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So uh, in today's news from Syria, literally 50 heads on poles http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=190_1406399936
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These days I can't really separate muslims from chaos marines in my mind Like the shocking part is that they still do poo poo like executing people for smoking cigarettes because they really ought to be having massive blood orgies while drunk and stoned Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:These days I can't really separate muslims from chaos marines in my mind The difference is that chaos marines don't die en masse. You're thinking of just regular cultists
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 06:49 |
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DoktorLoken posted:So uh, in today's news from Syria, literally 50 heads on poles http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=190_1406399936 Cupholder guy has the straw in his mouth.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:17 |
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Godholio posted:Cupholder guy has the straw in his mouth. You gotta take pride in your work.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:31 |
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:These days I can't really separate muslims from chaos marines in my mind That is the nerdiest loving thing I've read all day.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:49 |
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Holy poo poo that video.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:50 |
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Points for creativity
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 07:59 |
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Helldump Immunity. posted:Points for creativity Vlad Tepes wants to have a word with you.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 08:22 |
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They are trying to upstage the previews for season 3 of Vikings.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 08:22 |
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DoktorLoken posted:So uh, in today's news from Syria, literally 50 heads on poles http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=190_1406399936 What we need to do is find some well vetted moderate head impalers
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 13:39 |
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SumYungGui posted:I think they got a pretty big Get Out Of Jail Free card with all the tunnels and poo poo like was pointed out earlier. Hearing a lot about that, and it's a pretty solid talking point to say "We told everyone they'd just use it to attack us, and look how many bridges or schools they didn't build with it." Well no, you might be able to sell that sort of stuff to the gullible American audience. But the rest of the world just sees another Israeli massacre.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 14:03 |
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In more 'the Islamists are winning' news;quote:YAOUNDE, July 27 (Reuters) - Boko Haram militants attacked Kolofata, a town in Cameroon's Far North Region near Nigeria, on Sunday and seized several people including the wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali, a military commander in the region said. Somewhere at Africom someone is cheerfully writing new funding requests.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:13 |
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CSM posted:Well no, you might be able to sell that sort of stuff to the gullible American audience. But the rest of the world just sees another Israeli massacre. Shut the gently caress up and go back to D&D. Rag head terrorists dying to the Jews' half assed effort will always be fun to watch. And if you think for more than two seconds that they aren't half assing it to try and be marginally humanitarian about curb stomping Hamas you are joking yourself. If the Israelis wanted to, they would erase any and all evidence of Hamas and its ilk off the face of the earth. Right now they are still worried about international opinion. And doing everything they need to to keep the UN from whining like the pearl clutching faggots they are. They could, and should turn Gaza into Dresden circa 1945. The fact that they haven't shows they are exercising restraint in dealing with a hostile force attacking their country.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:35 |
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Genocide Tendency posted:Shut the gently caress up and go back to D&D. I'm confused here, because for a military that's trying to be humanitarian they're doing a pretty lovely job of killing terrorists and a pretty great job of killing civilians. And in the process they've lost 46 of their own soldiers while having no concrete goal and no strategy for a smooth exit. At the same time, lol @ Hamas for rejecting the cease fire, violating the humanitarian truce, and then complaining about being lit up by the Israelis again. psydude fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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psydude posted:I'm confused here, because for a military that's trying to be humanitarian they're doing a pretty lovely job of killing terrorists and a pretty great job of killing civilians. And in the process they've lost 46 of their own soldiers while having no concrete goal and no strategy for a smooth exit. At the same time, lol @ Hamas for rejecting the cease fire, violating the humanitarian truce, and then complaining about being lit up by the Israelis again. Hence the half assed part. They are doing what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. And is just as ineffective. If they ever get the green light from the international community to deal with it with out facing sanctions, Gaza won't exist anymore. And by won't exist I mean the land it sits on won't be there anymore.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 15:56 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:That is the nerdiest loving thing I've read all day. You sure it wasn't actually the guy correcting me
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Genocide Tendency posted:Hence the half assed part. They are doing what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. And is just as ineffective. What, like getting the go-ahead for operation: Ethnic Cleansing from the Homonazis?
