A penitent who is loud

mRNA vaccines are so close to magic as to be basically indistinguishable, and the administration is stopping them because they worship death.

A perhaps unfair judgment of many pop Marxists is basically that they aspire to abolish economics in favor of "common sense" & gratifying platitudes - the assumption being that if you just institute Marxism it erases economic concepts like growth, supply & demand, virtuous economic cycles, etc.

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I don't know what leftist and liberal mean anymore, cause I was told by hammer and sickle people on this website that I was being hysterical and vote shaming when I said people were gonna get put in camps

It was a direct QRT to me and I am increasingly taking the position that I don't bring down my platform on individuals with significantly fewer followers than me.

(I find WoW graphics *terrible* and its aesthetic deeply unappealing)

Wow, strong strong disagree!

This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why

That's...very much not what most surveys suggest of the Israeli public.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/poll-two-third-of-israelis-feel-netanyahu-governments-policy-doesnt-represent-their-will/

This is a deep cut.

I am not really telling you anything about what you mean.

I didn't say they were, but Alon has pointed out Israel doesn't have a tradition of the cabinet speaking in one voice.

I'm not interested in disputing whether it was or wasn't, I'm just pointing out likely factors in things being worse.

Alright. Fair.

(Wouldn't the better analogy be Mauripol, anyways?)

Essentially no observer I'm aware of has argued for anything close to that casualty figure or even in the same ballpark. I'm not really sure why you put in that tidbit?

I think both are happening* & personally I think enough of the Israeli government has expressed genocidal intent to feel comfortable using the term to describe them, but I understand why some others hesitate.

* with the obvious corollary that feeding people in a warzone is hard at the best of times

I think it's both, but you won't get me arguing that the IDF's strategy hasn't been both a moral and strategic failure.

kinda reminds me of CO's aesthetic.

saying "Gaza is a single metropolitan area, not a massive state, and we should gauge it on that basis" is still a view that has more than its share of room for justified condemnation of the Israeli state, even granting the inherent obstacles in Hamas' tactical & strategic doctrine.

yeah like I really do want to be clear here I am not speaking in defense of the Israeli plan in my request we be specific as opposed to applying radically different situations as exact or even terribly equivalent ones.

for what it's worth I think BG3 is also almost spectacularly unsexy, personally

I feel like you're mistaking my statement that this is a likely outcome of prolonged combat with a defense of that decision.

If you're advocating to boycott anything Jewish-owned, it absolutely is.

To be clear, I'm not in disagreement with you at all, but I do feel the need to add the context that that village is also around 0.3 square miles in total size.

I'm not trying to lower the temperature at all, I'm trying to demonstrate the factors in play.

I mean bluntly whether or not we call it genocidal is really kind of semantic compared to what we do about preventing genocide & ethnic cleansing from occurring.

(It is perhaps worth noting that although many critics and scholars feel free to declare Israel genocidal, the actual UN ICJ case was last I checked quite inconclusive and basically said "you better make sure this doesn't happen." It is generally treated as imminent, not manifest.)

For an obvious example - is Ansar Allah in Yemen genocidal? Is Russia's war in Ukraine genocidal? Was Assad in Syria genocidal? All of these have arguments for their declaration, yet we hesitated to do so.

Basically: genocide is the ultimate moral crime in modern IHL. Its invocation is often seen as a declaration of moral and diplomatic total war - though in practice this has in most cases not been pursued in actuality. So ppl feel very strongly about WHEN it should be declared.