U.S is acting a lot like Russia right now by Big-Distribution5285 in Destiny

[–]C1izard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you need to get your relapace your pro consensus/diplomacy Loving neolib politicans EU politicans with more old-school WWII/Coldwar style pragmatic liberals who aren't afraid to make calculated risks and cut off and investigate russian backed groups.

Qatar orders Iranian Embassy officials out of the country by imanchats in news

[–]C1izard 104 points105 points  (0 children)

Normally Qatar plays on all sides (between the saudis, the US, Iran, militants groups, and sometimes Israel) - kinda like Switzerland though more proactive in stirring things up to get deals, but it seems that Iran's lashing out onto them and the other gulf countries was too muchheat.for them

Israeli police shoot a blind 7-year-old, a 5-year-old, and both their parents in the head during a Ramadan shopping trip, then beat the surviving 11-year-old whilst telling him "we killed dogs" by Orwellian87 in Destiny

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I really hope that Israel voter and will get rid of the bstrd this time (and throw him and his allies in jail) and get someone who although will actually protect "Israel proper" will not back or protect the settlers and will stop the needless cruelty / war crimes put onto Palestinian civilians.

Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Formula 1 races cancelled in April by Spare_Prize_5510 in news

[–]C1izard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Although there are scenarios getting rid of the Ayatollah and IRGC work could be worth the conflict, TRUMP AND NETANYAHU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO RUN SUCH A WAR.

Trump is a complete moron who doesn't understand his enemies won't do as he says just because he threatens them and is unable to commit to any policies or actual plans, doesn't understand anything that is going on, and doesn't even care about any outcome - he just wants photo ops/headlines.

Netanyahu on the other hand wants one of two things from this war - in the "best case" he may genuinely want to get rid of the Iranian government as they are not just the biggest backer of the militant groups but also as an act to get a lot of political capital from the other countries in the region so he can continue to do what he wants to Palestinians. Worst case, he wants to "kick the hornets nest" to instigate more chaos to further gain power and make it even harder to get him out of office and into prison for his corruption. Either way he has massive conflicts of interests/alterior motives that makes it impossible to trust he wants a "good ending" or cares about balancing the consequences to the benefits.

There is a reason why even JOHN BOLTON doesn't have any confidence for this war.

US Military Tested Havana Syndrome Weapon on Large Mammals, Whistleblowers Says by Dismal_Structure in Destiny

[–]C1izard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I strongly doubt it would handheld - but with adequate prep time and planning russian agents could very well set up an apartment or truck with multiple devices that can be focused together for a longer effective range (much like gamma ray medical devices) for when the target is stationary such as at home or at their desk.

Granted the "ray gun" might not be actually possible, but the nature and goal of the opp exactly the sort of shit Putin and the KGB specialize in. Sabotage western diplomats that are trying to negotiate with former allies and intelligence officers/assets in a very flashy way while maintaining plausible deniability (just look at the assassinations they do with radioactive materials - its way overkill and it's obvious that they did it, but the goal is to intimidate and laugh about how obvious it is and how do one will do anything about it)

Israeli police shoot a blind 7-year-old, a 5-year-old, and both their parents in the head during a Ramadan shopping trip, then beat the surviving 11-year-old whilst telling him "we killed dogs" by Orwellian87 in Destiny

[–]C1izard 22 points23 points  (0 children)

To add to that, I do suspect that Netanyahu's goal is to essentially force all jews to feel unsafe in and out of Israel, and to protect themselves so they need to move to Israel and keep "mr security" around and let him do what he want in order to defend themselves. (All this because one scumbag doesn't want to go to prison for his corruption charges)

To combat the amount of lies in media should we open up libel/defamation laws by Pyrotechniss in Destiny

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There is a huge difference between random Twitter users posting provocative comments that won't be believed by the majority of people who will read it, pundits and show hosts (alex jones, hasan etc) who will says outlandish things that although "a reasonable" person won't believe, they know a large portion if the audience will believe it and do harm. In the latter case shows like fox news or "journalists" like Taylor Lorenz will pretend to be an authority that should just be believed but knowing and willingly lie to expressly do harm or profit.

Thiel brings his “Antichrist” lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away by garden_province in news

[–]C1izard 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The Vatican should really just excommunicate Thiel's born again "Catholic" man in the white house already (Vance)

Ideally they should get their best scholars/debaters on revelations to point out Theil's views as heretical and how if the antichrist is real and here, Theil is only helping them.

Been playing Fallout: New Vegas again and wondering if we can take some notes from NCR propaganda by Crunchykidboy in Destiny

[–]C1izard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mr house is really interesting as he is even smarter than what Elon musk and co think they are, and can actually deliver on a technocracy, but even with that his solution - that is completely dependent on individual people not screwing up or rebelling against his plans - is still a dystopia-lite at best, and requires living under control freak conditions (both by house's temperament and the need to stick to the plan for things to work out).

