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Bwood_Ranger said:
Not sure I’d want an MP going with the view of the majority of the minority of people arsed enough to air their view. People are generally ****ing morons and the MP in theory* is intelligent enough to make the best call even if that means saving constituents from themselves.


*until the 2019 intake as we now have Jonathan Gullis bringing the average IQ down irreparably.
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Who is your MP? Mine is Nadhim Zahawi.
 
Stroller said:
You didn't answer the question. Do you think Israel's actions are justified?
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It’s a relevant question.

But yes, absolutely. Turn the entire dump into a massive ****ing crater if that’s what it takes. Send a message to Lebanon and especially Iran because that’s who this war is really with. The Gazans are the unfortunate pawns but they weren’t feeling so unfortunate when they were celebrating on October 7th so bollocks to them.
 
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Bwood_Ranger said:
It’s a relevant question.

But yes, absolutely. Turn the entire dump into a massive ****ing crater if that’s what it takes.
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Hundreds of thousands killed then? To achieve what? A whole new generation of terrorists?

Or do you agree with Netanyahu that all Palestinians should be eliminated 'from the river to the sea'?
 
Stroller said:
Hundreds of thousands killed then? To achieve what? A whole new generation of terrorists?

Or do you agree with Netanyahu that all Palestinians should be eliminated 'from the river to the sea'?
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There will never be peace, only different stages of war. You could kill every Palestinian in Palestine and you’d still have the diaspora along with Lebanon and Iran so it wouldn’t make much difference.

Until the hostages are returned then this will and must go on. The ball has always been in Hamas’ court but the leverage of one hostage is worth more to them than the value they place on every Palestinian put together.

My position is probably more extreme than most but yeah a bit of revenge wouldn’t go amiss either and it’s not like we’ve ever been great at popularity contests anyway so **** it.
 
Bwood_Ranger said:
There will never be peace, only different stages of war. You could kill every Palestinian in Palestine and you’d still have the diaspora along with Lebanon and Iran so it wouldn’t make much difference.

Until the hostages are returned then this will and must go on. The ball has always been in Hamas’ court but the leverage of one hostage is worth more to them than every Palestinian put together.

My position is probably more extreme than most but yeah a bit of revenge wouldn’t go amiss either and it’s not like we’ve ever been great at popularity contests anyway so **** it.
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How many hostages have been killed by Israeli actions?

When you say 'we' you're speaking as a Jew, not as an Israeli. I sympathise with Jewish people, but the Israeli state has become an horrendous far-right entity which deserves no sympathy in my opinion.
 
Stroller said:
How many hostages have been killed by Israeli actions?

When you say 'we' you're speaking as a Jew, not as an Israeli. I sympathise with Jewish people, but the Israeli state has become an horrendous far-right entity which deserves no sympathy in my opinion.
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We don’t really know. Some for sure. It’s irrelevant to the task ahead.

And the two are intrinsically linked. The place has to exist and it’s always going to be surrounded by people intent on wiping it out so nothing will change for longer than either of us are around. It’s kill or be killed- **** but that’s how it is. One can only hope for longer ceasefires between the inevitable wars.
 
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Bwood_Ranger said:
We don’t really know. Some for sure. It’s irrelevant to the task ahead.

And the two are intrinsically linked. The place has to exist and it’s always going to be surrounded by people intent on wiping it out so nothing will change for longer than either of us are around. It’s kill or be killed- **** but that’s how it is. One can only hope for longer ceasefires between the inevitable wars.
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As a non believer all I’m seeing is a bunch of Islamic zealots and Zionist zealots busily trying to make bits of the psychotic drug dream that is Revelations come true, to the joy of Christian zealots, who actively want the end of the world.

**** the lot of them.

We can now run a brand new sweep on who will push the nuclear button first - Putin, Khamenei or, when cornered with no friends left, Netanyahu or his successors, in some desperate attempt to repeat Masada (which was more likely a massacre than a mass suicide anyway).

You are right, these wars do seem inevitable as long as idiots are wedded to extreme versions of their religious and political ideologies and enough have this bizarre obsession with who ‘owns’ land and where made up borders run. But one of these wars will eventually be the last one, for everybody.
 
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sb_73 said:
As a non believer all I’m seeing is a bunch of Islamic zealots and Zionist zealots busily trying to make bits of the drug dream that is Revelations come true, to the joy of Christian zealots, who actively want the end of the world.

**** the lot of them.

We can now run a brand new sweep on who will push the nuclear button first - Putin, Khamenei or, when cornered with no friends left, Netanyahu or his successors, in some desperate attempt to repeat Masada (which was more likely a massacre than a mass suicide anyway).

You are right, these wars do seem inevitable as long as idiots are wedded to extreme versions of their religious and political ideologies and enough have this bizarre obsession with who ‘owns’ land and where made up borders run. But one of these wars will eventually be the last one, for everybody.
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Hopefully I get to see us in an FA Cup quarter-final before that day comes but yeah it probably will come. Also my sister is getting married this year which doesn’t mean a lot to me but my Nan is excited so if they could wait until after that it would be good. Just try and not have too much stress in life until then because there’s not a lot we plebs can do to change it.
 
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