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Sonny Blount

Bimbo has tried to argue this for years. Unfortunately for him, facts dont support his position. He forgets that Covid had a higher infection rate and a higher fatality rate than the flu. It was only once most of the world was vaccinated that we actually saw the fatality rate reduce. And the bigges...

Sonny Blount

When you're a 'chap off the internet' and you find yourself on the oposing side of an argument with the head of Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on a discussion about what does and does not constitute genocide... it's probably time to cut your losses, pack up your sh*t, and g...

Sonny Blount

Turns out it was genocide. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-worlds-top-scholars-on-the-say "An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association have backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet t...

Sonny Blount

Sonny Blount

It's nice that some weren't massacred, or kicked out of their homes and off their land during the formation of Israel. And retained some rights. And it's also nice that Israel can count on your support regardless of what they do. I guess that's your guilty conscience as a European given it was Euro...

Sonny Blount

Is this not akin to the “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend” defence. We aren’t talking about the Arabs who live in Israel, we are talking about the Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza. Who are also Arabs. It's nice that some weren't massacred, or kicked out of their homes and off...

Sonny Blount

This is a really silly distraction, it reflects a trivial mind. If Benjamin Netanyahu never existed. Palestinian Arabs calling themselves Hamas or something else would have attacked Israel on Oct 7. We know this because: 1. Iran was organising the attack, Hamas just f**ked it up 2. Because they hav...

Sonny Blount

Sonny, let's see how truthful you are being. If you're neighbour decided to move into your backyard and dig up everything you've put there, when asked what his reason is, he says it was promised to him in a book that tells a different story to the book you have in your house,would you? A - say that...

Sonny Blount

Why does Israel sabotage every opportunity for Hamas to release the remaining hostages? I’m not sure Bibi wants Hamas to surrender… If they were to go, who would he blame to justify the ongoing war crimes? It’s almost as if being “pro-Israel” is the same as being “pro-Hamas.” No need to deal with a...

Sonny Blount

Sonny, let's see how truthful you are being. If you're neighbour decided to move into your backyard and dig up everything you've put there, when asked what his reason is, he says it was promised to him in a book that tells a different story to the book you have in your house,would you? A - say that...

Sonny Blount

Thomas wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 6:31 am
Sonny Blount wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 5:06 am
Slim 293 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 5:01 am

Which side are we talking about again?
The good guys are the IDF, the baddies are Hamas.
The little kids getting shot in the head are baddies?

No, the Israeli children who were victims on 7/11 were the goodies.

Sonny Blount

The IDF are just a better resourced and more accomplished set of bad guys. They've murdered far more innocents than Hamas has ever managed. Destroyed far more civilian infrastructure. Displaced far more people. Destroyed more homes. And caused far more terror than most, if not all, of the world's t...

Sonny Blount

Why are they shooting kids? Why are they shooting people who are trying to access aid? Because it is a war in an urban environment against an enemy that uses human shields, child soldiers, and allows is citizens to die or suffer for PR purposes. Which side are we talking about again? The good guys ...

Sonny Blount

Why does Israel sabotage every opportunity for Hamas to release the remaining hostages? I’m not sure Bibi wants Hamas to surrender… If they were to go, who would he blame to justify the ongoing war crimes? It’s almost as if being “pro-Israel” is the same as being “pro-Hamas.” No need to deal with a...

Sonny Blount

it's become fairly obvious that the indiscriminate destruction of Gaza is designed to render the place so undesirable a place to stay that whatever option the Israelis come up with as an alternative will look like the better option. then the ethnic cleansing will become "volontary". Its not indiscr...

Sonny Blount

massive_field_goal wrote: ↑Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:16 am That's clearly not the case:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DCQmayWbeY0

70% of pre-war structures are gone. 62% of all homes. Complete destruction.

Would you live there?

It's a coerced ethnic cleansing.

Just surrender.

Sonny Blount

And there is the blatant dishonesty we've come to expect. It's where you have those of us who think honesty is important and that our opinions should be formed by real verifiable facts at a disadvantage. So it is blatant that there is no genocide in Gaza right. That is the only honest position. No-...

Sonny Blount

it's become fairly obvious that the indiscriminate destruction of Gaza is designed to render the place so undesirable a place to stay that whatever option the Israelis come up with as an alternative will look like the better option. then the ethnic cleansing will become "volontary". Its not indiscr...

Sonny Blount

I've seen many cases where it's claimed criticism of Israel is all based on fakes. The vast majority have been debunked fairly easily. And the relatively few cases where it has turned out to be true don't change the fact that the vast majority of criticism of Israel is true and valid, or that Israe...

Sonny Blount

I've seen many cases where it's claimed criticism of Israel is all based on fakes. The vast majority have been debunked fairly easily. And the relatively few cases where it has turned out to be true don't change the fact that the vast majority of criticism of Israel is true and valid, or that Israe...

Sonny Blount

UncleFB wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 10:53 am
towny wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 10:40 am What makes peak Jones better than peak McCaw?
I'd put it this way, not peak Jones after he slowed down a bit due to his injuries is pretty much McCaw.

