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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts Yesterday, 11:51 PM
Replies: 139
Views: 1,520
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Worldviews are social constructs pervading social...

Worldviews are social constructs pervading social life. Daniel Boorstin's trilogy, The Discoverers, The Creators and The Seekers, though (logically) infused with his own worldview, one with which one...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 17th March 2024, 08:54 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 2,305
Posted By Hlafordlaes
And THE LAW does not condone, accept or bless a...

And THE LAW does not condone, accept or bless a single Jewish settlement on the West Bank. They are illegal, wrong, and a clear result of Jewish extremist terrorism, even when boiling an egg, as that...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th March 2024, 08:47 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
I think it's time to surrender and slink off. You...

I think it's time to surrender and slink off. You have no idea at all how any of the above "works". And -- time to realize -- whenever you in particular question intelligence, well, it's like Hitler...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th March 2024, 08:41 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Terrorist leaders are not the sum total of active...

Terrorist leaders are not the sum total of active terrorists; in fact, they are a minuscule part. And just how many home-grown terrorists in the US are top dogs? In fact, the US is a perfect counter...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 17th March 2024, 06:39 AM
Replies: 848
Views: 62,674
Posted By Hlafordlaes
I truly hope Vladimir believes that and has no...

I truly hope Vladimir believes that and has no Gripen the situation.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th March 2024, 08:28 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
As with Trump: criminals should not hold office;...

As with Trump: criminals should not hold office; Bibi could see jail if not in power. Single standard. And yes, putting criminals in jail is "freedom interference", and that justifies all...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 15th March 2024, 08:21 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
@OP: How, you ask? By starving the...

@OP: How, you ask?

By starving the population and then:

blocking the entrance of aid ("rogue" Israelis), even aid "approved" for entry
staging an ambush wherever aid is distributed
killing...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 14th March 2024, 12:14 PM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Actually, holocausts should be associated with...

Actually, holocausts should be associated with absolutists. Muslims slaughtered Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks, Marxists have killed by millions, Christians have been especially productive, even...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 14th March 2024, 01:52 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 5,472
Posted By Hlafordlaes
The Illuminati were thoroughly exposed on ISF...

The Illuminati were thoroughly exposed on ISF (https://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=11286855#post11286855) years ago.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 12th March 2024, 06:00 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
I wouldn't self gratify in public, just saying. ...

I wouldn't self gratify in public, just saying.

If I replace 'Israel' with 'Palestine' in terms of who ends up in Sinai, it works 'just fine'. Happens to be current Israeli policy -- complete...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 11th March 2024, 04:57 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Actually, off the table ever since the very first...

Actually, off the table ever since the very first Israeli settlement was established in the West Bank. October 7 was merely one more date in an ongoing ethnic conflict lasting since 1948. Most...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th March 2024, 11:39 AM
Replies: 848
Views: 62,674
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Thread title is "Russia threatens Finland and...

Thread title is "Russia threatens Finland and Sweden", who are NATO members. Trump said he'd let Russia attack NATO members he was displeased with. It is also true that critical aid to Ukraine is...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 9th March 2024, 11:23 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 646
Posted By Hlafordlaes
True. Without atmospheres, unless you are...

True. Without atmospheres, unless you are underground, no protection on planets or planetoids. Linkable modules can move out of the way of incoming ballistic impacts as well as move throughout the...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th March 2024, 07:22 AM
Replies: 848
Views: 62,674
Posted By Hlafordlaes
The European defense and diplomatic communities...

The European defense and diplomatic communities are in full adaptation mode to a post-US world. This is difficult given the fact that (a) ordinary citizens on both sides of the Atlantic are piss-poor...
Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal 9th March 2024, 07:06 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 646
Posted By Hlafordlaes
No FTL travel essentially means quarantine for...

No FTL travel essentially means quarantine for biologicals. The only travel that makes any sense is an attempt to leave a dying home world using generation ships, though in-system planet forming or...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2024, 08:31 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Strong words, indeed. Live genocide occurring...

Strong words, indeed. Live genocide occurring today, there be apologists here. Full stop.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th March 2024, 08:24 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Wonderful non-parallels. Had Germany been...

Wonderful non-parallels. Had Germany been occupied and its governance destroyed, its deeds and titles to property confiscated, and all this for generations prior to starting WWII? Were Germans being...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 6th March 2024, 11:28 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
What an profoundly ridiculous non-rebuttal, and...

