Rick Reuben wrote:I've been looking into the 'less is more' strategy for years. I don't think it's working.

Could you point me in the direction of some good articles on the "less is more strategy"? Has anyone said anything that you haven't thought of already?

I'm dying here. Like he has been avidly researching the "less is more strategy" for years. Been following all of the scientific experiments that psychologists are conducting in underground laboratories.

He must be a joke.

BAN HIM!

The Code is Almighty wrote:Take note Bob, sometimes less is more.

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syntaxfree07 wrote:BAN HIM!

why?

Marsupialized wrote:You know why cameramen and journalists take those dangerous jobs? Because they pay really well. They pay really well because they are fucking dangerous, you might get killed. They know that.

Have you ever fucking met a photojournalist? "The job pays well?" Seriously?!?

Mandroid2.0 wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:You know why cameramen and journalists take those dangerous jobs? Because they pay really well. They pay really well because they are fucking dangerous, you might get killed. They know that.

Have you ever fucking met a photojournalist? "The job pays well?" Seriously?!?

exactly. and even if he was well paid so what?

this incident bob has highlighted is by no means isolated in the israeli/palestinian conflict. any army or state that kills journalists wilfully like this has something serious to hide.

absolutely disgusting.

Marsupialized wrote:You know why cameramen and journalists take those dangerous jobs? Because they pay really well. They pay really well because they are fucking dangerous, you might get killed. They know that.

I can't help but think that it would be deeply depressing to live with the strong conviction that the only possible motivating factor in a person's life is monetary gain. Perhaps you're quite correct, but I'll stick with my (presumably) hopelessly delusional belief in the possibility of altruism...

The Code is Almighty wrote:

Ranxerox wrote:
That does not change the fact that misdeeds of the IDF, indeed any critical assessment of Israel, gets short shrift in the US media.

After reading pages and pages of Bob's writing, this sentence is the first thing I've seen on this board that's made me question my assessment of Israel.

Salut.

Take note Bob, sometimes less is more.

worth noting that this mind-changing less-is-more post wouldn't have been there if rikki clox hadn't started the thread, which in itself started kinda less-is-more with a simple excerpt from an article & a link.

there's a place for these kinds of threads, long as less is more applies to the insults & drama.

anyways, i wish i had the courage that these kind of photojournalists have. i don't imagine that they are anywhere close to appropriately compensated for risking their lives just to let us know what's going on.

jimmy spako wrote:

The Code is Almighty wrote:

Ranxerox wrote:
That does not change the fact that misdeeds of the IDF, indeed any critical assessment of Israel, gets short shrift in the US media.

After reading pages and pages of Bob's writing, this sentence is the first thing I've seen on this board that's made me question my assessment of Israel.

Salut.

Take note Bob, sometimes less is more.

worth noting that this mind-changing less-is-more post wouldn't have been there if rikki clox hadn't started the thread, which in itself started kinda less-is-more with a simple excerpt from an article & a link.

there's a place for these kinds of threads, long as less is more applies to the insults & drama.

I also picked up right away that "less is more" was meant to apply to the insults, drama and rancor that these threads get caught up with, not that fewer posts or fewer political threads would be a good idea and accomplish more.

Even the Jews hate the liberal Jew media...
What an age we live in...

SweetDaddyPatty wrote:this is the same silly bullshit that has been going on in the Middle East since the dawn of civilization.

Amazing redefinition of the word "silly." When I think of silly I think of 'silly string' or 'silly putty' - something innocent and childlike. Now we have 'silly death.' Sweet!

Rick Reuben wrote:

The Code is Almighty wrote:Take note Bob, sometimes less is more.

I doubt that. If the media is 99.9% rabidly pro-Israel, then whatever quantity I post is likely not nearly enough.

What do you plan to do next, now that you've 'questioned your assessment' of Israel? Do like I do, and make regular posts about what isn't being covered by the US media, or stand silent and wait for the US media to catch up with you? I've been looking into the 'less is more' strategy for years. I don't think it's working. The side with more seems to be winning.

the code is almighty wrote:this sentence is the first thing I've seen on this board that's made me question my assessment of Israel.

Really? So that thread about the methodical slaughter of the 30+ sailors on the USS Liberty in broad daylight didn't set off any alarms in your head? Or the thread on the bombing raid of the refugee camp at Qana? Or when they targeted UN observers and ambulances? Or the thread about the Israelis bombing all the electrical plants in Lebanon? Or the thread about how Israel dropped the majority of their cluster bombs on Lebanon in the last five days of the war, with the cease fire already agreed upon, and then refused to give the coordinates of where they dropped all the cluster bombs to the international teams trying to scoop them up so they didn't blow up children and farmers?

When I said sometimes less is more, I was referring to how Ranxerox made an excellent point concisely. It was to the point and made me think. I have a hard time doing that when I read your posts. Believe it or not, I'd actually like to hear some of your opinions; I don't necessarily think that you may be correct across the board, but I think that you have an interesting perspective having thrust yourself balls-deep into researching these things. Usually I can't do that because you very rarely focus on the topic at hand. In the thread about the video some kid made about muslims invading the Netherlands I wanted to hear what you thought about it, but you couldn't stop ranting about how it was a very small part of this much larger play and how we're all assholes for not opening our eyes to it. I really just wanted hear what you thought about the video and the drama surrounding it. I get that you enjoy sparing with the board, and that doesn't bug me one bit, but the biggest problem I have with a lot of your posts is that they almost come off sounding like gibberish because you can't seem to filter your thoughts into whatever were talking about at the moment. Everything has to be about everything you've been talking about forever.

Rick Reuben wrote:What do you plan to do next, now that you've 'questioned your assessment' of Israel?

Nothing really. I'm planning to go to two Cubs games this weekend and spend some time with the lady friend before I head over to Europe. That's it, Israel isn't on my to-do list.

Rick Reuben wrote:Really? So that thread about the methodical slaughter of the 30+ sailors on the USS Liberty in broad daylight didn't set off any alarms in your head?

If I remember correctly, when you shared this, you advertised it as happening presently. I remember my heart skipping a little thinking another front in the war had opened up. Then I read the post and was a little pissed off with how you falsely represented it. It happened over 40 years ago. While it's not my favorite piece of history, I've moved on.

Rick Reuben wrote:Or the thread on the bombing raid of the refugee camp at Qana? Or when they targeted UN observers and ambulances? Or the thread about the Israelis bombing all the electrical plants in Lebanon? Or the thread about how Israel dropped the majority of their cluster bombs on Lebanon in the last five days of the war, with the cease fire already agreed upon, and then refused to give the coordinates of where they dropped all the cluster bombs to the international teams trying to scoop them up so they didn't blow up children and farmers?

I'm almost sure all of these have your slant on them and I'm not going to look them up right this second. I will say that, at a glance, I'm not really bothered by them. I'm almost sure that there's more to each of these incidents than your synopsis here, and I have no doubt that war is horrible and terrible things happen. Israel isn't the first country in the world to fight dirty. I can't imagine a single country that hasn't.