throwaway9917

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by throwaway9917 3mo ago
Sure I understand how Arab or Muslim countries might vote against Israel reflexively, but it's not just them, it's almost the entire world. Go look at this list of Israel related General Assembly resolutions in 2025: https:/
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by throwaway9917 3mo ago
I've often heard defenders of Israel crap on the UN General Assembly like it's some woke antifa type organization, but it's one representative per country, chosen by the country's government. If almost every country in
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by throwaway9917 3mo ago
The diplomats in question are Witkoff and Kushner. Whatever they believe about Israel’s motivations, Israel will always have their full support.
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by throwaway9917 1y ago
My experience with a CoC at a meetup was that one day a bunch of people piled on the mailing list for the meetup demanding that the meetup adopt a CoC. The majority of these people were people that either only infrequently showed up, or ha
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by throwaway9917 1y ago
Kars4kids sounds like a mini version of U.S. foreign policy except that instead of cars we are giving 6+ wars which have bankrupted the country and killed so many people.
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
> This is exactly my point. How do we change things back so Israelis will have hope again in a two state solution? I have no idea. I also have no idea how you'd get the Palestinians to have hope either. Even if Israel were willing
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
> A huge number of US politicians disagree. It's fashionable to claim that they are all stupid but the fact is that this just isn't true. Looking at Israels success in missile defense and similar technologies it shows where the
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
The idea that sending weapons to Israel is some sort of economic or military advantage to the U.S. is sophistry. We could simply take those same weapons and add them to our own inventory and use them in ways that actually benefit the U.S.
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
I understand that Israeli politics is complex, but ultimately it’s a democracy, and Netanyahu is who was chosen, repeatedly. All of those far right parties that make up Netanyahu’s coalition got real votes and they represent a real slice o
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
I think you’re missing the point here. The only reason the U.S. cares about Hezbollah is because they attack Israel. The only reason Hezbollah exists is because of Israel. The reason the Houthis are attacking shipping is because the U.S.
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
The thing is, Israel doesn’t protect U.S. interests in the middle east. All the U.S. has really ever wanted there is oil, and because of U.S. support for Israel, we’ve been the subject of two oil embargoes. Israel provides us zero military
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
During the slave trade, most Africans that were brought to the Americas were from a fairly small area in West Africa. These days, African immigrants come from all over Africa. There is more human genetic variation within Africa than in th
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
Standard deviation of human height (within a single sex) is about 7cm. If human height changes over the course of a day by 1.5cm, assuming it linearly declines over the day, that's a stddev of about 0.6cm. You also can reasonably ass
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by throwaway9917 2y ago
Many of these studies don't account for test/retest reliability of IQ tests. Height is pretty easy and reliable to measure, and it doesn't change based on how much sleep you had the night before, or whether you ate breakfast
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by throwaway9917 3y ago
The tone of your article makes me honestly, really angry. You know damn well that the reason the sensors are in those neighborhoods are because that's where people are getting shot. You even talk about how a school where some little k