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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

That Robot posted:

actually they're good

justifying shooting children in the back to own the libs

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
lethal rock slings

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
i am fascinated by the new hasbara line that it is okay to murder children because clearly their parents must not have cared about them

like imagine being the person for whom that's a coherent statement beyond They're Subhumans

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
parody accounts that make it too obvious how deeply someone hates a given person always turn me off. not sure why.

magnificent loving take tho

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

mastershakeman posted:

That's really cool

I hope someday black bloc folks use phalanx tactics to push against kettling

literally the thing kettling is designed to prevent

the phalanx's key weakness, as the romans learned painfully in the first one of their wars that wasn't on flat plains, and as the spartans learned painfully pretty much any time they tried to flex outside home territory, was that the second anyone gets behind it the whole thing falls to poo poo in a huge way

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

qkkl posted:

the US is both bribing Israel and subsidizing it's own military industrial complex. US funds pay for a majority of the iron dome system, without which Israel would probably invade Gaza to stop the rocket attacks, which would inevitably lead to more Palestinian deaths.

lol

you maaaay want to look up why the last Israeli "cut-the-grass" operation ended. here's a hint. it wasn't them being afraid America might stop paying for them.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

1glitch0 posted:

I'm in one of those "I've waited too long and now I'm afraid to ask" situations. Can someone explain why exactly the US is so far up the rear end of Israel and defends and supports all their bullshit so uniformly and in lockstep? I have my theories and things I've heard but none of it seems to add up to the sheer brick wall of support for Israel from the US government.

part one, they're a longtime regional proxy going back to cold war days, so they're up to their eyeballs in all the usual military/industrial complex "we can't ever stop giving them aid, because if we stopped giving them aid Lockheed Martin's stock price might drop for a quarter second."

part two, there's a bunch of weird evangelical bullshit about how Israel has to be around for the end of days to happen, which the Israel lobby has gleefully made use of for a very long time for inroads among Republicans.

part three, not to put too fine a point on it, New York and Los Angeles are both Democratic as hell and Jewish as hell. meaning there's an awful lot of very powerful Democrats who have spent the past sixty or so years knowing that if they take a position less than unconditional support for Israel they'll be dealing with a primary from someone who will.

part four, the war on terror let them pivot into "we are your eternal allies in the war against the Muslim world," which was great for them while it looked like we were winning, and has left them in a bit of an awkward position now that we have admitted that was a total bust.

some of the reason Israel is going off crazier than usual is that over the last fifteen years American Jews have gone from unconditionally supporting Israel to being a lot more lukewarm on the subject. this has taken support for Israel from "absolutely mandatory" to "you can get away with saying sometimes they do bad things" in Democratic circles. all the military/industrial complex ties and a very well-funded Israel lobby are enough to keep Democrats firmly supportive of them, but as the continued existence of Ilhan Omar demonstrates, it is now possible to not say they get a blank check for everything forever.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Taco Duck posted:

wtf do Indian chuds give a poo poo

same reason american ones do

"you guys are living the dream: a state based on putting the racially impure into ghettoes and bombing them every time you get bored"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

PawParole posted:

https://twitter.com/ettingermentum/status/1710702924836331770

Same sentiment, except Israel didn’t lift the boot at all.

shifted the weight on the boot for a moment and are unpleasantly surprised the guy stood up

evidently almost all of the IDF is currently loving around in the West Bank protecting settlers doing poo poo over there, out of the assumption nothing was coming out of Gaza any time soon

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

titty_baby_ posted:

Not historical but there is that much repeated story about the US War game where the general assigned to the insurgent side did a bunch of tricky stuff with low tech and they effectively won and then the game was stopped

the story behind that is interesting because some of his tricky stuff was the equivalent of hacking himself a pistol that fired nukes, and some of his tricky stuff was "hey so what if I didn't just sit there politely and wait for you to kill me"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm behind by like a thousand posts what the gently caress happened in the last ten hours

mostly just posting. the propaganda line out of israel is now "the palestinians are killing and raping our women, this is why we have to exterminate them all"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

galagazombie posted:

So is there any info on what Hamas’s tactical goals are here? Are they trying to actually take and hold any territory or crush a particular Israeli strategic asset?

