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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht53Np0vbu4

streamofthesky posted...

Wow, this almost seemed unbiased, I bet a lot of people viewing it will think so. I'm all for criticizing Netanyahu, but the fact he didn't do a similar deep dive into Hamas's manifesto is insulting. He says there's one other major player...Iran? No, of course not! The state sponsor of terror that arms all these groups is irrelevant, look the other way! Instead, let's talk about the U.S.! While ignoring that Israel/Palestine has been a proxy war for 70 years and the Russians have funded and propped up the other side the entire time. This is intentional. It makes it seem "unfair", like the outside world is only funding and supporting one side. When it's a complete lie.

A lot to unpack here.

First of all. John Oliver doesn't have a responsibility to represent every neoconservative comeback in the Israel-Palestine argument. The moral impetus of this video is the collective punishment Israel is conducting on the civilian population of Palestine-- a punishment for the actions of a group that Netanyahu's government has cultivated as an asset for this exact purpose.

The "manifesto of Hamas" isn't discussed because Oliver from the word go understands Hamas is a terrorist organization and its actions reprehensible. He doesn't need to fearmonger about them because their actions are self-explanatory.

Oliver's section about "one other major player" is in concern to Israel's open-air prison management and policies toward Gaza. Putting aside the fact the US dwarfs Iran in spending power and international influence by orders of magnitude. Either way you cut it, John Oliver is right to name the United States the biggest player in this conflict outside Israel & Palestine, because it is true.

It is further disingenuous to paint Iran's funding of Hamas like the other side of the same coin when considering that 1) as expressed in the video, Netanyahu has encouraged and funded Hamas. Radicalization by Hamas is useful to Netanyahu's efforts to de-legitimize Palestine and eventually expel the people and settle its territory; and 2) Gaza is not just another state playing in a proxy war, but is actively occupied and oppressed by the state of Israel. The humanitarian crises stemming from that management is a major factor allowing Hamas to radicalize and recruit combatants, because their messaging about Israel's intentions for the people of Gaza clearly rings true. No, the United States is the biggest outside player in this conflict. Not only through its funding and influence that dwarfs opposing states, but by shielding and condoning the malevolent policies that Israel exacts on the people of Gaza.

To call Israel's management of Gaza "unfair" to the people living there, ~half of them children, is an understatement. But to frame funding to Israel or Hamas as a matter of "fairness" once again smuggles the idea that Gaza is just like this neighboring self-managed state that collectively wants to annihilate Israel and gets its butt whooped for it. It misrepresents reality.

We need different leadership on both sides? I agree! The thing is, Israel will actually have that happen. 76% want Netanyahu gone, and they have free and fair elections. What about the other side? You want peace in the Middle East, you should be supporting the demise of Hamas, who will never relinquish power of their own free will.

This is a video about how Hamas has been used and supported by Netanyahu to justify the de-legitimizing of a Palestinian state and Palestinian people, expelling them, and seizing their homes. With clips of US congressmen comparing Palestinian civilians to Nazis and stating there are no innocents. (an assertion repeated by Israeli politicians.) So to respond to it with "you should be supporting the demise of Hamas" comes off like you do condone this mass violence. Collective punishment is a war crime. You aren't justified in destroying a people after your policies lead to radicalization in a minority of them.

MatzoTov posted...

tldw?

-Israel government and Hamas do not represent the opinions of their respective peoples, who both in majority want peace
-Hamas back in the day branded itself as a more moderate, resistance party, and most citizens of Gaza weren't even born the one time they were elected, in 2006
-Before 2006, Israel and Fatah (more democratic Palestinian party) were close to peace
-The main sides that stopped them? Netanyahu and Hamas
-Israel's far right cabinet has outright called Hamas an "asset" to de-legitimizing Palestine as a state and shutting their voice out of the international community
-Netanyahu literally allowed briefcases full of cash to be transported to Hamas. Like he literally funded them for the sake of being able to do shit like this one day
-The US is entirely implicated because the ammo, guns, uniforms, vehicles, equipment, and training of the IDF is American made
-Explicitly calls on world leaders to say "ceasefire"

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Any explanation in a forum post would probably be oversimplifying, but it's a couple things. For decades in the American public conscious the concept of supporting/defending Israel policies has been conflated with defending the Jewish people and their right to exist, and "anti-semite" is (rightly) a death sentence label in US politics and everyday work life. Savvy lobbyists, activists, etc put together AIPAC, a bipartisan lobbying group that is hugely successful and influential at making sure that US congressmen are loyal to Israeli policy by funding them. Then there's the whole Evangelical factor: there is a swamp of Americans who believe they are biblically obligated to serve the nation of Israel no matter what and defer to its judgment.

