The rearview mirror (the one that hangs off the windshield) is for seeing directly behind you. Your side mirrors are for seeing things to the right and left of you. If the driver directly behind you can see your face in your side mirrors, or you can see their front windshield, and your rearview mirror both exists and is unobstructed, then you are driving around unreasonably blind to vehicles overtaking you. This blind spot can be almost completely eliminated.

The side mirrors should be positioned thus that you have a clear view of the lanes next to you, with the door handle or body of the vehicle just slightly out of view. You can lean and tilt your head if for some reason you prefer a view of what’s going on behind you that is half obstructed by the vehicle you are currently driving.

The goal is to maximize the area covered by the mirrors so you can see more things, not to have redundant views of the same thing.

They were bombed to shit by the US whose military is still occupying them to this day…

of course the state that did that and wants to maintain any veneer of democracy would twist itself in knots to convince you that it was the right thing to do.

Could be fish sticks

Yes, I am proudly biased against groups that commit genocide before our eyes and deny it, dispossess indigenous peoples of their ancestral homes and turn them into refugees in foreign lands, along with fascist ideologies which call for the establishment and maintenance of an ethnostate and sheepishly justify Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing as a means to that end. Stay as mad at that as you like and have the day you deserve.

Your aljazeera source with hamas sourced numbers is the misinfo.

Hamas is not only its armed wing. It is the entire government in Gaza. Its numbers have historically been considered reliable by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and Human Rights Watch. In relation to the Gaza war, two letters published in The Lancet journal did not find evidence of inflation or fabrication of Palestinian casualty numbers. There is no reason to cast doubt on their estimates than to deny that Israel is committing a genocide.

Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

The Henry Jackson Society is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom. While describing itself as non- partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neoconservative.

This is your source?? A fucking British soldier that has made a living occupying Ireland and running around shooting at Arabs??? Writing at the behest of a right wing think tank???

The rest of this is racist Zionist slop that I shouldn’t even justify with a response, because even if it was a completely honest portrayal it would not justify genocide, but to start; Palestinians cannot be held responsible for actions that other arab nations took after 1948 (in response to the horrific acts committed during the nakba, but that nonetheless does not justify it) or the antisemitism that was in large part purposefully fomented in those nations by Israel to advance the Zionist mission. The intention of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine has been made clear since Zionism first emerged in the late 19th century. The mass transfer of Jews to historic palestine and the ensuing displacement of Palestinians started before even 1933, which is when the Haavara agreement was signed between Nazis and Zionist collaborators. It has never been about “self defense” and that is a fucking shameful way to justify the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their home land.

You have an agenda and no amount of logic will ever change it.

Back at you.

Get the fuck out of here you disgusting fucking Zionist.

So for Israel it’s just Netanyahu, but for the organized resistance against Israel, it’s the entire group? I don’t think you know what chauvinism really is, or why it’s bad. You also avoided my question:

Is there any organization that could take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

Forgive me if I don’t believe you’re really motivated by being against governments or tyranny. If you’re not in favor of resistance, then what your argument essentially boils down to is “everyone does it, therefore it can’t be helped when the government I don’t want to criticize is doing it 100-fold with the help of powerful allies for the purpose of genocide, because that’s just what governments do”. The only thing it serves is soothing your conscience and lack of curiosity.

You care to comment, but you don’t care to learn anything that goes too hard against the state narrative. So you end up with shallow analysis and platitudes that reinforce the status quo, and you arrogantly assume that you or someone like you would know better than the people in the region who have spent their entire lives learning and resisting. This is in stark conflict with your supposed aversion to tyranny.

It is your responsibility to investigate before you speak. If I may, I would suggest you start here

The Communist Party of Cuba

I wasn’t denouncing violence, I was denouncing bad men.

Violence is violence, and none of it is justified.

Yes you were???

Who is the “bad man” on the Hamas side that hasn’t already been martyred? If there is none, why do you denounce Gaza’s entire government but only one “bad man” when it comes to Israel? Is there any organization that would take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

Name one benevolent regime the US has supported.

Then your point is a bad one. See my edit.

You think a government is going to just give up power, that it won’t take mass organization to challenge hegemonic powers and a new form of governance to deprogram the racist settler colonial ideology that is embedded into the Israeli populace? That’s incredibly unrealistic. What’s your plan to get there, then, and how does it help Palestinians?

Dogmatically denouncing all violence, when violence is the main tactic employed to enforce hegemony, is reactionary and counter productive. It only serves the status quo, to keep us where we are. It’s chauvinism.

No, I will not agree that its okay for anyone to blame the victims in this situation for their own genocide, but you can run away if you’re so afraid of challenging your own western chauvinist notions.

