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They're something like 50 miles apart and generally do not have the same attendees despite having the same basic collection of rides and attractions. KBF also is a major competitor in the same market as Disney whereas Magic Mountain is quite literally in the middle of nowhere.

The best news of all is that the IDF won't have to stop fighting at all if the hostages who are totally not being targeted end up as collateral casualties.

How dumb was it?

If 50 million people were wiped out, society would collapse.

Mine was a month and a half ago.

Tell me about it.

Is he going to get something from Kagome's Mom?

Both.

Is there a difference?

They better not get rid of my boysenberry syrup!

Happy Birthday!

I'll give you something to dangly ball... She's snail trailing the entire fucking continent! It'll be a very merry Christmas for sure.

I get that, but there is still a danger to putting a direct link between organized terrorism and the authoritative actions of the Israeli state. Hamas isn’t the product of rational Palestinian partisans, so it stands to reason that you can’t make a direct causal relationship between the two. No, what Israel is doing is weakening the lawful and legitimate Palestinian state which leads to Hamas evolving rather than reforming.

Shakey’s is still around I believe. If you want real ‘80s pizza, it’s Me-n-Ed’s which is also still around.

That’s subject to debate. Radicalization is rarely successful at gunpoint partly because of the pathological elements of indoctrination. A certain type of person has to be willing to kill soft targets, children in particular, and it’s usually a combination of biological personality traits and behavior learned at a very early age through a type of intrafamiliar trauma specific to identity and self worth. Make no mistake, people who willingly become murderers are psychopaths. While it could be argued that the latest assault is an opportunity for latent psychopaths, the sustained historical suppression of Palestinians has likely already introduced them to militancy.

Apparently too fast for you to comprehend.

What’s laughable is your apparent inability to understand consequences. Israel isn’t going to eliminate Hamas by bombing and invading GAza, and that alone invalidates the current operations. It doesn’t matter if all the Palestinians killed are 100% on Hamas, they’re still dead and Hamas isn’t any more monstrous than they already are.

Also, since I like to oversimplify for stupid people.... This rationale could be used against Trump supporters if in fact it were true. We know Trump's fans can be violent, so why not kill them at every possible opportunity since they are theoretically out to eradicate all Democrats? Yes, your logical thinking is exactly that poorly thought out.

Don't try talking down to me, sweety - I'll bury you. Of course they're using innocent people as human shields. Terrorists always use civilians as human shields; in fact, they count on it because all the collateral damage has the added benefit of giving the terrorists a rational argument to continue. To use an overly simplified analogy: the guy who throws a punch in the middle of a packed crowd at an NFL game is expecting that whomever he hits is going to retaliate immediately to defend themselves, and the counterpunch not only will be deflected by an unsuspecting bystander but will also draw that bystander into the physical altercation to defend themselves. The resulting counterpunch sets off a cascading chain of events that fundamentally alter the conflict from a purely ideological disagreement to a fight for survival within a melee. At that point two things happen. Israel's right to defend itself isn't in question here, nor is the depravity of the attacks. Nonetheless, Israel's insistence on unrelenting munitions targeting within Gaza and on a full scale ground mobilization represents an escalation that changes the dynamics of the conflict... foremost by making it a universal fight between Palestinians and Jews rather then a selective eradication of the militants. In that football fan melee, the instigator knows that there's a gap he can exploit - the melee gives him cover to potentially escape the altercation, it also introduces moral ambiguity by overlaying contemporary interpersonal conflicts between each of the participants over the original cheap shot. Hamas has more than enough innocent cannon fodder to protect its core operations up to and through any kind of ground assault that the IDF might try. More importantly, the air strikes and ground incursion are ultimately doomed to failure because now it's a fight for survival for the unfortunate citizens of Gaza. They can and will kill IDF soldiers who infiltrate Gaza or be killed themselves. We all know how this likely ends - Israel will eventually lose international support for their heavy handed tactics, but not before Gaza is laid waste. Hamas will continue to exist because they're entrenched in Gaza and they have the support of other anti-Western militant groups as well as Iran and (possibly) Russia. Those few Palestinians that ultimately survive the carnage will be so weakened as to have no say in what either Israel or Hamas does next.

They’re not destroying Hamas. They’re destroying innocent bystanders and civilians.

You know it’s abuse when you can tell the abuser is aware you’re watching and still does just enough to let know they control the situation.

Thanks , P-Stoned.

Happy Birthday Benji!

Damn right you are.