Raw Beer comments

Good on Japan, before the Pacific war Japan were know for their humanitarian effort world wide.

If Japan was truly a humanitarian country, they would have tried to put an end to this conflict, rather than cheering the West in its support for this senseless sacrifice of Ukrainian lives.

Why should Japan future increase its massive debt to fix a mess created by the US and NATO.

Israel didn't sacrifice anyone.

They certainly did. It's all over israeli media how their tanks and helicopters fired on homes and everything that moved. Hundreds of cars at the rave were destroyed by the IDF, many with people inside them.

Although the Arab terrorists knew what the result would be after their unprovoked attack on Israel.

Oh, I see, it seems you are unaware of the many israeli provocations leading up to Oct 7...

What recent movies?

Absolutely disgusting that western govts and politicians are silent over this genocide because they are scared to be labelled antisemitic and face the concerted efforts of Zionist organisations like AIPAC to have them voted out at the next election!

Yes, much of the billions given to israel every year finds its way back in the US where it is used to reward those who support israel or given to the opponents of those who don't support israel. And we also have to wonder who has Epstein's backup data...

Imprisoning people for crimes is not the same as hostage taking.

The 2,300,000 people of Gaza are hostages. And many of the Palestinians in israeli prison were never charged with a crime.

The whole world watching in silent.

Yes, I am amazed at how world governments accept this senseless genocide being committed by israel and america.

Given the PLA/Hamas history, there immediate neighbours donot want them..further no country in ME wants them.. all they doing is making noise and nothing more.

Given israel's history, there immediate neighbours do not want them..further no country in ME wants them.. all they doing is making noise and nothing more.

This is total BS (and/or projection), probably meant to discourage their soldiers to stop surrendering in droves.

Good! I don't want Japan to continue following America's disastrous path.

Elon bought Twitter because he values free speech. If he were to cave in to advertiser's demands, what would be the point?

Every released Israeli hostage has new stories of horror and torture at the hands of Hamas. Lovely people, aren't they?

I think you're mixing up the stories, the Palestinian hostages talked about years of abuse and torture. I've seen the opposite form the israeli hostages, with one woman actually writing a letter to thank their captures for the treatment they received.

Time for the US military to leave and end this occupation.

Yet boosted people do better than those that do not, epidemiological evidence clearly supports the value of vaccines, making up reasons why the vaccines should not work is not important when they have demonstrated to work, and reduce the risk for those who are vaccinated and boosted.

Yeah, except that the epidemiological evidence clearly supports the opposite.

And there are considerable excess deaths world-wide, which governments/authorities refuse to acknowledge, or they blame other reasons for them.

You take a shot which likely knocks you out for a day, some people have less severe side effects, some people get absolutely wrecked. It is supposed to grant you some undisclosed degree of immunity, but most people who take it still get Covid anyway. But Omicron is not particularly intense to begin with.

Yeah, I (unvaxxed) had Omicron a while back. It was very mild, light fever and I felt a little tired for a few days, that's it. While so many of my colleagues/friends/students told me they felt extremely bad after getting the shot.

And when you get multiple "boosters", we also have to consider the production IgG4 antibodies.

The vaccines have demonstrated benefits, that includes people that have been previously infected.

But they also have demonstrated risks that outweigh any alleged benefit. Clearly not worth taking those risks, especially considering the mildness of current variants and the current immunity that the vast majority of us already have.

Covid19 shots? Still!?

We essentially all have natural immunity (broad, long lasting, robust) already. No need to take unnecessary risks with a shot against a spike protein for a couple of months protection against the next variant, which will likely have a very different spike protein.

He dies right when the messes he created are about to blow up....

Yeah, more of us will turn to alcohol and other drugs because we are so fed up with the fear mongering....

Please stop the fear mongering, young people are in fear of an imminent end of the world scenario that isn’t happening.

Yeah, the constant agenda-driven fear mongering is getting tiring, and is probably itself contributing to health problems. When I was a kid, there was similar fear mongering with the coming ice age!

Nameless people on the internet talking about an imaginary scientific consensus without any evidence to support this claim are not exactly the best reference to know what is happening or not.

advertisers ... are engaging in “blackmail” and "Go F... yourself."

I agree 100%. Having listened to some of Musk's interviews, I realize that he is very concerned with the agenda-driven censorship in the MSM and social media, and that maintaining free-speech is more important than profits.

