Maybe they were using CrowdStrike?

Too soon, Delta?

It would have been a lot cooler if she would have smoked the terrorists who launched the drones. AIM-9X isn't going to miss.

Countries can typically claim up to 12 miles offshore as national waters-the distance you could reasonably expect to see something without it being lost to the curvature of the earth. They also claim additional airspace extending out even further. That doesn't mean they legally own it. That's just where they will decide to come up and investigate. Anyone can legally fly there though.

Happens all the time.

Good for him.

Go enjoy what time you have left with the people you want to be around.

"Your xenophobic diatribe, reads like the ramblings of an out of touch deplorable Trumping MAGAt."

Dude, I'm just reporting on reality. Maybe providing a bit of context.

"Sky rocketed? Like, went up from single digits? Amazing!"

I guess skyrocketed is a subjective term, but black men supporting Trump has gone from 12% in 2020 to 30% today. Support by black women has gone from 6% to 11%. This is higher than any Republican candidate since 1972.

What's funny to me is that in the unlikely event this really was a setup by the Trump campaign...

You're either joking or you really have gone off the deep end.

It's only impressive if the shooter was actively aiming at his ear.

#39

A DEVGRU shooter would not have missed that shot.

I don't know that I would have missed that shot, and I'm not that good.

It was a 400' shot.

"Just a reminder that 'National Socialism' was the formal propaganda name, not what it was called by most people at the time, and that it was in direct opposition to actual Socialism."

The National Socialist German Workers Party was the party that led Germany to ruin. For some weird reason, you seem to get your panties in a wad over socialism being portrayed in a bad light.

Sorry, bro. but Germany wasn't the only one.

There actually were never that many communist parties, despite the west referring to them as such. Albania, which was basically the North Korea of Europe had the official name of the "People's Socialist Republica of Albania." I go there a lot. My daughter is on a flight there right now. And if you were ever to visit Albania, you would learn that Enver Hoxha thought of himself not as a communist, but as a socialist. If you are interested, I can provide you with links to his manifestos.

What did the USSR stand for again?

Yugoslavia was comprised of six Socialist Republics and Two Autonomous Socialist Republics.

The Bavarian Soviet Republic was a short-lived socialist state in Germany. Herr Hitler served as an officer in said republic.

Maybe it's not everyone else who didn't understand socialism. Maybe they did. Maybe you don't.

In any case, what does this have to do with Israel or Hamas? If you prefer, I can use proper names for both.

#32

Dunno.

Can't the prez send special units to smoke opponents nowadays?

Although the shooter didn't seem like he was exactly DEVGRU material to me.

#35

Elon Musk? The Rothchilds?

Illuminati?

-->Scientologists...it's gotta be Tom Cruise and his ilk.

Marriage is a tax state. Nothing more.

"If kids aren't telling their parents they believe they're transgender, it's because they don't trust their parents"

Cool story.

If the parents can't be trusted, call health and human services.

The parents knowing should be a given.

Who knows, maybe they would want to give the kids up to a state organization that was willing to take them...

...trans friendly, of course.

Netanyahu, or no Netanyahu...it doesn't really matter.

Wipe Hamas off the face of the planet.

"Someone will probably be along shortly to conflate Hamas with ALL Palestinians..."

That would be like conflating the German National Socialist Workers Party with all Germans. Unfair.

That said, Germany spent many years being cleansed of the National Socialist influence, much of it by law. The same should happen in Palestine. That's it's best hope to becoming a free, globally integrated country. Otherwise, it's an ISIS stronghold or an Iranian colony.

"I know some do say that. I don't agree that ALL Republicans are bigots. But it's definitely a bigger problem within that party."

Stop with all this nonsense.

Which party is the one stating that minorities are in desperate need of a white savior, otherwise they'll be slaves or something?

Which party is of the opinion that minorities are incapable of doing anything without that party's support.

Minority support for Trump has literally skyrocketed. I don't think anyone can say exactly why, but maybe because minorities aren't all dumb, and are sick or progressives treating like they are.

"The Houthis are the good guys in this one."

YGBFSM.

You're a ------- terrorist.

F-16s and A-10s are a gimmick. I do this for a living, and I have no idea how you would employ either under current conditions. The greatest effect I think must be on the cognitive side, where RUS forces may be more scared of an F-16 than a MiG-29, and UKR forces may be more bolstered by their presence overhead.

That said, if UKR is able to gain even localized air superiority, they could do some real damage against Russian ground forces. It would be complex, but possible, and have a high payoff.

"Quite the opposite. With regard to Gaza and the West Bank, we have had Israel be the systematic oppressors - not in some theoretical college class sense - but in the actual sense of Israel stealing the land, controlling the supplies of goods and water (thereby controlling the economy), and actually stationing occupying forces inside those areas."

Israel dismantled it's settlements in Gaza in the early 2000s, along with the IDF. WHat you see in Gaza is the outcome of a freely elected Gazan government acting in it's own best interests, to include the distributiion of food and water. The much touted pier didn't do much. Why? Because any goods unloaded required a distribution system. That distribution system is Hamas. Are they really going to engage in the distribution of food when they know it will undermine their own credibility?

"I think you are the one lacking critical thinking in this regards OR you are applying Maoist, Stalinist or Khmer Rouge ideas to justify your position."

FRankfurt School, actually. Herbert Marcuse. Critical theory explicitly limits possible outcomes based on the application marxist philosophy. If somone is poor or an addict, it's not thier fault Rather the fault lies in the system which inevitably compelled someone to become an addict or choose a lifestyle putting them in poverty. Generally, the people in these marginalized positions did nothing unusual, rather the system pushed them there. They had no choice.

"They stand up to it quite well actually. People throughout history have tended to support 1.) people fighting for their freedom and 2.) civilians not being slaughtered indiscriminately."

You're literally presenting the position of Israel, Fighting for freedom and civilians not being slaughtered daily.

"How so? I think that they are not only completely rational but they are consistent with how a majority of the world view similar events. What is not rational is how US media covers civilian deaths in Ukraine vs. civilian deaths in Gaza. What has to wonder why a different standard needs to be applied."

Had Ukraine launched terrorist attacks at border communities and sacked an EDM show within Russia, raping and killing the whole time, I don't think the global community would have protested Russia's invasion. It would have been something they brought on themselves through an act of terrorism.

Instead, Palestinians attacked jewish civilians, raping and murdering them, while supporters around the word demand the elimination of Israel.

For whatever criticism can be chucked at Israel, genocide of thr palestinians is not a legitmate claim. On the otherhand, genocide is written into the Hamas charter. From the river to the sea, there will be no Jews.

"Outside of hippie drum circles, sociology departments and their brainwashed graduates and maybe "The View", I don't think this is a widely held belief."

YOu might find it to be quite common here. Critical thought is based on the notion that unfair power structures are what produces crimes and other ills. The perpetrators of those crimes being the real victims. You can use critical race theory as a baseline, but Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfort school didn't limit critical theory just to race. In fact race was just a more recent replacement for class.

"So, what's yer point? That protests should not be allowed on college campuses?"

Many of the protests we've seen on college campuses have elements that would be right at home at some extreme neo-nazi rally? Protesting is fine. Calling for the extirpation of Israel, at least to me.

You may have protested the Vietnam war-many did. I don't think too many were advocating the destruction of South Vietnam and everything that went along with it. In fact I suspect many protestester questioned their convictions once the North took control and sacked the country.