Collective homicide directed at a social, racial, or ethnic group.
Who says there was any "sacrifice"? The Nazis regarded Jews as vermin. Do you sacrifice vermin or simply exterminate them? You are obsessing over an outlook that did not apply to Nazis.
You want to prove a point, you go ahead and prove it. I'll sit back and watch. But nothing still means "nothing."
Did you? I don't have time to waste on "check this out, dude!"
Nothing, is still...nothing.
Between the world wars, Germany was under a socialist government and burdened by reparations. Any surprise that the economy might collapse?
Questions have answers. The first question is that they are surrounded by anti-Semites who resent their worldly success and religious independence.
The 6 million may be a lowball figure.
The existence of the concentration camps, victims, and survivors was seen and documented by all allied troops.
Yeah, you are making excuses. Nothing can excuse genocide. You should stop trying.
You first. What is it when you see nothing and declare it means something?
You guys make up so much about shadows from tree branches. He wasn't finished speaking. They were paying attention respectfully and with interest.
More Hitler whitewashing? When he appointed people to conduct the extermination? Along with Slavs and Gypsies---those infamous usurers?
Oh, so it IS all about the Jews. That's enough for me.
Israel is a piece of geography. It means nothing unless you mean all the Jews therein, and when you do that, you become an anti-Semite. Funny that you can take a hard line on Jews per se, call me a dipshit, and then accuse me of being judgmental.
From what? Him being a Jew means nothing to why I might or might not protect him.
Christ only condemns the Pharisees, not the Jews as a people. We are otherwise enjoined to protect the Jews as a people.
You won't be at all happy if "Israel is last" means that all the enemies of Israel will be dispersed forever. It might include you.
There can be bad unions and good unions, just as there are bad cities and good cities. The difference is the membership. If the membership are sheep, they will get sheared.
You posted a URL reference that says EXPLICITLY that these pagers had explosives inserted into them. Don't you read your own postings? Just because anons are questioning these panicky and paranoid fantasies does not mean THEY are the ones who are asleep. You are just having fever dreams.
Big "if." Unsubstantiated fantasy. Recent allegation has been that Israel got into the supply chain and implanted ~20 grams of explosive in pagers purchased by Hamas. The only inference you can rationally draw from this episode is: "It sucks to be Hamas."
I've read elsewhere an allegation that 20 grams of explosive was inserted. That would seem to be enough to drive the phone fragments as wounding items.
What is this, Zeno's Paradox? We must have a succession of stolen elections before more and more of the public see the right side of things? Meanwhile, the result of another stolen election could easily be a nuclear war in which millions die. I advise getting off the complacency train, where we look forward to ever more political disasters and think we are making progress.
I can't help if you joined a bad union and did nothing to move it in the right direction. But your crummy experience is no argument against unions. Any more than the (true) claim that cities tend to be liberal in their policies and thus to be condemned. By that logic, we should not have cities?
I was in a union for about 40 years, becoming active on the heels of a righteous strike for a contract that was only a continuation of the previous contract. New management (from a merger, all of them Jack Welch followers) wanted to squeeze us. They figured we would whimper and go away. We struck for 40 days, innovating in the art of striking. Our members were designated to authorize delivery of airplanes, and while we were on strike, Boeing could not deliver airplanes to customers. They could build them (only the engineers and techs were on strike, not the factory workers), but they had to park them along the length of Boeing Field---where the whole world could drive by on Interstate 5 and see how the strike was going by the length of the parked lineup. And they were running out of apron space to do the parking. At some point, not far off, the Company would have to shut down the factories, which would be real pain. The Company caved and agreed to continue the contract.
In "peacetime," the union was pretty good at monitoring contract compliance and representing members in cases of discipline or contract violation. I can tell you that management has no regard for ideas that ordinary justice is built on.
The union had an arrogant, overbearing Executive Director (paid employee), who functioned as a dictator, with the elected leadership mainly as bribed stooges. The general membership were not happy with him, but there was mainly grumbling and no action. I and a half dozen others got together and formulated an opposing "party" and a political strategy to oust this tyrant. It took 5 years, 3 election campaigns, and thousands of personal dollars, appealing directly to the membership, for us to gain control of the Executive Board. We instructed the tyrant to heel, he laughed at us ("You'll never fire me"), and we indeed fired him at our next meeting. There was immense backlash, and we were ultimately recalled and thrown out---but there was no turning back. The dictator's henchpeople were informed that any attempt to reinstate him would be met by a popular movement to decertify the union. Ulp! Sorry, Charlie, you're in the can. (From this I derived my observation "You know who is in power by who can fire whom.") So, the moral of the story is that oppression can be dispelled, but it takes dedication and courage.
Unions are only an expression of the freedom of association for the purpose of collective bargaining. If you are opposed to that, you are nothing other than a tyrant. If you don't get what you want, look in the mirror and ask yourself whether you are willing to work for what you want. What we are seeing today in the clash between the Deep State and MAGA is only what happened in my union, on a larger scale. Does this mean we should abandon constitutional government, because it leads to a Deep State? Or should we realize that we have been gliding for generations and are now met with the result of that neglect and inattention?
I was a member of a union. At least half of the membership were conservative in their leanings, but the union leadership were all liberal. Why was that? I will tell you from experience it was from the conservatives being so indignant over the "leadership" of the left, and so God-damned lazy, that they rolled over and let it happen, being content to carp about it---but not being willing to do anything about it.
We have seen the same thing happening in all of our social institutions: local governments, school systems, churches. The leftists are active and the conservatives are passive carpers. The schools are a sore point. Nothing is a greater target locally for conservatives than the schools. To whom I would ask, "Where the hell were you for the past 30-40 years?." Too fucking much complacency and consequent negligence. You ignore your garden for a large part of a century and you no longer have a garden, but an invasive jungle.
Not in the least. It is the living demonstration of the right of free association and collective bargaining. Don't blame unions for the unbalanced legal situation created by government legislation (NLRA). Those doing labor or service have as much right to form a body to negotiate working conditions as any corporation.
The Communists (and Nazis) were so opposed to the independence of unions that they mandated that they should all be under government control.
If an individual worker is being treated unjustly by the employer (violation of contract terms), there is no one to defend him but a union.
The Hezbollah were done in by remotely-controlled bombs that masqueraded as ordinary pagers. This was not some software magic that turns ordinary pagers and cellphones into grenades. The cause for the solar power (battery?) explosions has yet to be determined.
Sometimes I wonder if laying down a rumor about vampires sucking blood out of Hezbollah would get legs among the credulous. What would it take?
Worse than "outs" them, I gather. Puts them out of action, if not out of this world.
Yep. It "makes more sense" to do something impossible. Got it. Nobody here is talking about replacing a plastic structural element of the cell phone with actual explosive material.
I like to think that my humor is at least unforgettable.
Akin to the never-NASA types? Even the MSM will tell the truth sometimes. It depends on who you watch.