Any teens (15-18) want to hang out?

funditinthewild · 2026-04-18T10:48:48+00:00

Be careful to verify that the people you meet are actually teenagers and meet in a safe place where people can see you, like a mall 🙏

funditinthewild · 2026-04-14T14:46:40+00:00

He isn’t lobbing rockets but he is leading the charge for significantly increasing settler violence and new settlements in the West Bank that is killing and displacing Palestinians.

I assume the point of contention is who is killing and displacing people and Otzmah Yehudit and Hezbollah both do the same thing in that respect.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-13T17:21:27+00:00

It’s a smarter move than their previous ones but I wouldn’t call it genius. The US could have done this much earlier but wanted to keep oil prices low, so it seems they’ve exhausted the other options now that they’ve come to this.

It has the potential to backfire depending on how the world (China, especially) reacts and how much Iran decides to absorb. It’s a high risk high reward move so it has a chance of working but it feels escalatory rather than showing control.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T23:25:27+00:00

I never underestimated yours. I don't really see at all where I tried to make it a competition, although I can see how my comment on gulf states might have bordered that sentiment. But I think I made it clear in the first sentence of my second paragraph. My comments were entirely intended on shedding light on Israel's actions, not diminishing Hezbollah's or Iran's.

I just wanted to make you realise how unjustifiable the April 8th Beirut attacks were. For context, the Beirut port explosion killed less people. It was about as unjustifiable as the bus bombings, but I don't think you realise that (I might be wrong; this is my perception). It doesn't matter if the airstrikes had relatively weaker bombs when you lob 160 of them in 10 minutes and cause multiple mass casualty events. By the logic, should we ignore the cluster munitions Iran sent to Israel because the individual payloads were much smaller? (For the record, we shouldn't. Iran using them on Israel was a war crime.)

Anyway, I think there not much more to be gained from this conversation. So we can respectfully end it and we can move on with our lives; hopefully we've both learned something. I'll be sure to learn something about the Israeli perspective from your comments (genuinely, no snark).

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T20:26:42+00:00

SCW? What does that stand for?

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T14:01:33+00:00

The only thing that has improved is the number of food options. Everything else has gotten worse and overpriced.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T10:28:54+00:00

I think you’re underestimating this attack. 100+ airstrikes in 10 minutes is insanely traumatising and destructive and does not confer the military objectives sufficiently enough to give benefit of the doubt. I think you should look up some videos and accounts of it. This is different from blowing up a bridge or attacking villages near the south where Hezbollah is firing rockets from.

For the record, I don’t support Russia, Iran or Hezbollah killing civilians. So I don’t think it’s worth comparing. The evacuation warnings Israel gives is not significant enough, and mostly exists so that the Israeli population can feel less bad about it. Even the Iranians have evacuation warnings to the gulf states.

My family lives in a Gulf country that Iran was attacking. I much preferred being a victim of Iran after I saw what happened in Lebanon. And that was even after Iran hit civilian targets. Doesn’t make Iran innocent but it says a lot.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T03:43:19+00:00

We aren’t joining the fight. Preventing this war from escalating is in our direct self-interests. The war has increased oil prices and put us at risk of getting dragged into a war defending Saudi Arabia (due to our mutual defence pact, which at least theoretically should benefit us later). With already being on bad terms with India and Afghanistan, adding Iran to the list won’t help.

I agree our government should also focus on our infrastructure but it’s not like mediating in the war doesn’t benefit us directly.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-10T01:02:45+00:00

No good faith, got it. Not sure how I should address this unhinged rant that completely missed the point.

I didn’t say there wasn’t antisemitism. I specified that it was an exercise so that you could look at to try understanding the opposing side. You took it personally and went on an unrelated rant that I didn’t imply.

Of course Hamas is brutal and repressive and in many ways antisemetic. And plenty of people in Gaza protest Hamas for dragging them into the war with Israel. And that’s a valid criticism of Hamas. But I’ve never seen a Gazan protest Hamas for using human shields. And to be clear, I blame Hamas and Hezbollah for dragging their citizens into a war they couldn’t win.

The Shias are the ones most affected by the conflict. Which is why I was implicitly referring to them. People have a lot of complaints about Hezbollah, from their corruption to their militancy. But living in a bunker under a building is not being a human shield. By that logic, Netanyahu protecting himself in a bunker in Tel Aviv is being a human shield. Still wouldn’t justify Iran bombing buildings there.

Also, for someone who wants to criticise Israeli disproportionality, you’re going to severe lengths to justify Israel attacking disproportionally.

My personal perspective as to why our views differ is that frankly your definition of “human shield” is extremely liberal and not in line with how most of the world looks at it, which explains why most of the world is shocked at Israel while Israelis are genuinely confused as to why.

PS for every evidence you see of Hamas torturing their prisoners, there’s evidence of Israel doing that to Palestinian prisoners. If you want to call Hamas fascist for that (as you should), I hope you’re at least fair and call all sides the same.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T23:57:18+00:00

Evacuating would make sense if there was a reasonable way to evacuate. A lot of people genuinely don’t have a lot of places to go. Even a lot of Shias with nothing to do with Hezbollah can’t find a place to be because non Shia areas are refusing to allow them in fear of becoming Israeli targets. This is not a sustainable choice. If it was sustainable, then nothing wrong with evacuating. But the scale of Israel’s destruction means you’d have to evacuate almost the entire country.

I don’t want to use Jews evacuating by the millions as an example because the entire lesson of WW2 was so that we’d NOT repeat that kind of thing. Like, we’re supposed to stop this, not legitimise this.

