Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

Grimalkin said:
Except that being self-centered is the default, and being genuinely well meaning is rare. Most oligarchs who rule us aren't psychopaths, because psychopathy is a disadvantageous trait and most psychopaths don't make it that far up the power ladder.

Most of these people are capable of empathy, they just don't let it get in the way of acquiring power.
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On the contrary; psychopathy is a requirement for acquiring any significant amount of power. Because you have to be willing to climb a mountain of bodies to reach the top, otherwise you'll just be added to the pile by those who are.
 
Terthna said:
On the contrary; psychopathy is a requirement for acquiring any significant amount of power. Because you have to be willing to climb a mountain of bodies to reach the top, otherwise you'll just be added to the pile by those who are.
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No, that's an immature understanding of psychopathy. You first have to be able to truly empathise with a person to manipulate them, disregarding your empathy is the final step. But empathy is still something you must have to navigate your way to the top echelon.

If you can't understand/empathize with people you're fucked and destined to be stuck on the bottom of the social ladder. You have to empathize with other people and understand, then discard conventional morality and prioritize your own self-interest.
 
Abhorsen said:
I could totally see Russian intelligence doing this. Not because they hate Jews (they do, but that's irrelevant), but stoking ethnic tensions in a foreign country is Russian Spying 101.
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Not just russian.
BLM is a thing.

corporate news in america literally has a program whose sole purpose is "race changing" pictures and videos of crimes / criminals to whatever they need for their current narrative.
 
mrttao said:
Not just russian.
BLM is a thing.

corporate news in america literally has a program whose sole purpose is "race changing" pictures and videos of crimes / criminals to whatever they need for their current narrative.
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Indeed but I have a sneaking suspicion that both Moscow and Bejing are giving BLM and Co money as well. If for no other reason then it's a fairly low cost strategy with a high end reward.
 
Marduk said:
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How is that a contradiction? Is it impossible for a terror organizations to be supported by more than two states, can i yell at the person who wrote those arbitrary rules?
Qatar is close with Iran, and Iran provides vital military support that Qatar can't and Turkey isn't willing to.
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Hmmmmmm.
Potentially some sort of GSR, maybe something with acoustics to hear sound better by the looks of it.
 
mandragon said:
Indeed but I have a sneaking suspicion that both Moscow and Bejing are giving BLM and Co money as well. If for no other reason then it's a fairly low cost strategy with a high end reward.
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I agree with this, I just don't blame them. It's in their interest, and I generally don't blame nations for acting in their own self interest. After all my nation has been ruled by 6 other nations for the past 500 years, and we've survived relatively intact in terms of language and culture.
 
Grimalkin said:
I agree with this, I just don't blame them. It's in their interest, and I generally don't blame nations for acting in their own self interest. After all my nation has been ruled by 6 other nations for the past 500 years, and we've survived relatively intact in terms of language and culture.
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I'm not saying I blame them it's a golden opportunity that they would be frankly stupid not to take.
 
mandragon said:
Indeed but I have a sneaking suspicion that both Moscow and Bejing are giving BLM and Co money as well. If for no other reason then it's a fairly low cost strategy with a high end reward.
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It wouldn't shock me to learn that's the truth, to be honest.

China especially would do this because China, and Russia fucking with foreign nations' domestic disputes/tensions is an old hat trick going back to when they were the core of the Soviet Union.
 
Bacle said:


Russian advisors embedded with Hamas may be a thing, if this video is legit.
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You know for quite some time Israel was trying to leave the Russians alone, deliberately so.

Dispite centuries of hard feelings from so many fucking pogroms, this I think will come back to haunt them but then again a lot of things will.
 
Grimalkin said:
Well the fundamental reason for this contradiction is the fact that the jewish denomination is both a religious and an ethnic denomination at the same time. Religious Jews are fine, and secular jews are for the most part also fine, but there's a portion of secular jews that are fucking evil, the same way that a portion of any race is fucking evil.

The problem is that jews are on average smarter than us by at least a standard deviation, which means that on one hand they disproportionately dominate the sciences and other high IQ professions that help advance humanity but on the other it also means that the most intelligent and efficient evil fuckers out there tend to disproportionately be jewish.

Hitler intended to make a superior race, and he fucking succeeded, just not in the way he expected. He applied immense selective pressure on a single population and the smart survived, either by seeing it coming or outwitting their pursuers.

If you want to label me I'd prefer the term ubersemitist, since I do in fact believe them to be the superior race. Followed closely by some East Asian ethnic groups. And when I'm referring to jews I'm mostly talking about Ashkenazi Jews.
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The whole ‘Jews are more intelligent’ thing is, as far as I know, wrong.
 
Jormungandr said:
It wouldn't shock me to learn that's the truth, to be honest.

China especially would do this because China, and Russia fucking with foreign nations' domestic disputes/tensions is an old hat trick going back to when they were the core of the Soviet Union.
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You say that like Western nations haven’t been doing the same thing since at least the Cold War.
 
Grimalkin said:
The reason why you're anti-semitic is because you hold Israel to different standards than everyone else, they have a deathtoll in the thousands when they're surrounded by at least six hostile countries. Whereas every other prominent country on the planet has a death toll in the hundreds of thousands just as a matter of foreign policy.
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Criticizing Israel does not make one antisemitic, and it's a lazy argument to throw that out.

I don't hold Israel to a higher standard than anyone else. Civilian causalities are always wrong and need to be avoided at all costs. When other nations do it, they're wrong too.

If your enemy uses human shields and hides among civilians? That sucks... it also doesn't give you authority to just kill civilians. That's when you pull out the scapel, not the jackhammer.

It has nothing to do with Israel or Jewish people at all, it's just the current high profile example.

I 1000% support Israel and don't think the world is doing enough to help them. The US should have had boots on the ground two weeks ago, going door-to-door throughout Gaza. There should be a massive, international buildup along Israel's borders to help with attacks from outside.

Just... enough with the bombing of civilians.
 
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