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- Weka
- May 5, 2019
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That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
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I thought it was for the past three years? Or was it for every year separately?
It's probably not true for any of the last three years apart from maybe the current one. Between the conflicts in Ethiopia and Yemen, plus Ukraine, the DRC, Myanmar and a bunch more.
I assume you meant the PLO?
Well those orgs are like half the PLO, which is an umbrella organization. The really notable missing group is Fatah.
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Dec 28, 2023 22:41
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- lobster shirt
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I saw a JewBelong billboard driving into downtown Memphis.
IIRC it was something like "Hamas is your problem too" lol
i was just recently in memphis and saw several of these signs lol
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Dec 28, 2023 22:50
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- i say swears online
- Mar 4, 2005
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he just does not miss, folks
https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1740393458722918465
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Dec 28, 2023 23:00
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- Red Baron
- Mar 9, 2007
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no lube anal fan
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Chen, my people yearn for dunks
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Dec 28, 2023 23:04
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- KomradeX
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The PLA being present would be badass
Chairman Xi liberate Palestine
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Dec 28, 2023 23:27
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- mawarannahr
- May 21, 2019
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At least the comments are visible 
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What a bunch of nonsense. Israel is struggling with Northern Gaza that they supposedly "control", but this twat would start another war against 250 thousand soldiers in Lebanon. Israel cannot win that war.
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Wile E Coyote should consider chasing after Roadrunner into that tunnel.
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You’re doing a great job for the destruction of Israel, keep fighting everyone at the same time.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha. I’ve met soggy napkins sharper than this David fella. IDF troops can’t hold territory against Hamas in decimated Gaza and they are gonna take out Syria hardened Hezbollah with better equipment, better training, and open borders?
As we say here, you and what army? Hahahahaha thanks for the chuckle.
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This author is very funny! Suggesting more war when hazbullah is saying that they will stop when killing of GaZans are stopped. I think logical thinking is not applicable anymore 🤷♂️?
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What is UNIFIL doing? Hezbollah are operating below the Litani river in defiance of UN 1701. If 1000 projectiles have been fired over UNIFIL heads into Israel then clearly they are not keeping the peace. There are 319 Irish troops on the border. My taxes are paying for them to be there. They are brave and highly trained but have no mandate to intervene. Bring them home.
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Israel is already too expensive for its Western sponsors to maintain. The only question is whether or not it can survive as a nuclear power, now that Pakistan and perhaps Iran have the same capabiliy?
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Invade Lebanon again? What are you crazy?
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Hizbollah who will never start a full war over the Sheba farms, will certainly unleash its arsenal and fight a guerilla campaign like the last time. I think Israel in the long run have overstretched its capacity for military occupation already. A full regional war will maybe give Israel a decade or two with somewhat reduced threats. But the it would then backfire catastrophically. It would be wiser to pull out of the West Bank than to invade Libanon.
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I support. You might finally bite off more than you can shew and choke on it. You might finally be humbled from your arrogance and thirst for innocent blood.
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What a brilliant idea! More war! This writer shouldn't be given editorial space to advocate for more senseless, sadistic violence. Israel can try 100 more military campaigns and end up right where it will end up - at the negotiating table. One day, Israelis will be forced to come to terms with the fact that they have no choice but to live with the Palestinians. Try as they might there is no getting rid of the natives. It's 2023. It won't work. It's only a matter of how many more humans Israel is willing to kill and how many of its soldiers it's willing to sacrifice before arriving at the same inevitable end: PEACE with the Palestinians. Israel will not win this war and it will never win another war. Advocating for more military campaigns is not just morally reprehensible but futile and deadly.
This author should be put in a time capsule and sent back to the middle ages where he and his sadistic advice belong.
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"David Daoud" One more name in a long list of people who will eventually stand trial at the International Court of Justice.
During the first weeks after October 7 Hezbollah showed a lot of restraint, largely targeting Israeli military posts, that to interesting effect. If since then the fighting in the North has expanded it is largely due to Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Syria as well as of course the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Israel has zero justification for yet another invasion of Lebanon. Doing this would indeed constitute a war of agression and would be prosecuted accordingly. Just as a blood thirsty hawk of a scribbler like the one penning this article will face justice eventually. Israel will not be allowed to attack it's neighbors and oppress the Palestinians at will. Netanjahu and consorts have gone too far this time and the international community will not forget these crimes.
