2/ Saying stupid wrong things annoys me. Saying stupid wrong things when you think that they're "gotchas" because I didn't do my research annoys me more. https://twitter.com/AdamKarnes/status/1174740213832138753 …
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3/ I do my research. When I am going to make a trivial throw-away tweet at 9 in the morning, I do my research. Now get your shine box.pic.twitter.com/vMnwnI4P3O
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4/ "our foes should do what we want and make it easier to kill them" is an interesting take good luck convincing them of that!https://twitter.com/ThunderB/status/1174743055624261632 …
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5/ YES YES Finally a smart take in this thread. Thank you. https://twitter.com/s_pitchfork/status/1174743809877565440 …
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6/ "Should" is an idiot word, 99.99% of the time. If you had the power to do X, you'd do X. Since you don't, you don't. "I wish that X" is a fine sentence. "He / she / it should do X" is just an expression of powerlessness. Oh, they should? OK, make them. You can't? I see.
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7/ First, the Geneva Conventions (plural, there are more than one) do not apply not because they hide among civilians, but because they are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions. Second, one should read the Geneva Conventions. They're interesting.https://twitter.com/ThunderB/status/1174744272387678208 …
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8/ OK, I'm taking a twitter break for a few hours. The takes are too stupid today.
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9/ Those numbers have footnotes. Did you click them? I did. They lead to reports. Did you read or skim them? I did. https://twitter.com/AdamKarnes/status/1174747053634674688 …
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10/ Would I bet a trillion dollars the numbers are perfect? Of course not. But "LOL, your Taliban numbers are conflated w civilian numbers" when they're not, followed by rapid backpedalling to "well, LOL, wikipedia" is !@#-ing retarded. Lobbing ad hoc pot shots is retarded.
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11/ I said that the US War in Afghanistan is stupid and immoral because we've killed about 10x the number of civilians there that we killed here by A̶f̶g̶h̶a̶n̶i̶ Saudi terrorists. The responses are "yeah but wikipedia LOL". Non-serious bush league nonsense.
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12/ A proper rebuttal would be to explain why the war is good despite us killing 30,000 civilians, or to explain that the war was good because we'd actually killed only 280 civilians based on figures found at LINK. So far people have just sniped with random crap like >>
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13/ "well, they should come out into the open so we can kill them fairly". It's all just emotional flailing because of, I presume, cognitive dissonance between (a) "we're the good guys / they're the bad guys" and (b) "ooh, those numbers are damning".
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14/ First off, I don't believe you. Maybe I'm wrong, but the kind of guy who says "LOL wikipedia" isn't the kind of guy who clicks footnotes. If you had, I'd expect "LOL, this links to a report from XYZ who's a flake". Second >>> https://twitter.com/AdamKarnes/status/1174749573631205376 …
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15/ I'm not asking you to give "special weight" (your words) to the report. I cited numbers. You said "LOL". Do you have better numbers, or are you going to just LOL at any facts that don't align with your favored policy?
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16/ good meme https://twitter.com/jabocka/status/1174750797948694531 …
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17/ Of course that's what they're doing. They've got a retarded conception that either a) American good, Taliban bad b) America bad, Taliban good and they're [ stupidly ] mapping what I AM saying to a thing I'm NOT saying, then fighting the strawman https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1174753294457008128 …
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