As you’d probably expect. Imagine if the IRA had kidnapped or killed all of Stockport.

April 11, 2026 - 10:49 UTC

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Why Stockport? Population 118,000 (town) or c. 300,000 (borough).

Absurd hyperbole, no?
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Per capita similar, no?
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Imagine if the government knew the IRA was going to kidnap or kill all of Stockport, but decided to let it happen in order to generate the pretext for turning Northern Ireland and everything and everyone in it to rubble.
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Dude, did you read my follow up post or just assume the worst possible intent in what I’d written. Jfc
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To be clear I’m in no way excusing anything Netanyahu has done.
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Yes, sure, an eye for an eye, etc.

But I think the Israelis exceeded their appropriate quota of 'Eyes' some time in the middle of their 'Dresdenisation' of Gaza.

And this isn't the first time that a need for 'Revenge' has
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(potentially) led to calamity in that region, I'm just reading about the Bush Admin's reaction to 9/11, and the pure revenge that led to them pursuing their long held ambition of removing Saddam ...

We as a Species are now too good at killing stuff to allow our Monkey Brain's need
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which is exactly why Trump is so malignant. When the world needed someone to forcibly restrain Netanyahu and channel Israeli grief/anger, it got an abusive enabler who saw real estate opportunities in a massacre
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Indeed
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