Make war , not love

[Ninurta]

Take this as you find it.

Yes, I "took it as I found it". I found it to be about 6 months old, so probably not applicable to the current conflict It probably wasn't very accurate even for the previous conflict it was attempting to address - if what the guy said was true just 8 months ago, there would be no Tel Aviv left now for Iran to send missiles into in the current conflict.

I was a little puzzled as to why he was so vehemently propagandistic against Israel, but all was revealed at the very end of the video. He apparently runs some sort of organization to uncover "injustices" against Arabs. That pretty much explained everything to me. He's not really your average "disinterested observer", he's got skin in the game.

The video you posted before this one... I tried to watch it. I really did. I couldn't get more than about 2 minutes into it, though. That "game theory" propagandist guy really sets my spidey senses to tingling. I can't watch very much of him any more, because he clogs up my BS detector. If he ever said anything at all that could be independently verified, it would possibly be a different matter, but there is only so much talking out of one's posterior that I can take... so I only got a couple minutes into that video, and have no idea what else he might have been trying to say. He is not worthy of my attention.

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My Dear Old Dad used to tell me "believe nothing that you hear, and only half of what you see with your own eyes". Right now, the propaganda is flying fast and thick from both sides of the conflict. Iranian propagnda is usually easier to spot, since they tend to inflate numbers beyond carrying capacity. Propaganda from the US/Israeli side is harder to detect, but it's still there. They tend to keep their numbers more reasonable, but use phraseology calculated to pull at heart strings when they are propagandizing.

For example, if you hear an Israeli source mention "the terroristic Iranian regime", you can be pretty sure that what follows is going to be propaganda. There is no reason to specify "terroristic" other than as an appeal to emotion - everyone hates terrorists, right? The fact is the Clerics have kept their hands pretty clean. They employ and support terrorists, but are not, generally speaking, terrorists themselves. They have neither the testicular fortitude nor the willpower to carry out any terrorism themselves. They employ underlings for those baser activities.

Likewise, if a person can find nothing good to say concerning their opponent, nothing at all, they are probably spewing propaganda. They can't afford to say anything good, because they are balls-to-the-wall trying to demonize them. The fact of that matter is that if one cannot find any respect for their opponent at all, then they are punching way below their weight. They are, effectively, beating up relative children.

One has to have some degree of respect for their opponent in order for that opponent to even be worthy of their attention. If not, then they are dragging themselves down to the same level as that unworthy opponent, making unworthy opponents of themselves.

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