Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad who devoted his life to the excavation and restoration of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He was beheaded by ISIS after refusing to disclose the location of ancient artifacts, despite a month of torture. He died a hero of heritage protection.
@KerryBurgess Here they are doing exactly that with an RPG
Hamas will never reach Tel Aviv because they can only fight civilians. IDF humiliated them so bad all they can do is complain that Israel hit them too hard
@Noahpinion You gotta let new ideas play out a bit, see how it goes before you reign them in. Hopefully we also won't regulate AI until there are a few shocking incidents.
I think left and right internalize similar levels of bad information.
It's more sophisticated on the left because if you target universities you're targetting the left.
That's why Ed Snowden made a video speaking tour of universities and a TED talk in Vancouver, as Russia seized Crimea.
@piersmorgan Israel's combatant/civilian death ratio was better than any urban war by any country in history, around 1.5 to 1
Using the USA Mosul campaign numbers, if the US did this you'd see over 100,000 dead. 70% of dead were civilians there
I didn't see the depths to which how much of Western far-leftism is simply anti-Americanism until I saw them defending Putin's fascist Russia with the same vigor as they defended the Communist Soviet Union.