Your idols, Hamas, they never hurt civilians, eh? GTFO already.
When has Hamas been "proportional"? They want to exterminate every Jew in Israel "from the river to the sea" and then the rest of the world. Against that doctrine, what response is "proportional"?
No it is not. That's idiotic. War is hell, literally and physically.
If 1 enemy is hiding behind human shields? The harm caused to them is entirely on the enemy. That enemy is out to kill you, your comrades in arms AND your civilians. You kill him dead, unless he surrenders.
Don't kid yourself. The vast majority of Gazans supported Hamas on 10/7 and still support them to this day. The number of "civilian deaths" is shockingly LOW. No army in all of history has gone to such lengths to avoid civilian losses as the IDF. Not one.
I watched her since day-3 I think? She's really a whole level higher than most V-tubers. She gives a sense of being genuine as she pretends to be a shark-girl.
Now there's what? 50? 80? They started with 5? Nonsense.
She's all of 26 now? I hope she has a nice man in her life and has lots of babies. The world needs more good people like her.
I recall one city (Atlanta maybe?) who was one of the first to have mandatory, force-wide body cams on all the time. Accusations of police brutality dropped to 1/8th in short order.
Criminal: The cop was mean to me for no reason!
Cam Footage: Nope.
End of complaint. 🤭
iirc? At first the cops didn't like it, but that changed in a hurry. I honestly don't know why ANY city doesn't have cop-cam these days. It's cheap & reliable. MY idiot city has debated it for at least 6 years now...
Yeah, I think a definition of "addict" includes those who don't want the drug, but have to have it anyhow. By any means necessary, usually. WS Burroughs wrote a lot how every junkie wants to kick, especially when they don't have enough junk. But they still go get the junk anyhow.
I agree that not all pot smokers will go on to higher drugs, by far most will not. But as the raw # of potheads rises? So does the raw # of hard drug users too. I think a certain baseline % exists. I think there's a higher correlation between cigarettes and hard drugs than pot, but that's probably just me 😸
And yeah, telling teens not to do something, while at the same time saying "If you DO do it? Here's how!" isn't the best idea :/
I disagree. Hamas hides behind civilians, human shields. There is no recourse to this other than to bomb them anyhow. What choice is there? Allow Hamas to freely operate so long as they have women and children to hide behind? nope, no war in history has allowed that.
The civilian casualties in Gaza are without doubt a record low for such a violent battlefield. The IDF is going "slow but steady" to keep civilian losses to a minimum because they KNOW all too well how international propaganda can undermine their capabilities. Make their government leaders wet themselves in fear of being scolded while Assad killed 220,000 of his own people without a whisper of condemnation.
In just 1 battle of WW2, Ortona, Canada attacked after the Germans had secretly reinforced. The ensuing 8 day bloodbath saw most of the town leveled & 1,300 civilian deaths out of a population of 10,000. 13% of civilians died. What's the rate in Gaza? 30K civilians out of 2M over 18 months? That's including those killed BY Hamas either accidentally or intentionally.
Yup! I read about a female who tried to knife an IDF member on patrol in some city in Israel. She was out on her own & no one stopped her because they all knew what she was up to. Try going anywhere in Muslim "no-go" zones as a lone female, it won't end well.
Muslims in Ontario are organized, radical & have been pushing for Shariah Law for decades now. They almost "slipped it in" a while back, even the CBC had to step up and warn people!
They will not back down or compromise.
True, the CBC and pollsters have been deliberately faking results to favour the Liberals this entire election.
Sadly? It just might work.
If so? Canada is done. There will be no chance of recovery from Carney. His life-long goal is to put the WEF in charge of everything, everywhere. He'll start here & we cannot stop him.
My Aunt & Uncle were looking to retire in Florida, full time. They drove all over, everything was so expensive, even Pensacola! Then they drove a few hours away into coastal Alabama: same beautiful houses (in a small town ofc) at half the prices. They got a place 5 blocks from the ocean, high & dry, living happily ever after now! 🙂 Yeah they got hit by a hurricane a while back, they said it made the beach 20' closer to their house! 😅 Trivial damage otherwise.
My cousin was the ER doctor there for a decade or so, back in the day!
