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Brisketexan

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  1. You might indeed. The analogy is far from perfect, but it doesn't completely miss the mark, either.
  2. Fucking idiots. Steal $100 million? You don't stick around. You GTFO.
  3. Israel calling off the dogs, or sending the dogs in, isn't the play you have to worry about. The only next military step left is a ground invasion, and Israel simply can't pull that off in force (sure, they could send in some special ops troops maybe, but they won't be able to accomplish the goals in play here). Only one possible actor can....
  4. I actually do believe that you believe what you say in your stated conclusion. I just find the "all roads lead to Rome" approach of "nothing shitty happening in the ME happens without bad guy Israel and their butt buddy the US" lazy, overbroad, and thus incorrect. Which is frustrating, because Israeli shittiness and US bullshittery unquestionably ARE material factors in much ME shit, but when everything comes back to those being THE "but-for" cause, it necessarily absolves all the other players of responsibility, no matter how much you say that's not what you're doing. "Sure, Hamas and Assad and the Iranian regime are bad, but, but-for Israeli shittiness, they wouldn't be an issue" absolves the other players. Being a factor vs. being the but-for cause are two different things, and the distinction matters. I am not unsympathetic to you, the things you have stated concerns about, etc. - again, you can read my posting history. I'm just telling you that a one-note message of "sure, X is bad, but but-for Israel, we wouldn't have X" is a lazy message that necessarily dismisses any complexity and absolves all other parties of blame or agency. And that's frustrating as shit, especially from someone who arguably does not believe that.
  5. But renaming it to "Operation In Bed by 8:00 p.m. Rubber Mallet" just doesn't sound as cool.
  6. Cool. You've seen my posts. You know that I am regularly and often "on your side," offer positive rep for a decent take, etc. I'm just telling you that I -- as that same person who agrees with much of your reasoning -- finds the constant "but Israel" shit exhausting and frustrating as hell. I find it no less exhausting than the counterpart "everything Israel does is justified because Israel good Hamas bad" shit takes we see plenty of around here.
  7. We learned a long time ago - and Ukraine has proven a stark example of that in modern warfare - airstrikes don't "win" shit. You don't accomplish real goals on the ground without....boots on the ground. Want to take out Iran's nuclear sites? It's going to take troops going into each of those facilities to do so. Anything less is mostly a show that results in buying some time, maybe. Countdown to Trump being outraged that people are questioning his tactical and strategic brilliance, and ordering a ground invasion because goddammit he said so?
  8. Response for some. Pretext for others. When it comes to Iranian militarization of same, almost ENTIRELY pretext. There is no reason for Iran to be fomenting war against Israel (and save me any "well, Iran really cares about the Palestinian people" -- that's utter bullshit and everyone knows it). I just find perpetual victim-blaming -- which your hatred of Israel inevitably becomes and is -- infuriating. Note that goes for Gaza too, and the people who shrug their shoulders at the ethnic cleansing there saying "well, they shouldn't live where Hamas is" or some shit. A lot of fucking excuses for hatred and atrocities, with zero fucking ownership of any human solutions. It's fucking sickening and exhausting, and it's only going to lead to more dead Israelis and jews (because the Palestinian cause and grievances are "righteous") and more dead Palestinians (because Israel's defense against/response to attacks by Hamas etc. is "righteous"). Gonna "righteous" themselves both right into fucking extinction, so one of you can claim moral superiority over the blood-soaked rubble. What a victory to look forward to.
  9. ....by CHOICE. We are eschewing, and fully sabotaging, all of our soft power in exchange for an approach that offers only bullying and violence. It's as pathetic a bit of short-term thinking as I think I've ever seen, but man, are we COMMITTED to it.
  10. Sigh. You know how viscerally - and correctly - you respond to folks who just say simple shit like "Iran is bad because Iran is evil," or "the common thread in terrorism is mooslems?" Well....your one-note response of "whatever we're talking about, it all comes back to being Israel's fault" is the other side of the same simple-minded coin. While we should not absolve Israel of responsibility for the chaos and violence that has plagued the region for decades, your responses all come back to making Israel the sole owner and root cause of.....everything. But for Israel, none of these bad actors would have been forced to be bad actors. Fucking bullshit. Iran is a great example of that. There is ZERO reason for Iran to be an existential enemy of Israel. The primary reason it is.....is because it's totally controlled by a theocratic regime that needs a good external enemy to rally the folks around to distract from oppressive fuckery at home (yeah....a play the US is dusting off like crazy these days). As exhausting as it is to hear the usual suspects blame everything on those dirty mooslems, it's just as exhausting, and as invalid in light of complexity, to hear your constant drumbeat of "everything that is bad in the world is the fault of Israel and US support for same." It's all like listening to "Boomer Sooner" over and over again. No variety or complexity, and sister-fuckingly stupid. There's ALWAYS time to abandon the Kurds, of that you can be sure.