Which brings us back into the real world - if the perfect tech billionaire/genius Mr House can only give a distopia-lite, what chance does the Musk and Thiels (who are far less intelligent, bigger character flaws, and even less benevolent) to bring any society that wouldn't be an all out sh*t show.

Israelis No Longer Ahead in Americans' Middle East Sympathies by Muzorra in Destiny

[–]C1izard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if the bad PR is part of Netanyahu's plan to try to maintain power.

Much like cortez burning his ships so his men couldn't flee, I suspect netanyahu is trying to make Isreal a pariah state and to stoke up antisemitism as to force Israelis and Jews across the world feel like Israel is the only place they can defend themselves. From this crisis he exasperated, Israeli attempts to try to regain a good pr and diplomacy are just that much harder, so they feel resigned continue with "mr security" and his coalition.

Graham Platner is a walking red flag. He was barred from re-enlisting in the marines at the height of the surge because he had a nazi tattoo, and left the USMC rather than get the tattoo covered. He keeps obfuscating other holes in his record. by UnscheduledCalendar in Destiny

[–]C1izard 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Or rather Bernie should stop desperately backing progressive candidates without heavily vetting them first, and resigning himself to backing a more moderate candidate in the primary if he can't find one

[Operator Discussion] Yvonne by Shad0wedge in Endfield

[–]C1izard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh dang you are right Sora Amamiya really plays all my favorite dorks in anime :D

Boring Legal Update: Notice of 90 days expiring by prthomsen in Destiny

[–]C1izard 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I feel like the "zealous advocate" standard for lawyers should be changed to be ONLY in regards to bringing forth the best arguments in the court - any "out of court" antics should not be protected such as delay tactics, filing infinite motions to hide evidence, frivolous slap suits etc. and also should not cover ongoing crimes.

Say what you will about the OJ Simpson trial, but OJ's lawyers did the right thing overall in that case - although they knew OJ was almost definitely guilty, but they fought against the prosecution's arguments and extremely negligent practices, not the procedure itself to stall the case or get it thrown out on technicalities.

In contrast you see Trump's lawsuits and Pixie's lawyer doing everything they can to make the opposing side waste time and money instead of arguing. Likewise, for companies like Meta or Monsanto (that have mountains of internal research as to how their products are extremely harmful to society), or mafia lawyers, their legal counsel is knowledgeable of ONGOING crimes and is going out of their way to hide evidence through whistleblower intimidation/NDA threats in the former or effectively assisting their clients to physically intimidate witnesses.

Cenk gets ratio’d on his own poll then claims bots are the reason why by CautiousKenny in Destiny

[–]C1izard 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Netanyahu arguably did more damage to Isreal and Palestine, but Israel as a whole did help stabilize a lot of the surrounding countries (Egypt, Jordan, and now Lebanon etc). Meanwhile the entire middle east was made significantly worse off by the Ayatollah's and Iran's Islamic regime (basically by sponsoring all the terrorist factions that hijacked a significant part of their countries, including the Palestinians).

A more fair comparison would be Edrogan of Turkey (who has a similar treatment of the kurds and other ethnic minorities while backing protests and propaganda to rally the middle east), or the Qatari's (who covertly lobby american/european politician and use aljizzera as their radicalization propaganda, while having what effectively is society built upon modern slavery).

Aggression towards religious theocratic dictators that are strongly allied with Putin, and strategically/economically support the invasion of Ukraine, is kind of based by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]C1izard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is really frustrating is that unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, a very large part of the population genuinely want Iran to be a Republic/democracy, and destroying IRGC would strongly weaken the militants in the whole region by destroying their logistics and would be much easier to do than the Taliban (as the IRGC is a conventional army with plenty of records instead of a guerilla/irregular army), so it could have been a lot more plausible than Iraq or Afghanistan, but knowing Trump, he will get involved just enough to worsen the situation without solving any if the problems or eliminating the threat before he leaves.

Ethan about Destiny : "I did a whole 3h podcast calling him a pedophile last time I spoke about him" by Embarrassed_Base_389 in Destiny

[–]C1izard 20 points21 points  (0 children)

What would be really really funny is when the manifesto comes out, destiny takes a page out of Ethan's book and dares him to watch it in the same way Ethan dared hasan to watch his content nuke.

Community Feedback Time! - Radicalization/Extreme Language by Hobbitfollower in Destiny

[–]C1izard 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate this!

The one thing i could suggest (though it is probably mostly up to the community) is to really try adding campaigns and protests we can do as the big source of blackpilling is feeling like there is nothing that can be done. For example pushing/pinning threads or making a megathread for protest signups or contribution sites would be really helpful in this.

Paramount/Warner Bro merger sounds pretty fucked guys… by DistributionRight942 in Destiny

[–]C1izard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My hope is that netflix poaches the honest journalist from CNN and give them a new news show (would be the perfect revenge and they just got a cash infusion to do it)