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I heard a theory today that US polls are being artificially skewed on both sides.
GOP pollsters are inflating their numbers to justify Trump's inevitable "stolen election" claims if he loses.
Dems are deflating their numbers to ...
... avoid any complacency among their voters, by making them think it's closer than it actually is.
The "evidence" for this is that the polls are weirdly similar. You'd normally expect at least a few outlying polls showing a clear lead for one side or another. But they're all...
... showing the same results, as close to 49-51 as it's possible to be. And (goes the theory) this is unnatural, and suggests party pollsters are playing with the numbers, while independent pollsters are scared of breaking the pattern.
It is reported that before 7 Oct 2023, 85% of Hamas fighters were orphans whose parents had been killed by the IDF.
Israel has since created over 17,000 new orphans.
No matter what your opinion on Gaza, no matter what "side" you take, Israeli actions will never bring peace.
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All wars end with talking, or with surrender. There's no third option.
Most end with negotiation. The Nazis and Japan surrendered, but only due to overwhelming global opposition and [the threat of] total military defeat.
That doesn't apply to Gaza or Israel, and never will.
Israel might have the military power to utterly destroy Gaza. But Israel is almost surrounded by largely Muslim nations, and there's no hope of them achieving a military victory as absolute as the one the world imposed on Nazi Germany. They'd still end up surrounded.
FAR RIGHT: The Southport attack was definitely done by Ali al Shakati
NORMALS: Ali al Shakati means "I have to go to my apartment"
FR: OK, maybe he wasn't called that, but he definitely arrived on a boat last year
N. Nope, he was born in Cardiff
FR: But he's definitely a Muslim!
N: Nope, he is literally a choirboy in his local Christian Church
FR: Mainstream media is trying to make us sympathise with him by only showing photos of him as a child
N: Maybe that's because he IS a child.
FR: Ah, but the justice system isn't telling us the whole truth
N: The justice system doesn't make everything public, because that makes it impossible to deliver a fair trail, and if you want justice to be done you'd let justice happen