The Powell Nemo
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The Powell Nemo
@alllogsare5
Advocating for Washington fish tanks since 1971
Katılım Haziran 2022
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written in matlab, are you fucking kidding me bro, why don’t I just put on my little propeller hat and ride my tricycle over the rainbow bridge since we’re apparently in make-believe land
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@mattyglesias Hey how much does housing, healthcare, and education cost relative to inflation?
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@vanguard_pod The best litmus test is whether people support trans rights hands down
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A good litmus test for if someone has lost their mind is if they think Mehdi Hasan is some sort of a sell out partisan Democrat. The dude is one of the Left best's interviewers and debaters plus he was one of the very few on TV speaking out against the genocide in Gaza.
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@conor64 Oh no, a guy had to go to an hour of corporate training. Literal. Fascism.
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If CBS is to be credible in claiming a journalist violated editorial standards, it must specify the standards and why the segment violated them. It is not enough to assert standards were violated, a vague claim that should satisfy neither critics nor defenders of the segment.
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@dilanesper And if you’re gonna talk about terrorism and Oslo, you should probably mention the cave of the patriarchs
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@dilanesper And by “got them the oslo process” do you mean “israel continued illegally expanding settlements and stealing land”?
And for the record, i do not support targeting of civilians by anyone—be it Israel or Hamas
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Fun fact: resistance is not, in fact, glorious.
Further fun fact: armed resistance against Israel has brought the Palestinians nothing but misery. Might be time to try a different strategy.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
“Resistance is glorious! We will be victorious!” Today at Columbia, they’re celebrating terror.
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@dilanesper Do you honestly believe that the israeli public doesn’t actually support destroying hamas? That if they get the hostages back they will be okay withdrawing while hamas still exists?
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@dilanesper Huh? The whole reason they slaughter so many civilians isn’t that “we need to get the hostages back”, its that “hamas uses civilians as shields”. If the goal is to destroy hamas, they aren’t even close, and will need to DECIMATE the palestinian people. The hostages are irrelevant
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if you want to imagine how the US could actually leverage a ceasefire, it would start with Hamas immediately releasing all living hostages in exchange for nothing. In that scenario, Israel might listen to us.
But few "ceasefire" types favor asking ANYTHING of Hamas.
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@dilanesper For the record, you switched from your initial post making an empirical, pragmatic argument to a moral case. But just for the record, i oppose all targeting of civilians, which includes hamas holding hostages
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@dilanesper You really believe that, among *enormous* israeli protests supporting a ceasefire to get the hostages back, that the driver for support for the war is hostages, and not “hamas attacked us on 10/7 and we must destroy them”?
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@agraybee Among those “various reasons” is that americans don’t have any leverage over hamas. We already don’t arm them, condemn them, etc. What US policy do you want wrt Hamas besides “don’t hold israel accountable for any of its war crimes”
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For various reasons, no one wants to admit the reality that Hamas's situation is hopeless and they should surrender. They have not bogged Israel down in a Vietnam-esque quagmire like predicted. In the last year, Israel has lost roughly as many soldiers as the US in Desert Storm.
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
if you want to imagine how the US could actually leverage a ceasefire, it would start with Hamas immediately releasing all living hostages in exchange for nothing. In that scenario, Israel might listen to us. But few "ceasefire" types favor asking ANYTHING of Hamas.
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@AugustJPollak Giving explicit permission to expel all the palestinians from the west bank and/or gaza
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