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Obama's deal allowed them to develop nuclear capabilities, but just for power plants, not weapons. What a joke; Iran sits on an ocean of oil but they need nuclear reactors. Must be a climate change thing! Trump wants zero nuclear. Big difference. And the way it should be.

My point is that we have been supporting Ukraine. Also, to differentiate the two more, Russia has shown that they are a good stewart of nuclear weapons for the 70-is years they've had them. Iran can absolutely not be trusted with nukes. What war? At most we drop some bunker busters, but I already said that I doubt that will be necessary. Iran's military is shot. Like you said, we've supported Israel for years, Iran hasn't attacked us yet. And with what? They are launching like one missile a night now, but are afraid to do more because all that does is tell Israel where they are shooting from so that Israel can go destroy it. They have no control of their airspace.

Dang, I'm trying to catch up and I keep conflating UN and NATO! You win Gutter, we shouldn't help Israel with Iran, there is no moral clarity there, but we should throw another $100B to Ukraine to show our lack of support. Tucker would be proud of you.

My bad, I meant NATO.

Educate us about Iran's retaliation when we killed Soleimani.

Not necessarily. The Russia/Ukraine situation is farm more complex and far less morally clear. One, Russia has a decent claim to the Donbas and Crimea regions. Two, Ukraine is not in the UN. HTH

I've never supported Putin's invasion. Feel free to find a post of mine that has done so.

Awesome, thanks! She may be the perfect girl.

I've always been peace through strength. Has everyone lost the lead that Iran is the primary supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah, Huthis, Muslim Brotherhood... they gave Hamas the order to go rape and kill Israeli women and children. As Israel surgically strikes military targets, Iran launches missiles into population centers. There is such obvious moral clarity on this. Well, for those with a moral compass.

Something recent?

Yes. But only if Israel can't do it. It's hard to believe, given how prepared Israel has obviously been for this, that they don't have a plan for it. Regardless, the facility needs to be destroyed. What, are you following Tucker now? I wouldn't be surprised if he is cashing some sweet sweet Qatari checks, the way he is licking Iran's balls these days. Derp don't make Iran mad derp! Iran has plenty of incentive to attack us, where is it? How about those sleeper cells in Israel? Trump has kept Khomeini alive with the warning that Trump will end him and the regime if he does something stupid. I mean, the regime is likely done anyway, but the guy can hope, right?

I think that just because you group a bunch of people into a long acronym, doesn't mean that the gay and trans situations are the same. There are plenty of examples where I don't think trans people should be protected. A few examples: women's prisons, women's sports (generally), customer facing positions within companies. So I don't believe in the same sort of protections for trans as given to, say, race/ethnicity. HTH

This is a big case, dummy. Adults are talking, and seafoam. Shh.

This could be big. This seems to be saying that trans children are not a protected class. Which might lead to saying trans adults are not a protected class.

Here is the description: Such discussions usually conclude that they do NOT conflict, in my experience. But I always enjoy a good metaphysics discussion.

I think this is the question you mentioned this morning. I believe there were most likely paid people at many of the actual protests (not three people in a bar who signed up), to organize things, set up hydration stations, probably hand out signs, etc. I believe that there were probably some paid people protesting at the larger events. Not necessarily a lot: a mob just needs a few people to lead the way with chants etc. I don't know enough about the bussing to comment. It seems like somebody would have some evidence (like, videos of said buses) if it were true. But I haven't looked into it. HTH

Thousands of years? Time is much more complex than that. We know it is not a constant: Einstein showed us it slows down with velocity and gravity, that we know of. An almighty being is likely not constrained with the human experience of time. Science! On a coincidental note, tomorrow afternoon I'm taking a class entitled "Science and Faith in Conflict." I'm interested in what direction they take it.

Personally, I agree with you regarding approach. As I've done here recently, I concede that some people truly believe they are the opposite sex. But that doesn't mean that the biological males should be able to compete with biological females. That being said, none of this addresses Riley's motivations for her comments.

The substance is the context of what she was quoting, which is no longer there. Be better. But I'll try one more time a different way: Gaines' goal is to get men out of women's sports. There are people who influence that decision who do not compete in those sports. So it is in her interest to spread the message that men are not women beyond a sports-only discussion. We went through this basic discussion last week and I thought you understood it. It seems you still don't, or don't want to, or don't want to admit it. Keep focusing on the important stuff on this topic Tim: your yip yip need to think bad thoughts about Riley.

I was merely trying to say that I'm not familiar with a site called "Data Republican," nor do I know how one curates the list they have. I won't make that mistake in the future. I'll just post it confidently, like you would.

Your first link doesn't have anything of substance. Your second link: you still don't see that it is in the interest of Riley Gaines' cause to spread the word that men are not women, regardless of venue. The belief that men can be women is why men are allowed to compete in women's sports. HTH. Awesome that you are still focusing on the real issue, though.

lol, I'm not autistic so I didn't spend all day trying to reconstruct the list from first principles. Some, like the ACLU, are known to have financed it. So it's at least partially correct.

My point was that Squissy doesn't live near the riot area, so his comment about not seeing riots is irrelevant. Speaking of which Gutter, do you ever get tired of saying irrelevant things here? I know I get tired of responding to them.

You live in like Pasadena, probably Glendale given their recent reluctance to help federal agents enforce immigration law. Big riot area typically, Pasadena?