Anastasis

It's a NYT article published today. You got a poster on the last page defending "genocide as long as no one gets killed" and plenty of other posters rightfully talking about the ethnic cleansing taking place right now in response. But you want to whine to me. Come on Inka.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/world/middleeast/israel-wck-gaza-iran-embassy.html? Back-to-Back Israeli Strikes Show Tragic Gaps in Choosing Targets In an airstrike on Monday in Damascus, Israel’s military displayed pinpoint precision. Hours later in Gaza, that same military killed seven aid workers. About 5 p.m. on Monday, Israeli warplanes streaked across the Syrian border, striking an embassy building in Damascus and killing a cadre of senior Iranian military commanders with the kind of pinpoint accuracy that has earned Israel’s military fear and respect across the Middle East. Several hours later, the same Israeli military rained missiles on an aid convoy on a coastal road in the Gaza Strip, a botched operation that left seven foreign aid workers dead and Israel’s reputation in tatters. Its leaders were forced to admit to a string of lethal mistakes and misjudgments. How one of the world’s best-equipped, best-trained militaries could pull off a dangerous strike on foreign soil and then stumble with such tragic consequences in Gaza raises a raft of hard questions — not least how the Israeli military enforces the rules of engagement in its war against Hamas. Its a real head scratcher, right? Free full text article at link.

Fun exercise to look up how much the federal government pre-paid Pfizer for doses, and the full court press on uptake and marketing. Kind of wild in retrospect. "Follow the science" turned upside down on multiple fronts during the pandemic. Maybe some accountability to mete out at some point?

Unsurprising. Dishonesty, sociopathic projection, and propaganda artistry all in one post. Must be 956.

Damn. Inflation is a bitch, huh?

You want to talk about Sudan, Haiti, and Burma? Are we arming ethnic cleansing there too? Man a what a fucking world. Yeah, I am against that. It's not hard to be against the US arming ethnic cleansing. I know you agree, and glad others are coming along. Americans being maybe a bit dogmatic about not arming ethnic cleansing operations should come pretty naturally to non-sociopaths. If the same is occurring in those other countries and you want to talk about them, start those threads and watch them die from from lack of board interest, think about why that is, and then get back to me. I did it wrt US arming SA operations in Yemen on the other sub.

When you started complaining about hot takes on this thread to me. eta: and whining to mods.

Don't go soft now Inka. Lots of news links posted last couple pages. Haaretz, CBS, NYT, WH.gov, etc. If you want to call out hot takes maybe you can find focus elsewhere.

All good. The roofers are swarming the hood with ladders and markers right now. Throw a rock and you will knock one off a roof doing an inspection.

Hail claim incoming. LOL. Er, maybe claims.

eek. I can't go there with you man, sounds not too far a stones thrown from AZC/AIPAC, FARA, Kennedy assassination stuff man.

Paxlovid talk a few pages back. NEJM this week. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003 Nirmatrelvir for Vaccinated or Unvaccinated Adult Outpatients with Covid-19 Authors: Jennifer Hammond, Ph.D., Robert J. Fountaine, Pharm.D., Carla Yunis, M.D., M.P.H., Dona Fleishaker, B.S.N., Mary Almas, M.S., Weihang Bao, Ph.D., Wayne Wisemandle, M.A., +5, and James M. Rusnak, M.D., Ph.D.Author Info & Affiliations Published April 3, 2024 Abstract BACKGROUND Nirmatrelvir in combination with ritonavir is an antiviral treatment for mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). The efficacy of this treatment in patients who are at standard risk for severe Covid-19 or who are fully vaccinated and have at least one risk factor for severe Covid-19 has not been established. METHODS In this phase 2–3 trial, we randomly assigned adults who had confirmed Covid-19 with symptom onset within the past 5 days in a 1:1 ratio to receive nirmatrelvir–ritonavir or placebo every 12 hours for 5 days. Patients who were fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and who had at least one risk factor for severe disease, as well as patients without such risk factors who had never been vaccinated against Covid-19 or had not been vaccinated within the previous year, were eligible for participation. Participants logged the presence and severity of prespecified Covid-19 signs and symptoms daily from day 1 through day 28. The primary end point was the time to sustained alleviation of all targeted Covid-19 signs and symptoms. Covid-19–related hospitalization and death from any cause were also assessed through day 28. RESULTS Among the 1296 participants who underwent randomization and were included in the full analysis population, 1288 received at least one dose of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir (654 participants) or placebo (634 participants) and had at least one postbaseline visit. The median time to sustained alleviation of all targeted signs and symptoms of Covid-19 was 12 days in the nirmatrelvir–ritonavir group and 13 days in the placebo group (P=0.60). Five participants (0.8%) in the nirmatrelvir–ritonavir group and 10 (1.6%) in the placebo group were hospitalized for Covid-19 or died from any cause (difference, −0.8 percentage points; 95% confidence interval, −2.0 to 0.4). The percentages of participants with adverse events were similar in the two groups (25.8% with nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and 24.1% with placebo). In the nirmatrelvir–ritonavir group, the most commonly reported treatment-related adverse events were dysgeusia (in 5.8% of the participants) and diarrhea (in 2.1%). CONCLUSIONS The time to sustained alleviation of all signs and symptoms of Covid-19 did not differ significantly between participants who received nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and those who received placebo. (Supported by Pfizer; EPIC-SR ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT05011513.)