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The survival of the West's colonial bridgehead in the Middle East will become ever more difficult,and costly.At a certain moment the West will withdraw, as it withdrew from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.Western inspired and constructed Zionism wil perish in a tsunami of hate and revenge. In scenes that will be uglier than the current massacring in Gaza.
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Dec 28, 2023 23:32
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- Red Baron
- Mar 9, 2007
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no lube anal fan
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what if our small, regional war, but larger?
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Dec 28, 2023 23:33
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- i say swears online
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quote:As Hezbollah Escalates | Israel Should Consider a Ground Invasion of Lebanon
Hezbollah is just as dedicated to Israel's destruction and to October 7-style atrocities as Hamas, but more lethal. Its increasing missile and drone attacks, and Lebanon's passivity, justify broad retaliation by Israel in self-defense
No one is saying so out loud, but Israel and Lebanon have been at war since October 8, with Hezbollah once again dragging an unwilling Beirut into Iran's long battle against the Jewish state.
In July 2006, Hezbollah – without Beirut's approval – attacked Israel unprovoked and sparked the destructive Second Lebanon War. When the war ended, the UN Security Council responded by adopting Resolution 1701 which called for the banning of militias from the Israeli-Lebanese border region and end the lawlessness that gave Hezbollah free rein.
But Lebanon refuses to implement its terms. Hezbollah's unilateral and unauthorized entry into the Gaza-Israel war has highlighted the need to rectify Beirut's dereliction – leaving Israel as the likeliest party to do so, and with a legal right to enforce its terms.
The main responsibility of Resolution 1701's rests on Lebanon. But it's been shirking its responsibilities ever since it was passed, instead adopting an idiosyncratic interpretation of it that excludes Hezbollah from its ambit, effectively eviscerating 1701's spirit and its demands that Lebanon disarm all militias, exercise full and exclusive control over all its territory, and establish between the Blue Line the provisional border and the Litani River "an area free of armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Government of Lebanon and of UNIFIL" — the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, peacekeepers authorized to prevent conflict across the Israeli-Lebanese border.
We see the Hezbollah aggression in the firing rockets and missiles at civilian homes and army units in northern Israel. The fighting has intensified in recently, leading to a growing death and injury toll on both sides.
These attacks have killed eight soldiers and four civilians, and wounded dozens more. Hezbollah has also facilitated rocket attacks and incursions by the Lebanese franchises of its Resistance Axis allies Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from south Lebanon. On Thursday the Israeli army intercepted a drone attack near the northern city of Haifa.
It is increasingly hard to dismiss these attacks as "mere frontier incidents" or border skirmishes.
Cumulatively, they have come to resemble an "armed attack" justifying broad Israeli retaliation. In Lebanon reportedly over 120 Hezbollah members have been killed along with 17 civilians.
Tensions are especially high this week after Iran accused Israel of assassinating a top commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Sayyed Razi Mousavi. The head of the IRGC has vowed to avenge his death with the "eradication of the Zionist regime."
The fighting has highlighted the need to rectify Beirut's dereliction – leaving Israel as the likeliest party to do so, and with a legal right to enforce its terms. This could mean Israel will have no choice but to try to push Hezbollah back beyond the Litani River.
With Lebanon unwilling and unable to act, Israel must contend alone with the perpetually growing threat on its northern border from Hezbollah – as dedicated as Hamas to Israel's ultimate destruction and committing October 7-style atrocities, but with far better capabilities.
Lebanese non-performance stems in equal parts from intransigence and inability. Since 2006, Hezbollah has been too preoccupied -- with a domestic crisis in Lebanon, involvement in Syria's civil war since 2011, and now navigating Lebanon's ongoing economic collapse – to initiate war with Israel, dampening any Lebanese sense of urgency to act against the group.
Lebanon's passivity also stems from its makeup. The country is built and governed around "confessionalist" – or sectarian – system. This system is effectively feudalistic, devolving each sect's allotment of the share of power upon sub-sectarian representatives or parties.
Beirut only makes decisions by the consensus of these sub-sectarian groups, which are obliged to count Hezbollah as a critical political and social element because it retains massive popular support.
