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Were_Wyrm posted...

Why the hell is he tipping his cup? Is he 3 and not know how straws work yet?

and the girl eats her fry like her mouth is a wood chipper. They must be aliens.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Yeah let's just cut off everything and come back 10 years later when the smoke is all cleared.

Not giving Israel billions of dollars wouldn't make them defenseless. I don't know if you're doing a crazy exaggeration or you're really that ignorant. Either way, you're very wrong.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Anyone expecting problems to be instantaneously is just setting themselves up for disappointment. All of Biden's actions have been pushing the overton window to the left and that includes the conflict in Israel where Biden has encouraged delaying of invasions and negotiation for hostage releases. Of which proposals that were rejected by the Israeli government but I don't really know how to proceed in that situation.

Gee, maybe the way to proceed would be to not pledge many billions more to Israel. Hey, what if he even went as far as stopping the regular billions we give Israel each year? Oh wait, that'd require a backbone. Sorry, I'm asking for too much. Biden ain't pushing shit left at all, he's republican-lite at best.

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Hmm, do you think Obama wouldn't be showering Israel with additional billions of dollars and giving full-throated support to Israel as they bomb the hell out of civilians?

Shadow_Don posted...

Nope. Just contesting your hilarious idea that trump was better for the middle east than Obama when we know Trump loved to bomb innocent people and bombed way more of them.

Obama invaded more countries. By that metric, I'd say the damage is more. Trump isn't better for the Middle East in general and that was never my point. My point was that regardless of president (and what party they come from), the overarching foreign policy script of the US gets followed. You can point to some aspects being better or worse, but again, they stick to the script. Biden showering Israel with billions of dollars and unwavering support is proof of that.

Shadow_Don posted...

Are we seriously arguing that more dead innocent people is less bad because he bombed 1 or 2 less countries?

Are you seriously arguing that invading more countries is better if you drop fewer bombs? Overthrow a government and the domino effect is more often than not far more devastating.

Shadow_Don posted...

He killed far more innocent people what the fuck are you even talking about?

Yeah, ask the people of Libya about that.

Shadow_Don posted...

You're the one who said he had a better track record when it came to bombing in a topic about the war in Gaza. If thats not what you are saying then why bring it up?

And I even asked you directly:

Yeah, Obama invaded more countries.

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Sounds like you didn't hear any of my talking points and instead plugged your ears and made a bunch of assumptions about "you people" i.e. whatever strawman you have in your head.

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and yet he is ramping up funding dramatically for Israel, which is most relevant to this discussion. Stop calling things idiotic when you don't understand it.

Shadow_Don posted...

So you acknowledge that Trump bombed far more innocent people

and from that you conclude that he would be better serving the Gaza people than Biden or Obama

Fucking deranged.

So you're just making shit up because countries destroyed vs bombs dropped is a toss-up in terms of people's lives ruined depending on a number of factors. I didn't say Trump would be better for Gaza, you haven't been paying attention at all. What's deranged is you arguing with a strawman when I'm right here. Read my words and try actually responding to them instead of whatever ridiculous strawman you've made up in your mind.

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Why don't you just come out and say it, instead of beating around the bush.

AIPAC certainly doesn't beat around the bush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKmWa8p4UM

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Shadow_Don posted...

Which totally supports the point you tried to make that trump would be better on Gaza than Biden and Obama right now?

Yeah, Obama destroyed more countries.

Shadow_Don posted...

Okay so this dumb post was dead wrong.

You can drop more bombs in fewer countries. Don't comment on intelligence without applying any.

Shadow_Don posted...

You know that trump ramped up the bombings and drone strikes right?

Yeah, and Obama ramped up the bombings and drones strikes from Bush. Almost like the trend is the same regardless of whether coke or pepsi are in office.

Zero_Destroyer posted...

embarassing that you're still doing this so many years later

wasn't biden going to lose?

Doing what, pointing out facts? Also, I never said Biden would lose.

Shadow_Don posted...