That is what people want, so in the end I think everything will work out for X, unlike Disney, which has been tanking....

@Jbone, you started this when you said that WP was wrong, just because you have a different image of what a child is. WP was in fact correct when we consider the English and legal definition of "child". If anyone was "arguing in bad faith here" it's you, when you provided only one of the two definitions from Merriam-Webster (the one that supported your claim) while ignoring the other definition.

Anyway, the last thing I'll say about this is that if you want to have an idea of the number of murdered Gazan children (according to your definition), the Lancet paper below provides the data for each age group from Oct 7 - Oct 26

Roughly one third of all Gazan deaths are children (according to your definition, 0-14).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02640-5/fulltext

B: a person not yet of the age of majority.

So let me ask you this. When you hear the word ‘child’, do you immediately picture a 17 year old?

I picture a person from about 3 years of age to 17. You'd have a point if people were using the term "toddler", but it is perfectly valid and legally correct to use the term "children".

If when you hear the term "adult" you picture an image of a 20 year old, does that make it misleading to use it to describe a 30 year old?

So the israelis murdered 8,241 Palestinian children.

According to Merriam-Webster a child is

A: young person especially between infancy and puberty.

B: a person not yet of the age of majority.

Two state solution back to 1948 borders!

That would definitely be fairer than the pre-June 1967 borders. Better yet would be restoring historic Palestine. But realistically, the most likely option would be a one-state solution, with a right of return.

Very outdated number. Latest numbers I've seen are: 20,360 Palestinians murdered,

The Palestinian authority doesn’t account for combatant deaths in a separate category and lumps them all together with civilian deaths. For all we know 10,000 of those killed could be Hamas fighters. You’re being dishonest here

Well, according to the israelis, they have killed between 1000 and 2000 combatants, so it's at least 18,000 murdered Palestinian civilians. But considering israel has a habit of considering any Palestinian of a certain age as a combatant, I suspect the actual number of murdered civilians is closer to the 20,000.

8,241 of them children.

No, 8241 of them are not “children”, they’re minors. Stop spreading misinformation and trying to mislead people

Depends on you definition of child.

According to Oxford Languages: A child is "a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority."

According to justforkidslaw.org: "Who is a child? The answer to this question in international and domestic law is clear: a child is anyone under the age of 18."

When the argument is that experts are the ones saying something is false it does not matter at all who is repeating the argument, the value comes from the experts that can prove the falsehood of the reference.

When experts publish clear data and provide an interpretation that passes an unbiased peer-review process, they are not debunked/invalid/proven false/irrational just because industry-linked fact-checkers or forum commenters say they are. Just because you agree with the "fact checkers" does not make their conclusion correct, au contraire...

These people have included experts in the fields related to their posts. 

"Experts" that are unable to publish scientific articles that are not destroyed by peer review, making that exactly the example of invalid appeal to authority. In the era of preprints there is no valid excuse for this.

Hmmm, except that they very often do publish peer-reviewed scientific articles. I've often provided references to them, but that is generally countered with comment saying that it has been "debunked" by factcheck.org or some other industry sponsored "fact checker".

There are also many examples of research papers passing the rigourous peer-review process, and in some cases actually getting a letter of acceptance, just to have it then rejected with no explanation.

The Israeli's don't go to other peoples' Countries and commit such atrocities.

You mean like bombing hospitals, ambulances, refugee camps, journalists, and UN workers?

Or was that sarcasm?

Other news narratives are now being shown thanks to social media.It's a double-edged sword.

Very true. If it wasn't for social media and alternative news sites, I would have believed the main stream narrative that on Oct 7 Hamas actually killed 1,200 (initially 1,400) israeli civilians. Thanks to alternative sources, I realize that about 350 were IDF, and that most of the civilian deaths were caused by the IDF, not Hamas.

The narrative expressed on the MSM is very much controlled and, IMHO usually wrong. So social media sites are indeed great sites for people who are fed up with the MSM to learn what is going on and communicate with each other. The powers that be don't like this so they tend to label these people as hate groups, conspiracy theorists and deranged individuals and groups.

It's true that all drugs have "possible side effects" which are listed by the pharma companies.

Yes, but some drugs (e.g. Wegovy) have a higher incidence of side effects, more serious side effects, lower benefit, ...