And when it comes to someone like Bernie, he was basically putting forward that there are genuine geopolitical reasons to give Israel the military aid we do, and that other states in the region also believe Hamas needs to go. And none of that is completely false, but the issue is Israel is conducting collective punishment on a civilian population in advancement of its longstanding plans to completely remove a people from that land and settle it with Zionists.

This is so huge. Not even Bernie Sanders had the backbone to just come out and say on US mainstream media there needs to be a ceasefire. John Oliver unreservedly condemned Netanyahu and his far right cabinet, arguing that they are responsible for all the violence, even finding a clip of a top minister explaining that Hamas is an "asset" of the Israeli government to de-legitimize the Palestinian Authority and the state. He laid it all out and also debunked Gazans "having voted for Hamas" when, among other things, more than half of today's Gazans literally weren't born yet during the last election.

Like this is the most important piece John Oliver has ever done

Doom_Art posted...

I honestly really like her and I think she'd make a great Governor but she better be prepared for weirdos to use this as a major line of attack against her.

Being a CIA agent is maybe the most immoral job a person is legally allowed to work.

Kinda puts a damper for me thinking about what kind of cool tech the game may have when I remember it will probably be console locked for years given Rockstar track record.

Incredible posted...

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Is there a way to still have "topic list"? I still see people post that as a reaction, but this is what my buttons look like:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/60b602ae.jpg

I click on "Current Events" there in green to go to the topic list

Obviously water is best but I'm pretty sure coke zero is way better for you than regular coke. The risks of coke zero are basically the same as drinking coke but without dumping 150% of your daily value of added sugars into your system with one bottle.

Only option is Sophia Lillis.

Shishiwakamaru posted...

Why do people hate on tiny homes? Regular homes are expensive to build, well over $100k for an average house. Having more tiny houses on smaller plots of land sounds like a great way to get more people housed and also owning their homes.

Go ahead, go live in your tiny tiny home... I motion to my servant to bring more lambchop

Football is designed around commercial breaks

Chain restaurants say that now? They always need workers

it's a tough world for furries.

Bait obviously, but the director who's best understood comic books was Sami Raimi when he made Spider-man and Spider-man 2.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cf30c026.jpg
dunno how I didn't think of this before

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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c5230716.jpg
I'm so sad this doesn't work

Doe posted...

Super stumped here. You can push the belts to make the walls intangible but I can't figure out how to actually get onto the flag.

So it turns out if you "SHIFT" a "STOP" and "WIN" object onto you, you just win instead of being pushed away.

in my post 12 i mean

KalimariX8 posted...

I'm inspired to replay the game because of this topic. Have you beaten every level so far without hints? If so that's very impressive

I have not used any hints, but I also still haven't beaten the level in post 12. Maybe one day I'll eureka

That thing which binds America and Israel as brothers: bravely settling in unoccupied land

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1723338732504506654

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cdc6b532.jpg
Super stumped here. You can push the belts to make the walls intangible but I can't figure out how to actually get onto the flag.

C_Pain posted...

cat/kitten development

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c10b12c1.jpg

on topic: is it okay ot have 1 cat

Oh what the hell.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5bc10625.jpg

EDIT: You can windmill text with babas

Another level that just utterly baffles me

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a4f7ca1b.jpg

EDIT: wait, IDK how I didn't think of "Text has Baba" when I thought of "Text has Keke" already

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

if you spend a lot making it, then spend a lot getting out and it never generates much of a profit, isn't it literally all just a giant loss? or you can shelve it and not lose a ton of money. idk, makes sense.

The issue is the specific tax rule that lets them write off the cost of the project on the condition that they can never use any of the stuff that was made. So all the people who spend like two years+ on the animation and music etc now have a giant gap in their portfolio.

If the tax rule didn't work like that or didn't exist, then they'd probably release the movie in some form because there would no longer be an incentive to do nothing with it.

Basically our corporate accounting laws artificially create a reason for them to destroy finished art. It's stupid

Brother, we've hit "NOT" statements

LeoRavus posted...

Kind of fucked that because of Hitler an entire country was split in 2 for 40 years.

I mean, it's not like Hitler was unpopular there unfortunately.

Do the people citing DeSantis winning 60% think Kentucky is a blue state?

Because your prospects are gonna be so much better as someone with no ID or family who can't speak german in West Germany?

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That's called a vanguard party

The auth-left denial on CE is crazy

IceCreamOnStero posted...

