racional

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by racional 2y ago
Do please try to appreciate the emotional toll of having non-Jews out there all helpfully informing us Jews what is, and isn't, antisemitism. I have no idea what your essential attributes are. Nor do you have any idea as to mine. A
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by racional 2y ago
Israel is not [an enemy] But judging from its actions it isn't exactly a friend of the United States either. That's why these actions draw scrutiny.
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by racional 2y ago
The people critiquing Israel are almost universally singling Israel out for critique. They're not, of course. But labeling them as such is one of the myriad ways by which criticism of Israel gets automatically branded as you-know-wha
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by racional 2y ago
I'm not sure how that "conventional violent response" would work. One can imagine scenarios of varying effectiveness, but this a separate matter. The point is -- the Biden administration has made it clear to the Russians t
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by racional 2y ago
1. What are you suggesting “has been going on since before World War II”? Before Israel's formation as a state -- a campaign to influence public opinion and policy in favor of that formation. Afterwards -- a campaign to defend its un
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Rising sea levels will disrupt Americans' lives by 2050, study finds(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
You can call it what you want. But the U.S. operation involves less than 1 percent as many ground troops as Russia has deployed in Ukraine. And last I checked, hasn't resulted in entire cities razed to the ground, and 15 percent of the
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by racional 2y ago
Depends what you mean by "public relations": Haaretz and the New York Times recently revealed that Chikli’s ministry had tapped a public relations firm to secretly pressure American lawmakers. The firm used hundreds of fake accou
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'It's been hell': injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
Then write your congressperson. I'm just explaining the current policy rationale. Which isn't random, and has nothing to do with Dick Cheney.
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Reggie Jackson on playing baseball in the 1960s in the South(thenation.com)
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Company linked to federal execution spree will no longer produce key drug(theintercept.com)
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by racional 2y ago
My mistake, misread you.
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by racional 2y ago
Actually Zyklon B came out of WWI research, and in the interim it was licensed worldwide for use as a fumigating agent. Including from 1929 onwards in the United States, where it was used by the Public Health Service to fumigate freight tr
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by racional 2y ago
That's a different topic. I'm just making it clear that it's not just about Ukraine. The Baltics (and Poland) are currently in NATO, which means the US has signed a treaty that states is committed to defending them.
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by racional 2y ago
But the Israeli government per se does not. Though we may need to qualify that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel...
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by racional 2y ago
There are historical reasons why Russia would want to control Ukraine that don’t imply that they would want to keep expanding into Germany and France. But they do imply they would want to start messing with Poland and the Baltics (and Rus
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by racional 2y ago
https://archive.md/lhVbX
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About Deep Earth Microbes(nytimes.com)
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by racional 2y ago
So the minute a 'Small Nuke' is used, we should just respond with the biggest nuke. In any case the U.S. has stated that it won't do that unless it was a close strike against a very close ally (NATO partner or similar, or t
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by racional 2y ago
And as for consequences I do not think the West would do anything about that. The worst outcome of nuking Ukraine for Russia is to get even more economic sanctions, that's all. The response won't be nuclear, per its stated pos
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by racional 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying -- but the referent of the implicit "they" in that snippet (via "their droppings") was an (abstract) commenter -- not their country or nationality! Which is also something you'd also prefer w
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by racional 2y ago
The 2009 EU report has been widely criticized as flawed, both at the time in years since. You can drill down on the details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Russo-G... >Finland was a co-b
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Research reveals toxic PFAS 'forever chemicals' accumulate in testes(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
Isn't it interesting that every example of an abuse by free markets actually turns out to be the government doing it? Government instrumentalized to serve the interests of the wealthy elites, that is. So at the end of the day, it&#x
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by racional 2y ago
I think if you're going to exclusively comment on political threads, the bar is higher to stay assiduously within the guidelines, which basically means avoiding any kind of pejorative writing, even if it's oblique, about the comm
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by racional 2y ago
That's not true at all, Israel doesn't operate any courts in Gaza. Right - the people there are under martial law, which is even worse. Gaza has a border with Egypt Which Israel has seized control of.
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by racional 2y ago
The formulation you've chosen here is rather crudely hyperbolic, and not particularly helpful. "Israel controls certain aspects of ..." would be somewhat more in the direction of a fair statement. But it's still not acc
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by racional 2y ago
Can we count that as war? Yes of course, and I'm not defending it, but it's still totally different in both scale and nature from what Russia is doing in Ukraine. At least on surface appearances the US isn't taking control
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by racional 2y ago
Yours is a non-standard usage of the term, then. But I see the overall point you're making, and I've also taken the "Can we even call it a war?" perspective at times, not because of the lack of a proper declaration (whic

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