Put down the drugs kid.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636

Shadow_Don posted...

The guy actively antagonized Palestinians, openly mulled about using nuclear weapons, tried to start a war with Iran for no reason other than he wanted to be a war time president, and he literally ran his campaign on Islamophobia.

According to you, Iran should be a nuclear wasteland by this point. For someone who wanted to be a wartime president, he managed to invade fewer countries than Obama.

Shadow_Don posted...

Things wouldn't be going as they are now. Gaza would already be over.

What are you basing this on? Tell me how Biden is holding back Israel in any way, I'd love to know.

Shadow_Don posted...

If Trump were president on 10/7 then Gaza would be a nuclear wasteland on 10/8

If Trump were president now and things were going exactly as they are now, you'd be telling us all how somehow Biden wouldn't have let it get like this. I don't see how Biden pledging billions upon billions of dollars and full support of Israel while it's doing what it's doing as some sort of mediating force.

Literally people smugly pointing out that their only other opinion is republicans and then getting mad when they feel hopeless at choosing between two evils and end up not voting at all.

If not tipping is considered abuse, then why is the option to abuse the worker made available?

Ronaldo posted...

People need to remember Israel is surrounding by multiple Middle Eastern countries who want the destruction of Israel, have tried invading multiple times, and funds Hamas and Hezbollah millions of dollars as well as weapons of war such as ballistic missiles.

Which Middle Eastern countries? Iran and Syria? Because pretty much all the rest are paid off to not care and have made moves to normalize relations (see Saudi Arabia for the latest).

At least you could make it to CE.

NeonTentacles posted...

I don't think he was ever on bad terms with them, just maybe with Kojima

I'm not sure if he's on bad terms with Kojima, Kojima just wants to be a movie guy so bad that he didn't want to pass up the chance to get involved with a live actor.

Punished_Blinx posted...

But she's some random girl from New Zealand. There still would have to be a reason to give her this effort. It's not like she was grown in a lab.

It really doesn't matter for a label. They can turn anyone into a star.

Regardless, I don't know how any single artist is worth millions if you base it on talent because the internet has shown that talent really isn't as rare as people think it is. These rich artists are mainly rich because they've been made a conduit to collect money for big labels.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I like that every time a woman is successful the internet creates a giant conspriacy theory about how she doesn't really deserve it and someone else must have created her success for her.

Or maybe you only notice when it's a woman.

I've seen that video posted by other accounts. You should've chosen a different account because now people are going to talk about the account instead of the content of the video they reposted.

No point, they'd nerf her ass.

It blows my mind that kickstarter is a thing. You take on all the risk, the creators get all the reward, and if you're lucky then you've just got a glorified pre-order and that's the best case scenario.

I played through Quake II in co-op, great experience. I'd like to run through it again with raytracing when I get capable hardware.

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What if I rephrased it as this?: What does Star Ocean have that SMRPG doesn't which makes it a weeb game?

Shotgunnova posted...

Just having the whites is my fave, actually.

Are you trolling?

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What makes SMRPG not a weeb game?

Nonstop Nut November? Hell yeah!

punkfanalways posted...

The Dresden bombings, whatever the rationale, were awful and analogous to the nukes dropped on Japan and yet no one talks about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Yeah, and neither of those things were justified.

Necronmon posted...

I mean, we did the same thing to Germany and Japan in World War 2, yah Gaza is smaller but the fact remains...we bombed the hell out of are enemies...war stopped being civil after machine guns became a thing.

We occupied half of Germany and Japan and continued ethnic cleansing to take up more of their land in World War 2 with the intention to take over their land 100%? News to me. Also, war was never civil.

Shitting & Plunging

TyVulpine posted...

Blame greedy corporate executives. Why lower prices when people are paying high prices?

People often have little choice because everything is owned by like 2-3 corporations per industry.

Ronaldo posted...

They purposefully use sites protected by the Geneva Conventions like schools, hospitals, places of worship as well as prevent evacuations by civilians and there is no excuse for that. If you are trying to justify actions by terrorist organizations take a step back.

