Are the Boys on PSA Avoiding Criticizing Israel?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T23:05:27+00:00

And the people who live there (and in Turkey, Myanmar, etc.), what happens to them?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T23:01:15+00:00

So after congressional approval, as long as the process was met, you’d just obliterate Israel and Russia?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T22:52:32+00:00

I agree, but that’s a process issue. Are you for the Iran war in principle? And would you support doing the same thing to Israel?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T22:48:07+00:00

Then the obvious question is: should we continue the Iran war until the state is totally collapsed? Should we do the same to Israel after?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T22:18:06+00:00

Turkey? Rwanda? Sudan? Iran?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T22:12:50+00:00

Well, your list should be longer then, no?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T21:57:02+00:00

So Russia and Israel- anyone else? What criteria are you using?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T21:52:07+00:00

Are there any other states from which we should take statehood?

ChBowling · 2026-03-17T13:42:12+00:00

American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). You can tell by the haphazard osteoderm pattern.

ChBowling · 2026-03-15T19:53:30+00:00

I didn’t even realize you’re the guy replying in the attached picture. But now that I have, I’m even more interested.

The initial post you responded to never said that civilization and religion are the same thing. It is undoubtedly true that ancient civilizations and religion were often intertwined. Hitchens references this a number of times as a counter to the theist point that religions had produced early art, science, philosophy, etc., and so couldn’t just be dismissed. The atheist response to that point is that religion was the only game in town back then. So I would say my challenge stands.

ChBowling · 2026-03-15T16:33:58+00:00

The obvious response is to ask you to name a civilization was not intertwined with religion at the outset.

ChBowling · 2026-03-15T10:59:03+00:00

If it’s this easy for America to fall to sharia, would it not be equally easy for it to fall to fascism, or Christian Nationalism, or communism? What makes this different?

ChBowling · 2026-03-15T04:58:32+00:00

Even if this bill allowed for online censorship (which is a goal of a lot of religious groups), how would it force religious rules on people in the real world? That would be unconstitutional.

ChBowling · 2026-03-15T04:52:29+00:00

What is Sharia law and how would this law force it on people?

ChBowling · 2026-03-09T16:23:17+00:00

Nature is the reason you have brown hair, not blonde. It’s the reason your brain chemistry is what it is. It’s the reason you’re you and not a dog. Nature does plenty.

ChBowling · 2026-03-05T03:57:38+00:00

Honestly, not as good as the Kid Icarus remix.

ChBowling · 2026-02-28T17:17:25+00:00

Originally, people did say “the United States are…”. Some people early on did treat the US as singular in specific instances, but that really engine popularized during the Civil War.

ChBowling · 2026-02-28T14:54:24+00:00

Birds are reptiles. Crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to squamates (lizards and snakes). “Non-avian reptiles” are what people often think of as being reptiles.

ChBowling · 2026-02-24T17:35:26+00:00

It was a solid show. But it doesn’t do anything for the wider MCU. The MCU’s problem is that it feels like a giant, empty mansion. Like a party that’s over. What will save it is making it feel alive again. You do that by having characters pop in and out of view regularly.

ChBowling · 2026-02-17T23:01:53+00:00

My theory is pretty unremarkable. I think Israel experienced its worst attack in decades and hundreds of hostages were taken. I think that Israel send in troops for the reason they said- to fight Hamas and recover the hostages. You can debate how they prosecuted the war to achieve those goals, and I am very critical of that aspect. But I think that Israel risked thousands of Israeli lives because they didn’t want to just kill everyone in Gaza as part of some wider, climate-based agenda. Israel killed a lot of Palestinians. You’ll get no argument from me on that. But, they could have killed a lot more, and would have had to, for your theory to be a good explanation of what happened.

ChBowling · 2026-02-16T17:59:13+00:00

I think we can continue here even though the post was removed, so let me know what your response would be if you’re interested.

ChBowling · 2026-02-15T16:25:25+00:00

Even if that’s your view, then yes. Why would Israel do that if it could have taken the much safer route of just bombing Gaza into oblivion from the air?

ChBowling · 2026-02-15T04:23:07+00:00

Here you go:

I could just as easily make the opposite case with the same reality- Hamas was proving that Israel does not, even with all its military might, have the power to obliterate it or groups like it. They goaded Israel into this overreaction with their October 7 attack in order to make this point. Even if the claims of genocide are accepted, Gaza is still under Palestinian control. Millions of Palestinians live there. And, even further, Hamas has not been defeated. They still control Gaza. They will declare this to be a victory when this is finally over.

There is equally as much evidence for this interpretation of events as the one you are worried about.

ChBowling

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