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MarcyWarcy posted...

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1721223370941804830?s=20

damn we tried giving them more bombs, what else can we do

No joke, the answer is: give them smaller bombs
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/us-officials-outline-steps-to-israel-to-reduce-civilian-casualties

It describes not a religion but a worldview, and its adherents used to be proud to call themselves that.

Super Mario Sunshine

The whole game

Bass posted...

AI always gets corrupted by right wingers. What morons thought it would be a good idea to have AI write news stories?

Capitalists.

I would love if the Democratic Party was meaningfully pro-Palestine.

Not gonna check out the rest of this topic, which I'm sure hasn't been awful.

itachi15243 posted...

Holy shit how can anyone be this fucking stupid?

Lots of money. Your or I couldn't afford to be this stupid.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

that's so dumb. After dark was the best time to trick or treat. Its Halloween. It should be dark lol.

Halloween is the deadliest night of the year for children specifically because a lot of them get hit by cars out after dark.

Bump

Authority has a problem with me.

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

when its not their people who were massacred in their homes,

Is your claim to this tragedy more valid than the Jewish protesters calling for ceasefire at the Capitol?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/jewish-led-demonstrations-for-gaza-cease-fire-see-hundreds-arrested-at-capitol/ar-AA1itt30
Than the Israeli peace activists calling for an end to the bombings?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/world/middleeast/peace-activists-israel-palestinian.html
Than the families of hostages questioning whether their government's actions might be putting their relatives in more, not less danger?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/28/prisoner-exchange-israeli-captive-families-demand-answers-from-netanyahu
https://news.yahoo.com/don-t-destroy-gaza-families-134537012.html

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

There is literally no situation in their minds in which it is ok to bomb a hospital.

It's called being normal. Please try it

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-manchin-joint-employer-rule_n_6541466fe4b0ae2dc0b5a8c8?x9m

The bipartisan support is in favor of ceasefire

It might be because he has obscure Christian beliefs about banks being run by the devil.

I guess it's a question of which is a better use of one's time: chiding and tsk tsking Arab Americans for their views on an ongoing genocide, or pressuring one's leaders to stop enabling it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxdmx/one-regulation-could-have-stopped-a-nationwide-car-theft-wave-why-dont-we-have-it

The U.S. is dealing with an unprecedented wave of car thefts as thieves target some nine million Kias and Hyundais manufactured between 2011 and 2021. People who bought those vehicles had no idea they were buying cars with built-in vulnerabilities. Many have had their cars stolen multiple times, which causes real hardship in both stark monetary terms and also psychological trauma. Those who cannot afford to absorb tens of thousands of dollars in losses to buy a different car are stuck with one thats easy to steal, and even those who own models not directly affected are seeing their insurance premiums skyrocket for simply owning a car made by the same brand.

None of this is happening in Canada, despite many of the same Kias and Hyundais being sold north of the border. This is because, in 2005, Canada enacted a simple regulation that made all cars harder to steal.
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The story of what is happening with Kia andHyundai thefts in the U.S., and what is not happening in Canada, is as clear a case you will find illustrating what good regulations can do and what intelligent, thoughtful crime prevention actually looks like when it involves a holistic government effort rather than a narrow and singular focus of policing and incarceration. A simple, straightforward regulation is working for one country, while the absence of that same regulation costs the citizens of another country dearly.

No I'm normal

That's right: Frank Stallone

I don't think enabling genocide is as worthy a cause as fighting climate change, but your point is taken.

metralo posted...

I'm a straight white male. It won't affect me. But allowing Trump power will f*** all of the rest of you lol

Do you think condescending to minorities about what is best for them engenders them to your cause?

If this is the tone you're gonna take, the best thing you can do to help Biden's re-election is shut the fuck up, frankly. At least wait until the bombs stop dropping on children before rubbing people's noses in the fact that they've gotta vote for the guy selling them.

aarrgus posted...

I hate to break it to you.... but Biden is supporting the popular policy embraced by a majority of the mainstream voters.