What an profoundly ridiculous non-rebuttal, and in fact, affirmation of guilt. Read it and weep, sonny. I'll be laughing for quite some time.




The war started in 1948. Each iteration of...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 6th March 2024, 11:19 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 2,305
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Now add the West Bank to the picture, the Nakba...

Now add the West Bank to the picture, the Nakba in its day, and the creeping ethnic cleansing ever since, 24/7, slow and implacable, like a bulldozer at 1 kph. Is it that denying Palestinians a...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th March 2024, 08:46 PM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Let's see now, just how might we measure "lust...

Let's see now, just how might we measure "lust for blood"? Any helpful suggestions, now that you bring it up? How about body counts of the dead and injured, and head counts of displaced populations?...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 5th March 2024, 08:36 PM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
The conflict is asymmetric. Having no secure way...

The conflict is asymmetric. Having no secure way to create surface defense installations, lacking an air force and air defenses, and no way to meaningfully separate military from civilian areas under...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 4th March 2024, 01:39 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Hamas should release any and all hostages,...

Hamas should release any and all hostages, period. As it is their only negotiating ploy, I'd expect them to do so in exchange for a full flow of humanitarian aid, on a scale equal to or surpassing...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 4th March 2024, 01:21 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
All of Gaza is "residential". One of the most...

All of Gaza is "residential". One of the most densely populated places on the planet, and a land under siege. By definition, any and all Palestinian actions take place behind, in front of and next to...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 4th March 2024, 01:15 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
How is the land grabbed by the British Mandate...

How is the land grabbed by the British Mandate not entirely theirs; that is, the land comprising an area long held by the Turkish Caliphate, and ostensibly to be handed back over by the British to...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 2nd March 2024, 12:57 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
A reasonable position: Jews are humans and...

A reasonable position:
Jews are humans and fully enjoy human rights. Judaism is tribal myth.
Muslims are humans and fully enjoy human rights. Islam is jealous Saudi propaganda.
Christians are...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 2nd March 2024, 12:23 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Abu Ghraib was under complete and total US...

Abu Ghraib was under complete and total US control. No need to strip prisoners naked and play pervie hick games pointing at dicks. A signature moment in history, really, one in which the American...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 1st March 2024, 09:59 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Drawbacks? Examples you cite are all military and...

Drawbacks? Examples you cite are all military and geostrategic losses.
Kill more? Yes, but as a measure of success, this implies genocide is best.
Massive firepower? Too high a civilian to enemy...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 1st March 2024, 06:08 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
I would expect the occupying force to deploy...

I would expect the occupying force to deploy enough manpower to guarantee delivery of food and other essentials to all civilians now at their complete mercy. This incident was entirely foreseeable...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 29th February 2024, 11:59 AM
Replies: 448
Views: 19,717
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Might have already been reported, but the reason...

Might have already been reported, but the reason why some alloys do not expand upon heating ("invars") has been confirmed to be owed to changed electron spins owing to increased spacing, creating...
Forum: USA Politics 29th February 2024, 09:52 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 544
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Voted "complete waste of time" while mentally...

Voted "complete waste of time" while mentally adding "in the era of know-nothing, bow-to-anything Trumplings".
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 26th February 2024, 01:38 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Ummm.... in Gaza, what "free space" is both...

Ummm.... in Gaza, what "free space" is both available and secure enough for Hamas to store or stage weapons?

This business of "Hamas is among the civilians, so we can hammer them all, all day" is...
Forum: USA Politics 26th February 2024, 01:19 AM
Replies: 246
Views: 4,925
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Nah. Alex Jones has already taken that prize,...

Nah. Alex Jones has already taken that prize, unless you consider Fox News' loss for lying, or Mike Lindell's, or that of any Trump lawyer. Giuliani's guilty judgement is another nail in the coffin...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 25th February 2024, 10:47 AM
Replies: 601
Views: 8,220
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Lawrence of Arabia. Helped overthrow the Ottoman...

Lawrence of Arabia. Helped overthrow the Ottoman Empire. Then came Sykes-Picot, the British Mandate, then the Zionist revolt via terror and the Nakba, then ... and then... and then... Meanwhile,...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 23rd February 2024, 07:29 PM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Spoken like a true Andy Ogles fangirl. Flaunting...

