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Ukraine is old hat. We now unequivocally support Israel.

Anyone else's wallet feel lighter?

You won't. FFLs still won't sell to them. They can't buy them legally. They'll just bring them in from Mexico or buy them from the black market here. This law literally changes nothing for illegals except that they won't be detained for simply having a firearm (which the Biden admin wasn't really doing anyways). There are laws against illegals being in the country, but the Biden admin doesn't enforce them. The Biden admin EO'd away all of the EOs that Trump used to effectively deport them. So if 2024 rolls around and Trump wins, guess which EOs are coming right back into play. It doesn't matter if they're allowed to own guns, they'll be deported for crossing the border illegally. With a hypothetical Trump presidency, these people are being deported AND you now have the legal precedent that you can't restrict guns in the three ways I've mentioned.

get over the headline, ffs

There is literally zero sarcasm in my answer. This is a huge 2A win. If this opinion would have been written by Clarence Thomas, gun grabbers would be freaking out.

Man, people are hung up on the headline, but no one's bothering to look at the legal reasoning to arrive at this federal judge's conclusion, which is absolutely the correct decision for 2A supporters. The illegal who was charged for the crime got the pistol for personal protection during the 2020 BLM riots. Should the guy even be in the country in the first place? No, but that's not what this case is about. It's about if your status as an illegal precludes you from rights guaranteed in the constitution, particularly gun ownership. Anyways, her legal reasoning Permit requirements are illegal Public carry restrictions are illegal Banning non-violent criminals from gun ownership is illegal This reasoning could be used in the future for increasing gun rights on a national level. Hello? National open carry, maybe? Fuck yeah. Here is her concluding paragraph in the case The whole case is here and worth a read. Honestly, I am pleasantly surprised this is coming from an Obama appointee. https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-carbajal-flores-2 Huge win for pro 2A. I really can't state that enough.

You are the same as them.

Yes, how could they do anything other than leveling Gaza and turning the homes of 2 million people into rubble? What else could they have done?

Probably. Just like you're denying the genocide going on right now. Not seeing much of a difference between them and you.

No, that's a separate issue. I'm saying that your blind support of Israel is eventually going to give way to blind support of Hamas. Both of which are retarded and not what's best for the USA.

Yeah, they'll be wiped out just like the Taliban, and al Qaeda, and ISIS. Certainly, Islamic extremism will cease to exist after Bibi is finishes his job. China, no. USA, yes. Especially after Iraq. If cellphones had been as widespread when we invaded Iraq and killed half a million to a million of their civilians, then there would have been less public support for the war. Yes. Even Israel did this. Israel has a right to defend itself and capture/kill Hamas leadership. In spite of what you guys have convinced yourself that I believe, Israel actually has my full support for retaliation of that scope. What they are doing is going far beyond that and, in the long run, it's just going to create more Islamic extremists and puts a big target on their backs (as well as ours). You don't rescue hostages with JDAMs. You are, once again, equating Gazan civilians to Hamas. The Gazan civilians are the victims, not Hamas. lol, it's a totally apt descriptor! Not if AIPAC and the ADL have anything to say about it.

Here is where that mindset is going to lead to in, let's say, 50 years. But hey, so long as it's your side that's winning!

