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Is that a Tesla?

Dem tires are expensive. I'm not surprised she's sliding around on those things.

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God help the People if they do.

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Very last scene with the salutes shows a completely incorrect scale for the people next to the boats: high likelihood that this is a combination of fake video techniques.

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About as believable as "Jim" Henson...

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https://x.com/i/status/2030746221812343179

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Oh, I see.

You take whatever the guy that doesn't like the guy that you don't like says as fact rather than considering nuance like it potentially being lies and propaganda.

Free country. Do as you like.

I prefer understanding the facts rather than believing people who have proven they choose to lie, repeatedly, sometimes as part of their religion.

Thanks for the discussion. We can continue, but I doubt we'll get far until you consider that you might be wrong.

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That may be accurate, but no one holds a belief unless they also believe it is fact.

You believe it to be fact that their beliefs are not facts. Your belief doesn't make that true, but you believe it to be true, otherwise you wouldn't hold that belief.

Facts stand regardless of one's belief, but there are limits to verification that can be obtained, and those limits are subjective to the abilities of the believer.

My point: Be patient with those who haven't figured it out.

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Even libertarians believe in enforcing contract law. What exactly are you trying to argue? That it's okay to lie about your adherence to your agreements?

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Ad hominem:
The realm of those who have run out of arguments.

Listen, man, I'm what most people call a moderate. It puts me in weird places like defending Trump when I don't like him, then defending him when I do like him, and then defending him when I inevitably do not like him again.

I'm not picking any side but that of logic. I don't live in a world of black and white. War is not the same today as it was before the fall of the USSR.

There's a thing called nuance.

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Did we have a nuke in 1938? No.
Did we have a nuke in 1945? Yes.

What stopped Iran from refining nuclear fuel for weaponization? For the last 20 years it has been a combined effort between the US, UK, and Israel (and probably Saudi Arabia) hacking and sabotaging their enrichment efforts while they were in a standing agreement not to do so.

There comes a point where a liar has to face the consequences of his actions.

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The muslim use of Taqiyya, especially during wartime and persecution, makes such pronouncements of Haram highly dubious if not completely unbelievable.

https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war

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Iranian politicians in power as of Feb 2026:

Radical: "We should wipe out Israel."

Moderate: "Isn't it enough to just take their land and enslave them?"

Pro-Israel: "You go too far! We don't need slaves!"

Ngl: Moderate and Radical in Iran got some pretty blurry lines.