Spoken like a true Andy Ogles fangirl. Flaunting it, are we? It is you who rightfully holds life and death power over millions, and they must obey your lordly commands or die, that it? "They have no...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 23rd February 2024, 08:35 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Whether or not Islamic fundies would ever "turn...

Whether or not Islamic fundies would ever "turn to the light of reason" is of course highly debatable. The point, however, is that by our reasoning, they have a completely legitimate grievance, a...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 21st February 2024, 04:12 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
There is no peace plan, there never was. There is...

There is no peace plan, there never was. There is no vision, no policy, that is not the Zionist pursuit of Greater Israel. Palestinians should leave, or die. That is the plan, the only plan. Everyone...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 21st February 2024, 04:12 AM
Replies: 431
Views: 5,668
Posted By Hlafordlaes
There is no peace plan, there never was. There is...

There is no peace plan, there never was. There is no vision, no policy, that is not the Zionist pursuit of Greater Israel. Palestinians should leave, or die. That is the plan, the only plan. Everyone...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 19th February 2024, 04:42 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,213
Posted By Hlafordlaes
It is a real problem. In my own endeavors, there...

It is a real problem. In my own endeavors, there is a claim out there that a powdered metal application technology is capable of making extremely advanced alloys on the fly. Sure, there's some...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 14th February 2024, 01:45 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
And you'd be wrong again. Much of Catholicism, in...

And you'd be wrong again. Much of Catholicism, in spite of a decent Pope, is where Mussolini and Franco supporters were just before, during, and after the Holocaust. Been like that for a good while....
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 12th February 2024, 07:27 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Interesting. Almost as interesting as dropping...

Interesting. Almost as interesting as dropping 2,000 lb bombs on Israeli-declared safe zones, or being forced to drink sea water, or having no place at all to return to, or even to turn to. What was...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 12th February 2024, 01:29 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
You mean a world without cultural blinders? I...

You mean a world without cultural blinders? I understand your shock, leading to the non-sequitur.
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 12th February 2024, 01:27 AM
Replies: 191
Views: 3,765
Posted By Hlafordlaes
"What 'arsenal of democracy'?" is the question...

"What 'arsenal of democracy'?" is the question the Trump-leery free world now asks. 'Arsenal', yes, but given its heavy misuse since Reagan, or 'Nam if you like, it is exactly what Eisenhower warned...
Forum: USA Politics 11th February 2024, 12:37 AM
Replies: 348
Views: 6,575
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Aside: Which is why one of the hottest topics in...

Aside: Which is why one of the hottest topics in Europe right now is how to become geostrategically and militarily independent of the US, not only because of Trump, but because of deglobalization....
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 10th February 2024, 09:53 PM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Not a war between nation states. Israel is an...

Not a war between nation states. Israel is an occupying force on land that is not its own. Facing it is an array of opposition forces, from those using argument based on law to those adopting terror...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 10th February 2024, 09:43 PM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Gaza is not a country; it is a controlled...

Gaza is not a country; it is a controlled territory lacking full sovereignty, effectively permanently occupied, as is the West Bank. Hamas is an organization, Palestinians are a people, the two are...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 9th February 2024, 11:03 PM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Funny how all those countries in WWII also wanted...

Funny how all those countries in WWII also wanted to expel the invader, and accepted nothing but a return of all stolen land and property, among other corrective measures. The did not want peace with...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 8th February 2024, 01:24 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Zionism, in intent and practice, is terrorism; it...

Zionism, in intent and practice, is terrorism; it is the policy to take by force land whose Hebrew titles and deeds expired under the Roman empire, and to do so using multiple acts of terror,...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 3rd February 2024, 02:29 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Let me FTFY. The obvious first step is to...

Let me FTFY.

The obvious first step is to get rid of the Zionists. Since it's obvious that the settlers are clamoring for the mythical Greater Israel, and their Judeo-Christian fascist state...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 31st January 2024, 05:08 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Good point. Gaza does not and has not possessed...

Good point. Gaza does not and has not possessed most any of the traits of statehood on any score since the founding of the state of Israel, including that of raising and fielding defense forces,...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 19th January 2024, 05:11 AM
Replies: 4,025
Views: 84,698
Posted By Hlafordlaes
Give it a break, do your homework, and spare us...

Give it a break, do your homework, and spare us the non sequiturs.
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