In a country of just over four million citizens, the group won 356,112 of votes in Lebanon's May 2022 legislative elections – the best gauge available, despite its imprecision – making it parliament's largest by 150,000 votes, though not by seats.
Beirut therefore can't ignore Hezbollah, which has guaranteed this by using its vast arsenal against political opponents, and would need the group's unlikely consent to disarm it. Lebanon would otherwise be inviting civil war – a dynamic making 1701's central operative clauses unworkable, and any diplomatic efforts to induce Beirut to implement them futile.
For Lebanon, the immense cost of doing so will always appear to outweigh any benefits. UNIFIL can't rectify the situation, despite its original mandate being repeatedly upgraded to allow full freedom of movement and authority to conduct unhindered and unannounced patrols in south Lebanon.
Since February 2011, Hezbollah has been threatening and training to "liberate the Galilee" – "Al-Aqsa Flood's" operational blueprint, imparted – along with preparation and training – to the Shiite organization's Palestinian partners.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah hinted to his organization's intention to commit their own series of October 7-style massacres against Israelis last month, to "to "win[..] incrementally," until the "battle [to destroy Israel…] reach[es] the phase of victory by fatal blow" – echoing Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas politburo member.
An Israeli ground invasion at least pushing Hezbollah north of the Litani River would neutralize this threat. It would also allow Israel to degrade the broader threat posed by Hezbollah's 40,000+ fighting force and diverse arsenal – an array of 150,000+ projectiles of various ranges, degrees of precision, and striking power, coupled with a domestic production capability.
It would further deprive the broader "Resistance Axis" of its arguably most critical front – decades in the making and increasingly interlinked with Iranian-controlled Syria – for attacking Israel now or in a future "big regional war." Finally, it would also irreparably dent Iran's regional expansionism and send a forceful message of deterrence to Tehran.
But such an Israeli undertaking would be highly costly and destructive for Israel. Reaching the Litani would require an invasion far deeper than the Second Lebanon War's minor incursions past the Blue Line. Hezbollah will also increase tenfold the daily number of rockets fired at Israel as compared to the 2006 conflict.
This price, coupled with American pressure against Israeli escalation against Hezbollah, are temporarily staying Israel's hand as Jerusalem indulges American and French efforts to peacefully obtain Hezbollah's relocation north of the Litani River.
If those efforts prove fruitless – as they likely will – Israel would have the right to launch a ground invasion in self-defense, moving beyond its ongoing tit-for-tat exchanges with Hezbollah, without committing a crime of aggression.
On November 3, Nasrallah himself declared Hezbollah's full "entry of the [Gaza-Israel] battle on October 8…when the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon began it operations."
Nasrallah reemphasized this the following week, stressing Hezbollah's escalating attacks had caused Israeli "soldier and civilian casualties," and that "this [northern] front will remain a[n open] pressure point."
Nasrallah has fallen silent since then, but Hezbollah's guns have not.
But as he said, "the battlefield will speak…not our words." Since Hezbollah fired its first unprovoked shots in October, it has claimed daily responsibility for launching over 1,000 projectiles into Israel.
Some 60,000 Israeli residents of the north who live within five kilometers of the Lebanon border have been evacuated from their homes since October 7. A group of them sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden saying the White House should give "its full support to the government of Israel to act with the necessary force" to protect Israel's north.
Certainly, the accumulated chain of Hezbollah recent attacks on Israel exceeds – in intensity, scope, and casualties – Hezbollah's July 12, 2006 incursion which triggered Israeli self-defense and sparked the Second Lebanon War.
Nasrallah has even recognized, considering the intensity of Hezbollah's attacks, that Israel's preoccupation with Gaza alone was sparing Hezbollah the full brunt of Israeli military retaliation.
The international community recognized the need to end Hezbollah's threat to Israel almost two decades ago.
But time is increasingly proving that silencing Hezbollah's guns, and ending its broader threat, will only be possible through direct Israeli military action broader than the IDF's current limited counterstrikes.
As ongoing diplomatic efforts and international mechanisms inevitably falter against Lebanon's impotence and intransigence and Hezbollah's lawlessness, Israel's justification to push Hezbollah beyond the Litani River and create a buffer zone down to the Blue Line increasingly appears to be the option proportional to the threat – if not the only option available.
