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If Hamas is stealing the food and charging exorbitant prices, why don’t they just flood Gaza with food so that Hamas no longer has that leverage? Supply and demand. It’s not like there’s any shortage of aid available.
 
nrsair said:
If Hamas is stealing the food and charging exorbitant prices, why don’t they just flood Gaza with food so that Hamas no longer has that leverage? Supply and demand. It’s not like there’s any shortage of aid available.
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They can't. Nearly 90% of aid is being highjacked by Hamas.

Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’​

..........Of the 109 trucks carrying food supplies for UNRWA and the World Food Programme from the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, 97 trucks were “lost” in the looting, UNRWA told CNN in a statement Monday.

 
Perhaps Hamas could just surrender and then the war would be over and the Palestinian civilians could actually start to have a life again?

Nah, who am I kidding. Hamas would never want to do something like that.
 
ZZLPHeels said:
Perhaps Hamas could just surrender and then the war would be over and the Palestinian civilians could actually start to have a life again?

Nah, who am I kidding. Hamas would never want to do something like that.
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Any surrender is temporary as long as Hamas is running Gaza. Any ceasefire is just an opportunity for Hamas to reload and reorganize as long as Hamas runs Gaza.
 
ZenMode said:
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The reason that this isn't funny is that it's not true at all. I'm not talking about the 0.3% part, which could be a humorous exaggeration if the other stuff was correct.

But there is only one Islamist dictatorship (well, monarchy) in the region. Lebanon and Iraq are democracies. Egyptian politics is like Turkiye, except not Islamist at all -- indeed, the military came to power by ousting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are considered anti-Egyptian by huge swaths of the population. Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which the king has more power than most ceremonial monarchs in Europe but it's not remotely unlimited.

Only Saudi Arabia fits the narrative. And when most of the joke is just factually incorrect, it quickly becomes stupidity more than humor.
 
superrific said:
The reason that this isn't funny is that it's not true at all. I'm not talking about the 0.3% part, which could be a humorous exaggeration if the other stuff was correct.

But there is only one Islamist dictatorship (well, monarchy) in the region. Lebanon and Iraq are democracies. Egyptian politics is like Turkiye, except not Islamist at all -- indeed, the military came to power by ousting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are considered anti-Egyptian by huge swaths of the population. Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which the king has more power than most ceremonial monarchs in Europe but it's not remotely unlimited.

Only Saudi Arabia fits the narrative. And when most of the joke is just factually incorrect, it quickly becomes stupidity more than humor.
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The Babylon Bee targets its “humor” to people who have no grasp of Middle East politics, not people like you. I bet if you go on the Babylon Bee X page, you won’t find a single “joke” that makes you even chuckle.
 
Calheel said:
The Babylon Bee targets its “humor” to people who have no grasp of Middle East politics, not people like you. I bet if you go on the Babylon Bee X page, you won’t find a single “joke” that makes you even chuckle.
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Yes, I know. But the Onion isn't exactly geared to people like me and it's consistently hilarious.

You were right to put quotes around "humor." The Bee is just the latest in a sad line that goes through the Fox Half Hour News Hour all the way back to Mallard Fillmore.

We've had discussion on this board before about conservative versus liberal humor. I stand by my observation (which is hardly a complete description) that conservative humor is basically the way bullies find it funny to pick on more vulnerable kids. Pretty much all conservative "humor" is just punching down.
 
superrific said:
The reason that this isn't funny is that it's not true at all. I'm not talking about the 0.3% part, which could be a humorous exaggeration if the other stuff was correct.

But there is only one Islamist dictatorship (well, monarchy) in the region. Lebanon and Iraq are democracies. Egyptian politics is like Turkiye, except not Islamist at all -- indeed, the military came to power by ousting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are considered anti-Egyptian by huge swaths of the population. Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which the king has more power than most ceremonial monarchs in Europe but it's not remotely unlimited.

Only Saudi Arabia fits the narrative. And when most of the joke is just factually incorrect, it quickly becomes stupidity more than humor.
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pop tv moira rose GIF by Schitt's Creek
 
superrific said:
Yes, I know. But the Onion isn't exactly geared to people like me and it's consistently hilarious.

You were right to put quotes around "humor." The Bee is just the latest in a sad line that goes through the Fox Half Hour News Hour all the way back to Mallard Fillmore.

We've had discussion on this board before about conservative versus liberal humor. I stand by my observation (which is hardly a complete description) that conservative humor is basically the way bullies find it funny to pick on more vulnerable kids. Pretty much all conservative "humor" is just punching down.
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Bosider that I am, with an extremely dark sense of humor, I find humor in a lot.

I might start a "Dark Humor" thread just to see what others think.

Example of what I find funny BECAUSE it's completely inappropriate:

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BTW, my best friend, since we were 16 years old, is a Jewish lawyer. I sent this to him in a group chat.
 


Seems like this risks ending up a bloodbath of conscripts that could finally turn Israelis against the Netanyahu government…
 
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