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This. Are they shouting from the divestment of all the wafer/chip manufacturing that allows all these systems to actually work? That's why Taiwan is so important. We can make due with older iPhones and laptops. We can't implement cutting edge weapons systems at the scale we need without them, and neither can anyone else. The MIC is do ingrained into every facet of society I don't know how any school with market investment can 100% divest from every aspect is this industry.

It's formally lights out when the 100% of GDP is used to pay the interest on debts owed.

I think I can smell that video. Jesus how much trash and shit built up over such a short amount of time.

God damn you. That there, is funny

They should have all first gone to Academy or REI, gotten a bunch of these mini-tents used to show what the full size looks like, and set them all up for the police to see. Checkmate fuckers

Guys, guys, guys, if I stay here it's totally going to finally happen....

I wear a daily mask of decency and intelligence, but this boards knows otherwise.....

So now there is a rule that they "can't" wear masks? Is that for identification purposes? Not surgical masks, right?

Please oh please oh please someone get @Armybrat to sit out there with a sign that says "Get off" and have him raise it before each time they yell about the lawn

Jesus man, take the joke. Give them their space but contain it and shut off the "slippery slope" argument before it can be thrown out. Then just leave them alone. They're not doing anything that should really bother anyone

Then rope them off. Here's your "space" and right to protest. And when it's 90 and sunny, and you start to wilt like a fucking flower and your buddies no longer want to bring you starbucks and uber eats, then you can figure this out for yourself. After a day or two, that group's going be rather "ripe"

For fucks sake

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Do what the employees at the Porsche plant in Germany did. Eco-group broke in and glued their hands to the floor, so Porsche just ignored them wrapped up the day, turned off the lights and left. Protestors who flummoxed, eventually needed the police because their hands were fucked from the glue and no bathrooms, and then tried to turn around and sue Porsche for "how they were treated". Hopefully the case was laughed away into the trashcan.

Just leave them alone? Ignore them? Shit, if you want to get creative build "protective barriers" around them, see how it takes one to break ranks and have to take a growler.

100%, Gaza is exponentially worse. All three battles for Fallujah are just fairly recent examples of even when you try and mitigate as many casualties as you can, there are still so many impacted. In Fallujah most of the Mosques had weapons in them, so they got leveled. The IDF again is playing the wrong game. Hamas is too well integrated with the civilians who they know the IDF will target, so don't play into their hands. They had the chance to keep most of the city intact, go in and use their operators and root Hamas out. It would have resulted in significant casualties on both sides, but better protected the civilians - something they could have lauded to the international community that even in the face of spilled Israeli blood, they will protect Palestine people as best they can and spill even more military blood proving this. But they went full Dick Cheney and are proper fucked now

Wait, so Saudi Arabia is hosting talks that include the international condemnation of US weapons being used outside of allowed or acceptable practices? Saudi Arabia? Who's human rights in Yemen over the last 8 years have seen tens of thousands killed and a Holodomor-esq mass starvation of millions more.....using US weapons. Get fucked Saudi Arabia

Why would they? All the international pressure and condemnation is on Israel. Each side is fucking the civilians. They have no representation in the region. Hamas uses them as human shields, and Israel doesn't fucking care. Those that can/did evacuate, again - to where? A camp? You return to a house of rubble and no hope? If there is a ceasefire - then what? Back to BAU. The whole thing is untenable and we all know it. People talk about "privilege's" - it's not being fucking born in Gaza. Or maybe a Cobalt mine in Africa.

Yeah, that's the rub. According to Israel, which take that for what it's worth, 85% of the people were "shifted" away from the areas of attack. Even if accurate, still leaves a ton of people on the X. All true. I read something like 25K civilian casualties in Baghdad? Less, but not great Bob. I'd compare Fallujah to Gaza, not Baghdad

Baghdad offensive capabilities & infrastructure were targeted - electricity, sanitation, water, communications, etc. in additional to military and dual-use sites. As for evacuations, I read that 85% of civilians were evacuated in Gaza

Yeah, I'd heard it was close to a million. Afghanistan had/has little infrastructure to destroy, but we did destroy hundreds of poppy fields, but in Iraq we leveled close to 60% of all the buildings in Fallujah and just fucking wrecked Baghdad (including the use of cluster bombs - hardly precise) As for Israel, I'd be curious (which we'll never know) what their intel reports were? Were there JTACs on the ground? Was Hamas embedded in those areas? Apparently that happened all the time in Iraq (according to us anyway). I tend to think Hamas is using their tried/true tactics of embedding.....but we all know this. The IDF got pulled into a fight they can't win without turning the entire city to rubble and now they are stuck. They fucked around and let this come to a boil, and now they are fighting a war they can't win - just like we were in the ME.

No, I get it - there is little attention given to minimizing civilian casualties in urban combat. Hamas and the IDF know this. If Cartels invaded from Tijuana into SD and did what Hamas did, we'd nuke TJ from fucking orbit. There's no moral high ground here. There are no "proportional" response arguments that were entertained. Hamas knew the IDF would lose their shit. Just like OBL knew the US would lose their shit. Israel also knew that if they keep shitting on the Gaza strip this shit is very much a probable outcome. Israel isn't the good guy here, but they are allowing themselves to get pulled offsides and embroiled in the exact fight Hamas wants. Israel has the tier 1 & 2 assets and decades with of urban fighting experience to do this in a more surgical way, they didn't fucking want to....and now it's too late. History has too many examples illustrating that once you level a city, the advantage shifts to the defenders. As for OBL. They wanted a scalp and got it. You could argue they needed DNA confirmation, they also probably wanted the site intact. They left with a shit ton of hard drives, cell phones, written material, etc.

IDF has stated around 13K Hamas fighters killed. Hamas says 32K civilians killed. Both are probably inflated. As for an airstrike vs a raid - OBL was in a compound and never left. It was a static target. They didn't drop a JDAM on it because it was in Pakistan. We were not supposed to be in there or cross the border. That's how he escaped the first time at the battle of Tora Bora. If you watch the movie or read the book, that was the reason for the modified, stealth helicopters. The other big reason was DNA confirmation was needed. This is more akin to the Battle of Fallujah (1 & 2) where the US basically leveled the entire city and inflicted tens of thousands of civilian casualties. Neither the US or Israel did/is doing even a halfway decent job of distinguishing friend from foe and in both cases soldiers embed themselves extremely well in populated areas. It's clumsy and crude and if you go house by house, can take months if not years to clear a city. I think it was Chris Kyle talking about how the Marines used tanks at point blank range on buildings. If they were getting shot at, regardless of who was in there, that building was gone. Every urban battle turns the city into rubble and grinds the civilians into dust. Look at what's happening in Ukraine now, Russia can't ferret them out, so they just fuck it and level everything. The Balkans, Hue, Stalingrad. More recently Mosul. Historically the ratio of civilian casualties to soldiers is 9:1. That's not a justification, just that urban conflict when a portion of the population won't evacuate is a no-win situation for everyone. With all the tunnels, drones won't really work.

There it is.

Take a check.....;)