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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: onepoorguy ⎊✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: He is so special
Date: 09/30/26 3:22 PM
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If the UN takes Israel’s nukes away from them, at least it won’t become a nuclear shit show.

The IDF won't go quietly. If you try to do that, you'll have to wipe it out. And, by default, the Palestinians will win because there won't be enough of the IDF to oppose them. Then the Israelis will be driven into the sea. And it won't be cheap. They have advanced US weaponry. UN forces will suffer greatly.

As my new wife likes to remind me, change won’t happen until the pain of continuing to do the same thing becomes greater than the pain of change.

Yes. Which is probably why Bibi is doing the genocide. At least his portion of the party is fed up, and they are choosing to wipe out the Palestinians in hopes that they'll get Hamas in the process. If I was an Israeli, and was always worrying about missiles and bombs in my daily life, I'd probably feel the same. I would have supported Rabin's efforts to roll-back settlers and settlements. But that's long past, and almost certainly not an option now. It's either continuing to fear being killed every day, or wipe out the threat. Bibi is wiping out the threat.

As an American, I find the whole thing ridiculous. And I oppose us funding the genocide, or providing weapons. But then I'm not worried about a bomb when I go out for pizza. As an Israeli, I'd have to be worried. Every day. That's not a way to live.
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