Not the nuclear site itself, in fact. Israel, in a brilliant display of hotspur, targeted the missile defence system that protects the nuclear site. So, the dialogue of the last few weeks can be summised as follows Israel assassinate Zahedi while he thinks he's safe in the fake consulate: "We're pi...

That it isn't a fact is Jamie's opinion That it is a fact is Fritz's opinion One of those opinions happens to be true, but it is a fact that regardless of how strongly those opinions are held it is not possible to conclusively prove which one is correct. I by and large disagree. It is entirely poss...

The assumption is that they are needed, Pride events can't police themselves, or don't have their own arrangements. If a gay cop wants to take off their uniform and attend pride, that is sligthly different (though I know some would oppose that aswell). Strategically there is definitely a Queer and a...

Police and corporations using these events to make themselves look good is not particularly new. Is there a queer counter movement protesting this?

Seems likely that anarchists would hang around these kinds of groups, but I don't know anything about anarchist in Australia.

Iran made a complete pig's ear of its response. But if it were to attack an Israeli - US meeting that would be a massive strategic mistake and unleash a world of pain on another level, which is why they're not going to do it. On this we are agreed. But it is not a moralistic position (unless you be...

So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens? What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza? The US and th...

Or maybe Iran provoked Israel by sponsoring a terror group that murdered 1,000+ civilians last fall? Or the decades of support for Hamas and Hezbollah? Or their stated aim to get nuclear weapons and use them to finish what Hitler started? Obviously Israel isn't blameless here but it's ridiculous to...

So Israel provoked Iran by bombing their Embassy, what is the appropriate level of responce to someone blowig up your embassy and killing your citizens?

What would the US or UK do in these circumstances? How has this changed the media narratives /likely good of further deaths in Gaza?

There remains to this day a significant religious minority in Israel which has a particular direction they are pushing policy. I am not claiming they are the only force in Israeli politics, but they are significant. Being that my point was religion and conflict can go hand-in-jand, especially since ...

If you want to talk about the bible then create a thread about it. If you want to talk about the one state which is controlled by right wing, some would say extremists, adherents of the Jewish faith, using their past to justify committing genocidal acts against an oppressed population. Then by all m...

If the option was "do nothing and watch deaths mount" or "try rolling out a vaccine to as many people as possible" which would you choose? Given that the vaccine had some effects, it did also have risks, but they were lower than the risk of catching covid at the time, so vaccinations everyone instea...

Is the Right Wing fascination actually not so much about the state, it is about having a single strong leader, which they see as able to do no wrong? Like cult worship? It is fascist leaning (also an ideology associated with authoritianism) rather than Communist Authoritarian. But it follows all the...

That said "Comminism" explicitly has only ever been formed by revolution taking power and redistributing wealth, usually in the name of the people but actually in practice the state was the main beneficiary, and the party/state. One party states tend towards authoritarian, though examples like the S...

Let's be clear, any economic model can be authoritarian. Like a monarch with complete control of the state. They could implement whatever type of system they wanted for the economy. That said, a system where the monarchy retains power has to take into account the material reality of that state. Cont...

You appear to be confused, Brainbomb. Russia today is not communist or socialist at all. The USSR ceased to exist in 1991. Putin's Government is quite conservative and has much in common with US Republicanism, in fact. I was under the impression that Russia is still run by Oligarchs or an Authorita...

If you want to discuss the past litics of the bible, feel free to create a thread, and we can focus on bashing the bible bashers there.

That is off topic for this thread.

Small difference? It went from a clear majority (45 to 38) in favour of national service to an even clearer majority (48 to 34) against. A 21 point swing is pretty significant in any context, and if error bars are big enough to hide it then it's pointless doing any polling at all. Elections are typ...

with the downside risk that Trump actually achieves some of his plainly stated goals (an end to rule of law vis-a-vis the President, an end to term limits, etc.) I'd actually really like to see where Trump has said these things. People talk about it all the time, but he didn't do it when he was Pre...

Enjoyable, very small difference though.

How big do you think the error bara are?

Can we compare the same question to just asking 5 unrelated questions in advance of the final ones?

No one? That seems odd in itself. You do not get to be a prominent Russian politician by being nice. He may well have been a better man than Putin (which is a very low bar) and he was certainly charismatic, but I struggle to believe fully in the saint like champion of western style democracy narrat...