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Asithappens

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  1. But... that doesn't mean she can't so a stellar job here as well.
  2. I may be taking this comment out of context, but what kind of fucked up policy would that be? A nation cannot go to war unless the parents agree? Both parents? So a nation could be held hostage to mothers who don't want their children to go to war? That would be fine if everybody did that.
  3. Look, I'm not against the name change, but it's not a racist name. Injun? Probably. But then you'd better not read Huck Finn. If you get bent out of shape over the word "Indian" then the real world isn't for you.
  4. Eric Clapton: great guitarist, but a piece of shit as a person.
  5. Do you really want the state/govt to pull this sort of bullshit? Promising that there will be no prosecution, thus depriving (from what I've read) one's ability to use one's fifth amendment rights? Try to think of the broader issue here. This isn't bullshit. It's bullshit if people are comfortable with the government doing this. Just my opinion. There's a reason why we have the Bill of Rights placing limits on the powers of government.
  6. Like I respect a broken clock that's correct twice a day....
  7. Good. This and the bullshit over at the southern baptists just keeps telling us how fucked up religion is. And we need a lot of reminding.
  8. 1. I don't agree with Mack's politics. 2. I don't give a fuck if he uses write-off floor inventory, he's still helping. 3. I don't care if he uses it as a marketing opportunity, he's still helping. 4. I don't really get how this proves that Mack figures that he can "just rub the whole city's nose" in it.
  9. Holy shit what is going on I don't understand but lets just do whatever the smart science guys are saying to do. That's actually a good approach for most things, especially public health. You know what's not a good idea generally? Listening to evangelicals. For anything.
  10. As foretold in Two Corinthians.
  11. Seems like a mash-up from the B-52's and Rick and Morty. Can't go wrong with that.
  12. I've said for a long time now, Texas needs a governor who will STAND UP for Texans! Abbot is not that person.
  13. Yeah, I guess good luck to him. Fuck him if he doesn't want to be a part of Texas, a part of UT, a part of Austin for his college football days. And he clearly doesn't want to be any part of that. So... fuck Ewers.
  14. Nothing comes close? Not even a shorn scrotum?
  15. Let's see if this comes back to bite the GQP in the butt come next election. God, I hope so.
  16. Here's an essay from The Economist. THE FIGHTING lasted less than two weeks, but there was no shortage of explosions. By the end Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, had fired some 4,000 rockets at Israel. Most were intercepted by Israel’s missile defences. Israel responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a cramped enclave ruled by Hamas, which had no shield. More than 200 people were killed, all but 12 of them Palestinian. The battle began to wind down on May 20th; after nightfall Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. Assuming that calm returns, who knows how long it will last? Fighting between Israel and Hamas has become almost routine. Since the Islamist group grabbed control of Gaza in 2007, the two sides have fought four wars and several smaller battles, costing thousands of lives (again, mostly Palestinian). The spark for the latest outbreak came in Jerusalem—but were it not Jerusalem, it would have been some other cause. Israel and Hamas are stuck in a perpetual crisis, trapped by the logic of war, which dictates that they keep going through the same motions. Start with Hamas, which sees fighting “the Zionist invaders” as its raison d’être. Its campaign of suicide-bombings in the 1990s and 2000s bears much responsibility for destroying the Oslo peace accords. Because of its incessant attacks, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The group expelled Fatah, its Palestinian rival, two years later. Today most Gazans see Hamas as authoritarian and corrupt. Unable to point to any achievements, it instead blames Israeli aggression and poses as the one true defender of the Palestinian cause. It had no plan to attack Israel; it merely saw an opportunity to assert itself after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, indefinitely postponed legislative elections. Hamas’s attacks are futile: its rockets inflict relatively little damage. But Israel feels it has to respond. “If it happened to Washington or to New York? You know damn well what you would do,” said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on American television. So the cycle has continued. Israeli bombs hit Hamas’s offices, rocket launchers and tunnel complexes. Several of the group’s commanders were killed. Israeli officers say they have significantly degraded Hamas’s capabilities. But even they don’t think the group will be down for long. When the next spark comes, the militants will undoubtedly be there to fan it. And be in no doubt that it will come. Both sides are content to leave Gaza a festering pit of misery that periodically erupts. Hamas’s control in some ways suits Mr Netanyahu, inasmuch as it weakens the Palestinian leadership and dims the prospect of a Palestinian state. Israel will still try to keep the group down, though. It and Egypt have kept Gaza under blockade since 2007, making it harder for Hamas to arm itself—and making life grim for ordinary Gazans. Restrictions on travel mean they cannot leave. The isolated, impoverished territory draws comparisons to an open-air prison. Hamas’s policies make it more like a shooting range. The group sometimes shows little interest in actually governing. Its schools and hospitals can be used for storing weapons. The idea is that Israel won’t attack such sites or, if it does, Hamas can use it for propaganda. The militants were surprised by how hard Israel hit back after they launched their first barrage on May 10th. Still, even as the death toll mounted, they did not stop. Yet there were new elements to this round of violence. A wave of clashes between Jewish and Arab citizens in Israel itself unnerved Mr Netanyahu. There are new types of pressure from abroad, too. Whereas President Joe Biden emphasised “Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself”, some fellow Democrats called for putting conditions on American aid to Israel. But for now, none of that is likely to stop the cycle of violence. Israel and Hamas will come out of this battle much as they went in. Nothing has been gained; nothing has been resolved. And yet they are likely to do it again.
  17. I'm sorry/not sorry but that's damn funny. Thank goodness the boat took the damage and not you.
  18. Shouldn't the constitutional originalists be on board with that, too?
  19. Is that really a good argument? Being the smartest kid in special ed isn't really something to brag about.
  20. Exactly. Let's focus on the real issue: trans people in bathrooms.
  21. I think that this could be a successful criminal endeavor. The people who still support Trump (my god, really?) won't be swayed by anything. Probably not even him shooting someone on 5th Avenue.
  22. The NYT had a good summary of the situation. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/briefing/israel-hamas-conflict-fighting.html This may be the biggest obstacle to peace: When the United Nations proposed a two-state solution in the 1940s, Arabs rejected it, David Harris recently wrote in The Times of Israel. When Arab countries controlled Palestinian territories in the 1950s and ’60s, they could have created a nation and did not. When Israel and President Bill Clinton offered a two-state peace deal two decades ago, the Palestinians said no. Even many supporters of Israel who despair over Netanyahu’s leadership believe the larger problem is the Palestinians’ unwillingness to empower competent political leaders, rather than militants like Hamas. Israel can’t make a peace deal, its supporters say, until it has a partner more interested in building a prosperous society than trying to destroy Israel.
  23. I think it's on hold until he leaves office.
  24. Yep, the jews and arabs are essentially two sides to the same coin.
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