Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh's comments came after Polish deputy Foreign Minister said that NATO was reportedly considering the option of shooting down Russian missiles if they stray too close to its borders.
Ratchet up military escalation, deny it’s an escalation, establish it as the status quo, whine about being attacked because Noone but your vassal states like the escalation, threaten to escalate further, rinse, repeat.
It’s been a Russian staple for a while now - see their recent “our troops aren’t mobilising military exercises near the Ukrainian border… it doesn’t count - it’s all Russia” for that.
The guy is certainly far from perfect, but I think he’s pretty reasonable overall, and that the complains above are nonsense.
He certainly slowed up on the debate prep over time, but he’s also basically stopped debating. From what I understand, his rationale was that you can’t get across all statistics, and that the people he was debating weren’t meaningfully backed by the data in any case so it’s fairly easy to find and debunk those syats/studies on the fly, which he frequently did. I don’t think it negatively affected his performance all that much.
It’s a valid complaint to make, though I don’t personally think it’s particularly material, and certainly has nothing to do with the nonsense complaints that were made above.
Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month....
Killing obvious civilians is a warcrime. While there are circumstances where this is ambiguous, this example isn’t - Israel needs to overcome the very reasonable conclusion that these were civilians and prove that they were enemy combatants.
Understanding that 60-70% of the Palestinians Israel have killed are children, this will be a tall order.
The video shows 4 people in civilian clothes casually wandering along chatting while unarmed.
Putting aside the thousands upon thousands literal children Israel has slaughtered in the past few months while spewing genocidal rhetoric (because Hamas?), what evidence do you have that this isn’t a warcrime and that they’re combatants? The video contains absolutely nothing suggesting anything of the sort, and no evidence has been presented.
When people say they want to commit a genocide, then kill tens of thousands of civilians, I tend to believe them - why are you so incredulous?
Literally zero evidence that this killing is justified in the context of a genocide that the Israeli government and IDF won’t shut up about, where the majority of their targets are women and children.
Don’t go pretending you know a thing about reason or that you’ve made any meaningful point whatsoever.
Yep, there is no context for this and heavy framing in the article. I agree with both of your Disclamers, but this is just propaganda.
Dismissing HD footage of people that are clearly civilians being bombed, as propaganda.
You’ve presumably seen my evidence at this point - where’s the evidence justifying the execution of these people? Or is it Hamas (and a death sentence) until proven innocent?
Again, clearly civilians - we’ll need evidence to the contrary - particularly when 60%-70% of the Palestinians killed have been children. Guess they were Hamas too, right?
Yep - the IDF said they killed them, so you’ll be falling back from that dumb position to the next one - they were Hamas (like all those kids) I’ll let you point out the evidence that’s the case.
Also, you highlighted perfectly, perfectly how videos like this have no merit. One side says they’re civilians, the other - terrorists.
When 60%+ of the people you’re killing are children and you’re spouting openly genocidal rhetoric while making unsubstantiated claims those you’re killing are terrorists, it’s responsible to ask for evidence from the perspective of the rule of law (remember when you got all salty about that) and assessing warcrimes. You don’t get to bomb someone, just say they’re a terrorist, and walk free.
it’s absolutely will not be known until this is investigated properly, not by keyboard warriors and facebook
Ah yes - kill 'em all and (fail to) find the evidence to justify killing them later.
…but you care about genocide the rule of law, right?
Yep - right back around to confirming what you got butthurt about - your disregard of the rule of law, and genocide denial. Difference is that we know it’s both rather than an either/or now.
You and I. Do you struggle broadly with reading comprehension, or does your brain dribble out your ear only when talking about Israel and things like the rule of law?
I’m just taking your word on your positions - it seems you’ve made them pretty clear.
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Edit: Most of this is way off topic in response to an entirely different dipshit.
Do you mean baseless assumptions?
No - I mean obvious conclusions - you know, like seeing HD footage of the IDF drone striking obvious unarmed civilians and concluding they’re drone striking obvious unarmed civilians. Never mind the rhetoric of their government or the IDF, or the track record of either. Baseless is pretending it’s plausible they’re Hamas.
This is your reaction to me saying it’s not surprising that a young adult is awkward and doesn’t handle unexpected confrontation well.
Nope - this is in response to you seeing clear, entirely unambiguous evidence of warcrimes and saying we can’t possibly know what’s happening. I know how old I am, and some genocide denying dipshit telling me otherwise isn’t going to change that.
Just to drive the point home, I’ll ask the question we know you can’t answer one final time - where’s your evidence these civilians are Hamas?
My mistake - I’ll return to the question you haven’t answered.
Do you consistently defend people that are clearly unqualified and incapable of doing their job as they fail woefully, or is this an edge case for you? I suppose that unlike most, the likes of Rittenhouse and Kirk aren’t doing anything of value - it’s not as though they’re performing surgery, driving a bus, or flipping burgers.
I empathize with people. (…) Anyone who paid to see him knew what they were getting.
You’re empathising with the same thing the audience went to see - the extreme right’s posterchild for killing your political opponents. The analysis is super-straightforward and backed by studies - this is simply ignorant hate, fear, and disgust stoked by the likes of TPUSA. The fact that you can’t progress to synthesising straightforward conclusions is a massive red flag.
You’re very empathetic - that’s entirely unremarkable. One can empathise with Hitler - but only a mentally deficient or monstrous person would stop at empathy and be incapable of synthesising conclusions like he was a bad guy that did bad things. It’s like reading without comprehending.
Why can’t you advance past the insistence you empathise with Rittenhouse toward an opinion? Are you deficient or dodging?
Travelling interstate to put yourself in a position to shoot 3 people, killing two of them is incredibly stupid at best. Proceeding from that to a job for a transparently dishonest media org that has hired you primarily to celebrate your killings demonstrates a total lack of remorse, and incites similar politically motivated killings in what amounts to pretty clear-cut stochastic terrorism. If we take him at his word, he’s done no research into the media company that hired him, and has been on stage at events where openly racist nonsense has been celebrated without him noticing - if this is true, he’s deficient enough that he should be in assisted living. The reasonable conclusion is that he’s some degree of comfortable with the racism.
So we have a remorseless killer, stochastic terrorist, propagandist (or useful idiot) that doesn’t care about or actively embraces racism.
US to defend NATO allies if attacked, Pentagon says after Russian missile enters Polish airspace (kyivindependent.com)
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh's comments came after Polish deputy Foreign Minister said that NATO was reportedly considering the option of shooting down Russian missiles if they stray too close to its borders.
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'Everyone in the World Needs to See This': Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans (www.commondreams.org)
Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month....
Kyle Rittenhouse storms off stage after being confronted by students (www.newsweek.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....