There's a lot of salt over this bit.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219595868
What hits my funny bone most is how naively educated Wagner comes off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Assassins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizari_Ismaili_state
It's interesting history but I think I'm losing track of your point as it relates to current day Israel. Is your assertion that a nation of assassins is too ruthless to have sovereignty?
Would that be Operation Rainbow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israeli_operation_in_Rafah
I note that there was another operation with the same name in Syria that seems to have taken naming precedence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rainbow_(Syrian_civil_war)
I am finding lots of operations related to tunnels, or that had incidental tunnel activity, but nothing specific to them being expanded. Is that a theory or is it something publicly acknowledged?
Also see the Qasem Soleimani connection. I guess a sort of tunnel godfather.
I was told in training this year that we were to allow voters to take pictures of their ballot.
If you have a printing voting system, rather than a bubble system, it would not be crazy to video the process from selection to printout...
W/respect to the Occupation Chapter of the Law of War, they always frame it in terms of places like Iraq, but it feels to me like they are discussing the US occupation in a "hidden in plain sight" sort of way:
Agree. Feel like the TV direction they are going makes more sense & has the natural alignment with Trump's skills.
It's easy to envision Trump running a faith-based conglomerate that supplants some of Fox/Netflix/Youtube. Biblical cartoons for kids and young adults, movies & television series that inspire us rather than degrade us and make us fearful. News channels that investigate rather than deliver the 3:00 AM narrative. With Trump as the master of ceremonies overseeing it.
https://help.truthsocial.com/truth-plus/introduction-to-truth-plus
Genuine question from someone just beginning to pull at the Israel/Palestine wire tangle.
Do you think Hezbollah & Hamas are genuinely antagonistic entities to Israel's interests? They never make any meaningful gains or put up effective defense. Their activity is uniformly cited by the press to justify military action on Israel's part. Their existence is justification for a permanent flow of arms & intelligence to Israel, to a degree that our representatives have dual citizenship and are far more consistent and ardent in serving Israel than the US.
In what ways are Hezbollah & Hamas problematic for Israel?
Could this actually be an unwinding of Israeli proxy groups, being sold to the public as an Israeli military victory?
Never occurred to me, but makes sense. Is this something you just noticed w/hindsight or do you recall signals from news reporting at the time that it may have been something beyond an impulsive move from Musk?
I was always a little sad that X's emergence undercut Gab & Truth--who had done the right things--but X has really blossomed into the place for real discussion w/the widest demographic reach. Maybe just another of Trump taking one for the team in the short term.
A less conspiratorial explanation for him being at all the events: he and guys like Bricksuit are embedded SS/private security and it's part of their job to be well known as it facilitates conversation & interaction with the general public who are going to be seated in close proximity to Trump.
Brick Suit's video from that day:
https://rumble.com/v57pyyl-brick-suit-releases-his-front-row-video-of-trump-pumping-his-fist.html
Trump has endorsed Fischer but I was curious if anyone knew about Osborn and whether his background was legitimate:
Do you know which states permit paid ballot harvesting? It's fantastically difficult to dig for election information & history right now as all the search engines seem to have hand-crafted, generalized, "you should trust the process rather than ask questions" results...
The funny thing about Elon's petition is that on paper it's things Democrats claim is on their platform--hence it's really not even a partisan petition.
Most states have a "no electioneering" provision. For example:
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.61.htm
Sec. 61.003. ELECTIONEERING AND LOITERING NEAR POLLING PLACE.
(a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting period and within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter the building in which a polling place is located, the person:
(1) loiters; or
(2) electioneers for or against any candidate, measure, or political party.
(a-1) The entity that owns or controls a public building being used as a polling place may not, at any time during the voting period, prohibit electioneering on the building's premises outside of the area described in Subsection (a), but may enact reasonable regulations concerning the time, place, and manner of electioneering.
(b) In this section:
(1) "Electioneering" includes the posting, use, or distribution of political signs or literature. The term does not include the distribution of a notice of a party convention authorized under Section 172.1114.
So what they'd be stopping her for is having a "sign" on her body. I suspect a court would ultimately permit someone to be tatted up and vote, and in the worst case make them cover it up.
Bottom line: if you have political tattoos, I'd advise putting a covering over them in the same manner some athletes have to do in certain leagues. Unless you want to make an example and initiate a Supreme Court case.
IMO the court has better things to consider...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLPiUL4yi1s
Drop by and give it some love.
TBH it's a fixable issue if pressure is applied in the right spot, and people sure would notice if they could order late night McDonalds ice cream again...