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Note: this article is written by Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill & Solihull North.

I could empathize with someone who relishes and jokes about killing people outside their ideology; these feelings are certainly familiar to me. But as a Christian, the thought of willfully doing so makes me feel ill, since I make great efforts to get those sadistic feelings *out* of my head. Someone who treats death with such cheery indifference is willingly forfeiting part of their humanity. To me, that's the definition of evil.

Most evil people don't see themselves as evil and do not feel shame about what they do. In fact, they often frame their actions as a crusade.

Not OP, but: peace between Germany and the rest of the West required a) millions slaughtered in war, b) an obvious big bad who got killed, c) relatively lenient and merciful occupation for years, and ultimately d) waiting for the Nazi generation to die out. I'm sure sharing a common cultural background helped a lot, too. And maybe a collective sense of optimism about the post-war world.

I don't see many common elements with the situation in Gaza (and now Iran). A policy of "mowing the grass" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass) will never lead to stability or warm and fuzzy feelings towards Israel.

State-level groups in the same physical vicinity that have blood feuds and generational grievances against each other are quite possibly cooked, yes. I sincerely hope this can be preempted through diplomacy, but the prognosis is not good. The depopulated, fiber-laced front lines of Ukraine set the stage for all future war and terror.

Ignore pardons and prosecute anyway. If "autopen" pardons are invalid, then so are pardons made by a senile president who just blindly signs whatever's placed in front of him.

Defeating an enemy to the extent that they can't drive a truck full of AI killbots into a busy city center is an impossible task barring a scorched earth approach. And if that option is on the table -- killing millions to secure Israel's future -- then Israel seals its fate regardless.

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Old advice that continues to ring true.

Is continuing to apply extreme violence against these enemies likely to lead to a good result? What is the end state?

I think we are fast approaching an era where weapons of mass destruction, by way of cheap killbot swarms, are trivially accessible to any government. Without radical diplomacy, I fear the entire Middle East -- Israel included -- is on a path to annihilation.

By "pariah state," I mean immediate sanctions and closing of borders -- like Russia circa 2022 but more severe.

"If you think trump is big bad then you need to realize the trumpers have thought the SAME about your party for like a decade now."

Yes, and they were wrong, or far more plausibly, blatantly lying about it. The Trump administration's assaults on press freedom are, factually speaking, orders of magnitude worse than anything Biden was purported to do. They claimed Biden did what they *wanted* to do all along.

Not that Trump or his administration have two brain cells to rub together, but who would they even nuke? Teheran? Millions of lives lost, any Iranian support for the war evaporates, and US instantly becomes a pariah state. (Plus, leadership is likely hiding far away from the capital at this point.) The coastline? The Strait of Hormuz becomes an impassible fallout zone and IRGC attacks are decentralized anyway.

"""objectively"""

What's the point of this comment? It says little, accomplishes nothing, and convinces no one of anything.

The entire Republican party is complicit.

"Senate Republicans vote down legislation to halt Iran war in Congress’ first vote on the conflict" https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-senate-vote-war-powers-0...

Actually, many Iranians are terrified and hate being bombed into oblivion: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/world/middleeast/iran-bom...

This may not go the way you think. Which will enrage Trump and cause even more bombing.

Every DOGE member is complicit, and every single name should be published. They knew what they were getting into.

The point is not to make them feel shame. The point is to make their public life impractical and nerve-wracking. We can’t tar and feather anymore so do the next best thing.

Musk begged Epstein to party on his island, Gates *went* to his island, and Thiel was his friend for years. So yes -- of course.

Donald Trump has tried to overthrow an election once already -- first through conspiracy, then through violence. The fact that he's not rotting in a prison cell is largely due to corruption of the judiciary (Aileen Cannon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...

So many pro-government, pro-military comments. How HN has fallen since Aaron Swartz’s time.

Step one is making them feel unwelcome in society. Follow them around. Protest in front of their houses. Never let them have a quiet meal at a restaurant. Shame anyone who does business with them. Make Thiel and his fellows sequester in their little bunkers.

I imagine much of US/Israeli intel has been burned on the initial strike, and it's not that hard to hide someone in a bunker at the end of the day.

It's trivially easy to find our criminals. After all, we made one our president.

"Btw: that is a war crime. Creating this confusion in the first place is a war crime. On one hand I like that there is a large amount of navel-gazing over this mistake ... but now is not the time."

Are you under the impression that the US does not have schools on their own military bases? Would you consider this a war crime as well? If they get bombed, would you shrug it off as collateral wartime damage?

Last year, palantir openly embraced slaughterbots as a product vision: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1hexvat/slaugh...

And almost 200 Iranian schoolgirls.

The reckoning will come.

Watch as the same people pushing for war today will pretend they were always against it 10 years from now.

I guess we're just doomed to repeat the same cycles.

Correct. Trump set the precedent by claiming that pardons made with "autopen" are invalid, based on nothing. Accordingly, pardons made by a senile president who just blindly signs whatever's placed in front of him¹ are also invalid.

¹ Trump on Binance cryptocurrency tycoon he pardoned: "I don't know who he is" -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-binance-cryptocurrency-ty...

Funny how this logic doesn't seem to apply to Republicans. They run the absolute worst candidate I've seen in my entire life -- in any democratic country -- and they get everything they want. At no point did they feel the need to compromise in any way or adjust their positions any closer to the left. Apparently pounding the table until you win is a viable political strategy in America. Or maybe timing the political pendulum with economic swings simply lets you run any candidate you want.

No offense, but I'm not sure you have much strategic sense here either. Your take on how politics works in the US strikes me as utterly naive.

Why do you think you have the strategic sense to productively participate on a topic like this? Who even are you? What are your sources?

As for me, I look at polling results almost every day. My sense is that nothing I said is extraordinarily controversial among the voters who actually matter. People care about the economy, period. Outside of hardcore MAGA enclaves -- which will never change their vote -- the culture war bullshit is massively unpopular.