nothing solid, but i'd personally bet their goal is to get Israel to send a ground force into Gaza where they can engage on favorable terms

if the Israelis are smart they'll limit their response to airstrikes, but gambling on a nightmare coalition of psychopathic right-wingers to act smart under pressure is a great way to lose money.

not the craziest idea I've ever heard, I guess

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Frosted Flake posted:

Could just be that I don't look at the worst sites on the internet, but I've only seen female IDF soldiers and civilians treated well in the footage that came out today, other than those KIA.

unsurprisingly this does not affect their opinion on the subject

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
oh hey it's the "posting mean at me is worse than the state murdering activists" guy

neat, been a minute

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

paul_soccer12 posted:

As far as I know, we have basically 0 evidence they have succeeded in any significant military context, outside of catching the IDF with their pants literally down at one installation. It's only been one day, they are wildly outmatched in tech, they almost certainly aren't trained with any equipment they captured. I can't say I know what Hamas is specifically hoping to achieve, but they probably have very bad odds of holding territory for long, and I'm not convinced they DO have strong strategic leadership

now THAT's the kind of poo poo you want to hear

the enemy are crude ape-men, fumbling blindly at violence, who have killed a bunch of high ranking IDF officers by sheer luck. we'll get 'em next time.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

im pro palestine and socialist as the next person here but i think that now that its their turn they should make excuses for the terror

ran across a guy claiming to be a socialist who seamlessly transitioned from "look sometimes you volunteer to fight for the SS and that's okay" to "how dare you suggest the rapemurder animal hordes of the palestinians are worthy of anything more than extermination" earlier

depressingly i'm pretty sure he's not real, but fun for a laugh.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

speng31b posted:

reading this as though it's a person you ran into in real life who you later realized was a delusion

much more entertaining that way

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

DancingShade posted:

The only way the crude stumbling ape men could possibly trounce the mighty uber man IDF is because the bunk beds is the barracks were so comfy that everyone slept through the alarms, really the IDF was only taken unawares by the superior quality of their own bedding.

while typically the dread savages will tread on any banana peels, roller skates, or inexplicable pools of oil left around for such a purpose as a security measure, the brave boys of the IDF had just finished cleaning up every barracks on the Gaza border, and as such were all peacefully honk-shooing as the palestinians pratfalled their way into total control of several israeli checkpoints and kidnapping several israeli officers. it is believed at time of press they did this by stuffing them into a comically large sack with dollar signs on it.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

speng31b posted:

yeah the whole thing seems very fog of war and yet there are a cadre of people who can't shut the gently caress up about sexual violence in every single post they make. pretty epic

the various people screaming about palestinian rape gangs, on the grounds they saw a palestinian next to a dead woman, are on a level of sexual/imperial psychosis last seen in Rhodesian propaganda

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
you expect the usual frothing madness from Likud types. the sensible liberal zionists explaining that the policy of containing gaza has failed, and so it will be necessary to physically remove every gazan, that is a development I would have figured needed another day or so to crop up

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Typo posted:

which coup would that be?

a democratic Egypt faced a serious problem, in that the Egyptian people are not big fans of US foreign policy

this was corrected via bankrolling a military coup

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

the state of Israel would like you to know the current round of ethnic cleansing is brought to you by Raid: Shadow Legends

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Horseshoe theory posted:

Nah, she's boths-sidesing - gently caress her.

well, at least she's still spineless to attacks from both left and right for now.

gonna suck when she's done transforming into Feinstein 2.0

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

there is someone in charge of managing Grandpa's social media who knows his job is 100% insulated from any blowback by Grandpa not giving a poo poo about twitter. props to them, first time I've seen someone with that gig using it for any kind of good whatsoever, credit to them for that

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Smythe posted:

wait.. not sur eu thought this thru

when we most needed him, cumshitter deserted us...

