US American politics

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Prowler

Clearly both sides have done some indefensible things throughout the years and it's become an egg or chicken situation at this point.

Well the chicken leeches trillions of dollars from American taxpayers year after year and has a very powerful and sophisticated military/intelligence apparatus to shoot fish in a barrel with. The egg does not.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Well the chicken leeches trillions of dollars from American taxpayers year after year and has a very powerful and sophisticated military/intelligence apparatus to shoot fish in a barrel with. The egg does not.

True, but as you can probably guess, the fact Israel drains money off the US is not exactly something that concerns me on a personal level. It's not "my money" that's funding their defense. So it's easier for me to be more apathetic about the whole ordeal. I'm sure Americans don't care about the civil war in Myanmar, for example, since they're not pumping money into it.

There are parts of the world that do not care for the Russian invasion of Ukraine either for similar reasons. It does not affect them directly. And back to Israel/Palestine, your average Korean and Japanese person does not care much for the conflict compared to other parts of the world either. They're not paying for it and they had no involvement in the creation of that either.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

If Trump's words are anything to go by, another attack on Iran is imminent.

Another huge waste of American Taxpayer money. No New Wars!

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

No New Wars!

I'm still waiting for the fighting to start in the last Iran war we started a few months ago. Is that going to start up anytime soon? The leftist media said it was a war.

Same with Venezuela. Should we expect the first Venezuela counter-offensive sometime soon? This week, maybe? Next? It's got to be the lamest war in history at this point.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'm still waiting for the fighting to start in the last Iran war we started a few months ago. Is that going to start up anytime soon? The leftist media said it was a war.

Same with Venezuela. Should we expect the first Venezuela counter-offensive sometime soon? This week, maybe? Next? It's got to be the lamest war in history at this point.

Read between the lines. No New Wars is also against provocations that can escalate like this one and the funding of others to fight those wars (Israel and Ukraine).

Are you super happy about what's about to happen or something? Amazing use of your taxpayer money, nowhere better to spend it?

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Mayhem

Yeah it was SDCC, you signed and doodled in my Visual History copy.

Wait a minute. Do you have our Andrew mixed up with Andrew Farago?

[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Wait a minute. Do you have our Andrew mixed up with Andrew Farago?

Yes I obviously am, too many Andrews making TMNT stuff

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Prowler

True, but as you can probably guess, the fact Israel drains money off the US is not exactly something that concerns me on a personal level. It's not "my money" that's funding their defense. So it's easier for me to be more apathetic about the whole ordeal. I'm sure Americans don't care about the civil war in Myanmar, for example, since they're not pumping money into it.
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There's been what, constant civil wars in the African continent that nobody every talks about or cares about. I did a quick goole search and people over the last 10-15 years there have been dying, murdered, and killed on a daily basis. Entire families executed too.

It's really weird how the whole world just doesn't seem to care what happens in Africa (at least outside of Egypt I guess), while the middle east is always constantly brought up and of course now Russia.

[ToTheNines]

If y’all have the stomach for it, look up the first and second Liberian Civil Wars. Insane stuff. Hell on Earth.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

If y’all have the stomach for it, look up the first and second Liberian Civil Wars. Insane stuff. Hell on Earth.

So I've heard. Any good books you could recommend me about that subject, by the way?

[Mayhem]

Southern part of Africa doesn’t have nukes or mass weapons of long range destruction.


And file in the keep cant making it up…

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Mayhem

Southern part of Africa doesn’t have nukes or mass weapons of long range destruction.


And file in the keep cant making it up…


https://i.ibb.co/tpnFN3YN/IMG-4033.jpg

You use Nazi-styling routinely. You put "Mayhem" in your name which definitely describes Nazi violence.

Originally Posted by Mayhem as Nazi Operating Model

1. Describing Nazi Violence
Authors and historians use the English word "mayhem" (which means violent disorder or chaos) in a descriptive sense when writing about Nazi actions and atrocities.
One source, in describing the events of Kristallnacht, notes that Nazi violence moved from "fists and clubs to the 'Final Solution' of genocide", contrasting the "comparatively modest mayhem" of early actions with the systematic, state-sponsored murder that followed.

