Posts by Mr. Kevvy
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2128609)
Posted 16 Nov 2023 by  Mr. Kevvy  
Post: We should no longer debate whether children or/and babies were massacred by Hamas using brutal method A or more gentle B. That entirely misses the point. The point is the the so-called good guys lied about it when it was unnecessary to, so any later statements from them are now dubious. There is no denial that they were attacked first and have the right to defend themselves. But if they have to make up lies escalating the offense to them, it indicates that they want to unjustifiably escalate their reprisals going beyond mere defense, to wanton destruction and vengeance. This, they seem to have done. (Shades of 9/11...) |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2128598)
Posted 16 Nov 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Unfortunately and unnecessarily the Israeli government blew their credibility early on with the old clichéd baby-murderer canard. Already worn out in WWI and the Gulf War, sorry. They sacrificed the moral high ground of innocent (but unfortunately for sensationalism, adult) unarmed civilians being murdered by armed thugs while going about their peaceful activities; that wasn't enough I guess. So, I'll need confirmation from a reputable source of either actual journalism or unbiased and reliable third party info (Amnesty or DWB or the UN or some more uninvolved and honest nation, for example) before I give any weight to these stories, from either side. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2128420)
Posted 12 Nov 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: It has to be expected forevermore that anytime there is any armed conflict, the more radical supporters of both sides will immediately rush to post as many fictional stories and miscaptioned videos of war crimes, false flags, crisis actors, etc. on the world's The Israel/Hamas war section of Snopes has quite a few of them. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2127313)
Posted 21 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: They are part of our culture, our spoken language, even mine. Especially the old (psalms?) from the old testament are suitable to illustrate or refer to the history of ancient times, without any evil or unwanted indoctrination. But, what do I know about faith or religion? Nothing. Religion has been the greatest tool of social control ever devised since it was invented, to the point that this is probably the reason it was invented, or at least organized out of private individual worship (sometimes contradictory to its own founders) in the first place. There is no place this is more evident than in warfare; it wouldn't usually be easy to get young men to throw their lives away for old men's lusts for power and land, but when they've been lied to basically since birth that somehow they will go a magical place forever if they die serving those old men's lusts, they become compliant, thus the obsession to get their "holy" books and indoctrination and prayers into schools as soon as possible. "There are no atheists in foxholes" should really be a compliment that they've been wise enough to avoid being there. Non-religious autocracies get around this by elevating the leader or the state to the same position that would be held by a god or church, often with many of its same trappings. North Korea is a good example. |
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The Donald Trump thread part VI - aka "Keep it clean"
(Message 2127276)
Posted 21 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I bet that Liz would easily get more than the 217 votes required straight up. I agree, because her integrity would get more Democrats to vote for her than Republicans against her. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2127143)
Posted 18 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: They're honest enough to say that they haven't got answers to all the questions yet, but they have promised to keep that page updated as new conclusions are reached. Initially it's leaning towards this being a Palestinian-caused blast, so I am hoping to be very happy to have been proven wrong. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2127081)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Predictably, Israel's response to atrocities is that its government has given an ultimatum to people that have next to nothing to clear out and lose the little they have, so that thousands of their homes can be flattened with carpet bombing... Sometimes I hate being correct... hospitals in this case. At least 500 people have been killed in a bombing of a hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian Health Ministry has claimed. Apparently they were sheltering there. |
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Politics :
When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2127064)
Posted 17 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: What way out of the ongoing tragedy? De-radicalization of both sides... Palestinians need to stop supporting Hamas, Hezbollah or any other radical Islamist/terrorist group that uses violence especially against civilians for political ends. Israelis need to kick Benji and the other radical right-wingers out of leadership, and replace them with a more moderate government that is willing to seriously move forward towards Palestinian self-government and stability and prosperity, ending practices such as forced resettlement and destroying innocent peoples' homes which just perpetuates further generations of terrorists. Right now, good luck with all that sadly. |
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SETI@home Science :
Vox article: "The true story of how humans are searching for intelligent alien life"
(Message 2126957)
Posted 15 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: (Published Oct. 12) The true story of how humans are searching for intelligent alien life Real scientists are searching for alien life. Don’t let the kooks distract you. Let’s get something straight: Congressional hearings are not the way we are going to discover the existence of intelligent alien life. They are a distraction from the bona fide alien-hunting work — the sort that doesn’t involve grandstanding individuals and showy stunts, but scientists searching a sea of stars for the sounds or sights of extraterrestrial intelligence. A nice summary of SETI research including the current state of it and upcoming projects. UCB's Andrew Siemion has three quotes and a mention. |
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Politics :
When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2126882)
Posted 14 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: .... a kind and sunny future with gentle winds should also be possible there. ... but it won't happen just yet. Predictably, Israel's response to atrocities is that its government has given an ultimatum to people that have next to nothing to clear out and lose the little they have, so that thousands of their homes can be flattened with carpet bombing instead of surgically removing Hamas members. Thousands of innocent people will be made homeless, their children will grow up angry and resentful and join Hamas or Hezbollah or whatever and be told to commit more atrocities as revenge. And the cycle continues. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2126790)
Posted 11 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: And on that basis I have some sympathy with Hamas... Sympathy with deliberate, wilful child-murderers? (As opposed to indiscriminate bombing, or sympathy with the innocent people of Palestine.) I was awaiting third-party confirmation of the beheaded babies that Israeli soldiers reported finding, but we have it for deliberate murders of children. I don't seem to remember other colonized people ie South Africans or Indians behaving this way or making excuses for it... because: the United Nations have condemned the violence in the starkest terms, with the U.N. secretary general saying, “Nothing can justify these acts of terror and the killing, maiming and abduction of civilians.” Nothing can justify these acts. Yes, Israel has treated the Palestinians terribly, but this is much worse. And with only a choice between terrible and much worse, terrible is the better choice every time. |
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When will the West stop pandering the Israeli government?
