jakelafort

There are certainly ways to ensure fairness and balance in transwomen competing in sports. There was already rules in place which ensured that trans-women were taking estrogen, had been doing so for a period of time, had transitioned and other measures which deemed there was no unfair advantage.

Alas, prejudice wins again and again. Under the…[Read more]

I was wrong. I thought that this thread had died. I guess not.

I am ready to let this topic go.

Sensible.

Last week I was speaking with a friend in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine but we quickly ended the call when the air raid sirens started. Later he told me that the Russians had damaged the houses of his neighbors (no one died this time). In their ongoing efforts to remove all ‘the Nazis’ from Ukraine, the Russians are using drones provided by the Isl…[Read more]

At this point, all of you are just kicking the half rotted corpse of a well well well dead horse. I would imagine by now, you’ve all restated your extreme, uncompromising stories about how one side is justified in doing atrocious things, are virtuous and the good guys in the story and the others are demonic evil monsters, irredeemable and solely…[Read more]

The Warning celebrated their 10th anniversary as a band recently. Here is a song with a professionally-done video to go with it done when they were 9, 12, and 14. Just children, in other words. And yet, many bands composed of adults fail to compare.

@ Jake

There are many many instances of Biden being confused.

Now that the United States has wasted an entire generstion of young Ukrainian men in its proxy war with Russia, and has turned its attention to assisting Israel in its indiscriminate killing of Palestinian civilians…

we learn that there could have been a peace deal a year and a half ago except Boris Johnson nixed it. You’ll have to ask him…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
No genocide but war, which is what exactly what Israel is conducting in its own defense. It is what it is, no matter all the special pleading.

That’s rich. It’s as if Israel earned none of the enmity against it. You’d think that a people forced into a diaspora would understand what it’s like to have to leave your homeland, forced…[Read more]

@ Robert

Your position could be used to justify a genocide against the Palestinians quite apart from the one Israel is carrying out in response to the Hamas attack on October 7. They are vermin, in other words. Good riddance to the lot of them. Maybe the Nazis had the right idea, just applied to the wrong ethnic group.

jakelafort wrote:
I never would have guessed it until recently. But i agree the far left is dangerous and would probably cause a pendulum swing to the far right.

I think the far left is like all radical movements. Being pure, having clean hands, standing up for the forgetten and oppressed is more important than winning. It’s the pose that’s most…[Read more]

@ Robert and Jake

Thought problem: If a Hamas leader was hiding in a refugee camp full of displaced Israelis, the IDF would still have bombed the camp, right?

@ Jake

The last figure I heard about Palestinian deaths was something like 13,000. And that was days ago.

At what point will you grant that maybe Israel’s response to Hamas’s attack is becoming a little bit excessive? Six bombs in a residential area to try to kill one guy?

(BTW, Wolf Blitzer is…[Read more]