Originally Posted by Mayhem as political modeling

Anarchism: associated "anarchism" with violence and mayhem

Extremist Groups: The term is used when describing violent extremist attack plots associated with both white supremacist groups and Salafi-jihadist movements

So by your own logic you are associating yourself and your political alignment with Nazism, anarchism and extremism.

Of course you'll reply with some routine deflection like "nice try" but it doesn't change the truth - it's right there in your name and all of your public writings for all to see. And just remember "Mayhem" you put all of this content out there that is associated with you.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by IMJ

You use Nazi-styling routinely. You put "Mayhem" in your name which definitely describes Nazi violence.

So by your own logic you are associating yourself and your political alignment with Nazism, anarchism and extremism.

Of course you'll reply with some routine deflection like "nice try" but it doesn't change the truth - it's right there in your name and all of your public writings for all to see. And just remember "Mayhem" you put all of this content out there that is associated with you.

Look at all this woke Nazi labelling.

It's 2026, most people don't care about being called Nazis anymore.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Look at all this woke Nazi labelling.

It's 2026, most people don't care about being called Nazis anymore.

If no one cares, then don't do it or imply. The left has no integrity - they just say whatever they want in hyperbole hoping that the rest of the chubby, awkwardly moving, arm-flailing titans come running with wide grins. Otherwise, pointing out these realities is clearly fair play - especially when true. Such as Mayhem's veiled Nazism.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

It's 2026, most people don't care about talking about 4 mutant turtles living in a sewer, for cripes' sake.

C'mon, you were sooo close.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by IMJ

If no one cares, then don't do it or imply. The left has no integrity - they just say whatever they want in hyperbole hoping that the rest of the chubby, awkwardly moving, arm-flailing titans come running with wide grins. Otherwise, pointing out these realities is clearly fair play - especially when true. Such as Mayhem's veiled Nazism.

I don't support Mayhem's post, but atleast it was addressed to the wider MAGA movement and not an individual here.

You outright calling Mayhem a Nazi is an even lower blow, and I frankly expect better from.you. Nazi-calling was a rubbish tactic from the start, but people now see it for what it is, an attempt to make people feel guilty and silence them into submission by tying them to a movement that existed more than 80 years ago.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Prowler

So I've heard. Any good books you could recommend me about that subject, by the way?

I saw a documentary that led me to checking out some articles and stuff. I’ll try to find the right one.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

to the wider MAGA movement

"The wider MAGA movement" is pretty much a big hoot. You might as well say "the far right" for as much as that means anymore the way the media uses it. The far right from what?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

I don't support Mayhem's post, but atleast it was addressed to the wider MAGA movement and not an individual here.

You outright calling Mayhem a Nazi is an even lower blow, and I frankly expect better from.you. Nazi-calling was a rubbish tactic from the start, but people now see it for what it is, an attempt to make people feel guilty and silence them into submission by tying them to a movement that existed more than 80 years ago.

Nooo... not at all. There was no "low blow" at all. Only an observation supported by the same kind of correlation that people on the left make all the time, but even more supported by the researched language. There was no "pencil-whipped insult" - just using the same correlations that you and yours use in observation making.

I would only guide Mayhem and you with responses as tightly woven as what you choose to deliver routinely. I have no desire to "silence" anyone - I'd rather continue to point out double standards and to squash "mania" than silence people.

[TMNachoT]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Same with Venezuela. Should we expect the first Venezuela counter-offensive sometime soon? This week, maybe? Next? It's got to be the lamest war in history at this point.

Nahh. The Venezuelan Armed Forces lack both the capacity and the will to go to war against the United States. Army here is acting like is nothing happened. The guards of Maduro's allies will only attack if the U.S. military attempts to capture them, and I hope that happens soon.