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  • The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

    It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

    Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to








  • Yeah. This is the one that came to my mind.

    Dude straight up ended his career. His band members left, label dropped him and his colabs said they wouldn’t work with him anymore.

    Turns out he was a lieutenant in the oath keepers and the FBI grabbed him. Last I heard he made a plea deal and got put into the witness protection program.

    He is the band and it can’t exist without him. Even if he could continue, he’d have to rebuild it from the ground up.

    It’s a shame, I really Loved Demons and Wizards, the iced earth / blind guardian colab group.

    … Based on some song lyrics I feel I should have seen this coming when looking back though.


  • Anytime you are doing any kind of military or police action within a civilian area there is always the risk of unintended civilian harm.

    If police and military forces took this doctorine that any amount of risk is too much then they simply would be unable to operate.

    There has to be a certain amount of acceptable civilian risk and that should be proportional to the threat you are attempting to stop.

    Just to clarify, I’m not advocating that Israel is taking acceptable risks. But I am advocating that those risks will always exist with ANY police or military action and the primary debate is over where the red line of acceptable/unacceptable is.






  • That’s what makes the whole thing complicated, isn’t it?

    Israel shouldn’t have existed to begin with and when it did, it shouldn’t have acted the way it has since its inception.

    Yes, Israel is to blame for Hamas having power in Gaza today as well.

    I’m not arguing that Israel isn’t a bad guy here.

    What I’m arguing is I don’t see an alternative that doesn’t just kick the can down the road.




  • Yes, they are doing a genocide.

    I’m not sure what other options are available at this point though.

    Hamas is extremist to the point where they would be doing a genocide as well if they were in the position to do so.

    People say separate the Hamas from the people, but that’s really hard when the members of Hamas are of the people and have the support of a good percentage of them.

    If Israel invades on foot and Hamas is threatened they can simply fade back into the population and wait to try again. And the general population will support them in doing so.

    The creation of the state of Israel was a mistake and the rise of Hamas is the direct result of decades of apartheid practiced against the Palestinians by the Israeli state.

    … But as the issue stands today, I can’t blame Israel in taking extreme action to end the conflict that’s dragged on for nearly a century now.

    There is no reasonable path to peace. A two state solution would end with the states at war anyway as both states have extreamists who want to genocide the other in government positions.

    And there is no where that would accept the Gaza population as refugees even if you could get them to leave.

    So what’s left?