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- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Re: Israel declares state of war
How far back to we go back to establish who is the aggressor? The terrorist acts that were part of the process that led to the formation of Israel? The Massacre of civilians by Israeli forces in 1948 where villages were found dead with their hands bound? Where young women and girls as young as 14 we...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Notice they say that about links which do not support their world view or political position. Bullshit is the right descriptor. No, it's more about sharing obviously fake social media information that... Surprise! Is fake. Who would've thought random Twitter profile acquired exclusive video of that...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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No worries. And I agree, their underlying goal is unlikely to have changed.
Not really a surprise that terrorist politicians are at least as untrustworthy as normal ones.
Not really a surprise that terrorist politicians are at least as untrustworthy as normal ones.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Causality figures and their reliability were discussed a while back. They were compared against figures from independent agencies such as aid organisations including scaling up the losses those organisations have reported losing from their own staff. It was also noted that as of several weeks again ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Terrorism has consequences and picking a fight with someone who can and will kick your ass is a lesson that should not have to be learned ad infinitum. Here is a news flash that should be common knowledge in those parts .....leave Israel the fck alone. Oct 7th will never be forgotten or glossed ove...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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How the fvck is this still in there?: "So help me God." That's where I'd draw the line if ever elected as an MP. The Parliament Oath of Allegiance has become a topic of discussion every 3 years. It's such an antiquated, Game of Throne type 'bend the knee and ki!ss my royal ass' oath, that I'm surpr...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:16 am
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- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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https://x.com/UKikaski/status/1731482289048100907?s=20 I sleep just fine. If we are judging "humanity", start here. I expected as much. Can't judge humanity if you don't have it. Terrorism has consequences and picking a fight with someone who can and will kick your ass is a lesson that should not h...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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You accuse others of trolling after that post above. Crikey , you’re devoid of self awareness. This reply doesn't make the choice between a moronic level of comprehension failure or a sad pathetic troll any easier. As I said, the only troll here in this exchange is you. You made a disgraceful comme...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Wow. Genuinely no depth people won’t plummet to in excusing horrific massacre. Wow. I beginning to think you truely do have a complete comprehension fail and are disconnected from reality. Still, that's better than just being a sad pathetic troll which is the other option. You accuse others of trol...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Maybe we should call the "kids" who were killed at the music festival army reservists given most were over 18 iirc and Israel's mandatory military service. In the interest of accuracy. Mad that anyone would seriously play around with such semantics just to justify the unjustifiable. :( Wow. Genuine...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Maybe we should call the "kids" who were killed at the music festival army reservists given most were over 18 iirc and Israel's mandatory military service. In the interest of accuracy.
Mad that anyone would seriously play around with such semantics just to justify the unjustifiable.
Mad that anyone would seriously play around with such semantics just to justify the unjustifiable.
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 3:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Rule one of being a wind up merchant is that you're supposed to wind up others, not yourself.
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 3:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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So hindsight is a wonderful thing (propaganda :lol: Pearl Harbor, tet offensive, Iran revolution, 9/11 - the world is littered with intelligence failures and no one is infallible. Israel will conduct a review and address these failures The fact that Hamas trained to carry out these atrocities and t...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Isn't there a conspiracy theorist thread where all the loonies can jerk each other off without trying to indoctrinate everyone else? They don't realise that all these crazy conspiracy theories are actually put out there by the government to keep them occupied so they don't notice what's really goin...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Isn't there a conspiracy theorist thread where all the loonies can jerk each other off without trying to indoctrinate everyone else? They don't realise that all these crazy conspiracy theories are actually put out there by the government to keep them occupied so they don't notice what's really goin...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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By "open minded" is Spinny saying the side of his skull is open and his brain has fallen out?
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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- Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Nice. So not only should landlord pay tax on profits they've yet to make, theu should pass on savings that haven't yet been put in place. When does that tax rebate kick in? Is it before I have to pay my next tax bill? Have the other costs such as insurance and rates, repairs and maintenance gone up ...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Mr Mike wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:44 amShort Man Syndrome wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:06 am 'real Americans' - you mean the deplorables, right? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Strangely, it looks like Hamas mostly campaigned back in 2005 on ending corruption, and getting a better outcome with Israel for Gazans and not just death to all Jews.
