A very depressing video from Gaza

[arthwollipot]

Of course, that takes it as a given that the decision makers, i.e. Netanyahu and friends, don't really think of the civilians as real people, but only as pawns in a game.

Only inasmuch as they think about civilians at all, which I contend that they do not. Civilians are irrelevant. At best, a distraction. They certainly do not factor into military decisions.

[grayman]

Of course, that takes it as a given that the decision makers, i.e. Netanyahu and friends, don't really think of the civilians as real people, but only as pawns in a game.

Only inasmuch as they think about civilians at all, which I contend that they do not. Civilians are irrelevant. At best, a distraction. They certainly do not factor into military decisions.

[Admin]

Fuck, that's clever.

[Meadmaker]

The root of the problem:

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[stanky]

Yeah, man.

Racial pride causes racism, imo. It's a tendency to self-identify as a particular race, in a way that assumes its superiority and insists on retaining the traits of that, to the dismay of evolution...as in, in gets in-bred. Rape becomes the avenue for genetic diversity, usually in wars. Slavery too.
How can you have slaves if you don't feel superior to them? How can you shoot someone if you don't hate them?

[Admin]

Yeah, man.

Racial pride causes racism, imo. It's a tendency to self-identify as a particular race, in a way that assumes its superiority and insists on retaining the traits of that, to the dismay of evolution...as in, in gets in-bred. Rape becomes the avenue for genetic diversity, usually in wars. Slavery too.
How can you have slaves if you don't feel superior to them? How can you shoot someone if you don't hate them?

I love the way we agree on this.

[Admin]

When Hamas undertook their raid on Israel, my best mate - whose mother is Jewish - asked me what I thought would happen as a result.

I told him that Israel would retaliate by flattening Gaza, killing squillions of people, and would reap the rewards of that for the next generation.

Pity old Randi croaked and his million dollar challenge stopped.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/antisemi ... 5896f634b7

[Meadmaker]

Has everyone read Rudyard Kipling's "The Female of the Species"?

This is what he meant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjy0wpdSAI0



(For people who don't watch youtube links, there's a few female tank crews who fought on October 7. They are being highly praised for killing a large number of terrorists. And they seemed very happy about it. When one of them said "great fun", I thought that maybe Rudyard had a point.)

[President Bush]

But who will inherit Kemmerich’s boots?

[Admin]

Has everyone read Rudyard Kipling's "The Female of the Species"?

I hope they have now. My mum used to quote it when she was pissed off at my dad.

When one of them said "great fun", I thought that maybe Rudyard had a point.)

That's truly fucking sickening.

Yet again we end up with a situation where both sides are wrong, but Israel has the ability not to be but persists anyway.