| Vancouver Off-Topic / Current Events The off-topic forum for Vancouver, funnies, non-auto centered discussions, WORK SAFE. While the rules are more relaxed here, there are still rules. Please refer to sticky thread in this forum. |
 | | 
09-17-2024, 03:17 PM
|
#476 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 39,089
Thanked 15,861 Times in 6,443 Posts
Failed 2,158 Times in 740 Posts
|
Bra.. it’s obviously about power and influence lol what else could it be?
Why do Kamala and Trump spend all their talking points about specific groups of people on Jews who make up 5% of the American population?
Power, money, influence, as much as people got their panties in a bunch early on in this thread, what else is it.
Hamas killed what, 1200 people that day of the raid? Now Israel has killed 50,000 and no one reports on that or cares? Lol
Follow da money
Also as you said, now you’ve got Israel operating in foreign countries going after targets which are dragging their “allies” closer and closer into these internal conflicts and no one bats an eye.
__________________
Dank memes cant melt steel beams
| 
|  | |
09-17-2024, 04:36 PM
|
#477 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Ricemond
Posts: 11,286
Thanked 13,128 Times in 4,756 Posts
Failed 517 Times in 274 Posts
|
Yeah it’s pretty fucked up. Western narratives for the last 20 years has always been
Anti Muslim
Anti China
Anti Russia
If you fall within any of these 3 groups gg. Axis of evil
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 05:06 PM
|
#478 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 39,089
Thanked 15,861 Times in 6,443 Posts
Failed 2,158 Times in 740 Posts
|
When you look at how fucked up the US has left places over the last 100 years, you really question who the “bad guy” is
There’s so many world altering events that have happened over time that changed the world, ultimately for the worse, through western intervention
__________________
Dank memes cant melt steel beams
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 05:30 PM
|
#479 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North vancouver
Posts: 13,568
Thanked 34,182 Times in 8,130 Posts
Failed 228 Times in 176 Posts
|
When was the last time the US really succeeded unanimously when it comes to military intervention? WW2?
I don't really know about the Korean War or what happened there other than MASH. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq were all objectively left more fucked than before by US troops on the ground, never mind the atrocities committed by US soldiers to citizens in all of those conflicts.
__________________
98 technoviolet M3/2/5 Quote:
Originally Posted by boostfever  Westopher is correct. | Quote:
Originally Posted by fsy82 seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked | Quote:
Originally Posted by punkwax Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct. | | |
| | |
09-17-2024, 05:32 PM
|
#480 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong
Posts: 54,418
Thanked 25,294 Times in 8,851 Posts
Failed 1,559 Times in 707 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by westopher When was the last time the US really succeeded unanimously when it comes to military intervention? WW2?
I don't really know about the Korean War or what happened there other than MASH. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq were all objectively left more fucked than before by US troops on the ground, never mind the atrocities committed by US soldiers to citizens in all of those conflicts. | It depends on how acceptable it would be if most of the countries in Asia became Chinese colonies
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 05:41 PM
|
#481 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Van
Posts: 5,746
Thanked 2,390 Times in 1,287 Posts
Failed 231 Times in 139 Posts
|
No Chinese colonies but ok for Indian colonies to exist? When they bombing Canada?
| 
| | |
09-17-2024, 05:42 PM
|
#482 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Ricemond
Posts: 11,286
Thanked 13,128 Times in 4,756 Posts
Failed 517 Times in 274 Posts
|
^ Wat ?!
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 06:05 PM
|
#483 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 5,032
Thanked 3,727 Times in 1,740 Posts
Failed 67 Times in 41 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by westopher When was the last time the US really succeeded unanimously when it comes to military intervention? WW2?
I don't really know about the Korean War or what happened there other than MASH. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq were all objectively left more fucked than before by US troops on the ground, never mind the atrocities committed by US soldiers to citizens in all of those conflicts. | Desert Storm was a success?
They really had no business in Iraq. It was a manufactured war. And I agree Middle East is in no better place now than before.
I'd argue South Korea is better off because of US influence.