(Message 2126738)
Posted 10 Oct 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Netanyahu failed Israel. ... and the Hamas terror thugs and their allies played right into his hands by being worse than he even could be: massacring young people at a musical peace festival, going house-to-house and eliminating only the Jewish residents like the SS themselves, kidnapping teenage girls to be used as sex slaves/taking hostages then beheading them while recording it and posting on the internet à la ISIL, and much more. So now he is the defender, has the unwavering support of all Western allies, is likely going to be president for life and has carte blanche to do whatever he wants to the West Bank and Gaza. If the invaders had stuck to military/government targets and fought a legitimate war we may have had a nice investigation into the all-too-convenient intelligence and other failures that allowed this to happen; doubt that will get much traction now. The Palestinian people will again pay the price for allowing mindlessly violent extremists to exist in their midst and represent them. By the way, the Hamas leadership met with Putin in March.. another coincidence? I would be very surprised if he doesn't have a hand in this. Like Netanyahu, it would certainly serve his needs: drawing U.S. involvement into any other conflict would (he hopes) draw it away from support for Ukraine. |
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GOD or NOT #2
(Message 2126226)
Posted 29 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
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GOD or NOT #2
(Message 2126180)
Posted 28 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I prefer to look at nature and how it is created....where you recognize God's creation. Yes, Zeus has been most bountiful. |
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The U.S.'s biggest problem these days doesn't come from where you think.
(Message 2125388)
Posted 12 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I never did think it came from "there" :^) The US' own DOHS has stated that about 25% of domestic terrorist incidents are "left-wing" or Islamist (these days at least.) The remaining 75% are "right-wing". 9/11 certainly threw that stat off for the casualties, though. |
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Elon really needs to get off the Diet Coke.
(Message 2125066)
Posted 5 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: Looks like Mr. "Free Speech Absolutist" changed his original threat to ban the ADL from |
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Russia in the 21st Century #2
(Message 2124988)
Posted 3 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: I really wish the Western media would ignore his pathetic saber-rattling. He and his cronies have made so many nuclear threats in the past year that I start wondering if a week goes by without another one. I guess he skipped Diplomacy 101 where it was pointed out that repeated, unfulfilled overpuffed threats become jokes. It's his version of "pandering to his base" I imagine. I would wager his nuclear arsenal isn't as functional as he thinks, ironically due to the same crony corruption and outright theft that got him and his den of thieves into office in the first place. |
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A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright
(Message 2124895)
Posted 1 Sep 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: How can selling ice cream have anything to do with "Copyright"?... The documentary that started this on YouTube (complete.) It's quite good. |
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A Tyranny of Technology and The Consequences of Copyright
(Message 2124737)
Posted 29 Aug 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: On that subject, Steamboat Willie's (1928!) copyright is going to expire next year, so it's time for Disney to unfreeze the IP lawyers from carbonite and send them off to Washington to get it extended even more ridiculously, as they have done twice before. Good thing they bought the Star Wars franchise... that carbonite comes in handy. :^p |
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SETI@home Science :
We may actually be unique in the galaxy, maybe even the universe
(Message 2124584)
Posted 25 Aug 2023 by Mr. Kevvy
Post: This book from 2000 is worth a read as it makes a very good case for this premise and was one of the few well-known publications to do so. (It even made an appearance in my profile, before I cleared it when the project was euthanized.) So, if we don't find anything out there, I won't be disappointed. :^) |
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