Israel withdrew its citizens in 2005 and effectively turned the Gaza Strip over to Palestinian governance. This gave the Palestinians the opportunity to show the world what they could accomplish for their people. On October 7/2023 - they showed the world alright.
Well put. Hamas is a death cult terrorist organization. It does seem, often, that when I read about the war in Gaza, there is a collective mind block when it comes to cause and effect. October 7 was the cause. Here we are now is the effect. I bet those families of hostages killed and still held are unimpressed with the world. At some point, as a country, we are going to have to take steps to protect Jewish citizens. It must happen soon because this is only going to become much worse.
Hamas is a death cult, but how one responds to said death cult still needs to be governed by laws and principles of proportionality (by which I mean, the harm caused by the responding military action needs to be less than the harm avoided by accomplishing the military objective). So Hamas bears responsibility for Israeli reprisals, but if Israeli reprisals were or still are lacking sensible military logic, than Israeli actions are still worthy of moral scrutiny or condemnation.
I nominate you to respond proportionally to the organization which has in its founding charter goal to perform a complete genocide against you and yours.
Rhetorical question: if an organization commits a genocide of your people, are you therefore justified and entitled to commit genocide of your own in response?
I don't consider Israel guilty of "genocide" as the left alleges - I present this as a hypothetical alternative universe because your answer is almost certainly "no". And since your answer is surely "no", you do still believe that proportionality matters when fighting Hamas.
It looks like you are aiming at both precision and accuracy, so I will answer.
Hereafter, the "you" means any reader of this. If the organization dedicated to the genocide of your people is a subset of another people, I - and surely you, would aim at a complete destruction - that is genocide - of that organization.
If the organization dedicated to the genocide of your people is the entirety of another people, I - and surely you, would aim at a complete destruction - that is genocide - of that people. It is grim, but this happened a number of times throughout history. In case of Hamas and Gazans, there are many Gazans who do not and never did truly support Hamas. They could not get away and so had no choice. So yes I have to say that in the case of Gaza when fighting Hamas proportionality matters.
I never heard of Sydney Sweeney until this. I looked her up on the internet. Thank you. I was going to say thanks for doing me a “solid” but that may be taken the wrong way by some….
I won’t be listening to the podcast but I do have a comment about good jeans.
The abject morons that I heard tying eugenics and Nazis to a commercial are perfect examples of the idiocy of academia and the insane left. I cannot imagine being in the same room with people like that and not telling them to GFY.
The only place this seems to be about nazis and eugenics is social media accounts. Over 50 percent bots or controlled accounts with agendas. And people dumb enough to allow dumpster fire comments sections on X, bluesky, etc to affect their thinking. In the real world, nobody of any sound mind would think this was a Nazi eugenics ad, and wouldnt give a rip. We over play how much social media crap matters. If a real person, in the real world, believes that rubbish they should instantly be labelled as an un serious human and ignored. Collectively we need to real life "block" trolls like this and stop giving them attention if we come across humans who actually buy into stupid stuff like this.
In some ways I am actually heartened that the attack on the Sydney Sweeney ad was based on nazism. I had seen the ad prior to hearing there was a controversy and upon hearing there was a controversy I assumed it was based on sexism/misogyny grounds. The fact that the ad is clearly intended to have men gaze at her beauty/rack and that that has gone virtually uncommented upon (in favour of a NAZISM attack, are you fucking kidding me!?) may be a sign that nature is healing - also see Richard Hanania on this point. We are (maybe) again allowed to favourably notice and admire attractive well-built women and I for one am here for it!
Also, on the possibility of Junior maybe dating Sydney Sweeney, Jen I would not be so quick to write that off based on the age gap. He has shown that he has a lot in common with his father so it would be very much ON BRAND for him to become romantically involved with a much younger woman (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The most heartening thing about this whole bizarre Sydney Sweeney narrative is that nobody is really taking this seriously. The usual categories of perpetually aggrieved pseudo-intellectuals have made their usual noises and it doesn't seem like anyone is getting cancelled, the ads aren't being pulled, and in fact American Eagle's stock apparently rallied by over 20% on all of this. A far cry from the height of these dimwits' power in 2021 or so. We've finally collectively realized that woke-scolds only have as much power as others are willing to give them, and if you tune them out there is fuck all they can do.
