Wow. That post by Inigo was either chemically-enhanced, or intentional suicide-by-mod.
Since Inigo_Montoya started the thread at 9:53 am on a Saturday, it felt to me (initially) like the sort of pre-coffee “deep” musing you have after staying up too late / drinking too much the Friday night before.
I mean, it sounds cool and profound, and then you have a shower and a cup of coffee and go “naaaaah.” The sort of thread you kinda hope dies quietly and you can live down.
Coming back to it, defending it in a way utterly excessive for the forum was plain weird. So yeah, reads as on new meds / off-old meds or some completely unrelated circumstances causing a misplaced explosion.
A quick review of some of their other recent posts doesn’t show anything, so, certainly something atypical going on.
At least everyone else actually made arguments for why I’m wrong. You posted a one liner, saying I’m wrong without quoting or making an argument. What possible purpose could that even have? That seems more like trolling than posting something that might contain incorrect facts.
But, to be clear, I assume you just had an emotional reaction. And you didn’t think about whether your post would be frustrating. It’s fine. I wouldn’t have said a word had you not Pitted me.
I’m not going to relitigate what I said here. I will simply say I still see assumptions being made that I don’t agree with, but it seems that I can’t convince people of that, so I probably shouldn’t have said anything. There’s a reason I usually stay out of those threads.
I’ll stick with watching the news that predicted the Iranian response back when Israel attacked. And I won’t try to provide you guys with another perspective.
Did you mean reiterate?
Did you mean regurgitate?
Sigh. No. I didn’t make any arguments defending my position. At all. It is disingenuous to pretend people say things they don’t.
I know I pointed out a problem with WE’s one-liner, but I think he’s on the up and up. I don’t think that about either of you. And you’ve just made it where I won’t be reading any replies about this.
I will not be baited into turning this thread to be about me.
Well, if it makes you feel better, your dumb post is now only the second dumbest in the thread.
Check out this stinking turd of a post:
Not on the up and up? Did you mean to post relitigate? Who are you suing? It was a spelling nitpick!
“Relitigate” can also mean re-argue.
I learned something.
“Do you always begin threads this way?”
No, @What_Exit is right. For someone who posts so much on this topic, it’s hard to fathom the depths of ignorance displayed in that post. (Well, @Crane posts a lot too, and his take was even dumber, but that’s par for the course with him).
FFS when even octopus agrees it’s stupid, it’s extremely stupid.
I’m at a loss to explain what the problem is supposed to be with @BigT’s post. That he can’t prove to a certainty what news media is already widely reporting and what is largely expected? That Israel is responsible for an attack on an Iranian Embassy in Syria, and engaged in a… let’s say very problematic campaign in Gaza, that might charitably be called “not a genocide, but debatable” at best? And Iran is not-unpredictability reacting to that?
As one sitting in darkness, I welcome your critique. Where was I in error?
Well, that falsehood is one of the things wrong with BigT’s post, yes.
In actuality, the strike in question hit an embassy consulate building that was next to a consulate.
There seems to be some question about that. At any rate, it was widely reported in the US that the attack hit the consulate. For instance:
AMMAN, Jordan — Iran said Monday that Israel killed two of its generals and several others in an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus.
And, well, they are quoting Iran, but they aren’t contradicting it, or even raising doubts about what the building is.
And if we grant that this building is still part of the consulate, know what it still isn’t? An embassy.
God, you are fucking insufferable when it comes to Israel’s conduct in Gaza and all the blowback related to that. On that note, WTF are you thinking? What is anyone thinking who looks at what Israel is doing these past six months and just shrugs it off like nothing?
Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious little prick. I’m not shrugging anything off “like nothing”. What’s happening in Gaza is absolutely horrible, as urban warfare always is. It’s a tragic loss of human life.
If you come up with a strategy that involves neither a land war in Gaza nor a collective suicide pact on Israel’s part, I’m all ears. Otherwise, kindly fuck off with your moralizing.