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Not a vaccine.

Settling Palestinian refugees in 3rd party countries is facilitating genocide. It seeks to replicate the plight Jews found themselves in until after the second world war. This is why they are opposed to it, not because they don't want Palestinians.

That's my worry as well. Biden should abide by world opinion and go out a hero by stopping the war. Vetoing resolutions for a cease fire is going to kill it for the dems. Non compulsory voting is a curse.

Probably more like NSA

Their immunity to facts is truly bizarre. It screams religion and / or low education.

Sure, and he joined the military at what age? imo, 25 should be the minimum to even join. To be sure, killing civilians whether deliberately or through negligence is a war crime. I understand that they were afraid of everybody. Mistakes happen. I blame officers who commanded him much more than a sergeant. That very argument is playing out now in Australian courts.

It's why many vets never speak about the war and suffer high rates of PTSD. Kudos to your friend. He did his duty as a soldier at an age that is really too young to be a soldier in my opinion.

Which translates into about 10% of republican electors. A deal killer for Trump's chances. It's why MAGA are panicking about her.

I don't read Hamas controlled media. Or Israeli controlled media so how do I know? You fail the yes or no challenge. Two thirds of Palestinians killed are women and children. That is not in contention except by the most rabid zionists.

Individual Australian soldiers did for sure. You'd have to point to where the military did it while knowing the outcome was many dead civilians.

Do you think the IDF is justified in killing all those civilians just to get to Hamas? You could be the first person on this board who supports Israel to say yes or no.

It couldn't when many of those are held without charge, could it?

With the word "bashing" you just gave the game away. You've admitted using it to troll.

"Trump and his allies remain skeptical of Haley's chances" Trump and his allies are making the mistake of at least outwardly believing that Haley thinks any differently. She is a never trumper and will spoil his election by doing a ross perot or a jill stein.

Another thing I'd like to see stop is the gratuitous Thai bashing that constantly goes on. It's essentially racist and perped mainly by people who no longer live here in my opinion. Criticism of the government and its policies is one thing but what we see goes well beyond that.

They like to say this but it's hard to separate from 2 million civilians in an area the size of a phone box. I doubt that even Hamas want innocent civilians killed even if the zionists want us to believe they don't care.

I does annoy me that the ignore function does not prevent notifications and still shows hidden posts as an unread post which requires me to check if someone who is not on my ignore list posted something. and I think the confused emoticon should go. It has no purpose other than trolling. If people are genuinely confused they should say so.

That pleases me because it demonstrates that I am consistent and follow my values.

If there is to be a ONE state solution then the whole region should be a UN protectorate. A 2 state solution is the only realistic solution. I think that if faced with that choice everyone would opt for the 2 state solution.

Since we're playing the "I've been here a long time and so I know more than you" game. I've been back and forth to Thailand and the Philippines since I was 25 and that was 44 years ago. I have been married to 2 Thai women and 1 Filipina. My experience differs.

The one thing I would say is to stop the racism. I mean really stop it. This isn't Little America. Free speech is one thing but hate speech is another. By hate speech I mean anything that vilifies a race. For clues, look at section 18(c) of the Australian racial vilification act. And anyone who advocates or excuses violence should be perma banned after 1 warning. Removal of posts doesn't cut the mustard. Racism is a pet hate of mine and practically every post I make is founded in this credo.

totally wrong. it's not just Australia. The single western country that allows hate speech is the US.

Heaven does forbid as far as I can tell. It's not just offensive, both of the examples ai gave are self evidently incitement to violence.

Let me ask you this. Is there any free speech benefit to society in using the N word in public or marching down the street yelling "Jews will not replace us"? Australians don't believe their free speech rights are impinged. It's a matter of civility. Some things have to give to keep the peace. Coffee intermission. Going to the starbucks, pattaya beach. Back to fight debate later LOL.

Correct until the last bit. There is no censorship, just the law. Everyone knows the law it's published. Quite apart from censorship. Courts enforce it not censors.