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 16:13 |
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Genocide Tendency posted:Hence the half assed part. They are doing what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan. And is just as ineffective. Yeah well my point is that after watching us gently caress up in Iraq for 10 years they really have no excuse to be this terrible.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 16:17 |
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The Dead Sea has cool and novel organisms like halophilic bacteria such as Haloarcula marismortui, too bad it's surrounded by dumb dickheads. That concludes my gripping analysis of middle east politics.
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psydude posted:I'm confused here, because for a military that's trying to be humanitarian they're doing a pretty lovely job of killing terrorists and a pretty great job of killing civilians. And in the process they've lost 46 of their own soldiers while having no concrete goal and no strategy for a smooth exit. At the same time, lol @ Hamas for rejecting the cease fire, violating the humanitarian truce, and then complaining about being lit up by the Israelis again. This is a silly quibble, but the 'civilian massacre' numbers come from the Gaza Health Ministry (i.e. Hamas) and aren't what you would call meticulously tallied. The deaths are overwhelmingly fighting-age men, rather completely out of proportion with the Gazan population. A cynical person could wonder if these are, in fact, un-uniformed combatants (i.e. Hamas) fighting the Israelis. There's a lot of other BS with the numbers (apparently natural deaths just stop happening when the Jews are in town, etc.) As one person put it, "relying on Hamas for casualty figures is like relying on old East German economic reports showing it to be wealthier than West Germany." Besides, way more people died in Syria last week (some reports say in just the weekend) than in this entire campaign, and it gets at most a mere footnote. No one gives a poo poo about Arabs being killed. Did you click that link and suddenly become filled with fierce moral urgency to send top State officials to end the massacre? gently caress no, you didn't. Also that 'no concrete goal' pun was pretty bad, psydude. Genocide Tendency is right; if the Israelis wanted to go full Lemay they could scrub Gaza clean in no time. They don't. If you want to know why the terrorist organization Hamas keeps rejecting truces, it's because idiots keep offering them more and more the longer they keep fighting. That's what keeps the current bloodshed going; without Kerry poking his huge botoxed head into it, Hamas gets a lot more introspective.
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Fucitol posted:The Dead Sea has cool and novel organisms like halophilic bacteria such as Haloarcula marismortui, too bad it's surrounded by dumb dickheads. My gripping analysis of Middle East politics is "Why the gently caress are they still, after what.. 3000 years? Still fighting over sand. Its not even scenic.". Literally no one would give one gently caress about that poo poo hole if it wasn't for the "God gave us this". Which kinda tells you God probably doesn't like them very much.
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Speaking of places where the lessons of Iraq give us no excuse to be this terrible: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/07/26/us/politics/ap-us-us-libya.html quote:The United States shuttered its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighboring Tunisia under U.S. military escort as fighting intensified between rival militias. Secretary of State John Kerry said "free-wheeling militia violence" prompted the move. Casualties in Libya are also pretty severe, but, well, Western world, dead browns, no Jews, meh
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 17:42 |
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At this point Syria seems to just be LARPing poo poo from the Game of Thrones books
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 17:51 |
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More dead browns the West can't be assed to care about; hell we haven't even completely left there yet http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/world/asia/taliban-making-military-gains-in-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=0 quote:Taliban fighters are scoring early gains in several strategic areas near the capital this summer, inflicting heavy casualties and casting new doubt on the ability of Afghan forces to contain the insurgency as the United States moves to complete its withdrawal of combat troops, according to Afghan officials and local elders.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Besides, way more people died in Syria last week (some reports say in just the weekend) than in this entire campaign, and it gets at most a mere footnote. No one gives a poo poo about Arabs being killed. Did you click that link and suddenly become filled with fierce moral urgency to send top State officials to end the massacre? gently caress no, you didn't. I'm not going to bother responding to the rest of your post, because I really don't care enough about I/P to bother debating sources of body counts (you're right, they are mostly unreliable, so there's really no point in trying to guess); however the reason why people are focusing on this is because Israel and Hamas are rational state actors that actually respond to diplomatic measures and the conflict is in an early enough stage where it can be effectively nipped in the bud. Syria and Libya have been going on for years at this point and frankly, trying to give a poo poo about them is hard because no amount of American meddling is going to fix either situation. Or you can continue to delude yourself into thinking the entire world is out to get Israel because it's Jewish. psydude fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Gee it's real weird that Israel and Palestine are getting more coverage today than Syria is, especially since Syria already got massive coverage everywhere for most of a year.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 19:13 |
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psydude posted:I'm not going to bother responding to the rest of your post, because I really don't care enough about I/P to bother debating sources of body counts (you're right, they are mostly unreliable, so there's really no point in trying to guess); however the reason why people are focusing on this is because Israel and Hamas are rational state actors that actually respond to diplomatic measures and the conflict is in an early enough stage where it can be effectively nipped in the bud. Syria and Libya have been going on for years at this point and frankly, trying to give a poo poo about them is hard because no amount of American meddling is going to fix either situation.
