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by Vander
Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:45 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Four Parties
Replies: 73
Views: 34443

Re: Four Parties

I honestly believe the only significant difference between them, for practical assessment, is Trump is just as corrupt and self serving, etc but he is also clinically a sociopath. Their 'politics' and 'morality' and 'professed principles' are just tools in their branding tool kit. Words on their re...
by Vander
Fri Nov 17, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
Replies: 38
Views: 23388

Re: X: the Cliffs notes version :)

I wouldn't be surprised to discover he isn't even genuinely antisemetic. Just an opportunist needing to swell his platforms user base..get the numbers up to stop the bleeding. I see no reason to try to come up with weird 4D chess master plans that require hanging out in the replies of Neo-Nazis. He...
by Vander
Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: X: the Cliffs notes version :)
Replies: 38
Views: 23388

Re: X: the Cliffs notes version :)

Elon Musk is a policy failure.
by Vander
Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:33 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Four Parties
Replies: 73
Views: 34443

Re: Four Parties

I think it's wild that Biden is being compared to Trump.
by Vander
Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:47 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

Thank you for the thoughtful reply :roll: . Now for a thoughtful response. Your "happily ever after" response is based on ignorance and antisemitism. Horesh!t. You do realize Saudi Arabia was all set to recognize Israel as a nation. Once that was done, I suspect Egypt would of followed su...
by Vander
Fri Nov 10, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Four Parties
Replies: 73
Views: 34443

Re: Four Parties

Brilliant analysis, woodchip!
by Vander
Wed Nov 08, 2023 11:37 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

I've been debating with myself on whether to reply to this or not, and if so, what to actually say. It's ranged from "★■◆● off you genocidal prick" to a more thoughtful explanation of the practical reasons Israel wouldn't get their happily ever after after doing such a thing. I'm just goin...
by Vander
Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:Since your usual leftist reply shows you really think like a anti-Semite and really would prefer genocide of the Jews instead of Hamas being eliminated.
Israel has no plan to eliminate Hamas, only Palestinians.
by Vander
Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:30 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

"From the river to the sea" It is the end game. Is this not also an apt description of Israel's intent? You're wrong Vander, As Hamas was hoping for a multi prong attack on Israel. They wanted Hezbollah to attack from Lebanon and Iran to use missiles to help out. End result would be to an...
by Vander
Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:34 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:38 am So you agree when Hamas attacked Israel that too was a attempt at genocide.
No, I don't agree that the October 7 attack was an "attempt at genocide." Were the 9/11 attacks an attempt at genocide? Of course not.
by Vander
Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

It’s not just about Hamas. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-gaza-ification-of-the-west-bank All of these things that I’ve been describing are official bureaucratic mechanisms backed by government ministries, the Army, the Israeli courts, all of these entities working jointly to achieve the...
by Vander
Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

Are you actually making a distinction now?
by Vander
Wed Nov 01, 2023 1:51 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:Stop being a apologist for the genocidal Palestinians.
You, in this very thread, lamented that "it looks The Jews are not going to cleanse." I only see one apologist for genocide here.
by Vander
Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:14 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

Killing Hamas isn't genocide. Cutting off food, water, power, and communications to an already captive population is certainly genocide. By many measures, Gaza was arguably subjected to genocidal conditions before Oct. 7. The threatened expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza is certainly ethnic cleans...
by Vander
Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:30 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:I feel sorry for the Palestinian civilians who will bear the brunt of Hamas political hate
Israel doing ethnic cleansing and genocide is on Israel. If they continue this path, I feel sorry for the Israeli citizens. It will not make them safer, and this stain will not go away.
by Vander
Mon Oct 23, 2023 11:02 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:neighbor
There are words that more accurately describe the reality on the ground. Like "captor." Or "jailer."
by Vander
Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:36 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

Top Gun wrote:"Palestinians" and "Hamas" are two entirely different groups of people
The genocide is easier to swallow if you believe there are 2 million villains in Gaza.
by Vander
Sat Oct 21, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

