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  • Project 2025's unpopularity continues to grow: New poll shows 57% with unfavorable views of it compared to only 4% favorable

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  • You hit the nail on the head. Fans.

    They support the team even when it loses. Never mind It's their own rights and lives that are being lost. Gang gang gang.

  • Project 2025's unpopularity continues to grow: New poll shows 57% with unfavorable views of it compared to only 4% favorable

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  • No.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • I don't find it ridiculous at all to prevent a fledgling democracy, the only one for a thousand miles in any direction, and our ally, from being overrun by radical pan-Islamism, which is antithetical to human and civil rights, and an ideology that needs to be left in the trash heap of history. Literally has no place in modern society. In fact, I find the future of the world's democracies to be closely tied to the good fortune of all mankind

    Check the signatories to South Africa's complaint to the UN. With the exception of South Africa and Ireland, every one of them is a far right theocracy with either a dictator or monarchy in charge, zero recognition for basic human rights. Check the complaint: filled of circular reasoning and citations to unsourced Al Jazeera articles. See if they can prove up their claims when the evidentiary trial take place. Got a whole long list of unverified allegations from Qatari state run media and practically nothing else.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • Blah blah blah everything I don't like is evil.

    No, these are the evil people, violent religious extremists. Launching thousands of rockets a month indiscriminately at civilians. That's the atrocity. Spending all that money on rockets while their own people are malnourished and uneducated because every every institution and natural resources was converted to instrumentalities of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism. Grow up.

    As long as the people don't get killed by bombs, your fine with how they live their lives; no civil rights, no human rights, no legit legal system, no social safety nets, rule by assassination. Go over to to these places you are about so deeply and suggest they have an election. See if you don't literally get stoned to death for infidelity to the word of an imaginary god. That's evil.

    It's not millions of people living and dying, generation after generation, knowing nothing but hopelessness and anger, wrought on them by their own deranged leadership, and their own deranged world view. That, you'e fine with continuing, just as long as you don't have to see it in the news. I think that makes you not just evil, but also ignorant and shortsighted. Childish really.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • True. they certainly were countries.

    When it's your neighbor, though, and they launch 1,000 rockets at you every month, your assessment of the situation will probably be most up to date. The land is your border, after all. And if lawlessness spills over, That certainly can be cause for just war.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • ?

    Too bad Israel has a far-right government in charge that won't do anything to stop these illegal settlements. I hope they get thrown out in the next election.

    There is zero hope the far right leadership gets voted out in any of the territory at issue except Israel, so that's worth nurturing, not smothering in its crib.

    Under Trump the US for the first time ever declared many of the settlements LEGAL. Just another of the ways Trump contradicted long-standing foreign policy.

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • Good form.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • I'm not a translator but I'm not going to read into that one noun form. The next sentence refers to certain areas within their borders, and everyone knows exactly where he's talking about. For the last year there's been 1,000 rockets a month launched indiscriminately at Israel. Not hard to step out where they're coming from, right? Before that, it was dozens, hundreds, or sometimes also tousands, months to month.

    I'm sure you can find some maps of territory held by terrorists in the region and which countries sponsor and ally with them, and which ones designate them as such. Terrorists don't get to have a state.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • Lol.

    No. The men that run these places want to live like it's the year 800. They struggle because they govern by assassination and religious fiat. More power to them; world needs all types. Really just two rules, though: don't try and export any of that bullshit or force it on anyone else, and at least, make a good faith effort to take care of the basic needs of the people: some public or subsidized utilities and infrastructure for food, water, and energy, some form of a healthcare system, and some system of law that's at least capable of protecting human rights of the people, capable of policing corruption and conflicts of interest. Far right, extreme religious monarchies and dictatorships, have a real hard time with both rules; especially extremists don't wear uniforms and who use women and kids as cannon fodder. If they can't project any legitmate justice and peace to the territory they claim, and it gets overrun with armed religious psychopaths on a pan-national religious conquest, that's fair game for military action.

    Like, it's not trespassing to go onto your neighbor's land, right up to the front door, break it down with an axe while screaming, and then blast everyone inside with water, if'n their house is on fire and spreading to yours. This is natural law, no?

