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Brian Fantana

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Excuse me, sir, the very large baby on TV told me it was all buried.
  5. Those fucking lines still make me want to break something. Why do kids suck at everything??
  6. Being a Tesla driver isn't a belief structure, bro
  7. 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.
  8. 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!!!!
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Did we actually do any of that? It doesn't seem like Iran lost their HEU stockpile. Did we need to do what we did to set back their progress and weaken the Ayatollah's power (TBD on that)? Seems like reinstating the JCPOA would likely have accomplished the exact same thing without putting American lives (potentially, of course, seems like a low chance for now) at risk. e: FWIW I'm still pissed that Biden didn't do that so it's not even just a criticism of Trump. Did we really need to commit an act of war to functionally end up with the exact same status quo we had before? I'm skeptical.
  13. Again I will ask the question: What has changed?? The status quo is exactly the same as it was a few days ago. What did we accomplish here? A show of force that everyone knew we were capable of already?
  14. They already knew that. I'm mad that I'm paying for pointless performative displays at the behest of a little Nazi bitch that doesn't want to get he ass sent to jail.
  15. It's like UT paying A&M-CC 100 million dollars to play a game at a neutral site.
  16. Said it in the other thread, we spent what, probably close to half a billion to do what, exactly? The status quo remains exactly the same as it was a few days ago.
  17. Imagine saying someone on a message board needs to be on the terror watch list in this political climate. More or less a direct threat to someone's safety.
  18. The status quo remains exactly the same. How has anything at all been accomplished?
  19. You don't, but it's ideal.
  20. Ok, I get what you're saying, but almost this (aside from Natanz) happened well before they began enriching uranium to 60+%.
  21. What, exactly, was stopping them? They've had the fissile material to do it. They know how to build them. They have the ballistic missile technology to hit all of our strategic interests, including Israel. Are they just lazy? So what are you arguing? That launching unilateral bombing campaigns against a sovereign country under false pretenses is a good thing? Help me understand.
  22. Also, the fact that your beliefs on this matter align more or less completely with the nutjobs leading our country and religious extremists like Johnny Sack should give you at least a little pause.
  23. Give me a fucking break, dude. Israel doesn't believe Iran would nuke them any more than I do. The reasoning given for their pre-emptive strike is 100% complete and utter bullshit, and every serious person in the world fucking knows it. The true goal is and always has been regime change. The nuclear program is a red herring and you should be smart enough to recognize it. You should ask yourself if you would be this concerned if Saudi Arabia possessed a nuclear weapon, considering they A) areone of the two main countries that we're doing this at the behest of, and B) they have literally attacked us in deadly fashion this century. If your answer is no, you should take that as a major clue that you need to re-examine your world view. I'm not even saying the true goal is a bad one. Obviously, of course it would be a big positive if Iran were no longer run by extremists. At least then one of the countries in this fucked up devil's 3 way wouldn't be. We (and Israel) have to lie to the world about it because regime change is not considered adequate reasoning to unilaterally attack a country by any measure of international law or decorum. Period, end of story.
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