The Gaza War

[RatkoVarda]

[gehringer_2]

un-freaking-believable.

[gehringer_2]

50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Now why would the Iranian ambassador have a Hezbollah pager?

OK, I admit,  dumb question.

[Hongbit]

 

[Motown Bombers]

I suspect there will be a lot of twigs with no berries in Lebanon. 

[Tigerbomb13]

I know it’s no longer 1999, but note to self: never strap a pager to my belt ever again. 

[chasfh]

That some legit James Bond shït right there.

[Tigerbomb13]

I’m really curious how pagers could be hacked to explode. Wild stuff. 

[oblong]

Either planted with something to explote based on a message, or hacked to overheat.

[Hongbit]

The true story of how the operation went down will be closely held.  The story of Stuxnet finally came out so eventually this will as well.   

For now, anyone that comes out with the details is either making things up for clicks or has been trolled believing someone making things up for clicks.

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Hongbit]

Now everything with a lithium battery is blowing up around Beirut.    Solar Panels, Smart Appliances, Car and Scooter batteries all going poof.    

This is possibly the greatest counter-terrorism operation of all time.  

[Motown Bombers]

The downside is people can now believe in Jewish space lasers. 

[Edman85]

 

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, Hongbit said:

Now everything with a lithium battery is blowing up around Beirut.    Solar Panels, Smart Appliances, Car and Scooter batteries all going poof.    

This is possibly the greatest counter-terrorism operation of all time.  

It is pretty remarkable. It’s  Like …. a good spy movie script. 

[chasfh]

Hope nobody figures out how to do it here.

[Biff Mayhem]

 

*bzzzzzt*. Ahhhhh! Durka! Durka! Durka!

[1984Echoes]

6 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

The downside is people can now believe in Jewish space lasers. 

Well, alternatively...

Maybe that will give a few ****heads pause, the next time they are considering terrorism... 

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Well, alternatively...

Maybe that will give a few ****heads pause, the next time they are considering terrorism... 

IDK  - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions?

[oblong]

11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

IDK  - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions?

and too many people in that world are sympathetic to their suffering.  There's a fundraiser in Dearborn at the giant Mosque for the victims.  I get that innocent people died in this.  That's tragic.  But those people aren't the only ones this fundraiser is for.  They see the members of hezbollah as victims too.  They'll always have cheerleaders because.... Israel.

 

[romad1]

12 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

IDK  - Terrorism is already irrational. Has any terrorist organization ever achieved it ambitions?

Lenin and Hitler did. 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Lenin and Hitler did. 

OK grant in a way but I'll defend a more specific syntax. As leaders, Hilter and Stalin were using terror as a lever of state power, which by definition I'll grant is a form of terrorism, but in conventional parlance I think most people would take 'terrorism' to mean the program of non-state actors and that is certainly what I meant to refer to. Terror by established government terror is more conventional tyranny?

Now before they came to power? There was Krystallnacht and few other events IIRC, but TBF Hilter rose to power primarily by the conventional political process and the Bolsheviks fought an actual armed revolution so terror maybe a piece there also but to a larger 'conventional' movement.

Edited September 19, 2024 by gehringer_2

[romad1]

51 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

OK grant in a way but I'll defend a more specific syntax. As leaders, Hilter and Stalin were using terror as a lever of state power, which by definition I'll grant is a form of terrorism, but in conventional parlance I think most people would take 'terrorism' to mean the program of non-state actors and that is certainly what I meant to refer to. Terror by established government terror is more conventional tyranny?

Now before they came to power? There was Krystallnacht and few other events IIRC, but TBF Hilter rose to power primarily by the conventional political process and the Bolsheviks fought an actual armed revolution so terror maybe a piece there also but to a larger 'conventional' movement.

hold on...

Leninism is specifically the model that terrorists are following as they try to create chaos so as to enable the revolution.   It was clearly the model followed in the rise to power. 

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

hold on...

Leninism is specifically the model that terrorists are following as they try to create chaos so as to enable the revolution.   It was clearly the model followed in the rise to power. 

well, I suppose that since the Tsar already had his own terrorist secret police, it was/is sort of endemic in Russian history!

[ben9753]

Israel took down another scumbag in Beirut. Seems like they have no more ****s to give, and will do whatever it takes to ensure their safety. If you're on their naughty list, you can't be sleeping very well at night.