months. The logistics of shipping in tanks, armor, aircraft, and all the other components to fight a war. And your big argument is that Biden did nothing BEFORE they invaded because he was scared of the politics. Russia was already preparing for war. They had already taken Crimea and were actively fighting and supplying the Donbas region. Your argument is this dumb: There is a train headed for a cliff, the tracks lead there and the train is on those tracks heading that way. At its current speed, by all indications, it is indeed headed for that cliff and will certainly go right off. Your big argument is that Biden couldn't try to stop it, because his actions might lead it to go off the cliff. It is already going off the cliff. No, it didn't. If you argue that helping Ukraine BEFORE the war would not have stopped Putin, helping them after he invaded isn't going to either. The simple fact is that we could have invested money into Ukraine before Russia invaded, bolstering their defenses, and at worst it would have made Putins invasion attempt far less successful. At best, he would have seen we were committed to their defense and changed his mind because the costs were too high.