It has LOTS of Natives, but most are the good type: just regular folks with no chips on their shoulders. Hard working people of all sorts live in relative harmony, better than in Thunder Bay anyhow. Between the Drugs Gangs & lunatic leftists that city is worse than Winnipeg now! 😣
I've been wondering this for many years (I'm old!) but of course never had the $$$ to even dream of it. Manitoba is a lovely place, but far too many lefties & bad Natives here :< We've been circling the drain for decades now, no escape in sight.
I used to hope I could escape to some Caribbean nation? Not the "tourist meccas" ofc, overpriced! The smaller ones.
Belize used to be viable: speaks English! Stable government. Not now: totally over-run by Drug Cartels. Ditto for all the nations in that region.
One possible place? El Salvador. Maybe Argentina now? Chile? It would be a real crap-shot though, who knows when the next dictator takes over & purges the likes of us.
I recall reading that years back too. It probably started under Obama? Maybe even as far back as Clinton?
It kind of makes sense, a minor blotch on your record possibly means you're a prime candidate to "straighten out your life" by voluntarily joining the military. It's still a "sentencing option" to this day. I knew a fellow who took service in the US Coast Guard over a short time in jail & he did just that. Required to serve 4 years, stayed for 6 :>
My city was one of the first to have female firefighters. They had to pass the exact same tests as the men & do the exact same job. No worries.
Dropping standards? A big no. Nay, never.
I remember long ago the entire firefighter force of a big US city (San Fran?) said they'd quit because the Mayor (or governor?) announced one day that 10% of all firefighters being female was their goal. Of course it still happened eventually, just in underhanded, treacherous ways.
Barter is a form of profit-taking too.
Two locals (male & female around age 40) made many animal torture/snuff videos & child p0rn too. Apparently they planned to make CP snuff. They had a group of ~80 "friends" around the world trading it too. To join the group you have to make it to share it too.
So not "for profit" but still a "cottage industry" eh?
I think it's more like "easy access" to p0rn creates more addicts. People tend to seek "more more more!" in life. Thrills, money, p0rn &etc. After a while vanilla sex just doesn't work like it used to and many rabbit holes await! Including CP, plenty of hentai out there. Er, so I was told...
It "looked at" a ton of images of giraffes, and a ton of images of space suits. Ai doesn't actually create anything (not yet) it just mimics stuff in a hopefully recognizable way.
That said? I agree: I don't think it "needs to study CP to make CP" in exactly the way you describe. It can just squash multiple themes together without "studying" that specific set before.
I agree. This is why the same "teachers" who advocated for homosexuality to be taught to little kids are now pushing CP/trans on them too.
We conservatives don't care if your books have "questionable" content, just keep them the hell away from the children! Especially other people's kids.
It is (usually) part of the grooming process: show them CP and erode their resistance to it. Same as any Classical Conditioning, eh? Like in overcoming a fear of spiders.
You haven't met enough women then.
I agree, it is very real. Men too, plenty of hardcore addicts will be "gay for pay" because getting high is more important than, well, anything else! Plenty of homos eager to exploit them, now that it's normalized & open in society.
Once young people hop onto the drink/drugs bandwagon? They're very likely to be wanting to go "one step higher" and at least try harder drugs.
I once knew a group of pot-smoking ex-bikers who only smoked & drank for over a decade. They almost self-destructed after one of them got into the cocaine & it spread to most of them. They all went through hell but managed to dig out together.
I think their answer to "want something harder" now is "No thank you, and if you ever ask me again I will smash your face in."
Remember when "sex education" was forced on public schools on the premise that it would reduce STDs, youth pregnancy & so forth? I do. I was there in Jr. High in 1976 when "lifestyle education" indoctrination started in my Province. And yes, homosexuality as normal was a big part of it.
Good thing teen pregnancy rates plummeted, eh? Oh wait... 😡
2 minutes of "this is how to deal with "reporters" who are idiots". Textbook!
X is aglow with people... defending Kendra Boone. Clearly none of them looked at this video or read any facts about the case. They blame... THE COP! Saying he "left the cruiser unlocked & running" and that this is... A CRIME!
Totes not her fault!
News flash for leftists: the cruiser WAS locked, it's seen clearly in the video. She climbed into a partly open window while the officer was walking over to her.