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
amazing to watch all the old problems of wartime intelligence come screaming back on top of new technology

two OSINT accounts who make their money by making sure they've got all the craziest poo poo as fast as possible echoing each other back and forth in the fear someone else will say it if they don't, making knowing what is actually going on totally impossible.

the glider bit in particular sounds made up as all hell but hey, it was in the last one, theyflynow.gif goes here

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
the walk backs of "okay sure we were uncritically doing blood libel but pointing that out is a Bad Look Chief" are so goddamn grim

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
sure, the IDF has been caught telling bare-faced lies straight out of Victorian propaganda in the hopes of dehumanizing the mass of civilians they are in the process of murdering

but pointing out that people swallowed fascist propaganda hook, line, and sinker makes them feel bad, and as we all know that second one is a much greater crime

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

from probating people for saying "Tara Reade is not a lying whore" to probating people for saying "the Palestinians are not using Israeli incubators to do Saw-style trick kills"

mod brain never dies, just goes into remission

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
yes, the IDF may be promising a million dead, but

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Stringent posted:

i don't have anything to base this on other than vibes, but i really think that any idf dumb enough to set foot in gaza is getting loving wiped.

there's two textbooks here, both of which they've studied long and hard: the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Grozny. they're going to take more casualties than they've taken in decades, but every liberal nightmare of what the Russians were going to do to Ukraine is about to happen to Gaza and the liberals will be cheering it on the whole way.

don't suppose there's any generals in the IDF getting ideas, are there

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
remember earlier in the day when D&D established "yes, the IDF is lying to try to gin up support for a genocide, but I don't care" as official policy

let's just appreciate in how that looks a few hours later. wrong is one thing. any dipshit poster can be wrong, and usually we all are. deciding your powers as a something awful forums moderator are best used in defense of a program of genocide, on grounds opposing it would be a Bad Look, though

thats a kind of idiotic cruelty that takes loving talent

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

extremely wishful thinking. but it's not like there's anything better on tap

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

doing the biggest loudest longest BUHHHH???? in the world

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1712834083837919500

the funniest part is that he's on record acting hurt and appalled when Adam Johnson told him "you know Hawley's lying about free speech, for a fact, and you're cozying up to him anyway"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Popy posted:

bro whats up with military helicopters and mechanical failure



also owned

helicopters allow you to do a very cool strategic thing at the low low cost of exploding the split second anything onboard goes wrong, and there is nothing any military on the face of the planet likes more than cheaping out on maintenance

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
reassuring to see it was just the politicians going full 9/11 fervor. not going to change anything but seeing that theres more than token pushback to open genocide from the population at large is a happy surprise

also all of the freaks who were baying for blood on Saturday have moved into trying to defend genocide as cool actually or, far more pleasingly, shutting the gently caress up.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

moths posted:

I've never bothered, but if I had I think contrasting Palestine's conditions to that of the American Colonists might penetrate.

There's so much 1776 Liberty Patriot brain-rot infrastructure to build on, and the Palestinians' material conditions are infinitely worse than "George III wants a cut."

You're leveraging something they've established as a high-water mark for "Good" to demonstrate why Palestinian independence is Also Good.

Plus Israel does like something like six Boston Massacres annually.

if they say "but we didn't target civilians" tell them "look up Francis Marion, we wrote the book on targeting civilians. it worked too."

guys signature move for building rapport with local villages he needed to resupply was lighting someone he suspected of betraying his movements to the british on fire and then siccing his dogs on him. the southern affinity for war crimes started early

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

30.5 Days posted:

A GBS poster is walking around SA getting people's opinions for a post. He goes up to a C-SPAM poster and says "I was making a joke about this Reuters tweet from earlier." The C-SPAM poster says, "what's a joke?" He goes up to a FYAD poster and says "I was making a joke about this Reuters tweet from earlier". The FYAD poster says, "what's a tweet?" He goes up to a D&D poster and says "I was making a joke about this Reuters tweet from earlier". The D&D poster says, "What's earlier?"

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

he's going to end up a professor at the Institute for the Study of Wokeness and Why The Kids Who Accused Brett Ratner Are Lying Probably inside of a month or two, but hey, a moment of consequence for being an enormous piece of poo poo for no reason.

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

text editor posted:

Looney Tunes-rear end army keeps dying to friendly fire, tanks rolling of trains, their own munitions 'malfunctioning' - the more accidental deaths they rack up, the worse it's gonna be if they deescalate, but if they put these reservists into battle against any hardened fighters there will be massive losses

a bit of caution on this one: while the keystone cops rear end bullshit is hilarious, the only reason we're hearing about it is because they combine having full American media penetration without full American unconditional troop-worship opsec attached to it.

from available information this is exactly the kind of shitshow the invasion of Ukraine was to start, and to steal the line from Radio War Nerd, "godzilla does not need to know ballet." there's a LOT of stumbling that an infinite money and air support button will cover for.

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