Peak Jones was the complete rugby player.

McCaw was the greater AB.

Jones in 1987 was the forwards equivalent of Lomu in 1995.

Sonny Blount

But it nice that he managed to find some time to take a break from all that reading he won't share with us. Its so odd you need help to read. No one else I know has needed help. Curious people just do it naturally. Reading is not a problem. It's odd you interpret my post as that. It's locating all ...

Sonny Blount

Eugenius wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:00 pm Sonny pontificates and pretends real world knowledge, he’s actually one of the most locked in non thinkers here .

fudge yeah. I'm locked in on liberty and empiricism.

Sonny Blount

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:06 pm But it nice that he managed to find some time to take a break from all that reading he won't share with us.

Its so odd you need help to read.

No one else I know has needed help. Curious people just do it naturally.

Sonny Blount

All strength to Israel and a swift victory in their war against the barbarian invaders.

Sonny Blount

- Ardie Savea for McCaw (if picked on ability) You are f**king dreaming. Ardie has two tricks. And he is consistent. There are a lot of other holes in his game. Defensively he is below average when compared to the greats of loose forwards in the pro era. His pilfering is average when you are lookin...

Sonny Blount

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360804974/super-rugby

So they are keeping the lucky loser but instead of dropping 1 seed, that team becomes the 4th seeded in the semi-finals.

This looks like a good change, and every permutation I can think of avoids the same teams meeting in the quarters and semis.

Sonny Blount

I saw a commentator say that the Red Roses are the most dominant team in history based on their test ranking score of 97. But they have not beaten the Black Ferns in 8 years and have lost to them twice in that period... what gives? World Rugby make it hard - and their website is useless for results...

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I saw a commentator say that the Red Roses are the most dominant team in history based on their test ranking score of 97.

But they have not beaten the Black Ferns in 8 years and have lost to them twice in that period... what gives?

Sonny Blount

Foundation is partway through series 3. I prefer this TV series to the original books. Asimov had a dull writing style that distracted from his ideas. I'll watch it when it's finished. I also never liked reading his works, despite the ideas It's not good. There is no one to care about in the 'story'.

Sonny Blount

Will Jordan is the only player who would start 10 years ago. It should have been Rieko Ioane at 11 as well but he has flubbed his career. On the bench: Ethan de Groot for Ben Franks Tyrel Lomax for Charlie Faumuina Scott Barrett for Victor Vito Ardie Savea for Sam Cane Cam Roigard for TKB - Ardie S...

Sonny Blount

I'm hoping the Boks continue their insane tactic of occasionally failing to select Handre Pollard at 10. For my money hes the best 10 in the game. The boks with the exception of a Bomb squad player swap or unexpected injury WLeR Canon Moodie De Allende Jesse Kriel Cheslin Kolbe HANDRE' POLLARD Gran...

Sonny Blount

There is very little discussion here about the breakdown in the lineout at the end of the game. Samisoni's balk was right up there with Reece's yellow and Jordan's drops for impact on the result. If we had secured possession from that lineout, we had a good shot at pressuring to score and getting t...

Sonny Blount

https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2025/0825/1530016-gaza-israel/ 5 journalists from 3 different agencies confirmed among the 20 dead at the hospital attack. Anyone with a clue does not take new articles about Israel/Palestine at face value. Only after thorough vetting would I accept a news report...

Sonny Blount

83 tests for the All Blacks at 28. Most rugby players would dream of a career like that. World breakthrough player of the year, fastest AB for 7 straight years. As a winger he could have been an All Black great. He is not. Because he was dropped by Hansen for the 2019 World Cup.. for the mighty Bri...

Sonny Blount

At the risk of repeating myself, we just have to accept the current crop isn't very good. Razor can't polish a turd. Compare this team to the one ten years ago. Would ANY player get in the starting 15? Perhaps Ardie but even that is a tough one because who would you drop for him. Kaino? Probably no...

Sonny Blount

At the risk of repeating myself, we just have to accept the current crop isn't very good. Razor can't polish a turd. Compare this team to the one ten years ago. Would ANY player get in the starting 15? Perhaps Ardie but even that is a tough one because who would you drop for him. Kaino? Probably no...

Sonny Blount

At the risk of repeating myself, we just have to accept the current crop isn't very good. Razor can't polish a turd. Compare this team to the one ten years ago. Would ANY player get in the starting 15? Perhaps Ardie but even that is a tough one because who would you drop for him. Kaino? Probably no...

Sonny Blount

There is very little discussion here about the breakdown in the lineout at the end of the game. Samisoni's balk was right up there with Reece's yellow and Jordan's drops for impact on the result. If we had secured possession from that lineout, we had a good shot at pressuring to score and getting th...

Sonny Blount

I agree with this. The culture around performance and selection seems to have changed. Years ago before we won our second cup performance and selection was more brutal. Then during our golden period a lot of players held positions for a long time and that has merit when a player and team is perform...

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