jameshilliard

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by jameshilliard 9d ago
> What's dubious about the WMD claims, Trump keeps waffling back and forth on whether or not we've destroyed their nuclear capabilities. Well that's different from whether or not they have a nuclear weapons program, and I
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by jameshilliard 9d ago
> They want it weakened, that's it. They certainly want it gone, weakened is the fallback. > Nobody is putting a replacement in, not even the exiled shah's family. What Israel and the US ultimately want is not the same thing
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by jameshilliard 9d ago
> The point is that Iranian families want all of those things too. Because they're people just like you are. You can see videos of ordinary Iranians going to the market, going to work, having family over, eating a meal together and
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by jameshilliard 9d ago
> Israel has 0 interest in freeing Iran from its regime, and that's not the point of this war. Israel for very obvious reasons[0] has plenty of interest in freeing Iran from its regime as well as an interest in weakening the regime.
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by jameshilliard 13d ago
> The way a vendor embedding NTP is _meant_ to do so is documented here: https://www.ntppool.org/en/vendors.html Note that in the past I've had companies writing embedded linux based firmware using ntppool for
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by jameshilliard 16d ago
> the Afghanistan war gave control back to the Taliban At least the Taliban tends to be relatively isolationist. > what about the other terrorists like him out there? A lot of them are funded by Iran.
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by jameshilliard 20d ago
> again shooting rocket at agreed and declared aid vehicle with volunteers is a war crim NOT COLLATERAL DAMAGE. You seem to be conflating targeting mistakes resulting in collateral damage with deliberately targeting aid volunteers, the t
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by jameshilliard 20d ago
> the definition of war includes two states fighting each other militarily No, that's not the definition of "war", for example civil war does not fit that definition despite being a type of war. There are also plenty of wa
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by jameshilliard 20d ago
> “Hamas did it too” is not an exoneration and I’m amazed so many Israelis keep mentioning “Hamas” as if it does anything more than bring IDF down to their level. The IDF does not intentionally operating amongst civilians to increase col
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by jameshilliard 20d ago
I'm not denying there was target misidentification, which is a common reason for collateral damage in war. There's no evidence they were deliberately targeting WCK. Keep in mind something like 20% of IDF casualties in the war have
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by jameshilliard 21d ago
> you call shooting on a declared and pre-informed aid route and vehicle collateral damage? really? I mean, that's what it is from the looks of it. Keep in mind friendly fire and other misidentification issues like what happened wit
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by jameshilliard 21d ago
> One person commiting a war crime is not an excuse for someone else to commit a war crime. I don't think collateral damage is a war crime, collateral damage tends to be fairly common in many wars due to various factors like bad&#x2
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by jameshilliard 22d ago
> You can continue to use "Send as" for any Google-hosted identities, including other Gmail addresses or aliases associated with your Google Workspace account. The discontinuation will not impact these addresses, which only app
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by jameshilliard 27d ago
> Which part of the above quote is a conspiracy theory? The quote as a whole. > There do in fact exist jews which consider themselves the chosen people, and who want to dominate Palestine Lebanon Iran Syria etc, and who consider thems
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Honestly, based on this conversation, to be blunt, you either aren't capable of understanding the perspective of the other side, or it's not a good faith discussion. There's a lot of competing narratives so it's cle
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Common sense is the ability to make practical, reasonable judgments in ordinary situations using basic experience. Basic experience would be establishing this happens first. I mean, there's plenty of reports by journalists confirm
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> So, do you think Hamas could be lying? Considering their actions/tactics, it seems quite unlikely in this case. > I'm pretty sure all terrorism happens for reasons which can be served up as a justification. I'm not sa
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Interestingly, that's another claim for which you have provided no evidence. Isn't this just common sense? > Why don't you research this question yourself, and see where Gaza pops up in the list. No country AFAIU allo
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> I'm just going to remind you here that you're arguing with me about my figures that I threw together to question a claim someone else made out of thin air, which it largely did, and your main point of contention is that I sho
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Let's say you are an Israeli Jew, maybe you know someone killed in a terror attack and maybe 3 people injured serving in the IDF. The same Palestinian (based on ratios or relative deaths and injuries) knows 50 people killed and 15
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> 80% of ORB's estimated deaths came from four central governorates (completely excluding 3 altogether), and the mortality responses in those areas had major internal inconsistencies. The conclusion of peer-reviewed critique is that
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> I mean, it's not surprising that people living pretty normal lives, separated by terrorist attacks would think like this. My point I guess is mostly that Israeli's need to be convinced that the Palestinians actually want to e
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Taking the highest figure Some groups do put the figures above 1 million.[0] > I think the estimates for Gaza, with a population of about 2.2 million, are between 70 to 75,000. Keep in mind these figures are not civilian casualty fi
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> I don't think there is a chance in hell of that working unless Israeli deradicalisation happens first Israeli radicalization in that sense is mostly reactionary, the second intifada is what really moved Israel far to the right and
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> I think if you believe that a two state solution is a potential future outcome Potential, sure. > without gargantuan shifts in numerous things Obviously any solution will require gargantuan shifts in numerous things given where thin
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Yes, actually it was. Are you claiming no Jews had to leave their homes? That's just not factually accurate. > 80 years of ethnic cleansing is genocide. Ethnic cleansing does not turn into genocide just because some years have
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> I'm struggling to work out if you actually believe this, which seems unlikely, or if it's just a plausible facade. I think my positions/views are fairly middle of the road/moderate when it comes to the conflict.
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> "Not formally" rather implies you think it was. I mean, it comes down somewhat to definitions of war I guess. > Northern Ireland was/is part of the UK, so civil war I could probably agree with. Maybe an irregular civi
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> Tunnel networks are not a reason to bomb civilian apartments. According the laws of war military infrastructure(i.e. tunnels) is a valid reason. > Let's arm both sides equally if you want to talk about a war. Nobody at war want
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by jameshilliard 1mo ago
> It was absolutely an ethnic cleansing Sure, but it wasn't just one side losing homes. > the killing never stopped There never was a final peace deal and only Israel ever made concrete final settlement offers.

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