  11. Yeah....the AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires by Iran-backed Hezbollah puts the lie to the "we don't hate jews" statement. Sorry, that was bullshit. Iran was perfectly happy to kill jews.
  12. You are correct...but also disingenuous. Those groups would EXIST without Iran, most likely. However, they would not have existed as a material fighting/disruptive force without Iran. Iranian support -- dollars, training, weapons -- is absolutely what enabled Hezbollah to wage war for decades (as just one example). Sure, Israel and its bullshit were an impetus for the existence of many of these groups, I don't think anyone has argued otherwise. But the difference between Hezbollah a group of people pissed at Israel and able to cause a bit of chaos here and there vs. Hezbollah a group of people capable of controlling the Lebanese government and waging actual war against Israel is a big one. And Iran was the difference-maker. The world is/would be much better off if Iran's ability to export chaos was sharply curtailed/eliminated. Trump's move in going after Iran was ill-conceived, done to please his master, and in support of his master's own efforts to cling on to power, NOT based on any new urgent/exigent circumstance. But a world in which Iran and its proxies have had their capabilities massively degraded is a good thing. All of those things can be true at the same time.
  13. Our AG regularly spells it "marihuana" in legal documents. For real. As in, exactly the way the referred to it in the 1920s and shit.
  14. I mean, yes and no. If we lived in a rational world, we could have a reasonable discussion about the ease/availability of such products to minors. We have mechanisms in place to make it more difficult for minors to obtain alcohol or tobacco, I don't have any philosophical problem with doing the same for THC products. The Texas THC industry seems to agree: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/23/texas-hemp-regulations-age-restriction-enforcement-thc-sb-3/#:~:text=Currently%2C there's no age restriction,based cannabis business Restart CBD. Of course, that's not the conversation we're actually having. We have a psychotic retrograde asshole arguing that "nobody will do business in Texas anymore because everyone is high." Seriously. That's his position: He also talks about destroying our precious youth and such. Truly, the only thing he left unsaid was "those dastardly weed-smoking negroes and their seductive jazz music corrupting our fine white women."
  15. They’ve got some cosmopolitan types who are mighty fine. But otherwise….yeah. As the boy has described them, with a sigh, “they’re all short, round, and orange.” The fake tan makeup they put on to cover up their paleness…it’s not good. Find a pretty and posh one, avoid the orange ones.
  16. There ya go. As to the question of "so, what is to stop the regime from doing this to US citizens -- say, US citizens who have said things the regime doesn't like?" . . . y'all know the answer. Nothing. Nothing will stop them. Is the reality on the ground now that, if you think the regime's gestapo is grabbing you to send you off to a dark foreign hole from which you will never return, then . . . is there any rational course of action that doesn't involve "whatever it takes, including using deadly force to protect yourself, don't let them take you?" When the Rule of Law is erased, the void is always and immediately filled by Rule of the Gun.
  17. To answer the bolded, because there are birds in the air on an active mission. That's really pretty common regarding ceasefires. It's not a "we just had a call, so it starts NOW" sort of thing. You pick a time in the very near future (often a matter of hours).
  18. Emphasized for truth. Cult gonna cult.
  19. Think of it this way....that is a three minute display of pure personal debasement. Imagine how much she'd debase herself for YOU.
  20. As if it hasn't been said enough....the most powerful nation in the world is being run by a sponge-brained toddler. What the fuck even is that shit?
  21. This. Any Dem running for office should run on a platform of "and all those fuckers who hurt us these past years? I am going to immediately round them up and send them to foreign prisons where they will never be heard from again. Which is perfectly legal now, thanks to those exact same fuckers."
  22. Anyone who thinks that a giant slice of the stockmarket isn't just memes and vibes isn't paying attention. "Rational thinking" and "market value based on share price" of these enterprises are two concepts that never even get close to each other, much less touch.
  23. Both answers are correct. It's the level of "worse" that is the wildcard. This doesn't end without stacks of bodies. That is always the endgame when someone tries full-on fascism. All roads lead to body counts.
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