David Daoud is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) focusing on Hezbollah, Israel, and Lebanon issues. He also holds a JD with a concentration on international law and the laws of armed conflict. He can be followed on Twitter @DavidADaoud
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Dec 28, 2023 23:33
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- Horseshoe theory
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I'm sure it'll go swimmingly and they won't get their teeth knocked in worse than 2006!
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Dec 28, 2023 23:36
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- i say swears online
- Mar 4, 2005
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I'm sure it'll go swimmingly and they won't get their teeth knocked in worse than 2006!
i looked up the river in the article and he wants israel to occupy ~20% of the country lol
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Dec 28, 2023 23:37
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- Atrocious Joe
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Just looked over the list of resistance members issuing the statement and they included PFLP-GC, which afaik only exists in Syria. I guess the other Islamic militias don't have their own political wings?
the only notable grouping I see missing is the al-aqsa martyr's brigades, and they are sort of Fatah affiliated so the absence makes sense
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Dec 28, 2023 23:42
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- OctaMurk
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I'm sure it'll go swimmingly and they won't get their teeth knocked in worse than 2006!
nazis seem to looove two front wars
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Dec 28, 2023 23:48
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- Weka
- May 5, 2019
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That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
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post your calipers
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Dec 28, 2023 23:53
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- Godlessdonut
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he's right, dta
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Dec 28, 2023 23:58
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- Bear Retrieval Unit
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Mudslide Experiment
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gently caress it they should also bomb iran while they're at it.
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Dec 29, 2023 00:13
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- ContinuityNewTimes
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Я выдуман напрочь
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gently caress it they should also bomb iran while they're at it.
They should invade through Iraq.
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Dec 29, 2023 00:19
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- Pener Kropoopkin
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by Jeffrey of YOSPOS(and can't post for 20 days!)
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Israel should do what nobody expects and invade Jordan.
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Dec 29, 2023 00:23
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- Chillgamesh
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Ya boy Davey Daoud posted:
An Israeli ground invasion at least pushing Hezbollah north of the Litani River would neutralize this threat. It would also allow Israel to degrade the broader threat posed by Hezbollah's 40,000+ fighting force and diverse arsenal – an array of 150,000+ projectiles of various ranges, degrees of precision, and striking power, coupled with a domestic production capability.
I have a law degree in international politics and decades of studying this topic. My opinion is: I think my team should just kill all the bad guys and win
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Dec 29, 2023 00:28
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- i say swears online
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Israel will reach Moscow by the spring thaw
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Dec 29, 2023 00:29
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- yellowcar
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yes do a ground invasion of lebanon because it worked out so well last time
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Dec 29, 2023 00:31
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- i say swears online
- Mar 4, 2005
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the IDF is now battle-hardened after months of successful urban warfare. I encourage them to liberate Beirut
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Dec 29, 2023 00:32
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- Uncle Boogeyman
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I think they're running the same billboard image in a ton of markets. I've seen it in Nashville and Louisville KY too.
one near here got vandalized pretty awesomely lol
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- VoicesCanBe
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"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"
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Anthony Blinken is a loving demon
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Dec 29, 2023 00:59
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- Horseshoe theory
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Anthony Blinken is a loving demon
Well, yeah, he has a blood oath to Ghislaine Maxwell, after all.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:00
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- galagazombie
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A silly little mouse!
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I think they're running the same billboard image in a ton of markets. I've seen it in Nashville and Louisville KY too.
Kinda reminds me of the post 9/11 days where so many people were talking about “Al-Qaeda invading” like it was straight out of Red Dawn. Thankfully it seems this time no one is buying it.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:06
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- bedpan
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Kinda reminds me of the post 9/11 days where so many people were talking about “Al-Qaeda invading” like it was straight out of Red Dawn. Thankfully it seems this time no one is buying it.
tens of millions of people really believed this. they really believed that osama himself was going to come up crawling out of a sewer, knife between his teeth, in whatever shithole town they were from.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:10
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- Pomeroy
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Can't post for 14 days!
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Anthony Blinken is a loving demon
Looking forward to him going out like Ribbentrop.
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Dec 29, 2023 01:16
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- HazCat
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tens of millions of people really believed this. they really believed that osama himself was going to come up crawling out of a sewer, knife between his teeth, in whatever shithole town they were from.
Look, I know it's naive, but don't we all sometimes dream of better things being possible?
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