crashfrog
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Sure; an important part of this context is that the Irish bombed more hospitals than the Israelis have
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 2 months ago:
Their father has a choice. He should act in a way that’s in his children’s best interests but if he thinks attacking Israel is more important, then the consequences will be his to live with.
I agree with you it would be better if he were simply killed, though; that’s certainly the position Israel takes on the matter.
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Sometimes you bomb them so you don’t have to, or to block a means of egress. Either way it’s a legitimate military objective that justifies civilian casualties.
People could just leave the area, though. It’s not like Israel doesn’t tell them about the strike.
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I’m asking you if you know of an alternate location from which Hamas plots attacks on Israel. Yes or no?
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It literally is
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Do you think they moved? Where do you think they moved it to?
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Unfortunately choices have consequences
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I don’t think you have to be an expert to know that the Irish Potato Famine wasn’t a situation where potato’s were all there were to eat. I think you just have to be someone who didn’t fail out in the 5th grade.
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It’s targeting the militant based on his phone.
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That’s an insane misapprehension of the potato famine
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 2 months ago:
www.nytimes.com/…/gaza-tunnel-israel-hamas.html
Second, if it were there, it likely wasn’t intentional.
It connects to, and opens into, a hospital referred to by the New York Times in 2008 as “the de facto headquarters of Hamas.” So clearly pretty intentional.
Third, they could have bombed the tunnel without hitting the hospital
They did bomb the tunnel without hitting the hospital.
Fourth, and again you can fact check me in this, but it would be pretty strange for a large city to have no orphanages.
There are zero orphanages in any American city, for instance. Not strange at all. Orphanages are kind of an archaic and disused way to handle the case of orphaned children - modern societies use a foster system, instead. Gazans simply don’t care so they make no provision at all if the family doesn’t step up, so they don’t run orphanages either.
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Why is a military tunnel under a hospital? (I don’t believe that Gaza had a single orphanage.)
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How does the joke reference that?
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No, the famine happened after. You’ve got it backwards.
The famine was started because of a widespread potato blight. It’s not called the Potato Famine because that’s all they could eat; it’s called that because that’s what they couldn’t eat.
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Wtf is that mean.
It means you have to actually go to the tunnels and fight, like the IDF is doing.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 2 months ago:
Hamas doesn’t use pagers, they use tunnels
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 2 months ago:
There’s literally a dish called “Irish potatoes.”
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Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
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I’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?
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Other than the IPCC and ICJ and basically the entire world and even members of the Biden admin so disgusted by whats going on that they resigned in protest, sure!
When would they have previously seen social media from intense urban warfare? Soldiers in the second Iraq war didn’t have phones.
But simply being shocked by the reality of warfare is not evidence of war crimes. It’s evidence that war is shocking.
We all know the best way to get your hostages back is to blow up buildings they might be in with a fucking tank cannon at point blank, because the hannibal doctrine of killing hostages that are too difficult to extract is more expedient
That’s not an IDF doctrine, though. The Hannibal doctrine is merely to prevent, if possible, the enemies of Israel from taking hostages. How does that differ from any other nation? The US doesn’t allow hostage-taking, either. Neither do they where you live.
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When certain groups of people actually do, repeatedly act in certain ways more often than others do
But they don’t, and in any case that’s not “psychology.” That’s just you being a bigoted fucking asshole.
when its so commonplace to them that other people have to point out that they are behaving that way because they do not even realize it
Isn’t that literally the described experience of being autistic? Having your behavior pointed out to you and you didn’t even realize you were doing it? Constantly?
How about the people that actually do that regularly?
Is that something you think is true about neurotypical people? That we’re constantly “assaulting and murdering”?
How is this not you just being a giant gaping asshole? You can wrap it up in therapy terms if you want but surely you have to see how offensive this is?
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Hummus is not particularly unique to Israel.
Potatoes aren’t even native to Ireland.
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Also, Israel is currently committing a genocide inasmuch as they have militarily invaded an area, bombed it into and its inhabitants into oblivion, killing far, far more civilian casualties than combatant, with multiple instances of designating safe areas for civilians to flee to and then bombing the fuck out of them weeks later.
But that’s not genocide. That’s warfare, in an urban environment, prosecuted (as military observers all agree) with the maximum possible degree of protection for the civilian population. That’s what it looks like!
Israelis in Gaza continue to suffer, bleed, and die on behalf of Gazans, as a result of taking greater risks than they need to in order to avoid extreme civilian harm.
Oh, and they’re also causing a famine by not allowing food in
But that’s false. Not only are they allowing food in, they’ve increased food aid since Oct 11, the start of the operation in Gaza. 3500 calories per person per day - that’s more calories per person than in Luxembourg.
Can you answer my question? What’s “evil” about labeling a death a “collateral casualty” when that’s the proper term for a casualty that occurs incidental to the military action?
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People pretty generally know that the Irish cook with potatoes, as a result of the Potato Famine and the resulting Irish diaspora. People are extremely likely to have interacted with people whose name and descent are Irish.
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Everybody knows about Irish food, just like everybody’s heard of hummus
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Is every use of the word “potato” a reference to famine in the 1800’s?
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I’m saying that anyone calling children “just collateral damage” is evil
If they are, in fact, collateral casualties to a military action, why is that “evil”?
Doesn’t that depend on whether the military conflict itself is justified? If Ukraine strikes a Russian weapons depo and it unbeknownst to them happens to be Take Your Vatnik to Work day, they’re likely to wipe out at least a couple of families. Is that truly “evil”? Isn’t that just an unfortunate tragedy in an ongoing tragedy called “war”?
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Allistic people often do act like low tier psychopaths: manipulative, selfish, overconfident and hypocritical.
All human beings have the capability to act this way, including autistic humans. When you say “well, but these other guys are just like that” that’s when you should suspect you’re being an asshole.
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I don’t want anyone innocent, like children, getting caught in the crossfire like they were during the Holocaust
…what?
Sorry, can you explain how you think children died in the Holocaust because of crossfire?
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Corned beef hash? Colcannon? Literal Irish potatoes?