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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

hormuz.pythonic.ninja

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Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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post #274

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What I have said has nothing to do with the paradox of tolerance. I am firmly on the side of not tolerating the intolerant, but stating that, "not tolerating" does not extend to "starting wars in an attempt at world conquest to rid the world of the intolerant".

If "not tolerating the intolerant" is not actionable, it is just mindless rhetoric.

It is actionable. That action is simply not "world conquest", jesus fucking christ. Is America itself a society in which the intolerant have no power? No, it is not. Maybe first it could think about clearing things up in its own borders before trying to use that excuse to invade the whole goddamn world. Indeed it is the intolerant who currently have power in the US. You seem to be projecting your own desire for invading Iran, which is completely incompatible with the people in power's actual reason for invading Iran. They are not invading Iran to make life better for Iranians. But you believe invading Iran to make life better for Iranians is justified, so you lend your support to the current administration, even though that is explicitly not what is going to happen as a result of your support. You are, in short, a useful idiot[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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post #88

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That's it? Momentary gasoline price is all that matters now? Not geopolitical interests, alliances, _Doing The Right Thing_? If that's the only angle you care about, then US subduing the Iranian regime would go a long way to de-facto dissolving OPEC and bring much more flexibility to oil prices.

What part of "doing the right thing" is bombing an all girls school?

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Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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post #242

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Anything other than lily white is brown, don't you know? More so if they're sitting on top of a bunch of oil, or have the wrong religion, or just happen to be born in the wrong spot. Racism isn't necessarily perfectly confined to color, it's just a convenient shorthand so people can do what they want to do anyway.

I'd love to read a proper analysis on Americans reducing race and racism to colouring books with pretty little lines. I did read one recently, but it put the onus for it entirely on BLM (since it was focused on a global scale), despite the phenomenon being far older than them. I do sometimes wonder how Americans would react if I told them the palest person I know is Iraqi.

It's statistics, not individuals. And I don't think BLM has anything to do with it other than that it is something that some people apparently find psychologically hard to deal with because they have arranged their lives in such a way that they only have 'whites' in their close environment. You can tell they misunderstood because of how it almost immediately led to 'Blue Lives Matter' and 'All Lives Matter' respectively.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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post #220

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Iran has indicated they will only target ships tied to countries that are involved in the conflict. That likely means US and Israel. Unclear if countries like the UK that are facilitating the US through use of their bases would be considered legitimate targets (likely yes).

That's not how mines work. They don't only explode on people you want them to explode on.

That’s not fundamental to how mines work. You could arm/disarm them remotely, either manually or via transponder. But I assume most mines are not like this.

Re: Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

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I don't even know who that is

If only there was a way to search for information when you were unfamiliar with a subject rather than showing your willingness to attempt an argument willfully ignorant by not doing a 10 second search.
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