danhakimi

What is more collaborative:

"They made an agreement where some Jews were allowed to flee the Holocaust"

or

this shit

fleeing versus encouraging and attempting to extend the holocaust, who were the real Nazi collaborators?

They have bombed a neonatal unit!

Source for this?

France introduced, some time back, a government credit of some kind for clothing repairs. It was a fun concept.

a one-sided ceasefire, or a two-sided ceasefire? Would you expect Hamas to keep its end of a ceasefire agreement?

ahh yes. Because the Israeli army has literally no options between “relentless bombing of Gaza, denying access to food, water and medicine,

the IDF turned off its supply of 7% of gazan water for a few days, and is still getting shit for it. Hamas never bothered to maintain the power plant or desalination plant, stole fuel from the power plant that could have been used to keep running the hospitals and desalination plant, and openly dug up water pipes to fashion into rockets. They didn't even hide that, they were proud of that.

sniping civillians trying to flee according to your demand on the safe routes you designated

You know that bridge was Hamas snipers, right? Israel didn't have a real presence in that area yet, the closest thing they had was a ship that did not fire small bullets. People initially blamed all the bullet-ridden bloody bodies on the bridge on an Israeli airstrike, and then realized that there was no sign of any explosion anywhere on the bridge, and had to change their story. =/

and bombing ambulances trying to move patients in the same way”

Hamas said that there were no patients in those ambulances, but the IDF had intelligence that there were, in fact, terrorists in them. This is in keeping with a long-standing pattern going back a good 20 years, Hamas loves shuttling terrorists around in ambulances.

Israel could have led an infantry assault into Gaza withou pounding everything first. That would have meant higher casualties though and here shows the true nature of Israels government and army.

I love how, now, people are saying "they should have invaded by land!" when, before the ground invasion began, everybody was protesting the concept of a land invasion and surrounding nations had threatened to declare war if Israel invaded.

They do not care for any palestinian life. So far for every Israeli soldier that got killed, more than 200 palestinian civillians were killed.

You know how I know you made that number up? Nobody anywhere has published any number of palestinian civilians that were killed in this war.

In world war 2 the axis powers killed about 6 civillians for every axis soldier and the allies killed about 1 civillian for every 4 ally soldiers. So the war that was about total destruction and genocide still had more than a magnitude less civillians killed relative to combatants killed.

Please, feel free to cite Hamas statistics here, I'd love to see if they've finally claimed a number of civilians vs combatants.

It is. When your enemy is embedded in hospitals and mosques and everywhere else civilians try to go for safety, it gets hard. But I'm sure your alternative is just for Israel to just agree to a one-sided ceasefire and wait for Hamas to shore up its weapons, move the hostages, and repeat its 10/7 attack, huh?

Targeting civilians is a war crime. Targeting enemy combatants while trying to evacuate civilians, trying to warn civilians so desperately that you warn the enemy combatants too, and killing civilians in attacks that target legitimate military targets and reflect a sufficient level of care to minimize risk to human life, is not a war crime, that's the definition of "collateral damage."

There's no double standard there, that's the whole issue.

What are your tricks for crispy fritters?

First, start calling them latkes. You're serving them with lox and dill, let's be real here.

Grant Stones are made in China.

Aldens are pretty good quality, but their prices have run away in recent years, and they never really competed on price in the first place.

Specifically for American made... Look at Cobbler Union. Not as widely available as Allen Edmonds or Alden, but very good.

Also Aldens are super well designe,db ut they're too expensive new.

Hasn't Batman also, in some media, gone blow for blow with Superman-level opponents without dying? Like, he's not as strong as them, and superhuman strength isn't technically a superpower he has, but...

No. Even if you could match the current fictional character's tech and computing power and budget and incoherent physical strength, those really are not what make Batman Batman. It's the intellect, the iron will, the sheer level of badassery that can only be achieved in fiction where an author has him appear behind the villain just to show what an impossible nightmare Batman truly is.

Being able to pretend that he's Bruce Wayne sometimes certainly helps, though. He's a good actor.

I think this is a fantastic guide. Probably the best resource I’ve seen for men’s fashion, actually.

Wow, thank you, that's incredible praise!

The Concept Wardrobe for Inverted Triangles

This guide is about the Inverted Triangle, a common male body shape, but is aimed at feminizing that body type’s appearance. But I think what holds true for this body type, even for a masculine appearance, is that wider trousers look amazing. Harry Styles has rocked flared, bell bottom trousers.

I tend to find these guides impractical—people generally can't figure out what their body type is (real bodies are three dimensional and a little too unique to fit into these simplified categories), and the tips for each body type are often... made up. To be fair, it's worse with face shape / eyeglass guides or skin tone / color guides, body type guides make at least a little bit of sense, but at the end of the day, the best way to dress is not to obey pseudo-scientific rules based on vague generalizations of shape, but to develop good taste, understand silhouette in the abstract, try clothes on, and pick the ones you like while considering how they might play together.

But yeah, super slim silhouettes never felt masculine to me, they make my ankles look twiggy. A straight leg looks stronger to me, and prevents the top-heavy look that... like, think fat republican politician on a golf course, that's not what I'm going for.

Oh! Also, I've written about Harry Styles and his flared trousers here. I think there's a deeper meaning there than "his body is this shape so he wars this."