DarkNightoftheSoul

alright, a, first off, the situation is exploding right now. the powder keg is boiling over and spreading to other countries like lebanon and iran. if it's the geopolitics that have you convinced, then please explain the specific geopolitical factors that have you convinced. ill admit my ignorance fair and square. if it's all the previous presidents who were deeply invested in finding a solution but ultimately failed, tell me about that. a response would ideally include how they attempted to regulate arms exports or hold (as far as i can tell an effectively unchecked) israel in any way accountable for belligerence and aggression and grievance.

you say you're not decisive, yet you tell me with what i can only read as finality that depriving israel of the means to wage war wouldn't lead to de-escalation. im not even saying you're wrong, but im asking how you can be so certain its simplicity would lead to its failure. it seems pretty obvious (to me at least) that if they really need those arms for self defense they will stop doing the aggressive acts that i propose we condition their arms by. fuck a ceasefire, hold their bombs over their head and make them play nice if they need them so badly. if they dont play nice, take their fucking toys away.

can we both agree that the cost of continuing to do nothing would be actively supporting genocide?

thats a pretty decisive claim. how do you support your assertion? for my part it seems clear to me that the president does in fact have the power to stop the war by depriving one side the means of continuing it, and I've showed the levers of power she could pull. I'm not saying it's easy, I'm saying it's a hell of a lot simpler than people seem to be willing to concede.

edit: also, what's the cost of doing nothing? or rather continuing to do nothing? we just twiddle our thumbs and go "golly gee wizz aw shucks dang they're sure blowing stuff up over there" until the genocide is finished? watch, as you seem to be content to do for your whole lifetime, as an atrocity plays out?

The president has authority to approve, deny, or restrict international arms sales:

The term “Leahy law” refers to two statutory provisions prohibiting the U.S. Government from using funds for assistance to units of foreign security forces where there is credible information implicating that unit in the commission of gross violations of human rights (GVHR).

The Arms Export Control Act of 1976 gives the President of the United States the authority to control the import and export of defense articles and defense services.

She literally could say "stop it, you guys!" and they'd run out of bullets and bombs.

israel "respecting" the terms of a ceasefire (to which it was effectively indifferent) that in no way addressed the fundamental grievances of the palestenians: blockades, apartheid, land encroachment, property confiscation, eviction and demolition, restriction of food and other forms of aid, human rights violations, and violations of international law (collectively constituting a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing and annexation) doesnt constitute the benevolent nonviolent "respect" for peace you seem to be suggesting. nor does this campaign continuing during what some are pleased to call "ceasefire" suggest an interest in relieving those very real grievances, incompatible with a viable or, in evidence, peaceful palestinian society.

Noone who speaks german could be evil!

how are you worse than the pedant

edit: oh mb, just realized you are german saying "The cunt" as a non-sequitur. Now that's a sentiment I can get behind.

its 100% in any meaningful sense of the word move the electrons that move, but thanks to ol' benny franks we have an ass-backwards roundabout way of describing the relative motion of stationary proton "holes" compared to electrons which are- well, more teleporting than moving, frequently (if you'll pardon the pun). holes move in the same way that water pressure is analogous to voltage: there may be mathematical and maybe even some physical comparisons to be made, but the conceptual framework is fundamentally an analogy, and in the case of "hole flow" a fudged up cya excuse for not updating the damn convention when the mistake was discovered. hurrumph.

holes flowing... protons with free motion? in a solid wire or semiconductor? you mean a plasma.

is there a physical constraint one could apply to matter to cause "holes" to flow while electrons stay put?

strange, that. government conspiracy no doubt.

us poor folk take losses?