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What a fucking useless vehicle. Of course, Elon probably has "people" who can take care of his, and a spare to drive around while the other dries. Seriously, WTF? Is this fragile eye of a "truck" only supposed to driven in pristine weather on pre-cleaned roadways? Does he even d...

TIL that Drinking the Kool-Aid has its own Wikipedia page :lol: It's easy to forget that because we don't have it here in the UK, not everyone gets the reference :lol: Descriptions of the event often refer to the beverage not as Kool-Aid but as Flavor Aid,[4] a less-expensive product reportedly fou...

Are you really going to argue that all nations have inviolable rights within their own borders? Do you really want to go there? Go think that one all the way through and punch yourself in the face for being a dumbass if your answer is yes. No, I'm saying that Russia has no rights within other count...

Ukraine fucked up is thinking they could do whatever they wanted inside their own borders Really, that is what you are going with? Fuck off Russian bot. Countries don't have universal rights within their own borders though, so I fail to see the issue here. And Russia has no rights within Ukraine's ...

Personally I'd like to hear aerius elaborate on what he thinks Lenin's mistakes that need correcting were. Because it sounds an awful lot like he means not committing more genocide against the Ukrainians sooner. I'm willing to give Aerius the benefit of the doubt and assume he was speaking of Putin...

And the US has vetoed Palestinian membership in the UN. What's that about a two state solution again?

Personally I'd like to hear aerius elaborate on what he thinks Lenin's mistakes that need correcting were. Because it sounds an awful lot like he means not committing more genocide against the Ukrainians sooner.

Ghetto edit: Checking and yes I see that 'nuclear power plant' isn't accurate but that wasn't really the important bit

How? By having weapons and stating facts? They weren't stating facts, they were selling the idea to their people that somehow their failed attack beat Israel. As well as showing Israel that they could do it again. Multiple times. Does Israel have enough munitions to defend against repeat attempts ?...

EnterpriseSovereign wrote: ↑2024-04-17 02:02pm Is Iran trying to provoke a response from Israel?

How? By having weapons and stating facts?

So to be clear, you are saying that Putin DOES have some sort of special authority over ethnic Russians in other countries, at least as long as they're near a border with Russia? I'm saying the Ukrainians shouldn't have been stupid enough to give Putin a reason to correct Lenin's mistakes. Hmm, wei...

And that has what to do with literally anything you ghoulish little shit? Does Putin have some sort of special authority over ethnic Russians abroad? Does that apply everywhere or just in countries neighboring Russia? It's like you don't know and don't want to know anything about the past 100 years...

You make it sound like Ukraine actually had a say in the matter of being invaded. How about not shelling ethnic Russians the Donetsk region for something like 8 years before the invasion? And that has what to do with literally anything you ghoulish little shit? Does Putin have some sort of special ...

But Downing Street later rejected Iran's assertion it gave advance warning of its drone and missile attack on Israel, as the prime minister's official spokesman revealed they were not briefed directly by Iran on their attacks. I'm honestly not sure where they mean the Prime Minister of Israel or th...

I have to figure that the Russian government and military is doing what they collectively believe is the most effective way to either conquer or subjugate Ukraine. If they weren't retaliating 'more aggressively' than they were after these strikes they presumably either couldn't or had decided that d...

Also I remind you that attacking Iranian allies and proxies would mean launching a strike on a third country and likely killing their citizens.

Can't imagine this will be good for the Jordanian government, which was already dealing with serious protests over all this. Of course, Israel has a third option of launching attacks on Iran's allies/proxies in the area, there's certainly enough of them to choose from. Happily it turns out the curre...

It was also a highly telegraphed attack (I don't know enough to say how they could have made it less so, admittedly) that gave ample time for non combatants to take cover. And this was after Iran went to the UN and petitioned the Security Council to censure Israel for their crimes and were blocked b...

Not sure how true this is, but I read elsewhere that the attack used up like a billion dollars worth of interceptor rockets that can't be easily replaced even with Uncle Joe bankrolling them. I'm not quite sure what Iran hoped to get out of this either. To retaliate when attacked is one thing, but t...

With what army? The US Army, hopefully. We certainly spend enough on it. Nothings changed about the potential for nuclear escape so that's not likely to happen. It's weird how everyone is very concerned about provoking Russia into nuking someone by resisting them too hard but no one in the Russian ...

Sounds like NATO and/or the US should step up and get directly involved in the fighting to prevent that.

I can't prove it but I feel like the Armageddon death cult Rapture-ready Christians are probably an exaggerated influence compared to the less extreme but still heavily right-wing Christians who support Israel because they see Jews as being their co-religionists at least as much as Catholics or Morm...

It also leaves Bloodfeast starting the round in a red dragon's jaws.

Today I learned... .... what a total eclipse of the sun looks like. I'm glad you managed to see it. Closest I've ever managed in the UK was the partial eclipse in 2015 and the total one in 1999 (though I was a long out of the path of totality for that). One day I'll see a full one. I have also lear...

Not all dictatorships are created equal. Lincoln* was basically a dictator in the US and seems to have considered himself one in the classical sense of being a leader with absolute power who would step down when the crisis was over and all indications are he probably would have. Given the circumstan...