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• Taxation is theft because it's involuntary
• Having to have a job is also involuntary
• No you can choose not to have a job you'll just be homeless
• You can choose not to pay taxes you'll just go to prison, because "just don't have income or property" is as impractical as "just live your life from prison"

You have an interesting perspective on the world

Why are you getting into weird hypotheticals? If it's a republican, it will be Trump. If it's not, because he straight up dies, they'll still be the same voter base: a voter base which isn't going to accept boots on the ground.

"Pressuring" Israel has done precisely fuck all, which is my point. Because by "pressuring" you mean "asking nicely".

And you're right: a republican wouldn't be different. That's what I'm saying.

I merely disagreed with your proposal in detail and asked you to defend it if you were so convinced of it.

So you're just strawmanning me? Because at no point have I made a "proposal".

What position do you want me to defend? So far my position has been that the US should be doing more to apply pressure to Israel.

How do you disagree with that WITHOUT taking the stance that any other action would lead to a worse outcome?

Pointing out that cutting our nose to spite our face is a bad policy

Again, what is this hypothetical cutting of the nose?

If you say that doing anything more than what the US is currently doing will "do worse than fuck all", how is that not an endorsement of that policy? You're saying it's the best option.

My guy you're literally saying there's no solution that isn't worse than doing what the current administration is doing, which is more or less nothing.

That's not a straw man. That's just restating your argument at you.

You're right there's absolutely no solution remotely possible, and that justifies the complete lack of even trying anything spicier than "Bibi pls"

I don't care about the weapons. Israel obviously doesn't need more weapons to finish their genocide.

It's just pretty obvious that you don't make a real effort to prevent a state completing it's genocide before you stop supplying them with arms.

You think they've actually tried? Given that they're still supplying weapons to them?

Israel doesn't need any support past the US preventing the UN from actually doing anything concrete, which is exactly what the Biden administration is giving them.

With the exception of airdropped supplies into Gaza, which other countries are also doing, and that hasn't been enough to prevent famine, what would Trump even do to make things worse?

Committing US assets to a war in the middle east is one of the three things Trump's voter base won't actually support.

The last new functionality that Reddit added that was actually good was subreddits.

Then it needs to be on companies to prove their audit trail, and until then require all development to be open source