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Brian Fantana

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  1. I've often thought that the name of his O&G company (CrownQuest) was just less than subtle signaling at his ultimate goal.
  2. I have to agree with hpslugga here, the election ballyhoo has basically nothing to do with this thread. Many otherwise progressive posters have said things in this thread that are so outright insane/bloodthirsty that it's scarcely believable. It will continue no matter what happens in the election. In fact, if Harris wins and actually makes some reforms to how our government handles Israel, I suspect it will get much worse. There's one very active and progressive poster (I will not tag them as I don't want to start an argument) that engages in good discussion around the election etc that very seriously and unironically suggested that Gaza should be nuked a la Japan and that it was completely justifiable to kill the entire population in response to what Hamas did on Oct. 7. That's not to even get into the discussion of how often people have been accused of antisemitism in this thread and the many instances of absolutely disgusting and brazen Islamophobia and not one bit of it was ever moderated.
  3. You're not necessarily wrong, I shouldn't be responding to Rex at all. It kind of all circles back to the board's ignore feature being entirely useless because I would have just put him on ignore right after he switched from Porterhouse back to Rex Kramer, but it is what it is. There was an actual discussion going on between people that don't necessarily agree, but have fully developed and functioning frontal cortexes before Rex drops in to drop a tactical nuke of ignorance and rightfully starts getting shit on by [not just me]. It's not my fault he has to derail every discussion that doesn't involve him because he is stuck in the deepest Dunning-Kruger hole of all time, but it is my fault that I decide to argue with him every time. That said, you want better discussion? Then engage with the topics bolverk, myself, and others continue to bring up in here to try and spark real and interesting discussion. It's not our fault that the Surly Make Israel Great Again crowd will only engage in conversations that revolve around stupid American protestors. That or they just want to play hall monitor like yourself.
  4. Either put me on ignore or shut the fuck up. You know damn well by now that I'm not going to keep quiet. Either way, fuck off.
  5. Who are you talking to here, or are you just yelling at clouds again? Go on, spit it out. You're clearly aching to accuse someone here, so just do it instead of being a pussy. Honestly you should have been banned months ago for doing this exact thing, but I'm bored so I'm willing to entertain your blathering again.
  6. I'll raise you this.
  7. If you guys want a real laugh, go read Rex's posts in this thread the days after Oct. 7 when he was posting as Porterhouse (now deleted, the posts show up as by Guest) when he was vehemently arguing against the notion that Israel is an apartheid state and straight up calling for ethnic cleansing. And buddy, don't bother lying about how that wasn't your account. No one believes you.
  8. Dumbest state in the Union.
  9. Lulz
  10. Yes, you dumbass. Why do you think flag burning is protected by the 1A?
  11. Brother, you and others are guilty of doing this multiple times in this thread since Oct. 7. We can pull up the receipts if you like. As to the rest... On the contrary, I don't think or care about the tiny minority of progressive protestors that do/say stupid shit ever until I'm forced to by some cretin in this thread posting a video of some 19-20 year old undergrad dipshit ranting about how we must dismantle Western society because he's mad about Israel. I don't give a shit, he doesn't matter, he's fucking stupid and so is everyone that watches the video and lets it influence their views on this topic in any direction. Do I need to go through the thread and link the many, many times I have pushed back against or criticized the words/actions of people who I ostensibly agree with on this topic? I don't really want to do all that work, and I doubt you would care anyway, so it's whatever. Also, I don't think you're evil, I think we would agree on most things, I just think Oct.7 completely shattered your brain with regard to pushback against the Israeli government's actions. What exactly is a protest if not disruptive civil disobedience? Again, there has never been an effective protest that wasn't disruptive. Again, there are ways to be disruptive that don't amount to shitting on the floor. You're just being intentionally dense here and attempting to equate legality with morality. I'll give you points for continuing to successfully focus the discussion on the actions of a tiny fraction of dumbass Americans rather than the actual topic of the thread. After all, why have a discussion about Netanyahu's unhinged behavior in the past couple of days when we can shit on some random college students instead?
  12. Continuously attacking the protestors is a way for people to dogwhistle support for genocide with some baked in deniability. If they get any pushback, they can just say "Hey, whoa, I just want the protests to protest in the right way!" Some people continue to espouse this weird idea that protests aren't supposed to be disruptive, even though every single successful protest in the written history of the world has been disruptive. It's literally a requirement for them to be at all effective. Of course, there are still right and wrong ways to be disruptive, that kid we were talking about before is a great example of the wrong way. By focusing the narrative on the protestors themselves and, say, hiding behind legal technicality, you can effectively ignore the message. It's very similar to how MAGA painted BLM protestors in the wake of George Floyd's murder. "Yeah man, what that cop did was bad *wink wink*, but these protestors smashed a window so idk maybe he wasn't such a great guy *wink wink*."
  13. Yeah I understand his disdain for AIPAC, but the progressives that continue to make these dumbass threats and want to try and derail Harris over fucking Israel truly blow my fucking mind, as if Trump wouldn't be infinitely worse. Make all the scenes you want, as far as I'm concerned, but actively trying to destroy our democracy if you don't get what you want is just straight up MAGA shit. The issue is just as important to me, but you can bet your ass I'll be out there pulling that lever for Harris as soon as humanly possible.
  14. This is kind of misleading. X people browsing twitter is quite different from the same number of people trying to simultaneously establish a connection with a stream. Either way, it's the kind of load balancing problem that was solved many years ago and it's hilarious to see them consistently fail at it.
  15. They're already as marginalized as they're going to get. Anything you do to them just grants them more attention and incentivizes them to get louder. Do they really make you so uncomfortable that the only course of action you can see is ruining some 19 year old kid's life because he's speaking out against the established world order in a way you don't like? This is the exact kind of thing the first amendment was made for.
  16. I don't think anyone's dismissing it. I think we're all in agreement that what those people are doing is bad. That said, they're a tiny minority with no teeth and no ability to move the needle in any direction. The more attention you give them, the louder and dumber they'll get. Also, this thread is about Israel, not America?
  17. I found this article by Omer Bartov very interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov No matter where you stand on this conflict, I encourage you to read it.
  18. It's actually hilarious because Twitter can't handle this kind of traffic so they're effectively getting DDoS'd either way. I'd love to see what load testing they tried to do earlier, if it even happened.
  19. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-08-01/ty-article/.premium/is-israel-deliberately-provoking-escalation-that-might-drag-the-u-s-into-the-conflict/00000191-0e5d-dc54-a7dd-ffdfbb610000 And this was written at the beginning of the month. It's just going to be an endless series of escalations until either Bibi's coalition is ousted or we're dragged into another massive conflict in the middle east. Spoilering the whole article because it's paywalled:
  20. Just reinforcing the fact that single issue voters are morons.
  21. Still funny as fuck to watch a dude defend to his dying breath "self drive" features that he has to pay a monthly fee for that isn't even better than the adaptive cruise and lane keep assist in my car.
  22. Now that's how you flop
  23. How does a man turning 40 in a few months move like that??
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