Good thing I'm not trying to justify actions by terrorist organizations, just pointing out tactics that terrorists would use. Meanwhile you're trying very hard to justify the terrorist actions by the Israeli government, bombing sites protected by the Geneva Conventions like schools, hospitals, places of worship as well as preventing evacuations by civilians and there is no excuse for that.

emblem-man posted...

Oh Lord

This is literally you:
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1410709115333234691

It's no secret that numbers are often cherry-picked and don't tell the whole story.

BlueTigerLion posted...

https://twitter.com/ayeejuju/status/1717968085515473348

Makes me wonder about the deaf video too.

If you look closely, you'll notice that mr beast's hands are actually *taking* the money from the homeless man. This is backed up by the "welp" expression on his face.

Topic title: "Hamas based confirmed [...]"
In the link: "IDF says [...] IDF claims[...]"

But sure, let's take the IDF at their word, pretending they don't lie all the time. Given how small and densely populated the land is, if terrorists needed to set up base in Gaza for attack range, it'd be impossible to avoid being near civilians. Did people think Hamas would set up a base that sticks out like a sore thumb with a giant sign saying "Hamas Headquarters here"? That's not how guerrilla warfare works.

Let's also not forget this: https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

This is all an excuse to commit ethnic cleansing. Israel will not stop until Palestine is completely wiped out and even then they want more, considering the map that netanyahu showed of his plans for future Israel. Don't act surprised when it happens. Though, knowing how some people think, they'll think it was justified because supposedly the Palestinians "don't want peace".

emblem-man posted...

Yes?

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That's assuming you trust the official inflation numbers. The higher actual inflation is, the more desire there is to supress those real numbers. When so many things have gotten 50+% more expensive in the last couple of years, I highly doubt wages have matched that.

I'm not even big on fermented foods but I love kimchi.

emblem-man posted...

Bro, the reason for the high egg prices was due to a high number of them dying due to a bird flu

Bro, you're just parroting industry propaganda:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/196096/total-egg-production-in-the-us-since-2000/

It mainly affected one producer, but the others jacked up their prices to match.

Forty_Niners posted...

If 2020 couldn't collapse our economy, nothing will. We saw a sharp dip for like a month, then a sharp uptick.

Then why did we ever have an economic collapse? The situation in 2020 was special because it gave an excuse to pump crazy amounts of money in and other forms of aid from the government. Technically, 2008 wasn't a full-blown depression because of a crazy amount of money and aid from the government.

However, the sustainability of this approach is questionable. The US in particular has more leeway because of its global reserve currency status, but something has to give at some point. If it's money on loan, then the bill will come due at some point. If it's money that's straight-up just handed over, then inflation will run rampant. Either way, the corporations getting this aid will become reliant on it, encouraging risky behavior because, hey, they'll get bailed out anyway, and if the companies don't get bailed out then the people responsible will have already collected their money and won't face any consequences.

R_Jackal posted...

It's because companies figured out during COVID that people have no self control and will just continue to buy and spend even if they're broke as hell, so there's no reason to hold back on profiteering.

Not quite. It's more like they had an excuse with "supply chain issues" and then vague notions of "inflation" combined with industries only having 2-3 big players that can easily all increase their prices without getting undercut. Even with unit sales number down, revenue is way up. Even if people practice "self control" others will purchase for one reason or another (e.g. their car gets totaled). It's why "voting with your wallet" isn't really effective.

Just take a look at tuition revenues which are way up even though enrollments are significantly down:
https://myelearningworld.com/college-enrollment-tuition-revenue-2023/

The only reason egg prices came back down is because it was so blatant and under more scrutiny to the point that the government was forced to step in. Self control had nothing to do with it.

chaos_knight posted...

Not for much longer with how YouTube is finally cracking down on this shit.

The only way they can truly stop it is to make it impossible to automatically distinguish between the regular video content and ad content. However, there are a number of methods that make it very hard to actually make it impossible to distinguish.