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psydude posted:Hamas are rational state actors You always trip me up Psydude
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Snowdens Secret posted:You always trip me up Psydude You said it yourself: Hamas is holding out for more, because they know they'll get it. That's a rational behavior, and it can be worked with in a diplomatic sense. The same is true for North Korea every time they throw a hissy fit and start lobbing shells at the South. psydude fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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psydude posted:You said it yourself: Hamas is holding out for more, because they know they'll get it. That's a rational behavior, and it can be worked with in a diplomatic sense. The same is true for North Korea every time they throw a hissy fit and start lobbing shells at the South. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 19:39 |
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It means that they're rationing all of their ammunition for a prolonged campaign
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psydude posted:You said it yourself: Hamas is holding out for more, because they know they'll get it. That's a rational behavior, and it can be worked with in a diplomatic sense. The same is true for North Korea every time they throw a hissy fit and start lobbing shells at the South. But they're not state actors, by any western, Weberian definition. You argued just a page or two ago that they didn't have a monopoly on force or control of law (the whole 'kidnappings and murders were by an independent sect, it's not Hamas's fault' business.) Most of the administrative responsibilities one would attribute to a state are handled by UNRWA (which you can argue is hopelessly peneterated with Hamas, but that's to put rocket launchers in schools, not to ensure better civic services.) They're an external terrorist group. Their leaders don't live in Gaza, even when it's safe; Khaled Meshal has never lived there, hasn't lived in anything close to a 'Palestine territory' since he was a child, and has spent less than a week in Gaza his whole life. It's much nicer to keep your wealth in Qatar (and until recently, Egypt.) They took over Gaza by throwing their (no better) Fatah opponents off the roofs of buildings. As that Tablet article I linked said, they're not working to a state in Gaza, they're building an unsinkable cruiser to fire rockets out of and launch commando raids, with the side-bonus of built-in troop regeneration. Sure, they're 'rational' in the sense that after seeing how much press MH17 got, they focussed fire on Ben-Gurion in the hopes they'd get their own airliner kill, but that rationality isn't anything we would hopefully reward. It's the Western, far-left obsession with the Jews and the Jewish side of I/P that blinds them to the Hamas side, which is cartoonishly evil. It's those guys still trying to overlay their fantasy of a peaceful Palestine that could be a party to a two-state solution over the reality in Gaza, that ensure this mess will keep flaring up and that people will keep dying. Psydude showed this just a page ago when he trotted out the old 'just open the borders' line, ignoring the painful evidence that even concrete will immediately be weaponized. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/hamas-gaza-tunnels-nasrallah-mahmoud-zahar-protective-edge.html quote:The Qassam Brigades' militants of today are children of the second intifada. Even before they were recruited or enlisted in the Qassam Brigades, they drank the jihadist messages that the movement spreads among all the needy of Gaza who knock on the gates of its institutions (the dawa — Hamas’ welfare institutions). The great neglect of Gaza in the years Israel controlled it helped Hamas to grow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORAM-usqhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwxUjKSTm9c None of the people subjected to stuff like this as a state education have any hope of being rational. On the Western side, to have any delusions left about Gaza, you basically have to have limited yourself to a thin, partisan slice of the media for at least the last ten years, but unfortunately I don't think that phenomenon's that uncommon. Commoners posted:It means that they're rationing all of their ammunition for a prolonged campaign The Iranians claim they've only used about 3% of their rocket arsenal, but that's not stopping them from trying to buy more from the North Koreans. The article even mentions how the Norks might have helped them build all those tunnels in secret; it's like some sort of comic book Axis Of Evil or something. Snowdens Secret fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Goddamn, I thought you were being a racist/fascist ironically.
