🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

You don’t have to listen to them, just like you don’t have to be a prick about it.

And knots per hour per hour would be a measure of ever-increasing acceleration, so this is getting out of hand quickly now :)

Being a prick is not a reason to be proud.

Alas, Iran treats their citizens like shit, so about the same give or take on some fronts. heh

Someone earlier said there are no winners in this war, and I’m really inclined to agree.

All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.

You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.

Yeah, and what’s worse is that there’s not really any good alternatives anyone has seemed to find yet. heh

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

The fascists always attack free speech, and our first amendment rights have been under attack from many directions.

Are you saying these tankers weren’t scrapped?

The front fell on?

Maybe they found some extra parts elsewhere! You don’t know!

They must have only been mostly scrapped.

He clearly said “to blathe”… :)

Liar. I already read the article before opening the comments. YOU SAVED ME NOTHING.

;-)

Your question was addressed in the article:

The intensity of the bombardment has been extraordinary. Some military analysts estimate that the explosive power dropped on Gaza during the early stages of the war alone amounted to several times the explosive yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

The comparison does not suggest equivalence between nuclear and conventional weapons. The devastation of a nuclear detonation would be vastly greater. But it does reveal something important about the scale of force Israeli leaders have been willing to deploy when they believe national security is at stake. If a state is willing to unleash such overwhelming destruction through conventional means, the uncomfortable question arises: what would its threshold be if it believed it was actually losing a war?

And it’s even better than that - he thinks they should pay if the war continues, AND if the war stops. Haha, got you there! So sneaky!

…it’s so fucking dumb.

I suppose I don’t really know why I engage with willfully ignorant dumbasses. It’s just that it feels wrong to leave the really fucking stupidly wrong comments with no reply. I know it won’t break through the ignorance. They’re living in their own little alternate reality, ignoring everything that doesn’t fit into their little constructed worldview, attacking everyone who is actually trying to make the world a better place.

But I guess it makes me feel better to speak up against the stupidity, even though it’s useless. Because if we don’t, these idiots will dominate the conversation and it will end up with more people going down that path.

It’s like the anecdote of the bar where the guy is at the bar having a drink. Another guy walks in, goes up to the bar and orders a drink. Bartender tells him to get out. New guy says, “Hey, I just want to have a drink and relax, man.” Bartender has none of it, tells him to get out and never come back. New guy leaves, and our original guy asks the bartender about it, to which the bartender replies: “That guy had a swastika tattoo. He was a nazi. And the thing is, he probably would have been polite and had a drink and maybe even made friendly conversation. But the thing about nazis: Once he realized he was allowed here, he’d start bringing his other nazi friends. Once you let one of them in and stay, you become a nazi bar.”

It’s a little glurgy, and maybe it never happened or maybe it’s happened a hundred times… that’s the thing about anecdotes like that.

But the underlying principle is sound.

If we let these fucking fascists take over the conversation, soon this place will be no better than /r/the_donald or /r/conservative or Truth Social or any of the other places fascists congregate.

So I guess that’s why I speak up.

But I don’t really try to change their stupid opinions, because there’s no fucking point. All I really would like to see is for them to shut the fuck up and stop pissing all over the conversation.

No need to try and figure out how to make both sides consistent when one side in particular is a habitual liar. (I’d argue Iran is more of a strategic liar - I don’t trust them inherently, but at this point I trust them hands down over Trump…)

Spoiler: All he does is say whatever he wants reality to be, denies ever having said anything different, and expects everyone to go along with it. It’s his sole tactic.

I don’t.

But it sure is a little fucking difficult to have a lot of sympathy for fewer than two hundred INJURED Jews when Israel has murdered way more than 20,000 Palestinians - countless instances of running them over alive with bulldozers or tanks, crushing them alive in the treads, or just shooting random kids.

Little fucking difficult to feel too much sympathy there.

Are the leftists in the room with you right now?