Sadly they haven't done either of those things. Nor given Gazans an opportunity to vote again.
Sadly they haven't done either of those things. Nor given Gazans an opportunity to vote again.
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Are the tax "breaks" for landlords being mentioned just being able to claim interest as a tax deductible expense again? Something every other business can currently do? Is it really a business though? People with businesses have other things they must do, such as depreciation, busi9ness tax rates o...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Can we get a list of responsibilities Gazinians are being absolved of?
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Re: NZ Politics Thread
Are the tax "breaks" for landlords being mentioned just being able to claim interest as a tax deductible expense again? Something every other business can currently do?
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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They killed roughly 5 times as many civilians as they captured as hostages (brutally torturing many of them for fun in the process), so no not really. So by your own maths they could easily have increased their death toll by about 20%. You know I'm taking the piss out of those who say Israel does "...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Not killing as many civilians as you could is not the same as doing everything possible to to avoid killing civilians. It's not even close. Hamas took hostages rather than killing absolutely everyone they could have. By the logic of many here that's minimising civilian casualties... They killed rou...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 6:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Not killing as many civilians as you could is not the same as doing everything possible to to avoid killing civilians. It's not even close.
Hamas took hostages rather than killing absolutely everyone they could have. By the logic of many here that's minimising civilian casualties...
Hamas took hostages rather than killing absolutely everyone they could have. By the logic of many here that's minimising civilian casualties...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Re: NZ Politics Thread
What's killing a few thousands a year matter against appeasing the tobacco lobby? Don't forget our $20 tax cut. It's a game changer I was finding the discussion of “cuts” confusing because the National policy explicitly pushed any cut in the marginal tax rates out to after the next election. Having...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:11 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
I don't see anyone in here talking about the voting machines in Pennsylvania that flipped votes for judges https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-election-voting-machines-votes-flipping-1aede0966e0c418b4efbbb36b513acef https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/voting-machine-error-caused-votes...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Watching a story at the moment about 2 young men / boys shot in the west bank. A 16 year riding a motorbike near a settlement who then bled out when Israeli forces blocked an ambulance from attending. And an 18 year old shot in his own bedroom, and was also denied medical care and died as a result. ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 4:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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I haven't heard the official rationale behind the policy change pertaining to cigarettes. However, all of the public health stats that I've seen tells me that it makes more economical sense for the population not to smoke cigarettes. I can only assume the policy change is due more to a liberal phil...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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I see you deleted your post Eugenius but I will post my answer anyway. No, I don't get why Hamas would do this. I don't get why the people of Gaza support Hamas in such large numbers when they do this to them. I also don't get why so many places over there go to battle with Israel knowing they will...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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So if you started smoking before a certain date you could continue afterwards? How does that work? Surely you can move them all (bar a few extreme cases perhaps) onto some kind of nicotine replacement program?
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
And who was the cry baby that got myself banned for name calling. I assume if I got a ban others In this thread were also banned. Typical left wingers using the bureaucratic institutions to ban and silent speech rather than confront the words with better words... A little rich coming from someone w...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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The only thing I've seen about it was the end of an interview with Luxon saying something about it not making sense that a 36 year would be able to smoke and a 35 year wouldn't. No idea what the context of that was. Sounded a bit bizarre.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
I've learned to take the NYT with a dose of salt, however they're reporting Nikki's getting a fair bit of attention from Republican heavy-weight donors. I suspect she could beat Bidden if there was anyway past Trump. Yep, I'd say biden is goosed against absolutely anyone but Trump. Not being Trump ...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
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Are they just looking at how much tax revenue it generates without looking at the cost at the other end?Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:13 am So, correct me if I"m wrong but I don't recall any of National, NZF or ACT actually having removing the Smokefree legislation as a policy during the election? So who's idea is it?
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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Eug, that might just be the way the quote function now works. Doesn't seem to allow more than 3 previous posts.
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 10:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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Pray tell, why would my head be up there? If it was the view would probably still be better than the inside of Spinbad's head. The view :lol: oh why do I think that show suits you perfectly!! I bet you watch Rachael MadCow and hang onto your seat when Joyce Reid comes on you absolute fu'cking wuss!...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 6:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
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- Views: 862209
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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