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This thread is about Israeli operations against Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies.

Isn’t it obvious, though? The best way to stop bullying is to force those being bullied to surrender their rights, their lunch money, and just give in to whatever is being demanded of them. Duh. That’s just logic, yo. What hurts my brain is how so many people are so completely aligned with this type of ignorant thinking.

The election is a month away and they’ve already filed hundreds of challenges to the results in those aforementioned courts

You know what else people call a “movement?” It’s that thing we do in the morning after a cup of coffee. The overlap in this particular Venn diagram is significant now that I think about it.

… because easy lies are easier for you to accept than hard truths

America voted for a woman by a margin of 3 Million votes in 2016. America voted against Trump by more than 7 Million votes in 2020. America will almost certainly vote again for a woman (K.Harris) by an equally absurd margin in these next 4 weeks. “America” isn’t the problem. The electoral college putting so much disproportionate power into the hands of around a dozen voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan is.

Until the very next morning, of course. Reality check from Axios: It was a strategic play to appeal to moderates during the debate and throw Walz off his game (as he prepared for attack dog Vance, not midwest nice Vance). But it was another lie, in essence, like much of what he said during the debate itself (like that comment about a Fed study saying housing prices were higher due to illegal immigrants or that Trump defended Obamacare, for example).

Since you seem to put so much faith in your cloudy crystal ball, how about you instead share something more useful than a blinkered uninformed partisan opinion... maybe something like next weeks lottery numbers? Such simplistic answers are for seriously deluded simpletons. Alas, you're hardly alone. Such a shame.

It seems clear the intent here is drive views to a video, not to learn, engage, or correct misunderstandings.

I suspect part of it too is the Ayatollah is really old and no longer totally in charge. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if his mind is ailing/failing, lieutenants below him are making these kinetic decisions, and there are quite likely some rather bitter power struggles happening in real-time in Tehran regarding who will takeover as his successor.

A large part of it is more emotional than strategic IMO, plus bowing to internal pressures not to look weak. Israel has been humiliating them and also Iran hadn’t yet responded to the killing of Hamas leader Haniyeh inside the country a few weeks ago. Then they killed Nasrallah in Beruit a few days ago. If I had to guess, timing was due to the ground incursion into Lebanon making Iran look even smaller and weaker, plus Bibi yesterday in X saying that “regime change in Tehran is imminent” implying he plans to send troops into Iran next. That’s the sort of thing that gets under peoples skin especially when they’re already pissed off, and internal political pressures to hit back hard are surely at a boiling point.

When demand exceeds supply's slender frame, Price gouging inflates costs, exploiting the gain. This unfair practice takes advantage of need, Leaving consumers with a financial bleed. Scalpers, too, resell at excessive rates, Buying low, selling high, with profiteering weights. Price fixing, a collusive, hidden scheme, Undermines competition, harming consumers' dream. Laws step in to protect and defend, Consumers' rights, a fair market to amend. These practices harm families, with unfair might, Laws ensure fairness, protecting what’s right.

I like to think my kids bedrooms are chaotic, and that has nothing to do with chaos theory either. You’re a ridiculous human.

Even more annoying to me is how commonly poorly informed voters simplistically assign blame to US Presidents for high fuel costs, but both of us are now venturing off topic on this front.

Sometimes is simplified as an assumption fallacy

Fallacy of unwarranted assumption https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119165811.ch100

You are clearly correct that in purely capitalistic terms where ALL that matters is the ability to maximize profits…be damned any consequences doing so might create… and in those narrowly focused terms we can all agree that folks gouging prices during times of shortage and emergency are behaving exactly as they should and completely inline with expectations. However, you’re ignoring a few important things by proceeding in this way. Consider for a moment how thinking along these lines in other contexts might play out. IMO this more easily illustrates why we might consider choosing a different better informed path. For example, let’s make a similar argument in context of evolution and local governance. Let’s assume your neighbor is bigger and stronger and owns more guns than you do. Let’s assume he steals from you, takes your food, your car, and rapes your wife whenever he feels like it. Following your logic, that should be perfectly allowed and celebrated all because you were too weak to stop them. Or let’s assume maybe that a local militia or gang kidnaps and enslaves your children and sends them to work in mines and forced sex clubs so they can use them to further increase their own wealth. We don’t have to try too hard to imagine these things bc in many areas of the world that is exactly what happens every day. According to your logic they should be allowed to do this because they are more powerful and it’s completely up to the weak to raise themselves up by their bootstraps and overcome this oppression. It’s just survival of the fittest after all, right? Well, okay. Maybe. Let’s assume you’re right and that we should allow those things to happen. But guess what? What you ignore is that the weak DID join together and rise up. The weak DID collaborate and find ways to end that type of oppression and corruption. The weak DID implement laws to protect the masses from being taken advantage of and DID implement measures for the good of those who couldn’t defend themselves alone… measures focusing on fostering a healthier broader more cohesive society. So… Laws were implemented to protect children from being enslaved. Laws were implemented to punish those who steal from their neighbors or inflict violence on the spouses and loved ones of those neighbors. These laws allow society as a whole to function better, to expand and grow more sustainably, and to ensure we don’t all exist in some Mad Max style every man for himself hellscape controlled solely by the strongest and most violent gangs among us. And we did this ALSO in our economy where we punish the biggest and the strongest market players for price gouging, and we did it for the same or similar reasons. Sure, the strongest gangs… erm, I mean companies…could do and take whatever they want whenever they want, but we’ve decided as a people NOT to allow this. This decision has led to our continued advancement as a species where a rising tide lifts all boats; where the pie gets bigger and we all get a larger piece of it together. We’ve implemented a governance structure to prioritize certain norms and mores over others, and one of those norms is that the biggest gang or company should NOT be allowed to ride rough shod unabated on the backs of the weak. Often the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, or the one… and this is especially true in context of price gouging. This point seems so self-evident to me that one wonders if failing to see it may be due to some anti-social tendencies.

Like drinking water and plywood during a category 5 hurricane, or heating oil during a several weeks long winter blizzard, or food during a wartime occupation by an enemy? Simplistic indeed if you could’ve even conceive of these simple examples.

No true Scotsman fallacy

Members here would prefer if you ended with this instead of littering the site with thread after thread after thread exemplifying the way god fogs rot human brains.

Yes. All companies want a monopoly for a product which the public cannot survive without. They will seek to use levers of government to prioritize their own profits and alter the landscape so it’s hard to the point of impossible for competitors to even enter the market. But the real world is far more complex and simplistic labels never adequately describe how it works. These labels are usually introduced by simple people making simplistic ideological points regardless of their validity or utility.

The evidence gathered since paints an entirely different picture. From multiple sources since federal prosecutors have become involved: “Prosecutors presented evidence, including a handwritten note from the suspect that read in part: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.” Investigators said the 58-year-old man spent a month surveilling the golf course, before choosing to position himself near the sixth hole with a semiautomatic rifle. Investigators found his fingerprint on the weapon, along with a handwritten list of Trump’s scheduled appearances, multiple cellphones, gloves, and a passport in his SUV, according to prosecutors.”

The main benefit is you can quickly tell which one is sending the alert by naming them clearly. Hugely helpful in multi-story homes with kids. You can also get a heads up when battery is low (instead of that incessant beep) which is nice, and can be alerted to trouble even when not at home. You can also choose to temporarily disable it if for example you know the smoke will pass in 3-5 minutes once your stir fry is finished 😉

Can purchase ones controllable via app

I strongly suspect their positions and your position overlap far more than you’re making it seem.