We really are not beating the dead internet allegations with this one

Sorry, try again. The negotiations have been sabotaged by Netanyahu at every step. The American government; first at Biden’s direction and now Trump’s; has lied to the public to cover for him, blaming Hamas and twisting the word ‘ceasefire’ to not mean ceasefire at all.

Not to mention that Israel has assassinated the “hot heads” you’re referring to, who would be counterparts to Netanyahu. The leader of the Hamas organization, Yahya Al-Sinwar, was martyred in Gaza in October. Hamas’s lead negotiator, lsmail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran in July. Needless to say, they have stepped aside. Permanently.

I suggest reading a more comprehensive history of the negotiations themselves

When looking for the party who is being unreasonable in a negotiation, look to the one that has the least to lose by walking away. And while you’re at it, stop acting like you know better or have more urgency than the people who have experienced 77 years of dispossession, occupation, and genocide, on their own land. You call them “terrorists” as if that dismisses their humanity en masse and the inherent rationality granted by such, but you betray charitability to the Israeli government by speaking as if all of its evil is contained within one powerful man. Why do you do that?

Actually no, wait, you must be the cooler head that will prevail. Don’t you dare introspect before sharing your responses to the dilemmas pressed in that article I shared, lest you taint your answers with terrorist propaganda! Win a “ceasefire”, except Israel is explicitly allowed to break it once you’ve given up the only bargaining chip (A chip that additionally has a chance of getting it through to the Israeli populace, who are paying attention, that their government does not care about them beyond their ability to legitimize Israel’s occupation by existing on stolen land.) OR, continue pressing for an actual realistic end to your people’s suffering.

Yes, I’m sure if you were in Gaza you would want a “cooler” disinterested party who doesn’t care at all about you, your culture, or the land that has given both life, to be making that decision for you.

Cool. What does that have to do with their history and the way they are treated by the west? You know so much, can you tell me that? What do you suggest should be done about it? Just to clear things up, so I’m not “putting words in your mouth” by literally repeating what you said verbatim and responding to it.

Also its “virtue signalling” now to insist people be treated with respect and that their material reality shouldn’t be dismissed? wtf??? As you said, we have the same “ignorance and cultural failures” in our society. Do we deserve to be bombed and occupied?

Huh??? Did I say anything about that? Does this racism excuse anything we’ve done to them? Seriously, project much?

What the hell should we do about it, fucking invade them again? Continue blockades that don’t even achieve their stated purpose and just make things worse for their people? Cause that’s gone over so well… the only real interaction with most foreign nations being that of sanctions, acts of war and colonization, arbitrarily imposing their own values, and constantly talking down on them both as a nation and as a people, definitely is going to make them love foreigners.

It’s not an “excuse” brother it’s just material reality, why do I have to be “excusing” anything? Is it too much to treat them like humans worthy of a basic level of respect??

Let’s talk excuses though. It’d really be no fucking wonder if they hate us like you say they do. You would hate foreigners too if they talked about you like that and preyed on your downfall the way western nations do to the DPRK. In fact you’ve shown very clearly that you have the exact same hate which you’re trying to condemn here. Calling their home a “shithole”, your only response to a very brief overview of their history not being one of understanding or empathy but simply to lash out and call them racist, which I can only assume is to imply they deserved it. What’s your excuse??

The comment they were responding to there was literally calling them on it

some bombing or shooting or human rights abuse next week will shoves it down the memory hole for good.

Next week? Try last night in DC. I’m doubting this will even register tbh

Do I not understand or am I being deliberately obtuse? Get your story straight.

In that case though thanks for proving my point. Allow me to edit my reply.

did I say that gamergate participants were career politicians? Do you think I think they had the ability to pass laws?

Yes, you did, you compared this issue to the civil rights era, and then you went on to compare it to gamergate, as if all things were equal between them. Welcome to the transitive property! Or are you now saying that this situation is not comparable to gamergate? Hey look, I can be condescending too! Know why? Well cause, I don’t think you’re an ally >:(

I was using that example to demonstrate why the comparison was insulting, because, as we both agree, internet critics are in fact not politicians. Taking normal people criticising someone, whose internet presence thoroughly warrants criticism; and comparing that to a fight against the American ruling class, to win human rights for a group of people whose humanity is absolutely not up for critique or questioning; shows you don’t give a fuck about civil rights beyond the era’s ability to serve you in an argument. The fact you’re still doubling down on it is very telling.

I’m not being obtuse, I’m very openly refusing to entertain your argument because it trivializes a serious issue that is deeply important to me. This is the most stunning display of dunning-kreuger I have ever witnessed. Nice alt btw. Pretentious ass bad faith radlib. Ick.

Wow, a country that experienced harsh Japanese colonial rule from 1910 until being forcibly divided by the US after the second world war, creating a war-torn pariah state facing crushing international economic sanctions, is a shit hole? Color me surprised!