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T_A

(604 posts) Thu Oct 19, 2023, 01:00 PM Oct 2023

Might Exceeding 4K Be The Trigger Point? [View all]

CBS News reported this morning that there have been 3785 civilian deaths in Gaza in the last 12 days.

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Might Exceeding 4K Be The Trigger Point? [View all] T_A Oct 2023 OP

Why that number? How many is too many? Ocelot II Oct 2023 #1

I Dunno T_A Oct 2023 #10

Trigger point of what? RockRaven Oct 2023 #2

Don't expect the OP to respond, but still wondering: Trigger point for what, by whom? onenote Oct 2023 #52

Another gaslighting post. 617Blue Oct 2023 #3

I see no gas lighting here Bucky Oct 2023 #24

Agree.. REC & TY! Cha Oct 2023 #36

I see it all over. Cha Oct 2023 #45

Two points.... Happy Hoosier Oct 2023 #4

NOPE T_A Oct 2023 #7

"NOPE" is super cute but means nothing, like the word of Hamas. Maru Kitteh Oct 2023 #13

FALSE T_A Oct 2023 #17

TRUE! Cha Oct 2023 #43

Yep Earl_from_PA Oct 2023 #30

Mahalo. Nobody trusts a Fucking Thing BUTCHERING HAMAS Cha Oct 2023 #37

You mean, Hamas says that's how many have died, we can trust them, right? EX500rider Oct 2023 #5

NOPE T_A Oct 2023 #6

That's exactly who the numbers are coming from EX500rider Oct 2023 #9

NOPE T_A Oct 2023 #11

Well gosh with that rebuttal who wouldn't believe you EX500rider Oct 2023 #21

When You're False Accusation Is Wrong T_A Oct 2023 #27

Actually you'd be the one who is wrong EX500rider Oct 2023 #32

***crickets*** tritsofme Oct 2023 #44

Wrong AGAIN T_A Oct 2023 #46

Yes how embarrassing that you seem to always come back with zero facts EX500rider Oct 2023 #47

It's a stylistically synthetic form of gish gallop. lapucelle Oct 2023 #53

Did you mean 'your' not you're? sheshe2 Oct 2023 #55

Exactly. Cha Oct 2023 #38

The Hamas assault on Israel was the trigger point. DavidDvorkin Oct 2023 #8

Hamas started this war, no question, and started it with atrocitiy Bucky Oct 2023 #25

Irrelevant to the current situation and the Hamas atrocities that triggered it. DavidDvorkin Oct 2023 #35

It's absolutely foolish to not look at the causes of a problem that keeps on recurring Bucky Oct 2023 #51

Which Has What To Do T_A Oct 2023 #29

You asked about a possible trigger point DavidDvorkin Oct 2023 #34

Why that arbitrary number rather than another? Torchlight Oct 2023 #12

Merely T_A Oct 2023 #14

Much as many other numbers were also approached in the past days. Torchlight Oct 2023 #16

Something smells like a bot from a Russian troll farm in here, but Maru Kitteh Oct 2023 #18

Hadn't considered that. Torchlight Oct 2023 #20

Yeah.::( Cha Oct 2023 #40

And what % of the dead are Hamas terrorists as opposed to civilian's? EX500rider Oct 2023 #33

NOPE. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #15

LOL! nt Maru Kitteh Oct 2023 #19

Well Played! ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #26

REC Cha Oct 2023 #41

there are something like 30,000 members of Hamas lapfog_1 Oct 2023 #22

Gaza has a population of 2 million BlueCheeseAgain Oct 2023 #28

I'm pretty sure there's not a ceiling here Bucky Oct 2023 #23

hamas is responsible for every one of those moonshinegnomie Oct 2023 #31

Given what our government gets up to abroad, I wouldn't tug at that thread. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2023 #39

BUTCHERING HAMAS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR Cha Oct 2023 #42

Hmmmmm T_A Oct 2023 #49

From the thread title, I thought this was gonna be about 4k TV's Polybius Oct 2023 #48

This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Oct 2023 #50

To trigger what? edhopper Oct 2023 #54

Trigger point for whom? Igel Oct 2023 #56