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Brian Fantana

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  1. Except that isn't what I'm doing, and now you are being disingenuous. I'm not saying "everything bad is a result of Israel and the US", we are talking about those specific groups he mentioned in his post. It is not my fault that literally all of them spun up in direct response to Israeli/US/Saudi Arabian actions. That is inarguable fact, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise to make people feel better about their support for those actions. I have never once denied that Iran provides significant material support to those groups, I am arguing that placing the blame entirely on Iran for their existence is ridiculous. Doing that is nothing more than a bullshit rationalization and is often used as a way to manufacture consent by Western media. Everyone involved holds a portion of the blame.
  2. Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say | CNN Politics
  3. That's the word I was looking for. I am not sure if the Surly lawyers have answered this already in this thread but I am curious.
  4. Does first-degree murder in Texas require planning or no? #notalawyer
  5. Oh boo hoo you won't take my racist, genocidal freak boy seriously.
  6. Yeah there is 0% chance I'm listening or paying attention to anything Sam Harris says. You can try to gloss over it all you want, but the man is a fucking racist piece of shit.
  7. Yeah, I think I posted that article the day it was written, I'm familiar with it. It's pretty much common knowledge now but back then sharing that sentiment got you called an antisemite.
  8. Maybe, but the alcohol lobby is larger and richer.
  9. They have been supporting them and encouraging outside support from the beginning, up until 10/7. It wasn't just in their infancy.
  10. Sorry, forgot to add this one which is today's fresh pile of corpses: Israel kills 40 in further Gaza bloodshed after reaching truce with Iran | Reuters It's not enough to slowly starve them all to death, we also have to mow them down while they desperately try to get food from these killbox aid sites.
  11. The lobbying cash-infusion is almost certainly the reason this bill was presented in the first place, just from the alcohol side.
  12. Look at their faces. These are people, mostly children, trying to survive. I have extended family members over there trying desperately to live to the next day while fucking dipshits like you drool on their fucking desks and celebrate the scary brown people getting killed because you have nothing but sawdust in your skull and hate in your heart. Israeli military kills 23 Palestinians near aid site in Gaza, witnesses and medics say What we know about the killing of Palestinians at a food point in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian Dozens of Palestinians killed at US-Israel backed food distribution sites | Doctors Without Borders - USA More than 30 killed at controversial foundation's aid distribution sites in Gaza: Health officials - ABC News Israeli attacks kill at least 92 people including aid seekers in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
  13. What are your thoughts about Netanyahu spending many years propping up Hamas as a forever enemy, including allowing and even encouraging outside actors (such as Qatar) to lend them material support? What are your thoughts on the strong evidence that his office allowed 10/7 to happen in order to have an excuse to flatten Gaza? I bet I can guess.
  14. Yes of course, the contention begins with whether you believe these groups would exist as they do if we didn't continue to do what we do and allow Israel to behave the way they do (and also, if you believe that any of the scary mooslems have a right to fight back against Israeli aggression). Placing the blame for these group's activities entirely on Iran is straight up pussy shit, and just another symptom of the American allergy to accountability for its own actions. We see it all around the globe, not just in the Middle East. Sure, you're not wrong that the world would be better off if Iran's ability to export chaos was neutered, but approaching it from that direction is just kicking the can down the road. Groups like these will continue to pop up and gain power in perpetuity as long as we/Israel continue to be a destabilizing force in the region, and Iran is hardly the only willing sponsor out there. If not them, it will be someone else.
  15. I did not say that Iran doesn't lend them support, I said these groups do not exist because of Iran. It is absolute insanity to claim that these groups exist because of Iran. That is a straight up lie.
  16. Excuse me, sir, the very large baby on TV told me it was all buried.
  17. Those fucking lines still make me want to break something. Why do kids suck at everything??
  18. Being a Tesla driver isn't a belief structure, bro
  19. What do you guys think of Kahbrel's antics? I used to hate the guy a couple of years back when he was deliberately being weird and adversarial and trying to give others the impression he was cheating (faking marking cards etc) in order to throw them off, but he seems to have made an effort to shift his table talk strategy from that to just being a happy-go-lucky incessant talker. Obviously I was playing with him it would probably be annoying, but I think it lends some much needed entertainment value to these high roller tables that are often silent and boring to watch.
  20. Don't worry, our massive, big beautiful strike shifted the status quo so much that they still have all their HEU, the Ayatollah is still in charge, and they're still bombing each other. Mission Accomplished!!!!
  21. Basically nothing you said here was correct. Literally every group you mentioned here began as a reflex response to something fucked up the US or Israel did, save for the Houthis who have much more beef with Saudi Arabia than they do with us. And again, there are so many factors that led to 10/7 and Iran is a fair ways down on the list.
  22. This is the kicker! It's very difficult to trust anything out of Iran, the US, or Israel so hopefully other parties are gathering data.
  23. It looks that way to us, yeah, but who knows how the message is being warped right now. But I agree, Iranians are highly educated and most don't like the Ayatollah so I'm holding out hope he gets deposed from within.
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