I'm pro-terrorist because I object to genocide? There's some real 9/11 brain worms going around these days.
by Vander
Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:43 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:As it looks The Jews are not going to cleanse, so we can expect this again 10 years from now.
Yeah, too bad they aren't going for the final solution.
by Vander
Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:53 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: I had a dream…
Replies: 25
Views: 5988

Re: I had a dream…

I can't help but notice that Israel is not mentioned in your dream.
by Vander
Thu Oct 19, 2023 11:19 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:the Palestinian people (read Hamas)
Brilliant analysis as always, woodchip.
by Vander
Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:34 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

The information war is real. Propaganda works. Maybe don't rush to spread what is likely bullsh!t as fast as you can. Nobody will think less of you if you wait a day or two to discuss something with facts that are more fleshed out. Anyways, my hot take is that it's not absurd to believe Israel would...
by Vander
Wed Oct 18, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Truth is the first casualty
Replies: 156
Views: 300733

Re: Truth is the first casualty

woodchip wrote:I wonder how many here believe that nonsense.
I'm glad you survived the day of terror.
by Vander
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

So now Israel is Trump and the US is... Trump? Or Israel is the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and the US is Trump?

This is all so stupid. We can actually use the words to say exactly what we want to say instead of silly analogies.
by Vander
Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

No, Trump is the Ayatolla of the ultra right. Trump is a clown show, entertaining and distracting the rubes. He has no cause or code or ideology other than self-aggrandizement. If he didn't deliver to the real power in this country what they wanted, installing their hand picked ayatollahs onto the ...
by Vander
Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:51 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

Trump isn't Iran. Trump is Hamas.
by Vander
Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

Will Robinson wrote:and now apparently you want to acknowledge I’m right about Iran being at fault
Nah, I give Hamas agency for their actions. Because with or without Iran, there would be some form of armed resistance to the apartheid state Israel has constructed for everyone to be shocked and horrified by.
by Vander
Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:10 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Evil
Replies: 86
Views: 80799

Re: Evil

"Mutual hatred that goes back centuries" matters a lot less than what happened last week or last month or last year.
by Vander
Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

I can only assume it's the statement that there isn't any intel that shows Iran directed the attack.
by Vander
Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

woodchip wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:47 am Except Trump handed the reins over to Biden.
That's... certainly one way to describe what happened.
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:09 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

...obvious hypocrisy the Biden team... ...Biden and his followers are pretending to have a moral position... Ahh, there's the point. Gotcha. But again, these two situations are not comparable. I do not find it hypocritical that a fraudulent huckster and a country of 80 million people might be treat...
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 4:51 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

"Two entities..."

Trump and Iran are not comparable and it's ridiculous to compare them. You're trying to juxtapose the treatment of one with the other. I'm just curious to what end?
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 3:16 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

You're trying to make some point, but you should really just state it clearly. Trump hasn't been "assigned guilt." Who is supposedly ignoring Iran?

I mean, it sounds like you're angry we aren't at war with Iran? Is that it?
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

The only "tactics" I see here are you presenting two different situations as similar and saying agree with me or you're a hypocrite. I mean, if you want to say "Iran is responsible for the current situation in Israel" that's fine. You'd probably get some level of agreement. But t...
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:43 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

Will, I think your logic bomb just blew up woodchip.
by Vander
Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:57 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?
Replies: 90
Views: 51067

Re: Cause and effect. Objective or subjective?

The two situations aren’t comparable.
by Vander
Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:43 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Sound of Freedom
Replies: 41
Views: 8203

Re: Sound of Freedom

I didn't catch this movie, but how did they depict this? Tim Ballard, the founder and former head of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad whose heavily fictionalized exploits were the subject of this summer’s surprise box-office hit Sound of Freedom, has been sued in Utah’s Thir...
by Vander
Sat Sep 23, 2023 6:50 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Business demographics (survey)
Replies: 5
Views: 1609

Re: Business demographics (survey)

It's just market research. They'd need to know the answers before they'd know what's useful. Also, it's not just a trackball.

https://www.accobrands.com/brands/
by Vander
Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:47 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Business demographics (survey)
Replies: 5
Views: 1609

Re: Business demographics (survey)

But what if they introduced a trackball with an extra button to easily switch between internet bulletin board logins?