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It really is fucking 2001 all over again
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
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History doesn't repeat but it does tunnel.
I can hear convos from the future in my head...
MSNBC anchor: "Some people are appalled by the loss of life after the Israeli airstrike on the underground tunnel complex that resulted in approximately 700 civilians dying in or near the hospital. Can you show us what happened on the board?"
Mark "Mac" McStronger, frm. Sub-Commander at MidEast Command: "Sure." Oops. Fuck. Too conversational. "We always regret the loss of civilian life but as you can see here - the estimated location of the highly fortified bunker was at least 100 feet underground. That being the case..."
Mark "Mac" McStronger had never been on tv before but due to his acumen and wisdom and by that I mean his strong jawline, relative youth, towering height, and handsomeness - he quickly becomes a network favorite natsec go-to guy. There is much unhappiness among the other natsec guys who have none of those qualities. And by that - I mean the important ones. They don't even have full heads of hair.
The best part about this is it insinuates the bombings of the surface are basically pointless aside from terror.
Not just pointless. Actively bad.
If you wanted to block up those vents you need access to them. If you've buried them beneath tonnes of rubble you're never going to access them and they're going to function just fine 90% of the time.
Good luck finding them though. I'm also inclined to believe that it isn't an interconnected system of tunnels but instead several different groups of tunnels.
yep just a totally normal looking city up top, no need to interrogate why there's a literally underground resistance movement beneath this city
Joining Hamas since they're the only ones prepared to deal with climate catastrophe: 
I'm in a Hamas tunnel right now it's warm as hell we got stoves and like fifty blankets you fuckin loser.
This was a Brace tweet, right?
Correct. An old one from before he was banned from Twitter and the podcast.
Saluting any dunk from the brave troops of the YPG o7
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I'm fairly ignorant on most of the origins of site taglines.
I was pretty sure he tweeted it out when fighting with the YPG, and yeah lmao: 
lmao
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Rail transit supremacy strikes again
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saddam_bunker.jpg
no wait, taliban_batcave.jpg
no no wait wait, long_term_nuclear_warning_message.png
Can we get Hamas to do subway construction for cheap?
The rumors are true? Buttigieg's secret-but-not-so-secret meeting in Qatar is on?
65 feet is roughly the height of a 6 floor apartment building.
chief imma need that in football fields
Best I can do is bald eagle dicks
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Disappointed there wasn't a prone Saddam thrown in there somewhere.
Joe Biden's ass
│Entrance hidden by
│Bricks and rubble
▂▃▂▅▇▅▅▇▄▃
┳ ║ ║▔▔▔▔▔▔▔
│ ╚╗ ╔╝
│ ║ ║ │Saddam
6ft ╚╗ ╔╝ │Hussein
│====o ╚════│════════╗
│ │║@ ▇▅▆▇▆▅▅█ ║
┷ │╚│═══════════╝
Air vent │ │Fan
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if the 65 feet thing is accurate, thats fucking impressive considering the lack of construction equipment and concrete
Palestinians have spiral power like in Gurren Lagann, they used their indomitable revolutionary spirit to be really good at digging tunnels
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Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus,
So the thing I don't get with this "secret invisible tunnel network" bullshit is that if Hamas has built a series of tunnels so deep underground they are unaffected by bombs and missiles striking the buildings above, why the fuck does Israel keep bombing all their buildings?
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I kinda wish I got hired to draw pictures of cool underground bases
A comment at NYT.
It seems to me, as a retired geophysicist, that they could use seismic sounding techniques to find the tunnels. Secondly, the fact that it is murderously hard to find the tunnels, and root out the terrorists hiding in them/using them, is no excuse to instead bomb apartments, refugee camps, and hospitals above them. There is just no excuse for that, that allows you to retain any moral authority. Instead, you become, as bad as they are.
I would use seismic wave detection techniques, and gas or otherwise poison them in the tunnels. And overwhelm them with wave after wave of onslaught from all entrance directions that doesn’t kill the people above. Despite the troop losses.
The fact that the Israeli state believes that they have the sole right to the land of Israel based on their history and faith does not mean that the people who had been living on that land prior to the Israelis pushing them out in the late 40s have any less valid claim. Pushing people off the land they have been living on for years is also known as forced relocation, which is a war crime.
65 year old woman, former republicans now long term democrat, not religious, and not at all comfortable with my tax dollars supporting the murder of people in Gaza.
And, obviously, Hamas are terrorists and what they did on 10/7 was horrific - as is the violence and land grabbing by settlers in the West Bank, and what the Israelis did to the Palestinians in the late 40s.
Neither side has clean hands here - nor do we.
She's that close to simpathize with palestinian resistance, she knows the suffering. How can she not understand the struggle for liberation?
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I always wanted a lair like that. Only thing missing are pits with lava and some spike traps.
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We all know that the NYt is a rag on the level of dDailymail and pure propaganda. But how fucking stupid are liberals that they slobber up this steaming pile of do shit the NYT regularly serves up
So Hamas gonna invade Israel like those lizard people in that one Dr Who episode, yeah?
Some settler gonna walk over a patch of ground and woosh, dragged into the underground by Hamas.
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