If they ever got involved in a war over Taiwan, there would be zero winners. Everyone loses.
I still have a hard time believing this one is real. It's a little out of the realm of my belief that a tiny little battery can do that much damage.
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 06:57 PM
|
#484 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Van
Posts: 5,746
Thanked 2,390 Times in 1,287 Posts
Failed 231 Times in 139 Posts
|
They still haven't released the hostages, yet they still fire missiles into Israel + capture ships.
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 08:17 PM
|
#485 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong
Posts: 54,418
Thanked 25,294 Times in 8,851 Posts
Failed 1,559 Times in 707 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by EvoFire Desert Storm was a success?
They really had no business in Iraq. It was a manufactured war. And I agree Middle East is in no better place now than before.
I'd argue South Korea is better off because of US influence.
If they ever got involved in a war over Taiwan, there would be zero winners. Everyone loses.
I still have a hard time believing this one is real. It's a little out of the realm of my belief that a tiny little battery can do that much damage. | Everyone used to see Russia as a huge military power. The US and NATO have been able to destroy half their military power just by supplying Ukraine with expiring 90's weaponry, without even having to send troops. They're just starting to give them upgrades now.
Putin is sending his country back decades just by continuing the attack
| |
| | |
09-17-2024, 09:09 PM
|
#486 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Sunny Hong Kong
Posts: 54,418
Thanked 25,294 Times in 8,851 Posts
Failed 1,559 Times in 707 Posts
| | |
| | |
09-17-2024, 09:24 PM
|
#487 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: YVR
Posts: 1,055
Thanked 851 Times in 417 Posts
Failed 65 Times in 22 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by EvoFire Desert Storm was a success?
They really had no business in Iraq. It was a manufactured war. And I agree Middle East is in no better place now than before.
I'd argue South Korea is better off because of US influence.
If they ever got involved in a war over Taiwan, there would be zero winners. Everyone loses.
I still have a hard time believing this one is real. It's a little out of the realm of my belief that a tiny little battery can do that much damage. | Ehh, the first one was to defend kuwait (and oil) the second one + afghanistan was the disaster. I wonder what a powerhouse the US would be today if they didn't incur massive amounts of debt from that war. Probably have free healthcare but gotta fund the war machine.
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 01:04 AM
|
#488 | | I only answer to my username, my real name is Irrelevant!
Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: CELICAland
Posts: 25,679
Thanked 10,395 Times in 3,918 Posts
Failed 1,390 Times in 625 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by mikemhg I don't have skin in the game here, but how is Israel given runway to do this kind of stuff?
If Iran conducted this type of operation, the world would've considered this a terrorist attack, yet Israel can indiscriminately blow up thousands of pagers (without even knowing who is holding the pager, and is currently in presence with that individual)?
It's stuff like this that give credence to people being against Israel, they seem to always be the aggressors here, using their tech to beta test their latest and greatest murder machines on innocents. | The world does try to intervene time and again through in resolutions or even by force in rare occurrences, but big daddy USA always puts a stop to it
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 06:37 AM
|
#489 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 25,196
Thanked 11,828 Times in 5,076 Posts
Failed 317 Times in 203 Posts
|
I don't follow what goes on in the Middle East. Death, destruction, whathaveyou............ such violence.
Gotta find something good in all of this, right? https://www.instagram.com/hot_idf_girls/?hl=en
__________________ Quote: |
"there but for the grace of god go I"
| Quote: |
Youth is, indeed, wasted on the young.
| YODO = You Only Die Once.
Dirty look from MG1 can melt steel beams.
"There must be dissonance before resolution - MG1" a musical reference.
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 07:09 AM
|
#490 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 10,047
Thanked 4,104 Times in 2,015 Posts
Failed 698 Times in 222 Posts
|
First it was pagers exploding. Then it is walkie-talkies exploding for Hezbollah members.
They should go old school and use carrier pigeons to communicate.  https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/...hnk/index.html
__________________
Go Canucks go!
