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Depends on your canon - the Serpent might also have been a different guy.

Oh, but when I say that Lucifer was a hero for getting humans to eat from the Tree of Knowledge I get called a Satanist!

Giving a shit about public health.

Well it looks like at least 22 people definitely had a gun, or 33% of shooters that were subdued by a bystander were shot.

But not even one of them used a gun to force a surrender without firing? Possible! Unlikely.

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What I doubt is that, of 42 people who stopped a shooter, literally zero of them used a gun to nonviolently deescelate. Zero? That’s definitely possible, I’m not arguing against that. What I’m saying is, because the data isn’t organized well, it’s unclear. It only says that they subdued the attacker without shooting. That does not indicate that they didn’t have a gun.

Sometimes, rarely, you can stop a bad guy with a gun by just pointing a gun at him.

42 people choosing to risk their lives while unarmed is also pretty hard to believe.

Also, your claim that surrender is a fantasy contradicts the fact that a bunch of shootings ended in surrender to the police. I think that strongly implies a bystander with a gun could achieve a similar result.

Not all shooters are blindly suicidal. They can be menaced with a gun and told to surrender. Yeah, in some situations it won’t work, but in some situations it will.

42 incidents. Not even one of them used a gun to force a surrender? Hard to believe.

So, I can imagine someone with a gun menacing the attacker at gunpoint and forcing them to surrender. No shots fired.

But the data doesn’t include this for bystanders. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t happen in real life, or maybe they muddied the watters. We can’t know because we can’t see the data they used to make this graphic.

Practice I guess. I learned in a hs computers class where we had to do timed assignments, copying spreadsheets and transcribing speech and such. Hunt and Peck was simply too slow to do it, we had to learn our homerow to get a pass.

Also death to neoliberalism.

Saudi Arabia learned its lesson in the Yom Kippur War. Do not fuck with the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier.

As for Egypt, Israel is extremely important for transporting natural gas and, to a lesser extent, important as a trading partner. They also cooperate on security matters wrt terrorism.

Of course, the US is also very important for ensuring all its other puppets in the region play nice with Israel. Israel, itself, has influence because it is an extension of the US and more important than any mere puppet.

Israel isn’t the only reason OPEC has been brought to heel, but it was the last time OPEC ever used an oil embargo afaik

The spice must flow.

The presence of a Sword of Domacles hanging over the heads of every country in the region does have political uses, not just military ones.

An unsinkable aircraft carrier is a destabilizing force, what are you talking about?

Israel was critical for disempowering OPEC in the Yom Kippur War. We would not have gotten where we are today, with OPEC firmly under control, without Israel’s critical role in the conflict.

The bipartisan consensus on Israel is ironclad, elections don’t matter nearly as much as Israel does to the US empire.

I do no expect anything to change unless Israel, itself, enters a crisis that would require direct boots the ground. That might be the breaking point. Otherwise? Unlimited US/NATO bloc support.

Israel isn’t the only tool they need to control the likes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia - they need direct support too, especially Egypt, which would probably be controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood without US support. But, Israel is still critical as part of the broader strategy.

Saudi Arabia actually had consequences after the assassination of Jamal Koshogshi. Minor ones, but still.

Israel will never have consequences. It is just vastly more important - in fact, Israel is a tool to control Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the first place!

Saudi Arabia is kept in line by Israel’s presence in the region. OPEC was once a thorn in the US’s side and now they’re under control, and Israel was key for that.