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#11

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:47:40 AM

I think I've said this before, but Ukraine wins by staying in the fight. It's not going to win by maneuver warfare or a brilliant new weapon system, not against the biggest country on earth with 5 times its population.

They win by making the russian army collapse, either because the center is so corrupt and unstable that they leave Ukraine, or their logistics are so degraded that they needto leave Ukraine. That's why Kursk is important and why hitting refineries and factories 1000 km deep into russia matters.

One nitpick, they are succeeding because they developed a weapon system. The Russians could not cope with.

#12

Off the Record / Re: Motorhoming in Spain

Last post by Threviel - Today at 10:46:13 AM

I'm in need of a French-speaker. We'll be in Bastogne during the WC final and we won't have access to a tv, so we need a place to watch the game that is child-friendly. Anyone have any info on how those kinds of things are done in Belgium or if there'll be a public showing at a square or some such?

#13

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 10:44:24 AM

I'm not silencing anything.

#14

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:41:56 AM

But that's my my point. I asked for an explanation for why you characterize calling out the atrocities as antisemitism, and your answer made no sense.  What does solving the problem have anything to do with identifying the problem?

You and Raz would have it that we don't even identify that there is a problem?

My question is what motivates the two of you to want to silence identifying atrocities?

#15

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2026

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:40:22 AM

RIP Sam Neill 

 

#16

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 10:39:34 AM

Those who persist in taking the view that being critical of the actions of the state of Israel is anti Semitic make the sort of firewall you have proposed problematic, if it then becomes forbidden to make those sorts of criticisms.

Making those criticisms is not made easier by the fact that most people making those criticisms can't seem to help themselves from dipping their toes (at best) into the pool of antisemitism.

How does pointing out that is really Armed Forces killed people who were walking towards a trucks in any way mean that one is dipping their toes in the pool of antisemitism?

scratch away at the surface of most 'anti-zionists' and they'll inevitably start saying how Israel shouldn't exist at all. Or shouldn't be a Jewish state. You know that too.
And it's not gotten any better with the influence islamics on the left.

Don't really care either way what happens there, as long as they all stay there and not here.

Or, people who think civilians should not be intentionally killed by military forces.

I am not sure what drives people like you and Raz to be so blind to atrocities

You assume I'm blind to the atrocities. I'm not.
Call it the results of de-colonization. No civilizing mission, no white man's burden.
It's not our place to solve it, nor to take in those peoples

But you do take a position.

So does everyone re all those other atrocities.

#17

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:32:26 AM

Those who persist in taking the view that being critical of the actions of the state of Israel is anti Semitic make the sort of firewall you have proposed problematic, if it then becomes forbidden to make those sorts of criticisms.

Making those criticisms is not made easier by the fact that most people making those criticisms can't seem to help themselves from dipping their toes (at best) into the pool of antisemitism.

How does pointing out that is really Armed Forces killed people who were walking towards a trucks in any way mean that one is dipping their toes in the pool of antisemitism?

scratch away at the surface of most 'anti-zionists' and they'll inevitably start saying how Israel shouldn't exist at all. Or shouldn't be a Jewish state. You know that too.
And it's not gotten any better with the influence islamics on the left.

Don't really care either way what happens there, as long as they all stay there and not here.

Or, people who think civilians should not be intentionally killed by military forces.

I am not sure what drives people like you and Raz to be so blind to atrocities

You assume I'm blind to the atrocities. I'm not.
Call it the results of de-colonization. No civilizing mission, no white man's burden.
It's not our place to solve it, nor to take in those peoples

But you do take a position.

#18

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 10:29:34 AM

Israel is a secular state with equal rights for all. 

That's what the Basic Law says, but it has no connection with the reality. And for the people in the Territories, none of that applies, not even on paper.  Palestinians in the territories are subject to military rule and to the uncontrolled violence and vandalism of the settlers.

Palestinians are not Israeli citizens, nor do they claim to be or desire to be.  During the NATO occupation of Afghanistan, Afghanis did not have equal rights in any NATO country and were subject to military rule and significant violence.  This was not apartheid, or genocide, or a lack of equal rights in the occupying country.

#19

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis, Democrats?

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 10:29:00 AM

Those who persist in taking the view that being critical of the actions of the state of Israel is anti Semitic make the sort of firewall you have proposed problematic, if it then becomes forbidden to make those sorts of criticisms.

Making those criticisms is not made easier by the fact that most people making those criticisms can't seem to help themselves from dipping their toes (at best) into the pool of antisemitism.

How does pointing out that is really Armed Forces killed people who were walking towards a trucks in any way mean that one is dipping their toes in the pool of antisemitism?

scratch away at the surface of most 'anti-zionists' and they'll inevitably start saying how Israel shouldn't exist at all. Or shouldn't be a Jewish state. You know that too.
And it's not gotten any better with the influence islamics on the left.

Don't really care either way what happens there, as long as they all stay there and not here.

Or, people who think civilians should not be intentionally killed by military forces.

I am not sure what drives people like you and Raz to be so blind to atrocities

You assume I'm blind to the atrocities. I'm not.
Call it the results of de-colonization. No civilizing mission, no white man's burden.
It's not our place to solve it, nor to take in those peoples

#20

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 10:24:12 AM

Viper, here is an interview with the reporters who wrote the article you linked

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/front-burner/id1439621628?i=1000776562123