You sure?
https://twitter.com/Bilalbay/status/1719520725663387773

Car accidents actually are one area where we (the US) probably should be charging more people. You can run over a kid and barely be kept for questioning.

But that's unrelated to this hockey incident, which criminal charges would not in any way improve.

It's unfortunate that Biden is an ideological purist who would rather throw his support behind an unpopular, unworkable policy than win over mainstream voters.

mybbqrules posted...

Bigger than the literal end to democracy in one of the most powerful nuclear nations on the planet and the installing of a narcissistic rage baby and his cadre of racists, bigots, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, and dips***s as the ruling class?

Are you referring to Trump or Netanyahu here

Every MLB owner has the wealth and revenue to "buy a championship." Most just don't want to. GMs love having a built in excuse for fans not to expect results in the near future.

Israel was probably the one policy area where Obama was better than Biden, tbh.

It's a lot easier to change one guy's views and actions than thousands of people's.

Just because I'm dressed like Santa Claus

thronedfire2 posted...

by exercising their rights instead of throwing the most important one away

Saying they disapprove of him in a poll is an exercise of their rights.

How should Arab Americans, or anyone else, voice their displeasure with the president's policies?

When Wolf Blitzer isn't buying your shit, you've really fucked up as an Israeli PR guy

If you're trying to find a more nuanced version of basic ethics, it's almost never because you're trying to be more ethical.

It's probably a serious matter, but I watched House and am unable to take it seriously.

Personally I would not suggest that people in a refugee camp might be future Hitler when discussing the bombing of them

Democracy, n. A system in which the public must submit their opinions on genocide to the president's reelection concerns

It's pretty great

Forkknife
The MCU

From SMB through the NSMB games, you were following a fairly linear map: beat this level to unlock the next, and so on. There would be shortcuts and hidden exits around that map, and maybe branching paths here or there, but the basic mode of progression is getting to the end of levels.

But the 3D games have instead gated progression behind collectibles: stars, shines, moons, etc. It hasn't mattered as much which specific stars you collect, just that you pile together enough from wherever you can find them. And collecting these items has often meant things that aren't traditional platforming levels or courses in the way of the 2D games. Instead of just "reach the flagpole," you have races and puzzles and red coin collections. Even 3D World, which explicitly returns to levels, includes the Captain Toad puzzles and shorter mini-game style stars. There's a lot greater variety to the objectives, and greater freedom in the order you tackle them.

You really see this approach in the design of Wonder. Where the NSMB games were content to follow the established pattern of the 2D games before it, Wonder is less committed to the traditional level structure, and gates progression behind the wonder seeds, which again can be acquired in a lot of different ways.

I don't know why I've typed all this, but here it is.

hockeybub89 posted...

Are we in favor of abolishing President term limits?

Is there any argument that this wouldn't have been preferable in 2016, say?

But for the most part, it's been very rare since FDR that a president is both popular and still up for the job after 8 years in office.

Tens of millions

We characterize the biggest impact on behavior and priorities as a "Burkean shift," whereby term-limited legislators become less beholden to the constituents in their geographical districts and more attentive to other concerns.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40263375

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chris-brown-fugitive-england-allegedly-055114926.html

In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks on 10/7, there were a lot of pro-Palestine rallies, statements, social media posts, etc. that were criticized for being poorly timed, poorly worded, and so on. And maybe they were. But those expressing solidarity with Palestineans, even in that moment when it was considered most in poor taste, recognized that the weight of the West would soon be brought upon Gazans in ways like this, and the importance of trying to push back against that.

What are you seeing?

Humble_Novice posted...

Are there even any billionaires on our side?

Whose side are you on?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joseph-edelman-political-donor-transgender_n_653a8605e4b0783c4ba04deb

Is the spectrum store where they sell fidget spinners?

"We're gonna make them kill the human shields" only works as a PR tactic if you kill the human shields.

Because I, personally, am a coward

Sorry, I've been too busy at a rainbow party to talk about this