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If you quote me, please ensure that what you say next has some relation to it. I did, and it wasn't about that question.




You make it sound as if this could have been some sort of surgical...

You mean you did not say what you meant to say. Don't put that on me. Be more careful with your words.





This to me seems to be part of Kyriakos' considerations.

It is actually. That is why so many Western governments are hesitant to condemn Israel. If you mean popular opinion, then maybe yes. But the thing with popular opinion is that it says things without...

It seems to be based on the misunderstanding that there are rules that dictate that war itself has to be 'proportional'. But the proportionality we're discussing exists within the context of a war...

Ridiculous laws aside, what should determine who is expected to go to what public toilet? The current 'standard' seems to be 'The one that matches the cis-gendered variant others perceive you to...

To revisit something I said just a few posts back:



So of course I'd have issues if 2 million palestinians in Gaza died. That would mean large scale attacks on non-military targets. Call me a...

Even if you were to interpret the conflict as an 80 year old war, there was nothing about 7/10 that can be described as legitimate warfare. There were no military targets where Hamas attacked and it...

Whether what Israel is doing is effective is obviously debatable, but the principle that a country has the right to strike back isn't.



The best effort expected of combatants to avoid harm to...

I'm sorry, but I cannot respond point by point if only because it consists of statements that do not seem to follow logically from another. So I'll just have to guess the following addresses what you...

I think criticism of Israel is fine. What I don't think is fine is gratuitous criticism and that is pretty much all I'm hearing from pro-palestinian voices. The fact that to call for Israel to leave...

That is true. It does however require that members of a group are being 'destroyed' because they are members of that group. That requires some sort of planned action on an ideological basis.

I...

As far as I'm concerned, the same reasons apply that have been making elections a farce. With so few participants these awards are too personal to live up to their name.

You say it is a shame that we focus on semantics only to dive straight back into that same semantic discussion. If you really regretted it you could have opted for a term that is less speculative as...

Well to insist on using the word genocide, not because it is true, but because it is more hurtful is pretty childish really.

It is obviously particularly aggravating to Jewish people to be accused of genocide. That is the reason why it is used. Part of the information war.

The sad reality is civilian lives have not...

Which tells us a something about the human condition and nothing about the existence of divinity.

Now there's a card you can only play once. After all, it eliminates not just your opponent, but also yourself.

I take it you're addressing sumskilz? Because if it was me, that would imply you're thinking I'm counting the IDF as a "source I believe has a reputation for truthfulness to uphold". That would be a...

"Seek and ye shall find". That's pretty much where the ammo for this discussion is coming from these days, wouldn't you say? I've actually found myself on the verge of getting sucked into the...

You mean that there is basically no war in Gaza, just the IDF wreaking havoc on civilians and civilian infrastructure with no enemy in sight?




By whom. Not in popular opinion. My impression...

I do not presume to know what's going on better than those media do.




The media regularly mention 'fighting', so there is actual combat going on, but they report very little about the scale...

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Ok, I see you're not actually replying to what I said. That's fine. You do you.

There's always an information war.

Well it is clear Israel is losing the information war. In the Western media a pattern has been established Israel is leveling buildings and hospitals and gratuitously slaughtering civilians in...

Do they though? Or would they happily make that sacrifice for the Great Leader?

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I'd be happy to discuss that, but I think that belongs in the 'State of the Union' thread.

Concerning the Tribunal, I think it is a great idea in theory. I have serious doubts about any kind of...

Support, so that's pretty much an absolute majority right there :laughter:





I think I've said earlier that VoNC's and elected positions should stay or go together. So assuming there's no...

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I can agree with that summary for the most part. Specifically regarding the issue of 'control' though, that is obviously a relative concept in a war like this. I'd say (and I get the...

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Genocide is when the physical destruction of (parts of) an ethnical, racial or religious group is a goal in itself. Evidently this is near impossible to prove for areas where active combat is taking...

As far as I can tell, it pretty much is not allowing NGO's to operate in Gaza to provide aid. Not that it would enough to just passively permit it.

Not that any of that amounts to Genocide. But,...

You know, there's been a lot of talk with big words about Israel's intentions after 7/10. Most of them are just rhetoric by people with fixed ideological trajectories whose soap boxes were well worn...

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Curial offices should only remain if there's an election and accountability in the Curia. If that is not attainable then it should be a (local) moderator appointed by the administration if necessary...

Seems like the answer is staring us in the face: Admin Mishkin, responsible for all things related to medals.

Like where you're going with this. Let me see if I can dig something up.

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I don't know. Seems what AqD is arguing is basically business as usual, except without lip service to lofty Western ideals.

I don't think anyone here is thinking of starting over from scratch, which means it is important to preserve what is left of our community. Therefore, I would hesitate to adopt a strategy that splits...