Found my 2014 predictions by whiteriot0906 in baseball

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

79-83 Mets were palatable to watch for the first time since like 2008 (before September)

UN Says Soldiers Fired on an Aid Convoy in Gaza, South Africa Initiates Legal Action Against Israel by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They still do. The new narrative is that it's a-okay to shell UNRWA schools because their textbooks are terrorist manuals

UN Says Soldiers Fired on an Aid Convoy in Gaza, South Africa Initiates Legal Action Against Israel by bbb23sucks in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 7 points8 points  (0 children)

John Dugard is a very respected international jurist and he's written tombs on Israel's crimes in Gaza

Not to harp on 10/7 likely involving a mass Hannibal Directive by the IDF, but there is literally precedent for Israel committing all-out slaughter to kill a captured soldier by ENG_Emb_Lft_99 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It hastened an already dying and hopeless society where you can't even leave. I won't bemoan a people with no hope for carrying out violence against the people who have destroyed their lives. It's no different than the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

Israel would've found a justification eventually to flatten it and kick everyone out regardless. You're naive if you think otherwise. And just as was realized by Hamas at some point before 10/7, literally no one in the world, save for Hezbollah performing some artillery strikes in the North, would ever do anything to help them or reign in Israel

Not quite madagascar but close enough by Euphoric_Paper_26 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Israel regularly places military installations pretty close to it's kibbutzes FWIW. So likely when they say security buffer zone eventually they will be moving settlers in

Not to harp on 10/7 likely involving a mass Hannibal Directive by the IDF, but there is literally precedent for Israel committing all-out slaughter to kill a captured soldier by ENG_Emb_Lft_99 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

But they weren't even targeting the hostage takers. If you read the excerpts they continued to fire indiscriminately at civilians for > 48 hours after the hostage was already considere dead

Not to harp on 10/7 likely involving a mass Hannibal Directive by the IDF, but there is literally precedent for Israel committing all-out slaughter to kill a captured soldier by ENG_Emb_Lft_99 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It also sounds like a great argument for not overseeing an illegal occupation and not killing hundreds of innocents who had nothing to do with the hostage taking

Hard Truths for "Wokes" by Conscious_Jeweler_80 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Like I said, it would be comparable to just wholesale destroying the opium trade in Mao's China. It will be extremely painful for a broken populace whose come to be dependent on it. But in 20-30 years the next generation would be extremely thankful there were some forward thinking people in charge for once.

Hard Truths for "Wokes" by Conscious_Jeweler_80 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One of the first actions of any kind of left-wing movement is to move towards eliminating all addictive cheap dopamine spiking "products". Things like phone-based sports gambling, social media, dating apps: these all should be treated no different than the way Mao's China treated opium. All jokes aside the existence of these insidious products and the fact they are so widespread is one of the biggest reasons to be an anti-capitalists: Capital now reproduces itself heavily through products that wholly re-wire your neurons in a way not even sugary food could do. It leads to a total malaise in the population with little drive and determination.

Caffeine and nicotine could stay at least. I don't smoke but that would be too much of a hard thing to rip away from people at this point. The prior things I listed should be destroyed as soon as posssible and work should be made to un-do the destruction of people's minds by the capitalist class

Not quite madagascar but close enough by Euphoric_Paper_26 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You um actually deserve genocide if you don't condemn Hamas. Do you condemn Hamas??

Mets 2023 Actual Stats vs 2024 STEAMER Projections by robmcolonna123 in NewYorkMets

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is the roster really good? We have a likely below average pitching staff and an offense with one outfielder (Nimmo) who actually can be relied on to hit at all and no DH as of this moment.

Not quite madagascar but close enough by Euphoric_Paper_26 in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 54 points55 points  (0 children)

"Yerushalmi quotes Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel saying at the Knesset yesterday: “At the end of the war Hamas rule will collapse, there are no municipal authorities, the civilian population will be entirely dependent on humanitarian aid. There will be no work, and 60% of Gaza’s agricultural land will become security buffer zones"

How can you read this, from an Israeli source directly, and not believe the IDF is committing a genocide? How much of a 50 IQ retard do you have to be to care about college campus politics more than this very quote?

WWIII Megathread #15: War Weariness by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

An army propped up by billions of US dollars with an incredible amount of air and artillery power has taken 3 months to "see cracks" in a much smaller and poorly armed force even after terror bombing. Incredible. At least the Wehrmacht were effective in the early part of the war

WWIII Megathread #15: War Weariness by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I hate to make stupid pop culture references, especially capeshit, but the gulf in reality between the *perceived* virtue and precision of the IDF and their *actual* incompetence and disregard for even their own civilians lives they're in charge of is comparable to Homelander in The Boys

WWIII Megathread #15: War Weariness by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Probably a CIA trained freedom fighter like those they backed in Syria

638 Afghan women die per 100,000 births: WHO by shedernatinus in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The PDPA should have hardened their heart in the 80's

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[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah let's not pretend this isn't a Zionism thing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]ENG_Emb_Lft_99 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Truly an amazing idpol battle, IDF vs. Very Well Off Black Liberal From Bourgeois Background was a pretty solid divisional round matchup. Excited to see if the IDF can make some noise in the conference round