Exactly. The best tactic has always been to ignore them, never apologize and never yield an inch. But this nonsense is making it easy for everyone to actually laugh at them. And mockery is an even better response than ignoring them.
Yes and I am happy people and companies are coming around to this. There was a time when 14 twitter accounts could convince a company with millions of customers to pull ads or fire people .I hope we never ever allow our society to get back to that, ever.
I agree with Matt - were it my daughter or mother or grandmother or wife who was raped, kidnapped, or killed, I wouldn't ever quit. Wouldn't solve the problem, but matters of the heart aren't sensible
‘CUMSCA’? Really? At no time does the ‘M’ follow the ‘U’ - it’s pronounced ‘CUSMA’ (Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement). Surely you’re being deliberately obtuse but Orgasm Agreement doesn’t cut it. Puerile.
Why do Canadian journalists think they can take the summer off? There's still lots of news happening but we have to wait until after Labour Day to learn about them.
Or rely on foreign journalists because they don't take the summer off.
I am sorry Matt. It was not intention to imply you cannot see your family.
I do believe the comment was made in the podcast and in others that nothing happens in Canada in the summertime and I have never found that to be the case.
To make it less personal, this is a trend I have long observed with the Sunday morning chat shows. In Canada, these shows are off the air in the summer. In the United States, they continue with the regular hosts and look and feel all year round.
Matt, please see your family as often as you wish. Enjoy your long weekend. I will be working.
“Jen is unimpressed with Israel, full stop”
Israel withdrew its citizens in 2005 and effectively turned the Gaza Strip over to Palestinian governance. This gave the Palestinians the opportunity to show the world what they could accomplish for their people. On October 7/2023 - they showed the world alright.
I am unimpressed with Jen - full stop.
Well put. Hamas is a death cult terrorist organization. It does seem, often, that when I read about the war in Gaza, there is a collective mind block when it comes to cause and effect. October 7 was the cause. Here we are now is the effect. I bet those families of hostages killed and still held are unimpressed with the world. At some point, as a country, we are going to have to take steps to protect Jewish citizens. It must happen soon because this is only going to become much worse.
Hamas is a death cult, but how one responds to said death cult still needs to be governed by laws and principles of proportionality (by which I mean, the harm caused by the responding military action needs to be less than the harm avoided by accomplishing the military objective). So Hamas bears responsibility for Israeli reprisals, but if Israeli reprisals were or still are lacking sensible military logic, than Israeli actions are still worthy of moral scrutiny or condemnation.
I nominate you to respond proportionally to the organization which has in its founding charter goal to perform a complete genocide against you and yours.
Rhetorical question: if an organization commits a genocide of your people, are you therefore justified and entitled to commit genocide of your own in response?
I don't consider Israel guilty of "genocide" as the left alleges - I present this as a hypothetical alternative universe because your answer is almost certainly "no". And since your answer is surely "no", you do still believe that proportionality matters when fighting Hamas.
It looks like you are aiming at both precision and accuracy, so I will answer.
Hereafter, the "you" means any reader of this. If the organization dedicated to the genocide of your people is a subset of another people, I - and surely you, would aim at a complete destruction - that is genocide - of that organization.
If the organization dedicated to the genocide of your people is the entirety of another people, I - and surely you, would aim at a complete destruction - that is genocide - of that people. It is grim, but this happened a number of times throughout history. In case of Hamas and Gazans, there are many Gazans who do not and never did truly support Hamas. They could not get away and so had no choice. So yes I have to say that in the case of Gaza when fighting Hamas proportionality matters.
