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It's gonna take two months to build the pier.
Countless will starve to death by then, and it seems like a forgone conclusion Israel is going to claim it's not safe to let Gaza control it.
They'll seize the port, and a stretch of land connecting it to Israel.
If Biden really wanted to do something now, he'd send US military with the aid trucks.
It's the only way to prevent Israel from attacking the aid
What?
American military escorting American aid isn't a military action against Israel
Israel claims they can't let aid trucks in because Hamas will steal it.
American escort means Israel can't use that excuse, and if Israel attacks it, they'd be attacking the American military.
That isn't a military action against Israel in any way shape and form.
From your source.
It is misinformation to claim they faced no punishment. They accepted blame and paid retribution.
I'm not going to comment on if the compensation is appropriate to the crime.
How does that challenge what I said?
You say they accepted blame. This is clearly false. They lied.
They objectively paid a sum of over 60 million in today's value for 1. The killed soldiers, 2. The wounded soldiers, and 3. The damaged materials.
It is objectively false to claim they suffered no consequences.
Hey, could you link to that thread? By that, I mean backup your claim.
https://lemm.ee/comment/10005304
https://lemm.ee/comment/9977337
Sure, do you think you could ask kindly next time?
Instead of the downvotes and acting like linking a thread is hard?
Oh, just because I matched how you were speaking, I wasn't nice?
Edit: going to take some time to read through the comments. No opinion on the ones still up, but arguing with harderian729 is just a waste of fucking time and shouldn't be done.
I didn't make any pretentious requests or questions of anybody, I just added my 2 cents.
You need to read my comment better next time before attempting mimicry.
But that is asking too much of somebody who is blatantly admitting they just want to stir the shitpot.
Edit response to edit:
Lmao I said he should learn to read better and he decided to prove that point by throwing a fit about the wrong user.
Wow, you really have a chip on your shoulder about this don't you? Do you really think that someone making sure thier statement was clear is somehow impolite?
I said matched your manner of speaking, not that I was mimicking you.
Fuck sakes, chill dude.
Holy shit what a meltdown. I dont even know what comments you are talking about lmao. And you turned around on that not responding edit within 2 minutes, doubt there was any sincere reading in that time period.
Calm down and come back when you feel you can handle reading a comment without freaking out.
And, I'm starting to see why your shit gets removed.
Massive projection on your part. You really need to calm the fuck down.
I checked one of the links you gave and saw that an exhange between you and harderian or how ever that troll spells his name was removed.
The edit was quick to make sure that you knew that I hadn't gone through the exchanges that were still up.
Stop looking for a fight that isn't there.
You basically just admitted everything I said was true, and you were being rude for no reason.
Maybe you should reflect on your part in this conversation before doling out recommendations for others.
Do you engage with everyone that questions you like this?
Go through my comments if you are curious.
Edit: geuss they did and didn't like what they found. Easy enough to block the child.
He banned me from the politics sub for saying Biden is helping facilitate Israel's genocide.
Nah, you get banned for saying Biden is COMMITTING genocide. You see, it’s different. One is a nuanced opinion, the other is blatant propaganda and misinformation.
He’s not engaged in genocide either. That implies he’s actively involved in the act.
Despite how you are able to move goalposts around and manufacture bullshit, he is not part of the decision involving what happens in Gaza from the role of Israel.
I disagree.
That’s because you’re wrong.
Never had a problem with him.
And I've DMed him about mod questions before and he's been super helpful.
Sometimes we disagree, but no one agrees 100% of the time.
I do think mods should have to at least report comments first so when they're removed it shows in the mod log. But I seriously doubt he's removing comments just for disagreeing with him.
I've seen some really down voted comments from him, with lots of people disagreeing. If he did what you said, I'd never see that.
Aight, don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm yet to see you leave a response that isn't rule breaking to me. Between direct personal attacks, threats, links to videos, misinformation, and direct references to moderation are all okay for you to participate in.
I'm certain you are baiting an excuse to scrub this entire chain.
You banned me for saying that Biden is engaged in a genocide. Is personally providing the weapons, specifically without congressional approval, to a country actively conducting a genocide, not engaging with said genocide?
I disagree whole heartedly.
That still wouldn't be a military action against Israel, and no American troops would be in Israel territory.
What you're saying is that Israel would view preventing their genocide against Palestinians as an attack on them and then be "forced" to attack the US troops...
Israel would have to decide if they want to attack US military members to stop aid.
I'm not talking about hiding one soldier in a crate for a "gotcha". I mean a loud and proud military escort of aid. Something that is 100% normal regardless of it's a war zone or not.
I've spent 6 months of my life doing exactly this, lots more doing other stuff in the military.
I know what I'm talking about.
Not to mention, by your logic that would make Bidens plan to build a single pier over two months a military action as well...
You're much closer to openly joining them than engaging against them lol.
Genocide sounds way cuter when you use a children's analogy. We're all adults here so we don't need cutesy analogies though. Joe Biden structured arms deals in a way that wouldn't meet the minimum amount for congressional oversight, in order to enthusiastically deliver weapons being used in a genocide. A genocide that's obvious to us commoners should be fucking pretty obvious to the person with the most military intelligence in the world. So, either he's stupid as fuck, or an evil son of a bitch.
Either way, he needs to face justice.
Not true
Your source?
Pentagon says 2 months:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/08/politics/floating-pier-troops-aid-gaza/index.html
There's a lot we could do. We could end this genocide with one phone call honestly.
The threat of abandoning Israel and withdrawing our forces in the area would make Israel agree to anything. They just know Biden isn't willing to do anything close to that.
We're talking about what Biden is willing to do in the timeline Biden is willing to do it in.
And that's 2 months for the US military to build a pier.
Hell we don't even need a pier.
A LHD has a fucking hovercraft, helicopters, and can hold an insane amount of supplies.
I spent a couple years on one, and even did aid missions like this before.
We might not be able to provide electricity and water without pier connections, but we don't need a pier to provide packaged aid.
I really don't believe that's true. I think Israel's leaders have lost their goddamn minds and they'd be willing to end themselves and the rest of the Middle East in nuclear fire if it came down to it, which it probably would if the U.S. decided to wash their hands of Israel.
If I had to lay a bet, it's that the pier is the beginning of a US outpost in Gaza, as a check to Israeli expansion.
It'll take longer than that, once Israel starts "accidentally" bombing the site lol.
Four downvotes so far by people who literally cannot parse reality
If this were /politics it would be -100 lol.
Technically they don't have to finish the pier, we have vehicles made to transport marines and even tanks from sea to land. Even without our amphibious units, in May 2023 the USA had 3 ships delivering aid to shore in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia in a shorter timespan.