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Seems like the big man is really pissed now. Bibi thought he could do a cheeky bombing run after his announcement and it apparently really pissed him off and rained on his parade.
I really, really hope this is enough for him to be done with Nethyanahu, he's led him around, lied to his face and ignored him enough times that if anyone else did it to Trump it would be done a long time ago, hopefully this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
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I assumed that "preventing something that has already started to happen" is usually called "stopping", but what are we doing, arguing about grammar and vocabularia? Seems a little like playing trumpet on the moon.
On June 24 2025 22:36 Jankisa wrote:... and it apparently really pissed him off and rained on his parade.
Don't you mean, reigned on his parade?
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On June 24 2025 22:41 Uldridge wrote:
I assumed that "preventing something that has already started to happen" is usually called "stopping", but what are we doing, arguing about grammar and vocabularia? Seems a little like playing trumpet on the moon. Just trying hard to not talk about the actual point, the people not worried about re-election are (almost) all calling it genocide
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Far too many (in my opinion) posts have been made in these threads (including the Russia / Ukraine and US politics) indulging people who in bad faith try to make the conversation about semantics.
Almost always it's the people with a minority opinion trying to derail the conversation, far too often it also results in insults and not much else.
I try to stay out of it most of the time but this time it was so obvious and done by a person who has a habit of insulting people around here and resorting to semantic arguments that I had to just paste the definition
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On June 24 2025 23:12 Jankisa wrote:
Far too many (in my opinion) posts have been made in these threads (including the Russia / Ukraine and US politics) indulging people who in bad faith try to make the conversation about semantics.
Almost always it's the people with a minority opinion trying to derail the conversation, far too often it also results in insults and not much else.
I try to stay out of it most of the time but this time it was so obvious and done by a person who has a habit of insulting people around here and resorting to semantic arguments that I had to just paste the definition
Context: KwarK hates my guts. Not just mine, but mine are among the guts that he typically hates. That mostly explains his absurd behavior.
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I've been called an idiot by him in this thread as well, so that's the context from my end.
Maybe we should make a club or something.
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On June 24 2025 23:36 Jankisa wrote:
I've been called an idiot by him in this thread as well, so that's the context from my end.
Maybe we should make a club or something.
I don't know when Kwark called you an idiot, but the various times Kwark called MP a moron it was pretty justified. He often waffles on about stuff he knows nothing about and then gets upset when someone corrects him. Now I'm not saying Kwark is a reasonable guy. He won't just let things go and will hound people til they stop posting just to get away from Kwark's bullying. But if MP would just stop replying to Kwark all of aTL would be a better place.
That said, this latest bout was a moronic post by Kwark with an even dumber response by MP. I'm with Uldridge here, let's go back to discussing the meaning of free rein vs free reign.
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On June 25 2025 00:37 Acrofales wrote:
But if MP would just stop replying to Kwark all of aTL would be a better place.
Nice victim blaming.
No worries, I'll be there for you when you draw KwarK's ire for the first time. You're not safe from his episodes. Everybody's on his list, you just don't know it yet.
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On June 25 2025 00:52 Magic Powers wrote:Show nested quote +On June 25 2025 00:37 Acrofales wrote:
But if MP would just stop replying to Kwark all of aTL would be a better place. Nice victim blaming. No worries, I'll be there for you when you draw KwarK's ire for the first time. You're not safe from his episodes. Everybody's on his list, you just don't know it yet.
Unbeknownst to you, I have already been shitposted by Kwark, but after two or three replies I decided it was not worth my time or shitting up the thread with what was obviously going nowhere. For the same reason I often just stop replying to oBlade. Not because I agree with anything he says, but because I have better things to do with my life. You should try it.
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On June 24 2025 22:41 Uldridge wrote:I assumed that "preventing something that has already started to happen" is usually called "stopping", but what are we doing, arguing about grammar and vocabularia? Seems a little like playing trumpet on the moon. Show nested quote +On June 24 2025 22:36 Jankisa wrote:... and it apparently really pissed him off and rained on his parade. Don't you mean, reigned on his parade?
You are correct. The pre prefix is literally means before, as in before the event happens. The framing event has to be non current.
You are also correct that “stop” is used for current events.
Congrats on your English fluency, not everyone knows that.
But the meat of my issue with his post was that genocide is prevented stopped by calling it genocide. There are loads of ongoing genocides happening around the world and I don’t think labeling is likely to stop a single one of them.
If we imagine a world in which Israel is bent on the eradication of the Gazans then it’s tough to imagine the aggressive use of accusations of genocide stopping them from that. It smells vaguely of GH’s “if ten thousand people like this socialism post then we’ll revolution” posting. I don’t see the connection.
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There is some merit to the idea the doctor would have to identify the cancer in some way before being able to operate on it.
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On June 25 2025 03:13 oBlade wrote:
There is some merit to the idea the doctor would have to identify the cancer in some way before being able to operate on it.
Sure, but cancer doesn't have nukes and Germany isn't a surgeon.
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