Shalmaneser VI

There must be some kind of way out of here.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@FrankGrimeson @ryangrim Nah, I'm American. Imagine thinking it's better to side with Jihadists than with Israelis. It's almost like people are actively working to destroy this country (the US).

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@CommissarReeves @ryangrim THAAD is a long range ballistic interceptor, and Israel has its own system that it produced at a fraction of the cost. Notice that most THAAD is deployed to the gulf states. This is why you lose. Inability to assess enemy strength.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@cenkuygur Good lord. Were we not a democracy in 1945 when we occupied Germany and Japan? You're not required to give a hostile population a vote in your own democracy. Don't you see how that's fatal to the entire concept?

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@RepThomasMassie You know, accepting the Hamas framing and propaganda renders you unfit for office. Down the spiral you go. Soon you'll be saying things like "Hamas has every right to shoot its people in the street, collaborators get the bullet after all."

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@cenkuygur @hasanthehun Yeah honestly these are possibly the weakest arguments ever advanced for your jihadist cause and you deserve to lose the debate if you make them. All one big false equivalency using three or so false statements.

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@DrNeilStone Not even vaguely true, we don't have to go back to ancient history either. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a far larger blunder on many different levels. Imagine you were Douglas Haig after the Somme. Slightly bigger error there.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@ZackPolanski And you will find yourself wanting. You stood with the genocidaires of our era against your own people for ideological reasons, and political gain. But they aren't your friends.

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@AlexCrawfordSky @BarbaraGSerra @SkyNews If you're really a journalist, why not explain why you're not quite right about your initial statement. You should be able to do it pretty easily given how obvious of an error it is.

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@SebGarcha @joseph_strummer @YousefMunayyer Alright fine, started by the Palestinians in 1947 and the Arab League in 1948, want to go back further?

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@SebGarcha @joseph_strummer @YousefMunayyer This has to be one of the dumbest arguments that gets recycled. It's a war started by the Palestinians, not a genocide, and you know that by now. Just because you lose doesn't mean it was unfair.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@MaxNordau Not a single Hamas bomb maker has a soldering iron to melt that plastic back together, eh? No epoxy either?

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@tparsi Actually the ratio is approximately 1.41 : 1, you see the Iranians are great believers in the square root of 2.

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@BaronDestructo I am sorry to hear this. I dream of a world where the fans can buy the rights to one of these franchises and create a corporation to produce what people want, free of this kind of politics.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@lucythegreat123 I think the US is a special case, not because it won't give into the antisemitic trap a bit, but I think at least based on our history we'll stop short of full pogroms. I think unfortunately we can't really all flee, so we've gotta bet on the US, try to fix it.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@RMBee I've tried to comprehend their foreign policy but all I can come up with is that they exist to troll the US hegemony while also relying on it entirely for their protection. They just think that Poland and Germany are sufficient buffer so their decisions don't matter.

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@koshercockney @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @cenkuygur The progressive position used to be the abolition of all PACs, super-PACs, etc. Now it's just AIPAC that has to go. The specificity is a bit suspicious.

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@joseph_strummer @SebGarcha @YousefMunayyer If we hadn't fled in 1905 out of what is now Belarus, we would likely have been caught up in the holocaust, like some of my other relatives were. Those who survived made it to Israel, not the US. I won't advocate for their destruction.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@joseph_strummer @SebGarcha @YousefMunayyer No, look, plenty of Jews don't 'align' with Israel, I mean there's tons of Haredi in Israel who say exactly that. But I side with Israel because I realize that but for some accidents of history either I would not exist, or my family could have ended up in Israel.

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@VerminusM Never underestimate the pure incompetence of the US, under Trump or Biden. We're not able to plan these kinds of things anymore it seems. Iraq may have been a disaster but at least we had a plan and finished the initial invasion.

[Shalmaneser VI @inarchus]

@VerminusM In order to really finish the job he'd need public support and at least some kind of vague resolution from congress allowing him to deploy some ground troops to Iran. Airstrikes alone likely won't end the regime. Trump's people seem to understand that now.