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  • Iran vows to “pursue and kill” Netanyahu

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  • Is anyone claiming that this isn't a reasonable stance for them to take?

    Like, plenty of people I'm sure don't want them to succeed, but I don't think anyone is a shocked Pikachu that they want to.

    Iran hasn't been historically shy about calling for people's deaths, and as you say, their head of state was just killed. Of course they want to retaliate. That is the natural and expected thing for them to want.

    It may or may not be a good thing if they're able to succeed, depending on your perspective. But I don't think anyone thinks it would be an "unfair" thing of them to do.

  • Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers

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  • This has some "Obama wears brown suit," vibes.

    I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I think there are more substantive things to criticize than that he wore a hat.

  • GOP senator compares Kristi Noem's DHS leadership to that time she shot her own dog

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  • I grew up on 150 acres in a very rural part of the Southern US.

    This could also be an age thing though. There is now a county animal control and some animal shelters. That wasn't true in the early 90s.

    But the area has grown a bunch since then too. What used to be farmland for ages has started to turn into suburbs and subdivisions. I'm sure what I've described is still pretty normative in places that are still underdeveloped.

  • GOP senator compares Kristi Noem's DHS leadership to that time she shot her own dog

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  • Did you not see the part where I said I wasn't defending Noam and that what she did wasn't what I'm describing?

    Two things can be true. Noam can be a bad person, and people in rural areas can, unfortunately, sometimes have to put down feral dogs.

  • GOP senator compares Kristi Noem's DHS leadership to that time she shot her own dog

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  • I get that you're mocking her, but genuinely sometimes, when you're particularly rural, you do in fact have to shoot a dog.

    Where I grew up, there was no animal control. There was no one to call if there were loose animals. Combine that with the fact that it was an area where people would just dump unwanted animals, and we had a real feral dog problem.

    When you have dangerous dogs show up a couple of times a month, and your only other option to get rid of them is to try and catch them, load them up in a crate, drive them an hour into town, just to give them to a pound that's gonna put them down anyway; yeah, sometimes you kinda don't have much other option but to shoot them.

    My dad put down a good few dogs when I was young. It wasn't something he liked doing. But when you have young kids running around, you can't just let a bunch of feral dogs run loose.

    What should he have done? What was the "correct" decision for him to make?

    Edit: Not defending Noam here. Her story about shooting her dog has a lot more wrong with it than simply shooting the dog. She's a monster.

  • I Mean . . .

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  • Listen my guy, I definitely don't read all these dude's usernames when I post.

    But while I'm sure being misgendered is upsetting to any hombres I've mistakenly done it to, I feel like there's a difference between misgendering some bro in real life and over a faceless medium like a message board. Or, as I like to call it, a man-ssage board.

    ... And yeah, I'm overly wordy. It's just how I post. Stream of consciousness bby!

  • Not Controversial

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  • My guy, the hypothetical was if Iran had bombed Israel instead of the other way around. Reading comprehension is important.

  • Not Controversial

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  • Would it be a defensive war? The only action taken against Iran in the past while was the bombing of their nuclear facilities, which was clearly a US action. Israel cheered it on, sure, but what action had Israel taken against Iran that would have justified Iran bombing them?

    Iran isn't Palestine. Iran isn't Lebanon (despite all of their proxy militants there). I'm not justifying any of Israel's actions, but Iran bombing them would be more like if Poland started lobbing bombs at Russia, which I think we all agree would be a big escalation.

  • Not Controversial

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  • Sure, I would agree with what you just said. The meme though, said that no behavior justifies bombing another country, as that's their problem to figure out. But obviously that's flawed.

    I'm not justifying any particular war or action. Especially these most recent ones. Just pushing back against overly black-and-white thinking. Every action should be judged based on its merits.

  • I Mean . . .

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  • Holy cow my man. Do you live on here?

    Like, not agreeing with the guy, but if you assume that he didn't respond to you in an hour because he can't, as opposed to just having a life, that's a far more negative reflection on you than him.

    Most people aren't on here every waking hour. And if you are, I genuinely recommend you self reflect and maybe step away from the keyboard a bit.

  • Not Controversial

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  • To be fair, there is certainly a time and place to intervene in how a country is governing.

    I would hope we would all agree that the US intervention into WW2 was a good thing, even though a lot of civilians were killed in the process.

    Obviously war is always terrible, and will almost always result in the deaths of people who didn't deserve it, but it is sometimes necessary.

    Not saying that is or isn't the case here. Just pushing back on the notion that bombing another nation is necessarily always wrong.

    And not to put too fine a point on it, but if Iran had run a successful op to bomb Netanyahu and also hit an elementary school in the process, I don't know that it would generate the same level of outrage here. And if the reason for that is, "well of course, Israel deserves it," then that undercuts the very point the meme is making.

  • This guy's face alone is birth control

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  • You gotta imagine he's been called "Butt Sex-man" a few times in his life.

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • Literally every watchdog group that rates senators has her as more liberal than conservative. She sided with the Obama presidency on over 70% of votes. She consistently gets endorsements from Democrats during reelection campaigns. She voted against Trump in both elections. If you think she's MAGA, you're living in fantasy land.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Susan_Collins

    I'm not saying she's Karl Marx. But she's 1000% not MAGA, and if you think she is, you've basically obviated any meaning the term has. MAGA doesn't mean "anyone to the right of Lenin." Just because someone votes conservative on some issues doesn't make them MAGA.

  • seriously

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  • Ah damn, you right. Should have Googled it. Too many Brian's in the news, lol. Got the wires crossed.

    Editing to fix.

  • seriously

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  • Yeah, kinda like that time Brian Thompson got shot, and the next day United Healthcare ceased to exist.

    Not saying that the general point of corporations doing more harm than people is wrong. Just that if you think that the corporation is just one person, I've got a bridge to sell you.

  • "Being vegan is unnatural"

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  • If non-human animals cannot consent, isn't all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

    If that's the case, isn't this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

  • Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food

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  • Not to put too fine a point on it, but the phrase "made with no artificial colors" being printed on something has never influenced my purchasing decision.

    But maybe I'm an outlier in that regard.

    But this seems like a bit of a nothing-burger to me. From what I can tell, it's not that Titanium Dioxide was banned and now he's allowing it. It's that it's always been allowed, but now he's letting products that contain it to put "no artificial coloring" on the package.

    Naturally derived dyes obviously aren't definitionally healthier than artificial ones, and some natural ones can in fact be bad for you. But the label doesn't say "no bad for you dyes," it says "no artificial dyes." It's something of a useless lable in the first place, no?

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • That's the prevailing opinion certainly, but there's a pretty diehard contingent who love it. That it just gets a bad rep because it gets compared to the masterpiece that was Twilight Princess.

    Can't say myself, as I've never played it, but I've got a few friends who are huge proponents of it and would say it's underrated.

    And, to be fair, something doesn't have to be good to be underrated. People hate Skyward Sword, and I assume it's not actually terrible. Just on the low end of Zelda games.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Tour de Pharmacy

    It's a mockumentary about the Tour de France, but everyone's been kicked out for doping.

    There are only 5 competitors left, Andy Sandberg, John Cena, Daveed Diggs, Orlando Bloom, and Freddie Highmore.

    They've got the actual Lance Armstrong doing a "hidden informant" bit.

    Each of the racers has a wacky backstory. Hijinks ensue. It's a great time.

    Not the best movie ever, but I had an absolute blast with it.