You telling me that you aren't interested in my house the homeless fundraiser featuring a mud wrassling match between Rep. Foxy Troxy and contender Groomed Tulsi G? It's for the children.

Biggest news week on this thread. NYT told me so yesterday. Gaza has been the deadliest place for aid workers since the Oct. 7 attacks. According to the Aid Worker Security Database, a compilation of data on attacks funded by the United States Agency for International Development, 203 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since the war started. All were Palestinian, except for six of the World Central Kitchen workers most recently killed, who were citizens of Australia, the United States, Canada, Poland and Britain.

ETA: Nevermind. Fucking Leanderthals.

What you got going on next Thursday?

Nobody likes a quitter brick. It's a real hoot over there. You should try it. Not really different here tbh.

To keep it news-thread-worthy, chart of aid work deaths worldwide over time. If you squint hard enough, you can clearly understand the intelligence behind why the events from this week were the tipping point for some.

A hit dog hollers. The reality of what is taking place has been clear for some time. The story arch didn't start Oct 2023. But yes, I applaud your intelligence for breaking when the situation involves a bunch of white people getting blown up instead of the disposable browns that have been stacking by the tens of thousands.

It's absolutely amazing to me that this particular event is what it took to realize a breaking point for some people, but thank god they finally arrived.

Arming ethnic cleansing operations because afraid of Trump is certainly a take. 1 in 5 democrats and nearly 1 in 4 independents "much less likely to support" a candidate that continues military aid. If these numbers are accurate, your calculus seems backwards. Continuing with the status quo appears more likely to put Biden at risk with his own base and independents. If you think that Trump is going to wedge him on this issue and flip Democrats by taking on a pro-genocide position, I just don't see it. And Biden is not picking up those committed Trump voters either way. Seems the greater risk is eroding his own base, particularly the progressive wing of it and independents. Buy hey, maybe Michigan is disposable.

Blocks what? A ceasefire, or blocks arms transfers? Where people are on Israel is evolving quickly. Like many issues, U.S. partisans find themselves on opposing sides. Most Republicans, though fewer than in the fall, support Israel's actions, while the vast majority of Democrats are opposed. Independents’ opinions are now much closer to those of Democrats. Although Americans rate Biden's handling of the conflict poorly, his overall job approval rating is no lower now than before the conflict began. The issue does not register highly when Americans are asked to name the most important problem facing the U.S. Nor does it rank highly when Americans rate each of several international issues as critical threats to U.S. vital interests. It could hurt the president by dampening turnout among would-be Biden voters who care deeply about the issue and are upset with his handling of the situation. And more directly to the point of aid...

Given the events of the last few days, can we agree on "Not the IDF" as a starting point?

Watching some clips from today of Kirby, the pentagon spokeswoman, and the state department spokespeople. Clowns and/or sociopaths. Keep your options open. Example given: