JboneInTheZone comments

I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but I’m done with him. I’ll be voting for Kamala this round. This is just another indefensible, immature act on his part that’s pushed me away over the years

would be the first country on earth to collapse. I'm looking at Europe first

Europe isn’t a country

The success of western liberal Democracy can in large part be attributed to the rights of citizens to express themselves freely. Surely if this law was in place in the early 2000’s those Australians speaking out again Australia’s involvement in the Iraq war would have been persecuted for “spreading misinformation” were they to post counter to the commonly shared belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

This discussion of methodology in one article bores the tears out of me.

Don’t bring up articles to prove your point if you’re not willing to discuss them then.

Again, do you admit that your earlier comment “Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds” is inaccurate? Were you lying or were you just uninformed on the contents of the article you posted. I’ll wait for your response.

Yes, it is a survey of SE Asia thought leaders, not plebes like you and I.

No where in your article does it state they only surveyed “thought leaders”, why are you lying

Even if that is the case (it’s not) then do you admit that your earlier comment “Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds” is inaccurate?

If you say so ... 

Majority of ASEAN people favor China over U.S., survey finds

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Majority-of-ASEAN-people-favor-China-over-U.S.-survey-finds

Nice try but I just read this and it’s very misleading. If you actually look at the methodology you’ll see that the survey calculates the average figures for ASEAN as a whole by equal proportion per country, so tiny Brunei, which reliably opts for China over the U.S., gets the same weighting as the far more populous and geopolitically-important Philippines, which is consistently pro-U.S.

A bedrock of Chinese foreign policy stretching back to the founding of the PRC is no military block formation which gives China maximum freedom in foreign policy. 

Not being involved in military blocks and having friendly relations with neighboring countries aren’t mutually exclusive. The fact that China acts in such aggressive manner while simultaneously having “maximum freedom in foreign policy” is extremely scary

And do these countries by any chance threaten you? Where are you writing from, I wonder? Where and what did you read that you write such nonsense.

Yes. Like it or not we live in a globalized society, where any regional conflict will have far reaching economic and supply chain effects. Keeping aggressive powers like China, Russia, and North Korea in check and dissuading them from conflict ultimately helps maintain the economic stability and prosperity of my country

The USA is a very sick country controlled by maniacal gun nuts and a military style police force. It is the one country I will never visit, even if if it was on a paid holiday with a $5,000 a week spending money, why, because no one living there knows if when they leave home in the morning for work...etc....they may never return, that is the level of this out of controlled, rampant, gun violence.

You should really get off the internet for a bit, your perspective is based in 0 sense of reality and reeks of someone propagandized by the internet. Your chance of being shot in the U.S. is incredibly low

No. Because your ‘root causes’ exist all over the world. 

The difference is readily available guns or not.

Access to guns isn’t the sole determining factor when it comes to the levels of violence and homicide in a country. There are countries with stricter gun control laws but higher levels of violence and homicides. For example, Mexico.

remember, tactical nukes don’t kill people, people kill people.

This is true though. A tactical nuke will literally just sit there unless a person launches it

 I think the wording of the 2nd Amendment can be distilled down to mean that gun ownership is a collective, not individual, right.

What do you mean by collective right?

It will never stop, even in Mexico its safer to live than the US!

Mexico has more than double the homicide rate of the US

There is no minimum age on owning a rifle or shotgun In Georgia. Legal guardians may buy any firearm without restrictions and face no penalties for insecure storage. With legal guardian consent children under 18 may carry a handgun in certain situations. 

Nothing in this paragraph contradicts anything I posted.

I clearly stated “purchase” not, own. We don’t know yet how he acquired the firearm so we don’t know whether or not the gun control measures currently in place failed. The point I’m making is that there are gun control measures in place that he could have illegally circumvented in order to acquire the weapon.

In Georgia no, because there is almost zero gun control.

It is illegal for 14 year olds to purchase firearms in Georgia. If he purchased the gun illegally then it isn’t a lack of gun control as the gun control measures were circumvented.

In other states the parents could be prosecuted for failing to secure firearms and ammunition.

Okay but we don’t know how he acquired the weapon

The argument “why have laws if criminals break them anyway” is neither an intelligent or common sense position.

I never made that argument

Still too early to talk about gun control no doubt.

We don’t have any information yet on how the shooter got their weapon. Gun control won’t work if they received their weapon illegally, no?

Firearms are now the No. 1 cause of death for U.S. children. 

No. This is only true if the selected age range is 1-19 years old. Capping the age range at 17 (instead of 18 or 19) alters the result as children age 17 and below have a great risk of dying in vehicle accidents

An Israel-Palestine article and GuruMick hasn’t posted yet? Something must be wrong

Hamas said on Wednesday it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for Thursday in Qatar, but an official briefed on the talks said mediators expected to consult with the Palestinian group afterwards.

Hamas sympathizer excuses coming in 3, 2, 1….

Why do Western people often say this? Is it hard to accept that Europeans behaved in such a savage manner and uncivilized manner?

It’s brought up because most western education is based around the atrocities the Nazis committed. We don’t really focus at all on what went on in China and the atrocities that the Japanese committed

What Germany did to the Jews and other innocents in the concentration camps was just as bad!

What Nazis did to the Jews is horrible, but the scale doesn’t come close to what the Japanese did to the Chinese. There’s also the difference in how each nation approached committing their atrocities. The Nazis in many ways tried to cover up their crimes, but the Japanese had absolutely no shame and left their atrocities open for all to see

Because the US allowed those criminals off scot-free and allowed them to work their way up the government. Totally on topic. I'm sorry if this makes your country look bad, but tough.

Russia did this too you know

The price for denuded coverage of 731 and Nanking. Perpetual war raparations to the US in the form of hefty defence payments. It took the Aztecs 200 years to cease to exist. I don't think this will be Japan's fate. But I hope the great nation of Japan rises again somehow and use these payments for internal defence. The old Japan was self sufficient. This new Japan should at least try.

I have great news: Japan is allowed to cancel all defense treaties anytime they like! There are no reparations like you claimed. Pretty cool huh?

And your country had a big hand in letting criminals off in exchange for all the information gained from their evil, inhumane experiments and torture.

This isn’t really a fair assessment of the operation. The U.S. had no idea at the time of the horrible things done to the Chinese citizens as a result of Unit 731. They were completely surprised when all the information about the experiments was finally disclosed to them

And it was "surprising" that a "female" boxer, disqualified by the actual sports authority in boxing from competing in their sport because, well..."she" is a MAN, with male chromosomes and filled with male testosterone, yes it was "surprising" that this person ended up pummeling every true biological female "she" matched up against, sending "feminism" ten steps back so that a patently fake "trangender" could destroy the real ladies' dreams and crushingly prove once again, that physically, a biological male IS superior to a woman. (Except is was a surprise to no one with even half a brain)

Nothing in this post is true

Imane isn’t a man

There is 0 proof she has male chromosomes

The IBA that she was disqualified from never disclosed the testing methods they used to justify her disqualification

The IBA is an extremely distrusted “sports authority”

How about the sound of Gunfire? Thats really American. LOL

Which city are you from that is apparently completely devoid of crime?

“Per capita” has got to be the biggest cope I’ve ever heard

Caro,the US had 12 more maybe Tokyo was on the final list

No it wasn’t. Tokyo was never on the list of potential atomic bomb sites.

The US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

How so?

@PT And the Atlantic Council is lobbying for the Pentagon to plan for the use of tactical nuclear weapons against Mainland China in the event of a Taiwan conflict.

Don’t worry it won’t happen. The US doesn’t need nukes to beat China lol

IDF and land thieves aka "settlers " {who actually cant farm and wouldnt know a horse from a cow } kill Palestinians by the hundreds and tens of thousands and posters {the usual apologists } express surprise at Palestinians killing 2 Israelis and also the lack of sympathy for the dead.

If those two Israeli’s deserve what they got because of the actions of Israel then you’re a hypocrite for denouncing any of Israel’s actions in the wake of 10/7. If you feel Israelis are collectively responsible for attacks on Palestinians then Palestinians should also be collectively responsible for 10/7, right?