| Postliberal Conservative. | Lawyer, Veteran & Middle East Geopolitical Expert. | Public School Abolitionist. | Nom de Plume Enjoyer. | Civilization First. |
I'm an American Imperialist by virtue of the fact I am a Civilizationalist, an American, a Nationalist, and a Realist.
We have an Empire. Unless we are willing to surrender it to the Chinese Communist Party and plunge the world into widespread war and famine, the Empire must be maintained. We are the light in the darkness.
Maintaining that Empire requires utilizing useful allies and destroying disruptive enemies.
America and Israel are not BFFs. The idea that there's any religious connection between America and Israel is American Reformation drivel. Nation-states do not have friends; they have interests. We are two nation-states who happen to have very similar objectives and interests in the region—largely because of the fact we were both opposed to/by Iran.
Our economy is based in the Middle East. Unless and until that changes, we're there to stay. If we're going to stay, then we need decent allies.
The single reason I like having Israel as an ally is because they are extremely competent. Pound-for-pound, the IDF is the best military in the world; America just has a lot more pounds—that's our way. Their intelligence, targeteering, weaponeering, precision strike capability, its all just absolutely beautiful as a military man.
Anyone who denies the efficacy of the IDF should be disregarded on all matters military. They are seriously a work of art in that arena.
I completely understand people who get really annoyed with the fact it seems like you're not allowed to criticize Israel in most places or on most platforms. I think that's extremely stupid and needs to stop—if for no other reason than the fact that these policies generate more antisemites than they stop by probably a 20:1 ratio.
I completely understand people who are sick of American politicians sucking up to Israel. Ted Cruz actually makes me want to throw up when he starts talking about having some duty to Israel. Anyone who attempts to clothe Israel in my Catholic Christian faith is immediately suspect to me as a likely enemy.
But none of that changes the fact that our interests in the Middle East are deep, very hard (if not impossible) to remove, and that Israel is by a wide margin the most competent ally the United States has had since World War II.
For those of y'all not really paying much attention—if we don't have Israel as our ally, we really don't have anybody. The GCC is militarily useless, Britain and Canada seem to actually be an enemy state at this point, the rest of Europe gobbles Russian balls/energy while simultaneously waging a proxy war against them, and Japan has no military.
We may have other allies on paper, but in the field the vast majority of our allies are next to useless.
There's a reason rival powers want the top two militaries in the world to be enemies and its not because they have an earnest desire to see America free of bankers and entertainment producers.
@Howlingmutant0@jtalexander It’s been phenomenal. If anything, the success has been underreported. We’ve never had an ally as lethal as Israel before. Just shows us how useless all of our European allies have been all these years.
@GarethCanada@AltFemKG@varrock@xwanyex@DiamondEyesFox Thanks to deinstitutionalization there are unfortunately times that this is literally the only way to get some profoundly retarded people to stop harming others and themselves.
Former Prosecutor—
Yeah, this is standard practice pretty much nationwide.
You cannot trust teachers or academics on a jury. They will do all manner of mental gymnastics to view the offender as a child in need of a second chance that they can be the ones to grant.
This is hilarious. The prosecution struck 3 potential jurors who were black, and the defense objected. The prosecution responded that it struck them "because they are teachers."
The prosecution didn't think teachers would be willing to give a guilty verdict - probably true.
The Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers have a historical record of bailing each other out over the past ~105 years to make sure neither ever moved or failed.
“If anyone’s gonna kill that bastard, it’s me.”
Chicago is so poorly managed that the Bears *have* to leave.
You may not want sports to be political, and I can absolutely sympathize with having no interest in what a barely literate Goliath shoved through school on account of his size and skill has to say about political things—but the business and cultural impact of sports is absolutely political. Has been since the Romans.
And yet you will find millions of leftwing NFL fans out there who will see this tragedy and never reflect on the fact that this centennial connection between team and city was brought to a sudden end purely on the back of the Democrat Party’s complete inability to govern.
A Party so incompetent and so disoriented that they cannot even maintain their circus.
I wanted Chicago to lose on the field—Soldier Field. But they’ve lost so much more. And for absolutely no reason.
@dirtymike3638 Not really.
Personally, I have had very good experience with Black jurors, but I also practiced in a jurisdiction with a *very* small and disproportionately sophisticated Black population.
I know others who feel differently.
@studentdb1 No, lawyers will do stupid things like try to object from the juror box, or talk to the jury about what evidence they suspect must exist that wasn’t presented because they think they know the rules of evidence and how to reverse engineer the entire case from them.
@JamesGiant112@Bo_osie1@cliff_ohio No, we all encounter multiple women who claim to have been raped and continue to associate with the men they claim raped them.
You are taking the claims at way too much face value. At least in your case, that appears to be why you are lost in all of this.