jerryskids

The former AP reporter said that the AP would NOT publicize that they were being censored by Hamas. So... it's pretty clear that the AP middle east bureau, at least, is biased.

Have you or anyone else answered why Team Biden and Harris had these files and never released or leaked all of this bad stuff on Trump?

"Federal takeover..." yeah, that's an unbiased headline. And PBS wonders why they are being defunded. It's a conundrum wrapped in an enigma.

Cats would be like 3 minutes long without the music. The song "Memory" would be replaced with the line, "dang, it sucks getting old!"

I think you're thinking with the wrong... umm... body part here.

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this. On the one hand, Lefties here have bent over backward to say that Hamas is evil and worse than Israel. (well, maybe not TimS). But then they hear about this, or see what I just posted, and their gut reaction is "nono, it can't be true, children are starving and it's Israel's fault!"

Thoughts on the video?

Former AP reporter explains how Hamas controls both the reporters and the reporting in Gaza, and how a complicit media happily goes along, or is afraid not to: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK7NvOIR8wz/ I don't expect a lot of response from the "have you seen the pictures of starving children?!" crowd.

The 14th Amendment was intended to protect the freed slaves. "Whole person" was not intended to include people who are in the country illegally. It would be exactly the job of SCOTUS to clarify this.

While I realize that the Left likes to subvert religion with casting like Erivo and uber ghey Adam Lambert as Judas, I am glad at least that they didn't make the character of Jesus a female (she refers to herself as "son" in that song). And hey, who knows, maybe some blue haired Gen Z'er will watch this and think hey, this Jesus guy was pretty cool. I should learn more.

This reminds me of my daughter and my argument over which Les Mis recording is the best. She loves the 10th anniversary version because she loves that Javert. I don't like it because I don't like that Javert. We're never going to agree, but luckily, I'm the dad so I control what we play on road trips.

Clearly you aren't capable of thoughtful, respectful discussion. Apparently you have no center-right thoughts on this.

Another what? I said she can sing. Is it wrong to ask what people think about a female black queer lesbian woman playing Jesus Christ? Perhaps I should move this to a chat board?

Number 1 please

Not worth its own thread so I'll throw this here. I know some of the moderates here will call me racist or Islamophobic for posting this. Let's preserve this culture.

Oh, and in that June post of mine you pulled up, I asked what Israel should be doing instead, but you can't say some version of "I don't know but not this!" Did you answer that? If so, please give me a brief summary. TIA

I appreciate the response. My thoughts on your three problems: 1. It is not a problem to spend time reminding people how awful and evil is Hamas is. It needs doing. As I mentioned to the other Tim, I know it makes you uncomfortable. Your other subpoint here, that it doesn't make Israel the good guys, is semantically true, but you are dangerously close to the moral relativism I've mentioned. Israel could have turned Gaza into glass on 10/8; they didn't. I'm not going to re-litigate all the pablum you guys swallow from Hamas Harry (the pictures!), but for the purposes of discussion, let's call Israel, instead of good, slightly above average. They have a true existential crisis in the middle east (not this global warming cooling changing stuff), and are trying to destroy Hamas while not moving beyond Judeo-Christian values. Compared to Hamas that would make them, dare I say, relatively far better. 2. I'll largely defer to you here, except to say that I don't know of overt efforts to increase settlers in Gaza prior to Hamas invading Israel. And they seem more intent on destroying Hamas than settling in Gaza at the moment. Regarding my Judea comment, it's purpose was to show the hypocrisy of the Left -- they like to say that land belongs to the original people, but what they really mean is that it belongs to the more oppressed people. I'll need to learn more about current events in West Bank, which I believe yip yip Tim just bumped again for me, but I don't feel knowledgeable enough to respond, and if I did, it seems like a bit of a red herring on the Gaza topic. 3. Young acknowledges that bad things have happened; the difference is that IDF soldiers are held accountable when found. There will always be bad acts in war. Where we differ is that I don't believe that IDF leadership is telling its soldiers to shoot innocent children in the head. You and the other Tim seem to think so. Odd that you are both Jewish and have such a low opinion of your country, the IDF, and the soldiers serving in it, but we'll probably never agree on it. Thanks again for the post.

Perhaps you need to learn what "responsive" means.

Figure I'll put this here since it seems relevant: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-orders-census-excluding-undocumented-130600323.html I think we should count them, since knowledge is power, but we absolutely should NOT include them in determining congressional seats.

Does my saying Hamas bother you? Does it remind you of the terror organization whose charter is the murder of all Jews and destruction of Israel? The group that parachuted into a music festival and raped and burned women and children, then took hostages back to the terror tunnels they built under schools and hospitals? The hostages many of whom are still in captivity, emaciated and perhaps digging their own graves? Does my saying Hamas make it harder for you to just see the Palestinians as innocent victims of Israel? I'm sorry if that's the case. Hamas Hamas

No, that wasn't their plan. They, like Hezbollah, have been terror proxies for Iran. Their plan was to get away with it, through a combination of Iran and Hezbollah support, and their belief that the western media would be their stooges and stop Israel from reciprocating. They got the stooge part right, but they significantly misgauged the West's willingness to let Israel go after them, and they significantly overestimated the military power of Iran and its other proxies. If you think Hamas gives one iota of care about the Palestinian people, other than to keep them alive another day for another photo op for you to watch on TikTok, then it is impossible to have an intelligent discussion about the situation.

This reads like a middle school girl who sewed her eyelids open and binge watched Chinese propaganda on TikTok for a week straight. The truth? If Israel left tomorrow, do you think Hamas would be gone and not in charge any more? The pictures? See the article I just posted. Is that the cerebral palsy kid or the cystic fibrosis kid? And yes, people are starving in Gaza. Have you seen the photos of Hamas eating feasts from the aid they stole? Have you seen Hamas driving the aid trucks and shooting in celebration? Have you seen that UNRWA is letting further aid trucks sit and rot because the IDF won't let them give them to Hamas? Oh no, hospitals and schools?! I hadn't heard! Why would they do that?! Oh yeah, we all knew from day 1 that Hamas built their terror tunnels under these structures. I honestly think that Hitler would have kicked you out of the Nazi party for hating Jews too much. Your brain is completely mush on this topic.

This is a great op ed. I can't think of a single thing wrong here. tl;dr -- you Hamas apologists are getting gaslit and it feeds your moral relativism need. https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-the-simple-truth-about?r=vlmot&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Wut? Dang, whatever you've contracted is worse than any religious cult.