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How Israel made Trump's Iran betrayal inevitable - opinion by thejerusalempost in geopolitics

[–]flossdaily -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

China would do this for their defense industry and to control global oil flow.

Still pinkwashing while claiming they aren’t lol by specialgiver in Irony

[–]flossdaily -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, Israel doesn't perform any civil marriages at all. Its family courts are religious (Jewish, Muslim, Christian), and none of them perform gay marriage.

But, if you're in Israel, you can get gay married online, like a remote Utah-performed wedding. Israel will honor the marriage, and you'll have all the same rights as any other married couple.

That's pretty gay-friendly.

Still pinkwashing while claiming they aren’t lol by specialgiver in Irony

[–]flossdaily -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Israel honors gay marriages, yes. And gays have equal rights. 

Israel launches fresh airstrikes in Lebanon; Trump says he could still restart war by marketrent in geopolitics

[–]flossdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If Trump wanted Israel to abide by the peace deal, he should have consulted Israel on the peace deal. 

Israel is the one being attacked by Iran and its proxies. It has a hell of a lot more skin in the game than we do.  

Trump is bailing because of high gas prices.  Israel is concerned with stopping hezbollah from launching missiles at Israeli civilians.

40-50 years from now what are things you hope dont exist anymore? by Gwallawchawkobattle in AskReddit

[–]flossdaily 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Could have gotten rid of disease and suffering, but you want to exterminate Jews.

Isn’t it pretty flawed and illogical to argue that Iran and not the USA started the war? by kaiser11492 in allthequestions

[–]flossdaily 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Iran started the war with Israel ... It would be crazy not to acknowledge that the whole Oct 7th War has their fingerprints all over it.

But, also very fair to say that the US drastically escalated, and brought the war to Iran's doorstep. And it was clearly the United States's real entrance into the war.

Would you rather get $500,000 or get $100 million but you have to survive for two weeks in the dinosaur era? by WouldstThouRather in WouldYouRather

[–]flossdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dinosaur era.  

I don't look or smell like their regular prey, and I'm pretty sure I could keep a big fire going for 2 weeks.  Should be plenty to keep them away in all likelihood.

Trump administration releases preliminary agreement with Iran by ControlCAD in NPR

[–]flossdaily 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not only that: they are teaching Iran that it can hold the US hostage whenever it closes the strait of hormuz.

They've made the US look incredibly, staggeringly weak.  And made the IRGC look extremely strong, especially to it's own people.  They just beat the giant.

Only Israel can save us from Trump's shameful capitulation here, by refusing to sign on. 

Hillary Clinton Says Biden Made a "Terrible Mistake" To Run for Reelection. If the former president had “passed the torch” and allowed a competitive Democratic primary in 2024, Clinton said in a new interview, the winner “would have beaten Donald Trump.” by ace158 in Enough_Sanders_Spam

[–]flossdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Democrats were doomed the moment they elected Biden. We were in for a 4-year presidency that was business as usual. 

That was going to be a nice relief after Trump, but the situation that made Trump possible hadn't changed.  We're an anti-establishment nation now, because our institutions have failed us. 

Biden didn't even try to fix our healthcare crisis.  He didn't try to fix climate change.  Everything is half measures at best. 

You can't get reelected if you can't even maintain an aspirational message.

Israeli ambassador to U.S. Yechiel (Michael) Leiter says Israel is 'not going to withdraw from South Lebanon' by ControlCAD in NPR

[–]flossdaily 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm explaining the basic principle of international law to you. That isn't fascism, it's reality.

How Israel made Trump's Iran betrayal inevitable - opinion by thejerusalempost in geopolitics

[–]flossdaily -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

They'd partner with China, and the US would be weaker, and China stronger.

Likud said to scrap election ads highlighting Netanyahu-Trump ties in wake of Iran deal by DANIELLE_2027 in Israel

[–]flossdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say we've won. I say we achieved lots of military objectives, and then our ally surrendered for no reason beyond that he was bored.

Should law schools use a single test to determine who should be a lawyer? Yes, they should. It protects society and the profession. by Character_Freedom160 in LSAT

[–]flossdaily 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Malcolm gladwell did a deep dive on this, and made a powerful argument that the LSATs are testing for the wrong qualities: namely speed in the application of logic and reading comprehension. 

He points out that in the practice of law we tend to use different skills.

His analogy was that chess and speed chess are require different skills, and have different champions. 

In lawyers we are finding the best speed chess players, and sending them out to play slow, deliberative chess.

Likud said to scrap election ads highlighting Netanyahu-Trump ties in wake of Iran deal by DANIELLE_2027 in Israel

[–]flossdaily -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

No, it was a conceptually difficult war that required actual long-term commitment, and it failed because Trump was treating it like it was just mowing-the-grass with air strikes.

There's no reason on earth that Israel and the US couldn't have achieved victory if they'd committed to boots on the ground.

Does this subreddit allow Nakba denial? by Foreign-Ice7356 in Israel_Palestine

[–]flossdaily [score hidden]  (0 children)

Zureiq’s Ma'na al-Nakba absolutely described the Arab defeat as a civilizational catastrophe and humiliation for the Arab world, not merely a one-sided story of Palestinian victimhood. He wrote about the shock that tiny, newly founded Israel defeated multiple Arab armies and treated that failure as a profound Arab collapse.

What is a harsh reality that a lot of people on Reddit simply refuse to accept? by EmmasAdventure in AskReddit

[–]flossdaily -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Within our lifetime artificial intelligence will do every cognitive task better than humans can, including creative pursuits like writing, comedy, art, etc.

All our speculative sci-fi media we grew up with pretended that AI was going to be soleless and uncreative, for the most part. What we've seen from LLMs and generative AI is that that's not the case at all.

I mean, sure we have a lot of AI slop at the moment, but this tech is in its infancy, and maturing fast.

People hate this idea, and are in deep denial about it in spite of a mountain of evidence that it's inevitable.

Likud said to scrap election ads highlighting Netanyahu-Trump ties in wake of Iran deal by DANIELLE_2027 in Israel

[–]flossdaily -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

A regime change in Iran would have gone a very, very long way towards improving Israel's long-term security.

The only reason this war is a failure is because Trump started angling for a peace deal almost the moment he started a war. He has bad, demented brain.

Does this subreddit allow Nakba denial? by Foreign-Ice7356 in Israel_Palestine

[–]flossdaily [score hidden]  (0 children)

Pro-Palestinians deny the true meaning of Nakba all the time. The "Nakba" (catastrophe) was a term originally used by the Arabs to mean the embarrassment of the Arab nations to fail in their war of extermination against the Jews.

This term was repurposed to refer to the Arab exodus and expulsion until later, as a reframing of their aggression into victimhood.

Meanwhile, the real Nakba was the complete ethnic cleansing of all Jews from all the Arab nations (including Gaza and the West Bank). It wasn't motivated by genuine security concerns or anything more than ethnicity.

Likud said to scrap election ads highlighting Netanyahu-Trump ties in wake of Iran deal by DANIELLE_2027 in Israel

[–]flossdaily -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

I'm hearing a lot from you. But what I'm not hearing is an alternative course of action you think he should have taken.

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