We are still in the effect part after the cause I think.
I never heard of Sydney Sweeney until this. I looked her up on the internet. Thank you. I was going to say thanks for doing me a “solid” but that may be taken the wrong way by some….
I won’t be listening to the podcast but I do have a comment about good jeans.
The abject morons that I heard tying eugenics and Nazis to a commercial are perfect examples of the idiocy of academia and the insane left. I cannot imagine being in the same room with people like that and not telling them to GFY.
The only place this seems to be about nazis and eugenics is social media accounts. Over 50 percent bots or controlled accounts with agendas. And people dumb enough to allow dumpster fire comments sections on X, bluesky, etc to affect their thinking. In the real world, nobody of any sound mind would think this was a Nazi eugenics ad, and wouldnt give a rip. We over play how much social media crap matters. If a real person, in the real world, believes that rubbish they should instantly be labelled as an un serious human and ignored. Collectively we need to real life "block" trolls like this and stop giving them attention if we come across humans who actually buy into stupid stuff like this.
Tell that to the idiot academics MSNBC dug up. World class dumb-asses, one after another.
In some ways I am actually heartened that the attack on the Sydney Sweeney ad was based on nazism. I had seen the ad prior to hearing there was a controversy and upon hearing there was a controversy I assumed it was based on sexism/misogyny grounds. The fact that the ad is clearly intended to have men gaze at her beauty/rack and that that has gone virtually uncommented upon (in favour of a NAZISM attack, are you fucking kidding me!?) may be a sign that nature is healing - also see Richard Hanania on this point. We are (maybe) again allowed to favourably notice and admire attractive well-built women and I for one am here for it!
Also, on the possibility of Junior maybe dating Sydney Sweeney, Jen I would not be so quick to write that off based on the age gap. He has shown that he has a lot in common with his father so it would be very much ON BRAND for him to become romantically involved with a much younger woman (not that there's anything wrong with that).
The most heartening thing about this whole bizarre Sydney Sweeney narrative is that nobody is really taking this seriously. The usual categories of perpetually aggrieved pseudo-intellectuals have made their usual noises and it doesn't seem like anyone is getting cancelled, the ads aren't being pulled, and in fact American Eagle's stock apparently rallied by over 20% on all of this. A far cry from the height of these dimwits' power in 2021 or so. We've finally collectively realized that woke-scolds only have as much power as others are willing to give them, and if you tune them out there is fuck all they can do.
Exactly. The best tactic has always been to ignore them, never apologize and never yield an inch. But this nonsense is making it easy for everyone to actually laugh at them. And mockery is an even better response than ignoring them.
Yes and I am happy people and companies are coming around to this. There was a time when 14 twitter accounts could convince a company with millions of customers to pull ads or fire people .I hope we never ever allow our society to get back to that, ever.
I agree with Matt - were it my daughter or mother or grandmother or wife who was raped, kidnapped, or killed, I wouldn't ever quit. Wouldn't solve the problem, but matters of the heart aren't sensible
‘CUMSCA’? Really? At no time does the ‘M’ follow the ‘U’ - it’s pronounced ‘CUSMA’ (Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement). Surely you’re being deliberately obtuse but Orgasm Agreement doesn’t cut it. Puerile.
Why do Canadian journalists think they can take the summer off? There's still lots of news happening but we have to wait until after Labour Day to learn about them.
Or rely on foreign journalists because they don't take the summer off.
Oh I’m sorry. Please advise how much I may see my family.
I am sorry Matt. It was not intention to imply you cannot see your family.
I do believe the comment was made in the podcast and in others that nothing happens in Canada in the summertime and I have never found that to be the case.
To make it less personal, this is a trend I have long observed with the Sunday morning chat shows. In Canada, these shows are off the air in the summer. In the United States, they continue with the regular hosts and look and feel all year round.
Matt, please see your family as often as you wish. Enjoy your long weekend. I will be working.
Which foreign journalists are covering internal Canadian stories?