The core left wing principle of the removal of social hierarchies is inherently incompatible with authoritarianism.

Authoritarian leftism is the pragmatic use of power to achieve leftist ends. Not the leftist use of power to achieve authoritarian ends.

IceCreamOnStero posted...

Mfw the political compass isn't a good representation of politics and is instead a stripped down spectrum designed to produce easily digestible axes.

Okay I'll rephrase. Why don't you think authoritarian leftism exists

IceCreamOnStero posted...

"Authoritarian leftism" isn't a thing

Whats the upper left quadrant

D

Because the typical doctor treats symptoms and supposes some of the most common causes of them to base the treatment on. House is who people go to when they've had a second opinion, and a third, and they're still popping eyeballs. Or if it's an ER case, Cuddy gives it to House when the normal people try the usual stuff and can't get any progress.

House is a diagnostician so his job is to come up with novel but possible explanations for unusual symptom combinations.

And there are a ton of conditions with overlapping symptom manifestation. The stuff House deals with is the stuff you can't just give someone a pill and send them home for, he often has to make serious decisions that could kill the patient if the diagnosis is wrong, or at least mutilate them.

CE purges too fast. I do a lot of different stuff

What's up with all the extremely graphic shots of men's dicks and rectums interior but we can't get a woman's pussy huh?? Wokeism in the comics industry smh

chaos_knight posted...

When do you get that sword? Early game is alright but frustrating

Chapter 8 I believe.

The Two Dragons Sword is fucking crazy >_> the R2 parry is you playing a different game.

It was a good game if you like Fromsoft games. They did a really good job of emulating what works about those games in terms of setting, atmosphere, design, and appearance. While there's also hints of the studio's individuality that I'd like to see teased out in a future title.

An unexpectedly great feature was the record system.

https://youtu.be/JJhzhiQZVaE?si=qeDJFbH6WKTisH-M

Every single one of these was a banger I never knew I wanted to hear until I did.

The game can be lacking in enemy variety. It's also almost completely linear compared to Fromsoft games, which can make bosses feel like absolute brick walls with no choice but to learn their whole moveset. That was a hard adjustment especially after Elden Ring.

Some bosses might be overtuned. The Swamp Monster and The Complete have some real 'fuck you' phase 2s.

On the other hand, the instigator of most of the plot and arguable main villain was pretty easy IMO and his design forgettable.

The world of Lies of P is a big part of what's so attractive to it. You have these interlocking mysteries - Puppet Frenzy, Petrification Disease, Carcasses, Alchemists, Stars - and from them you genuinely wonder how this world works and the significance of your Lies for example.

I can't believe there's a Revolver Ocelot post credits scene with Giangio. Of all the things I may have guessed, I did not anticipate him setting up the Fairytales Ludo Universe.

There are some other weird uses of characters IMO. I don't know what they had going with Black Cat and Fox. Belle feels like cut content? She's the only character who comes to the hotel who offers no utility to the player.

I thought I was pretty thorough exploring, but I never put together why Gepetto caused the Puppet Frenzy. For that matter, I have no idea why the Alchemists kidnapped Gepetto, which creates a reason for you to go find and defeat them when they would've been inaccessible. I'm genuinely think maybe he kidnapped himself? And he always had use of the passage way given his previous ties to them. That would explain why Cat and Fox both insist they were promised no harm, but wouldn't explain why Laxasia put up with it.

Smashingpmkns posted...

That's not really saying much tbh. Legion still shits all over every comic show.

I've seen S1 of Legion. It's a very good show but that's practically in spite of being a comic show. Adding to my belief of this is my sister, a film grad and huge Marvel show nerd, said she tried to watch it "but it was weird." And yeah, I don't think it offers what that crowd is typically looking for. It's definitely also not in the league of The Boys stuff which as far as I can tell is the whole edgy evil supermen rundown with a sprinkle of Trump metaphors.

Legion is great as a supernatural thriller / character study and it happens to be based on a comic

Is Gen V the show that spawned the clip I had the misfortune of seeing where a guy (nsfl/spoiler) grows big inside another guy's butt and explodes him

(Breaking Bad) I understand sympathy for Hank, but idk about well deserved. All the clues were in front of him and Walter basically confessed to him before. Instead, Hank was so incapable of understanding Walt as anything more than an impotent emasculated family-man that it blinded him to the truth.

Hank even tells Marie something like "my career is fucked after this even if we bring him in, I couldn't have made a bigger fuckup"

I am world's biggest cart narc hater

The people should storm WB HQ and seize the film