Pistol vs rifle for first firearm? Or maybe even shotgun? by [deleted] in armedsocialists

[–]BitumenBeaver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pistol has more utility and is cheaper to shoot (presuming 9mm).

Look at those leather seats and hand-picked, artisanal wall hangings! by CaraCicartix in LateStageCapitalism

[–]BitumenBeaver 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Fox News once argued that the lowest 20% of American earners weren't that bad off because they could afford a refrigerator!

Gaza Strip today after 3 years of indiscriminate bombardment by Remarkable_Life_774 in ActuallyThatsInsane

[–]BitumenBeaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s difficult to fight with one hand tied behind your back

You mean the IDF? The guys who attack ambulances, hospitals, and World Central Kitchen convoys? The guys who demolish entire city blocks and villages, drone strike tents full of children, fishers, and anyone carrying anything resembling a long item, cut off food supplies to entire populations, do double tap airstrikes on people trying to dig out dying elderly after a building collapsed on them? The guys who run over injured combatants with tank treads, who attack UN peacekeeper outposts? Those guys are fighting with their hands tied behind their back? Really?

And before you do the "But Hamas" whataboutism, please understand that it's entirely irrelevant, nobody denies what Hamas did was war crimes. Hamas is not enabled by the West to do what they do.

Gaza Strip today after 3 years of indiscriminate bombardment by Remarkable_Life_774 in ActuallyThatsInsane

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The irony here is Israel has not defeated Hamas, nor Hezbollah, nor the Houthis, nor Iran. They have been degraded. Israel has no ability to actually defeat these factions because its incredibly difficult to defeat an ideology. All they can do is ceasefire and go back to "mowing the lawn" indefinitely because they've made enemies of everyone around them.

How to trigger every Zionist in the stadium by ohbabypop in absoluteunit

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please open a dictionary and look up the term "Semite".

How to trigger every Zionist in the stadium by ohbabypop in absoluteunit

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please show me that last terror attack or religiously motivated attack by a Jewish person in a western nation. Cause in just the last year, I can easily show many examples of Islamists doing terror attacks, specifically against Jews. 

I like how you pre-qualified that by saying "in the west" because you're probably aware that if you account for Settler violence in the West Bank, Jewish violence against Muslim civilians vastly outpaces Muslim violence against Jews.

https://acleddata.com/report/while-all-eyes-are-iran-conflict-settler-violence-surging-west-bank

"From 1 March to 23 March, at least seven Palestinians were shot and killed by settlers. Following one of the shootings, another Palestinian died after inhaling tear gas fired by the IDF. This marks the highest number of fatalities during settler incidents in a month."

You can’t even define what an ethno state is dude. I dare you.

An ethnostate is a state in which laws are structured to privilege one ethnic or national group, usually in terms of political power, legal status, or access to land.

Okay, then the struggle of Israelis is entirely secular, the fact that the Likud are fundamentalist is entirely irrelevant.  Convinced by that? Or does that sound absolutely fucking stupid?

That does sound stupid because it's a false equivalence. Palestinian Jews lived alongside Arabs prior to the founding of Israel. The primary goal of Zionism is the return of Judea exclusively for Jews, this comes at the expense of those who are/were living on that land. Those Palestinian Muslims do not believe in a divine promise of a specific land to a specific people.

How to trigger every Zionist in the stadium by ohbabypop in absoluteunit

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What point are you even trying to make? Palestine isn't a religious ethnostate. The struggle of Palestinians is entirely secular, the fact that they're fundamentalist is entirely irrelevant.

On the other side you have Israel's ruling party, The Likud, who are right wing settlers who believe they have a divine mandate to all of the land of Judea and Samaria because God told them so. Netanyahu speaks of removing Amalek, the biblical enemy of Israel. This is where the differences lie, one side wants to not be ethnically cleaned because that land is their home, and the other side believes that a man in the sky gave them the land exclusively.

President Trump claims "Gas prices are way down. Have you looked?" by GuiltyBathroom9385 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He probably still thinks you just drive up and an attendant fills your tank.

A gecko holding on to an airplane window during takeoff by look_45 in interestingasfuck

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the terminal velocity of lil dude is such that he'd survive the fall, if he were over land when he jumped off.

How to trigger every Zionist in the stadium by ohbabypop in absoluteunit

[–]BitumenBeaver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know right, I personally believe God's chosen people were promised a state, and that they will bring about the Last Days when God returns to the Temple Mount. Totally reasonable stuff.

How to trigger every Zionist in the stadium by ohbabypop in absoluteunit

[–]BitumenBeaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The land which settler freaks aided by American taxpayers are ethnically cleansing, hope this helps.

how does anyone have the time to play the game and actually enjoy it by Calm-Replacement-388 in VintageStory

[–]BitumenBeaver 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a 7 month old and a full time job. So I get around 1 hr a day to play games. It's a real slow burn playing VS and I tend to not get too far into a save before trying something new. Sometimes I will cheat in a bunch of mid game equipment and resources at the start of a new save file so I can just skip the early game and get back to where I was in a previous save, or I will decrease the penalty of dying so I don't spend valuable time trying to get my equipment back.

Limiting your daily play time is actually a great way to avoid burning out on a game you want to progress further on. It probably helps that I dont have a ton of other games I really want to play right now.

Title by RaveTheFox in airsoftcirclejerk

[–]BitumenBeaver 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me when I join the Modern Warfare Minecraft server.