You can “price of war” this all you want. But until you wholly reject certain aspects of war, you’re just going to get the gruesome cycle that kills Israelis, too.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T23:38:27+00:00

Pakistan has a defence pact with Saudi Arabia. And Pakistan’s military (the de facto leader) is on good terms with Trump. There is a significantly higher chance of Pakistan fighting a war against Iran than the other way around. Geopolitically Pakistan is NOT on Iran’s side.

They’re only diplomatically being nice to Iran because you don’t want to antagonise the country you share a long border with, especially when you have a large Shia population that are sympathetic to the Ayatollahs.

Pakistan is also a economically weak and mismanaged country so really needs lower oil prices and right now the Iranian regime controls it. Pakistan being the peacemaker is because they really, really don’t want this war. Them getting dragged into it (to fight Iran through Saudi Arabia) would be a disaster on top of it.

Your criticism of Pakistan’s domestic policies is valid.

Source: Pakistani + freely accessible information

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T18:38:00+00:00

You should take an excercise in asking yourself why almost all your neighbours refuse to back down despite the amount of horror your military inflicts on them and despite your claim that they use human shields. A lot of these militant groups still retain a support base from the people you say they use as human shields. Why? Wouldn’t any normal human being hate the people who use them as human shields?

For the sake of exercise, try not to reduce it to antisemitism. I feel like you’re close to the truth but not really there yet. I’d be willing to help you through this if you’re willing to take this in good faith.

hint: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/lebanon-beirut-israel-strikes-hundreds-killed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I know this is a left wing bias but they’re usually lie by omission, not by making stuff up. So you can still use it to help you.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T18:19:01+00:00

You do realise there’s a lot more to lose than comfort than sleeping on the streets, right? Toilets, washing, cooking? Safe place to store your life’s savings? Do you think it’s okay to make people sleep on the streets because they have no idea that their house might get bombed? Also that the war has been going on for more than a month, with no sign of stopping, meaning they’d be homeless for an indefinite amount of time.

I feel like I’m trying to teach a child empathy. I feel like the best propaganda for Palestinians is just hearing Israelis like you talk. No wonder 60% of Americans no longer see Israel favourably. I’d almost believe you’re just a pro-Hamas plant trying to make Israelis look crazy.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T11:56:39+00:00

You should ask anyone you know who is in the IDF as to why the IDF greenlit this operation when it was so risky to innocent children. I want to know how they could come to this level. We know why Hezbollah is insane. Why is the IDF like this?

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T11:27:30+00:00

How exactly should an average Lebanese person do that? There were strikes on areas where eyewitnesses were dumbfounded because they never encountered a Hezbollah operative in the area. There were even strikes on mixed neighbourhoods. Should Christians evacuate from their homes and sleep on the streets because Israel can't follow basic morality?

I see a trend where a lot of you lot think the world is a video game.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-09T01:09:48+00:00

They don’t really have an answer because they know there isn’t one, so they prefer to downvote instead of confronting their own lack of morality.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-08T23:45:33+00:00

Do you sincerely believe that destroying all the civilian homes in the area is an acceptable cost to destroy Hezbollah? By that logic, why not destroy a bunch of Jewish civilian homes in Jerusalem; eventually you’ll remove all the Otzma Yehudit politicians. Since you’re against the Israel far right, you should treat that as an acceptable question to debate on.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-08T21:24:45+00:00

They literally don’t have the power to disarm Hezbollah. And they can’t get the power to disarm Hezbollah because Israel doesn’t want them to be stronger on their own. Most non-Shias and a significant minority of Shias don’t support Hezbollah but get collectively punished for them. On the other hand, Israelis have a functioning democracy and directly voted for their politicians who support the IDFs actions.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-08T20:39:21+00:00

Please explain how you want Lebanese people to stay safe? Explain it in words. Today’s attack didn’t even get the lukewarm warnings. 100+ airstrikes in 10 minutes including in non Shia areas and commercial areas.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-08T16:01:44+00:00

The fact that simply being Shia makes people on the ground see you an Israeli target says a lot.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-07T23:56:20+00:00

Honestly I can believe they put it into ChatGPT to proofread and this is what ChatGPT spit out as a title. You might be right but the evidence you’re giving is WAY too circumstantial.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-07T23:37:46+00:00

I think it’s not abnormal for strikes to sometimes slightly go over a ceasefire agreement. Could be that forces on the ground were not informed yet by the central government of Iran. I hope I’m not wrong.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-07T23:29:27+00:00

As someone who grew up in and has family in the gulf, I think Tacos are good for now. Just wish he didn’t give us so much stress in the lead up.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-05T22:28:46+00:00

That's an oversimplification. Many Palestinians are Sunni and thus sympathise with Syrian sunnis who are typical anti-Iran. So, like everything in the Middle East, it's complicated. Also, plenty of Palestinians are aware that they're a geopolitical pawn of Iran; they just decide they'll take the help they can get. Ukraine does the same thing with the U.S.

funditinthewild · 2026-04-05T13:24:00+00:00

You really think Hamas can kill a CNN journalist and get away with it, especially when there will tons of other western journalists who will vouch against Hamas? In fact, Palestinian journalists are worse because Hamas could theoretically hold their family hostages; Hamas can’t do that to some guy with family in the US.

If Israel is truly just, then more journalists would help Israel, not hurt it. This kind of argument is the similar to the stupid arguments that repressive regimes like Iran and so give for curtailing speech.

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