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 07:25 AM
|
#491 | | RS Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: GTA
Posts: 31,099
Thanked 12,886 Times in 5,310 Posts
Failed 506 Times in 334 Posts
|
That's insane and unfortunate. Children being a casualty of this is just awful.
To orchestrate an explosive device being planted in so many devices is wild.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by whitev70r ... maybe I'm racist | Quote:
Originally Posted by bcrdukes Guys, the P-car tax is real. | | |
| | |
09-18-2024, 07:39 AM
|
#492 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Ricemond
Posts: 11,286
Thanked 13,128 Times in 4,756 Posts
Failed 517 Times in 274 Posts
|
this is why organized religion sucks. Its the root cause of so much human suffering throughout the ages
its funny how all these religions are based on principles of "peace"
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 07:42 AM
|
#493 | | SFICC-03*
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: richmond
Posts: 8,870
Thanked 3,505 Times in 1,376 Posts
Failed 164 Times in 85 Posts
|
peace for me but not for thee
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 08:56 AM
|
#494 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Vancouver
Posts: 5,032
Thanked 3,727 Times in 1,740 Posts
Failed 67 Times in 41 Posts
| Quote:
Originally Posted by pastarocket | That really boggles the mind. With pagers at least you can call them a connected device. Walkie-talkies aren't technically connected so it must be planted? And to have such widespread distribution is insane.
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:03 AM
|
#495 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: YVR/TPE
Posts: 4,958
Thanked 3,048 Times in 1,328 Posts
Failed 660 Times in 211 Posts
|
I think we are witnessing the Muslim/Jewish version of the Crusades. 
__________________
Nothing for now
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:05 AM
|
#496 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Burnaby
Posts: 4,794
Thanked 6,534 Times in 2,390 Posts
Failed 283 Times in 119 Posts
|
Something really bothers me about what Israel did here. They're not in a literal war with Lebanon, this is pure terrorism.
This type of thing is so indiscriminate, no way to confirm who is in possession of these pagers, how can that person be legitimately deemed an enemy or someone worth killing in such a brutal way?
I say brutal by the way because a lot of these people ended up suffering perforated bowels/stomachs as a result of these explosions which is a wickedly cruel and slow way to injure/maim/kill a person.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by MG1 In Mike we Trust | | |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:08 AM
|
#497 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 39,089
Thanked 15,861 Times in 6,443 Posts
Failed 2,158 Times in 740 Posts
|
They already killed 10,000 Palestinian children, morals seem an afterthought
__________________
Dank memes cant melt steel beams
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:22 AM
|
#498 | | RS Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: GTA
Posts: 31,099
Thanked 12,886 Times in 5,310 Posts
Failed 506 Times in 334 Posts
|
I forgot about the world of pagers. Pagers, while they have their uses, seem so primitive in the world we live in with smartphones and all. Feels like I've taken the technology evolution for granted.
__________________ Quote:
Originally Posted by whitev70r ... maybe I'm racist | Quote:
Originally Posted by bcrdukes Guys, the P-car tax is real. |
Last edited by bcrdukes; 09-18-2024 at 11:03 AM.
Reason: typos
| |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:24 AM
|
#499 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North vancouver
Posts: 13,568
Thanked 34,182 Times in 8,130 Posts
Failed 228 Times in 176 Posts
|
This absolutely secures the IDF and this entire operation being terrorism, if you didn't already know that before. The only difference between them and isis is that they aren't a threat to American soil.
__________________
98 technoviolet M3/2/5 Quote:
Originally Posted by boostfever Westopher is correct. | Quote:
Originally Posted by fsy82 seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked | Quote:
Originally Posted by punkwax Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct. | | |
| | |
09-18-2024, 09:38 AM
|
#500 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Van
Posts: 5,746
Thanked 2,390 Times in 1,287 Posts
Failed 231 Times in 139 Posts
|
USA wants to sell weapons to Taiwan again, I wonder if those will blow up remotely too  | |
| | | |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 04:46 PM.
|
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
The banners on the left side and below do not show for registered users!