This war has put Biden in a not so good position. Up until this week, Bibi has made the Biden administration look completely defanged and powerless. There have been multiple gently-worded statements from the Biden administration saying that Israel shouldn't do x or shouldn't do y, while also saying that there was no way we would ever stop supplying Israel with arms. As you would expect, Bibi took this as carte blanche to bomb Gaza to ashes as a means of destroying Hamas. Further humiliating the US, the Israelis denied both the UN and US opportunities to create aid corridors in Gaza. Instead, Bibi very graciously allowed the USAF to airdrop supplies on the beach. Last week, the rhetoric started to escalate. Biden had a hot mic after an address to Congress where he told another Democrat Congressman that he's going to have a "come to Jesus moment" with Bibi. Bibi responded by saying something along the lines of, "we've already had 13 or 14 of those." And Bibi continued to bomb the shit out of Gaza. As a response, top Democrat Chuck Schumer has called for the ousting of Netanyahu. Today, some Israeli politicians have said to the Jerusalem Post accusations that the US is trying to overthrow their government. This is turning into a diplomatic feud. Any move Biden makes here looks pretty bleak from a re-election standpoint. Trump is absolutely winning over the neocon vote, and probably some of the warhawk neolib vote too by saying that no one is a bigger supporter of Israel than him (and given what he did with Israel during his presidency, I would argue he has a good point). Moderates (normies) don't do well with seeing dead children on their Twitter/FB/tiktok feeds every day and so Biden is losing support from his soccer mom constituency. Lastly, the far left wing of the Democrats is outright angry with him over his decisions here (though I expect in 3 months we will see them saying "yes, Biden didn't handle this situation well, but we cannot go back to Trump"). Muslims are probably going to sit this next election out, which is going to cost Biden 1-3% of the vote in Michigan. You know they're going to turn out. As for Bibi. He was looking at a prison sentence before the outbreak of this war. Even throughout the war, there have been many large protests within Israel from supporters of the opposition party. Bibi's going for the extermination of Hamas or bust. The longer this thing drags out, the more likely he is to get ousted by his own people. Pretty fascinating to watch these two balance on a knife's edge.

There you have it, America First.

So, what's the threshold to have our unquestioned support? Rwandans, East Timorese, Bosnians, Armenians, Serbs, Poles, Rohingyas, and American Indians have all been on the receiving end of a genocide. Why don't we support them no matter what?

"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it." Also, not sure why diehard keeps posting holocaust pictures. Maybe he thinks that holocaust deniers should be thrown in jail?

Oppose censorship.

Isn't that exactly what I've been doing this entire time? Uniparty loves them some foreign wars.

He voted for funding a foreign war that clearly helps Israel, his other country of citizenship. As an American, this war has in the short-term, worsened inflation due to the Houthis closing the Red Sea, and in the long-term has guaranteed that we will end up accepting a bunch of Gazan refugees who will hate us for funding said war. Yeah, why would I question his loyalty to the USA? Must be antisemitism.

South Dakota signed into law a bill to combat antisemitism. Quoted from the bill itself, it defines antisemitism as... And going to this alliance's website, they list the following acts as antisemitic According to this logic, if I question the loyalty of a sitting US congressman who shows up to congress in an IDF uniform, then that is worthy of jailtime in South Dakota. These people are the fucking thought police. It's a batshit crazy law, and I can't wait for it to get struck down by SCOTUS on first amendment grounds.

Here's an article by Dr. Martin Kulldorff. He was a Harvard epidemiologist and biostatistician who warned against the extreme measures taken by the CDC in locking down the nation. For voicing these concerns, he was fired from Harvard, blacklisted by tech giants, and accused by ivory tower experts of being a right-wing kook. This guy's exile from academia precisely demonstrates how the most highly regarded experts in medicine spewed opinions that aren't worth any more than most of the drivel on this forum. https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-tramples-the-truth There was a point where the decisions made became more driven than politics than by science. Unfortunately, everyone who spoke up against it was labelled a Trump supporter and subsequently ignored.

Two sailors killed by Houthi missiles after their ship was hit transiting the Mandeb strait. They also sunk a British ship last week. Insurance premiums for shipping from Mid East to Asia are through the roof.

You know what they say about assumptions.

Stop being a gaslighting ass.

*Shows up in Ukraine* *Convinces globalist Ukrainian president to send hundreds of thousands of troops into unwinnable war, destroying the country's demographics* *Leaves and refuses to elaborate* Good riddance. I predict the Ukrainian nationalists will turn on Zelensky if Russia keeps making gains.