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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So eventually Israel will genocide everyone else and itself?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Research friendly fire incidents and the Hannibal directive in the IDF. No one kills Jews more efficiently than Israel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can think of one group of people who did, but as for killing Israelis, no one does it better than Israel for sure.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm talking current times, not historically.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay then preface it next time, because other wise 'no one' just means 'no one'

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kills = present tense

Killed = past tense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Thats because the tense has to agree with the subject, subject being Israel in present times, it doesn't necessarily mean that the 'no one' means 'no on in present times'. No where in grammer does verb tense indicate anything other than the subjects time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is wrong on so many levels that I hope you are joking.

Verbs agree in person and number with the subject. "no one" is 3. person singular. Subjects don't have time. Only verbs have tense.

If subjects had tense and "no one" was present, then the sentence would still be present. In that case, you would need to use the past form of "no one" to indicate tense.

Rereading your comment: Israel isn't the subject.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What is the past form of 'no one' oh right, its still 'no one' so OPs intent to exclude the past isn't clear. 'is killing' is the conjugation to use if you want to exclude the past, literally what it's there for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You convinced me that you're just stupid. Subjects don't have tense, it's the verb that carries that information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're the one who brought up the what if subjects have tense statement, not me. You've convinced me you just want to argue semantically. It's still not clear that OP wants to exclude the past otherwise they would have used 'is killing' instead of 'kills'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You said:

Thats because the tense has to agree with the subject

I said that (1.) this is wrong and (2.) even if it was right, your statement was still wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its funny you wont respond to my argument where I say if OP wanted to exclude the past without saying so they should have used 'is killing' instead of 'kills' because 'is killing' necessary excluds the past, but 'kills' does not. Third time the cham though so I made the whole comment about it this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that:

"No one kills more efficiently" includes all past events.

"No one is killing more efficiently" would be the proper way to exclude past events.

But I have a few questions about that:

  1. Does that mean that the phrase "No one has killed more efficiently" is the same as "No one kills more efficiently"?
  2. Would it be proper to say "No one is killing more efficiently" even if they are not currently killing at this exact moment, but just in recent history?
  3. If I say "No one speaks Ancient Greek", am I incorrect? Is it fair to correct me with "Actually, the Greeks of 1000 BC speak Ancient Greek"?
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im saying that it's ambiguous, the way I phrased it was it doesn't necessarily exclude the past. When you add the word ancient to the example about speaking greek you're adding additional context, no one does ancient anything because that word necessarily implies the thing isn't done anymore. I asked for more context from op to avoid misunderstanding and you made and example of how that would work and why its important.

Also since the greek example wasn't a comparison like what I responded to we could make it one and see how that looks too.

"No one speaks Ancient Greek as efficiently as the Language Majors"

Would it be unfair to comment that maybe the Acient Greeks did?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thats [sic] presently because the tense presently has to agree with the subject, subject presently being Israel in present times, it doesn't necessarily presently mean that the 'no one' presently means 'no on in present times'. No where in grammer [sic] does verb tense presently indicate anything other than the subjects [sic] time.

Clarified so no one would presently confuse your statement to refer presently to Old English.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascism has to create new enemies to remain relevant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Netanyahu knew about Hamas militants moving funds from Iran and Egypt warned him about the impending attack, but he did nothing. I suppose he was preoccupied with containing protests against his judicial reforms but he may have thought letting Hamas to thrive in order to justify his fascism will do him favours. And boy he was wrong! As much as Israel have gone further right, at least they did not let themselves be hoodwinked and many ordinary Israelis have gone back to the streets to protest against Netanyahu and his failure to prevent the attack by Hamas. The opposition will have easy victory in the next election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He does not need to lose the next election. He needs to be behind bars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think he ignored the warnings on purpose to wage this total war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He was definitely betting on stoking nationalism to flare up and create smoke to cover his corruption.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

They definitely have nukes, so it's on the table.