Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:25:07 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas? Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:25:07 -0700 Message-ID: <44r66jpc6eastodghadj1m4splmmk1vphg@4ax.com> References: <66634357$2$2422114$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 X-Trace: sv3-90rksUpX+ijd3pa2aT2/4mqDaPEDl3mJCywq7DkBhm93VnhoRT7K6h4TV8bIdTVB7k8ykz0WUp603JC!pUC83ns8zXivyDUUse/jcSNmAY+gpMIZf8dWe1s5xZMJuIhdS7HvbTiz1SB0XzulAysJjngd6q9i!kEjB6A== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2751 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 13:28:55 -0400, bitrex wrote: >On 6/7/2024 1:01 PM, Bill Sloman wrote: > >>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are >>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for >>> Hamas, killing is always win-win. >> >> The Muslims don't describe Jew as heretics (which is pretty much a term >> used only by Christians to describe other Christians). Jews and >> Christian are seen as also people of the book - if not quite of the same >> book as Muslims - and don't get persecuted by Muslims on theological >> grounds. >> >> Hamas doesn't make any kind of sense, any more than Donald Trump does. >> Like him, they are performance artists who will do pretty much anything >> to get the attention they crave. >> > >But for better or worse if Trump's supporters violently butchered 1300 >people in the US (not a difficult event to imagine...) every Democrat >would be demanding an immediate cease fire and asking for unity and >sending thoughts and prayers, not dispatching the strike fighters out to >level the Mar-a-Lago Club and half of Palm Beach along with it. > >The right's politicians have spent 30 years playing to Republicans most >vicious and violent revenge fantasies while the Dems always tell me why >I can't have what I want because it might anger the wingnuts (they >always are.) the Dems could learn a bit about how to run a campaign from >them. > Tribal ranting is always easier than thinking.