Strega

_Robert_ wrote:
Agreed. I must say having lived in NYC and South Florida, I found many Jewish folks to be some of the most interesting, intelligent, funny, creative, pragmatic, attractive, open-minded, and irreverent people ever. They roll with the punches. Most were atheists. Many travelled back and forth to Israel, in support.

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Strega wrote:
America supports Israel, warts and all, because it needs those bases in the Middle East.

Yup, it exists not because “the Jews deserve the homeland God gave them” or even “because they have been so widely persecuted,” but due to the power interests of The West generally and The U.S. in particular.

But Americans themselves have what…

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Strega,

Agreed. I must say having lived in NYC and South Florida, I found many Jewish folks to be some of the most interesting, intelligent, funny, creative, pragmatic, attractive, open-minded, and irreverent people ever. They roll with the punches. Most were atheists. Many travelled back and forth to Israel, in support.

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jakelafort wrote:
What a beautiful little girl and what a tragic life. Horror in living color. I just read accounts of Thai workers who were murdered by Hamas. Fucking horrifying how they cut their heads off with knives. So you are young and naive. You were never taught critical thinking and you have classical liberal sentiments. (I do as well)…

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Can we all agree that violent revolutions are generally a serious hardship for the average person who just wants to get on with their life, it mattering little if it’s a leftist or right-wing revolution?

The revolutionaries—in words recently heard from President Musk and his wingman Donald Trump—convince themselves that average citizens not onl…[Read more]

I think the Kibbutz is a great idea. Many Irish people worked on one for the summer back in the 70’s and 80’s. I have never met anyone who had a bad experience there.

I am sick of hearing from ignorant lefties who think that social media educates them and that their ill-informed opinions are of equal value to freethinkers who study the facts…[Read more]

I’ll never understand the christian logic of hating Jews because they turned hay-zeus over for execution. Let’s set asides the lack of evidence of any of this, beyond accounts written in Koine Greek by cultists 40 years later. Did they not require a human sacrifice to be “saved”? They should be thanking the Jews for delivering god to himself to…[Read more]

If The Trumpster was bluffing with his 10% additional tariff on Chinese goods, General Secretary Xi is not.

Who needs the stupid FDA anyway! I am going to chill out tomorrow with a lucky dip of compound meds from “Hims and Hers”.

I think people in Europe are not so much annoyed with Trump as they are with America in general. They are having difficulty in understanding why so many people voted for him when it is blatantly obvious that he has no presidential qualities. They are laughing about it but it is gallows humor. But I also think most of them “have enough already” but…[Read more]

FYI – https://www.notus.org/

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, You’re assuming a lot of things either not found in evidence or contradictory. For one, that Ho Chi Minh became a Communist because leaders at Versailles ignored calls for self-determination. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc Fallacy. Two, that foreign aid is necessary for a nation’s self-determination, an oxymoron if…

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…and the idea for a sovereign wealth fund is not a very good one…

Trump keeps losing in court, so I wonder how long it will take for him to simply ignore court orders and go full dictator.

CNN did a story on one of Musk’s DOGE hackers, a 19-year-old who went by the online name “Big Balls”. He’s got electrolytes.

Right from the Wiki article you referenced:

The group petitioned for recognition of the civil rights of the Vietnamese people in French Indochina to the Western powers at the Versailles peace talks, but they were ignored. Citing the principle of self-determination outlined before the peace accords, they requested the allied powers to end Fren…

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The author of that article on the gain-of-function research does not understand what gain-of-function research is.

“It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research,” (Dr) Tabak answered. “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.”

This is how penicillin was developed. The same is true of much of the genetic work done…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Then American sorghum farmers can sell their crops to American ranchers and we can all have cheaper prime rib for the first time in a long while. It’s quite simple. Foreign aid is a needless grift that subsidizes rich people both at home and abroad at the expense of poor taxpayers at home. Oh, and it’s not and nev…

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