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • I doubt it. Annoying dogs have annoying owners. My dogs have all been chill af.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • As I understand it, some of the settlers have a little military training, but mostly they are as you would expect, very uneducated poor people from very remote places who don't know anything else, and that's on both sides of the borders. Too bad Israel has a far-right government in charge that won't do anything to stop these illegal settlements. I hope they get thrown out in the next election.

  • Israeli diaspora minister says Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not a real countries.

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  • It's not the country's he's talking about. It's the little areas of remote territory along Israel's borders, that while technically part of those countries, they don't resemble a country at all. There is no legit government. There is no law enforcement. There are no courts of law. They are essentially unincorporated territories held variously by local militias and tribes.

    If Lebanon and Syria want to claim this territory as part of their country, they have to actually make it a part of a country, bring it under the jurisdiction of their law. Be legitimate leadership. Work towards the betterment of the people whose charge they claim.

    Israel is not going to let it be surrounded by lawless territory that Iran uses to stage attacks against Israel, certainly not while Iran is over there trying to cook up nuclear material to make dirty bombs.

    If you took even fifteen seconds to actually listen to the argument that's being made, instead of only half, understanding it and rushing to an emotional judgment, you'd realize it doesn't sound like The Onion at all. It's an argument made by people all over the world, especially as to Gaza, for example, and, guess what? It's a legit argument.

    Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, and sort of Syria, are not quite failed States, because they do still have a seat of power within their countries, and they do project that power to a limited extent. But they do not project it into these lawless border territories. And so when you have essentially gangs and terror cells, pretending to be legitimate political entities, how many suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and mass shootings must your neighbors abide before they bring their law to your territories? FAFO.

    The historical term for such territories is irredenta, meaning unredeemed or unclaimed.

  • Zoo admits that their pandas are ‘painted dogs’ after backlash from visitors

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  • That too.

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • Secondly, our dogs lose their minds barking when my wife comes home from work

    What do you do when she comes home? What does she do when she comes in the door as far as greeting you and the dog?

    when we have expected company

    How do you greet your company? What do you do with the dog from the moment the bell rings?

    Practice with expected company. You and your family stay seated in the room and ask a friend knock on the door.say, "come in its open." Stay seated, let your friend come in and take a seat. Everyone ignore the dog. If the dog is not calm throughout after one or two tries at this, I will eat my hat.

    when we come back from running errands,

    When you get home from errands, what is your dog's experience? Is it a bunch of excitement and greetings? Lots of attention for the dog? Immediate play, petting, or food? Do you start arguing when you get in the door?

    when our neighbor comes home from work and slams his car door etc. etc. etc.

    Do you watch the neighbor come home and gripe about the loud noises? When you hear a loud noise outside, do you run to the window? Go outside to see what it is? Talk about it? Pay attention to it?

    Regardless of breed, your dogs are going to pay attention to what you pay attention to, and their emotions are going to mimic their human's, with very little exception. If you hear noise and then look out the window, obviously your dog is going to get excited about that noise and want to look for it, too.

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • Dogs are dogs. I'm familiar with many dogs. I'm familiar with many dogs that are Shepherd breeds that don't flip out when someone rings the door bell. The dog only knows about doorbells because of how humans react to it. If you react calmly, and sit down for a second, and then walk to the door calmly and open it calmly, and you don't do loud sing-song greetings with everybody making a bunch of noise, if you're not trying to restrain the dog or block the dog from running out the door, or panicking that someone is there, then the dog will be calm too. It's not rocket science.

  • Biggie biggie can't you see you can't take your eye off diddy

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  • He was like 19 in this photo, too.

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • We really don’t like people, outside of expected visitors/deliveries, coming to our door. Our dogs lose their minds barking and then are on high alert for a while going off at every little noise.

    Your dogs take their emotional cues from you. You lose your mind when someone comes to your door unexpectedly, said so yourself.

  • Republicans in swing states say they see scant signs of groups door-knocking for Trump

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  • Yes, it does.

  • Donald Trump turns down second debate with Kamala Harris

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  • Empty tub of lard.