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ITT: Gambling with the lives of a populace is rational behavior.
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I agree with what you're saying, Snowden. But while psydude misses the trees for the Forrest, you miss the Forrest for the individual trees. Nobody, anywhere, in the United States, in any sizable numbers, has ANY loving knowledge of the I/P conflict. Worse yet, the groups with the highest "interests" are the least informed of all. Mosques and Synagogues are marginally better sources for discourse than places like D&D or whatever. And that's sad.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 22:58 |
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I'm no fan of Israel for the most part, just because their governments national security apparatus is a thorn in our collective western sides, but I'll take an irritating Jewish itch over Muslim Shingles crashing planes into Pennsylvania fields any day.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 23:01 |
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I/P chat sucks. I'm done with it. Take it to the Jewish thunderdome.
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# ? Jul 27, 2014 23:03 |
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I understand the last newspaper you read was wrapped around fried cod and some fries, but just because things are confusing for your feeble piggy brain doesn't mean they suck. It just means that your cerebral cortex tastes great with eggs and you can buy it canned at wal-mart. Sometimes I make a pigs brains and queso blanco omelette for breakfast, I call it the "Whips Polish Pig Brains Cooked Faggoty French Style With Lazy Mexican Cheese That Stole Velveetas American Job" It's the U.N. of breakfast, and all inclusive. Sort of like a thread about current events should be when there's a new front in the massive conflagration in the Middle East. Whip, you are the worst mod short of all the other mods. And while vas's extensive collection of children's shoes must be hard for anyone to fill, you are doing an astoundingly bad job at it- And that's with even the most conciliatory of views. I'd say may god have mercy on you but I'm not cashing in any chips with the big man to save you any trouble. I hope you live to see everything you believe in and care for fail you and leave you for naught. Good day, pig. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I really don't understand what leg the DND crowd has to stand on for their support of Hamas. I mean relaxing the import restrictions on concrete led to a literal invasion tunnel that looks like the poo poo the NorKs would have cooked up if they ever followed OSHA guidelines. I've always backed Israel because they are legitimately held accountable to the world stage. At the very least the ISDF is accountable to its people and bosses. If the wrong rocket goes into the wrong hospital then Captain Lowenthal is gonna catch poo poo for it and reflects on the Jewish state. Someone can get fired, jailed, or tossed out in halal town with nothing but a yamica. They are truely exercising restraint by not glassing the place that mortars come from. Hamas however gets to do whatever the gently caress they want. A dude walks into a synagogue with an Semtex insulated vest and nobody from Hamas is gonna get fired. The leadership was not elected or appointed. They are just the smarter ragheads who turned poppy into heroin muffins and tell the dumber goatfuckers that the Jews were why his favorite Billy doesn't get wet like she used to. They are not a state actor, community leader, or patriots. It is a criminal organization that just has more guns than the local PD. Hamas is up there with ISIS and the other literal Cobra Commands we got running around like we live in a Also lol exit strategy for israel. They are the slumlords of that strip and the eviction notice is gonna come with a bunker buster dropped by a pilot with a bigger nose than his aircraft's.
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