Tedesche

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In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction ( www.972mag.com )

Denying water to Gaza has been a key tactic of the war from the very beginning, with Israel shutting off the pipes supplying the enclave on October 7. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that Israel was “imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are...

Tedesche ,

Christ, these headlines. What Israel is doing is abominable, but it's nothing new. These are siege tactics and they're practically as old as war itself.

Tedesche ,

Source? It doesn't say anything like that in the article. It mentions that 30% of Gaza's water is purchased from Israel, but that's hardly claiming that "all rainwater" belongs to Israel.

Not trying to defend Israel's actions here, but let's keep claims fact-based.

Tedesche ,

I agree the context makes the entire existence of a siege unusual here, I'm just pointing out that water and food deprivation have been used as tools of war for forever. The language used in the article—the "weaponization of water"—is meant to put a shiny new coat of paint on something ancient and make people think this is some new diabolical tactic Israel has invented on its own and that no one prior to them was barbaric enough to think of it. That's what's garbage journalism here.

Again, not defending Israel, just trying to point out sensationalist manipulative tactics on the part of this media outlet.

Tedesche ,

Okay, thanks for the information. That's...obviously dumb as fuck and simply adds to Israel's crimes. Didn't Nestle try to pull some similar shit somewhere?

Tedesche ,

Fernandez's former boyfriend.

This is an unfortunate fact (that he's gay) that the Right will focus on to further confirm their delusion that non-hetero people are likely to be pedophiles.

Tedesche ,

Yeah, he's never going to willingly pay that bill. A court will have to order the money taken from him.

U.S. Missiles Strike Targets in Yemen Linked to the Houthi Militia ( www.nytimes.com )

The United States and five of its allies on Thursday carried out military strikes against more than a dozen targets in Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, in an expansion of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration had sought to avoid for the past three months....

Tedesche ,

Truly, you are a bastion of intellect.

Tedesche ,

No, I specifically said I'm not advocating that, despite the temptation.

Tedesche ,

You give off strong "I pick fights with strangers on the internet over nothing to alleviate my boredom" energy.

Tedesche ,

Seriously, once you’ve got a dictator, your political opinions don’t matter. This is what I keep trying to explain to the communists on this site, but they can’t get past their corruption-free utopian delusions to recognize that China, Cuba, Laos, and every other country that has gone full communist has succumbed to corruption in all the ways they claim a NEW communist country wouldn’t. Capitalism may not be the answer, but Communism certainly isn’t, as demonstrated by history.

Tedesche ,

Terrible headline. Makes it sound like Biden is chickening out of something in New Hampshire when the reality is that a Republican campaign to cast him as unable to win the state failed. So he's "set to avoid" it, because the smear campaign failed.

Post less godawful clickbait, please.

Tedesche ,

I don't know if you want to know, but they define it in the article if you care to read it....

George Carlin - I Gave Up On My Species - George's GENUINE, eloquent perspective ( youtu.be )

George's comedy specials helped raise me from a young age when no one else was doing any raising. I consider him to be one of the greatest minds, social commentators, and philosophers of the 20th century, and I've yet to recognize a contemporary near his level. I'll always be grateful to have had the honor to see him twice...

Tedesche ,

People always frown and say I’m being cynical or pessimistic whenever I tell them I’m a misanthrope. They assume I’m bitter and I irrationally hate my fellow human. Couldn’t be further from the truth. I actually like most people I meet. I just have a very low opinion of us as a species. If you look at the track record, I’m many of the most important aspects, it’s really abysmal. We have undoubtedly accomplished many great things, but we’ve also committed uncountable horrors—and both patterns will continue—but I’m not impressed in the final analysis. In fact, I’m pretty disgusted.

Anyone interested should briefly study individual psychology vs. group psychology. Specifically, why individuals are often better problem solvers than groups. There are reasons groups tend to make worse decisions overall than individuals. In a nutshell, it’s because the loudest voices prevail in groups, not the most intelligent, educated, insightful, etc. On a grand scale, that translates to those who want power the most are the ones who wind up in the positions that wield it. And this isn’t due to any social system or set of laws or constitution; it’s due to simple human psychology.

Russia pardoned a murderer who put his girlfriend through a meat grinder because he agreed to fight in Ukraine, his mom says ( www.businessinsider.com )

A Russian convicted murderer who was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he killed his girlfriend and put her body through a meat grinder has been pardoned after fighting against Ukraine, his mother said....

Tedesche ,

10 years for ending someone else's life? I'm glad we have longer sentences for that here in the U.S. Don't get me wrong--I'm all for prison reform and introducing rehabilitative elements to reduce recidivism, but Europeans seem to have more concern for criminals than they do for the victims of crime.

Tedesche ,

Agreed. I'm a liberal and I wouldn't consider myself a "moderate liberal" in every respect either (I support universal healthcare and think public universities should be free), but lefties who think communism is actually a good idea mystify me. Every single country that's gone down that road has devolved into a dictatorship, and that's by design, not merely a flaw in execution. Communists are as bad as fascists; they both aim for authoritarian rule.

Tedesche ,

I’m not. I know what communism is and why it sucks ass. Tankies are another breed altogether.

Tedesche ,

I believe I already explained that. Give me an example of a country going communist and not becoming a dictatorship.

My politics are better because they don’t result in that.

Tedesche ,

Oh, please, that's got to be the biggest false equivalence I've heard in a while now. Every single communist nation has rapidly become a dictatorship, because that's literally what's supposed to happen in the transition phase. That's totally different from real democracies being eroded by far-right extremists—and plenty of the world's democracies are still fighting those extremists and their democracies are still alive. Stop hand-waiving away these stark differences with bullshit generalizations like that.

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