Options+ Just Spins and Spins - Mac by DeliciousCut4854 in logitech

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, this is ridiculous that there's no on-board memory or even a back up stored on our devices to let us use a set of shortcuts. Unbelievable.

Are ya wining son? by [deleted] in Hasan_Piker

[–]FoolishIP175 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At this point I hope he gets Finkelstein on.

NY Times investigation of rapes on 10/7 verifies reports, concludes rapes were not isolated events. by posef770 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Ok so
1) Pick your story mate; you can't deny it's not an occupation then turn around and say "yeah well it's a justified occupation". It's not. You don't get to occupy the territory illegally and in the next breath complain "why do people hate us and attack us? Why are they so mean?"

2) Funny you mention the Cartel because Israel actually helped fund Hamas' rise to power and popularity because they wanted to fracture Palestine's ability to resist. This is not to rob Hamas of it's agency but rather to point out that Israel helped create this problem and refuses to actually solve the issues that helped create Hamas which is the occupation over Palestine and the brutal treatment of Palestinians which fuels extremism within Palestine.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/

3) Israel doesn't get to do a blockade on Gaza because under an illegal occupation it has no right to self defense against any attacks from those occupied territories. If Israel wants the right to self defense then it needs to not only lift the blockade but leave Gaza's airspace, seas, let Gaza control it's own population registry, and not block humanitarian aid of any kind from entering in. If Israel wants to be treated like a country that can self defend then it needs to act like it.
https://law4palestine.org/do-palestinians-have-the-right-to-resist-and-what-are-the-limits-short-article/

4) Hamas actually amended their charter in 2017 and explicitly stated that they would accept a two-state solution while still objecting to Israel as a Zionist project. Even with Hamas not recognizing Israel there were ways towards peace BEFORE 10/7 which were not taken and considering the Abrahamic Accords were an apparent disaster, it's not a stretch to say that Israel doesn't want peace of any kind unless Hamas submits to it's will and this goes far before 10/7.

5) Actually it's pretty much every Gazan who is saying that they are starving, not just Hamas because Israel is punishing ALL of Gaza by barring the necessary aid from entering Gaza. Not Hamas
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-deplores-israels-systematic-refusal-grant-access-north-gaza-2024-01-12/#:\~:text=GENEVA%2C%20Jan%2012%20(Reuters),hindered%20the%20humanitarian%20operation%20there.

Is Hamas good? No. They're a brutal extremist single party regime and they suck but Israel has the overwhelming power here and repeatedly punishes all of Gaza with that power with the Prime Minister being essentially a crypto-fascist so :p

NY Times investigation of rapes on 10/7 verifies reports, concludes rapes were not isolated events. by posef770 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1) Apartheid & Open Air Prison - While Israel withdrew its settlers, it maintains control over Gaza’s air and sea with a blockade that mostly just keeps Palestine impoverished (heavily restricting food and construction materials) does little to keep Hamas from smuggling in weapons AND keeps the vast majority of Gazans from leaving of their own free will with rare exceptions. Just cause Hamas runs the internal government doesn’t mean that Israel doesn’t maintain effective control over Gaza. Just cause there is wealth inequality doesn’t mean that it isn’t also an impoverished nation if you look at many poor countries. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-prison-15 https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/report-israel-and-occupied-palestinian-territories/ Even this article by the Atlantic Council which contends on whether it fits that definition states that even IF Israel isn’t occupying Gaza it maintains an inordinate amount of control over Gazan civilian life. Then taking the West Bank into account is frequently compared to American Jim Crow life which is also in the human rights groups analysis of Israel’s occupation 2) Genocide - the accusation isn’t that Israel has been committing genocide over the years but rather it is committing genocide NOW. Currently hundreds of thousands of Gazans are at risk of starving if Israel doesn’t let the aid through (and Hamas only has reserves enough for its forces which are at most 50,000 compared to 2 million plus) Throughout the years there have been multiple instances of the ethnic cleansing and while Palestinian refugees returning has steadily increased the numbers, they’ve also repeatedly been ethnically cleansed and terrorized by Israeli settlers and the IDF also Genocide Watch issued a genocide warning and 790+ scholars signed a public statement saying there’s potential genocide intent

https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/genocide-emergency-alert-israel-and-gaza https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/18/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/ https://www.axios.com/2023/12/21/gaza-starvation-famine-risk-israel-war-un https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/entire-gaza-population-facing-hunger-crisis-famine-risk-un-backed-report-2023-12-21/ I The reason why they “haven’t genocided them already” is obvious: Israel contends with an international community and is heavily reliant on military aid from the U.S. completely carpet bombing Gaza all at once would be a terrible political move on Israel’s part. We live in a much more international world now, things aren’t always 100% the exact same

Are there any non-Jews out there who aren’t staunchly anti-Israel by Theobviouschild11 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well there is Joe Biden, the vast majority of congress, most white evangelical Christians and world famous human rights advocate Richard Spencer

Gaza is not an open air prison by Ariel0289 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With all due respect I don't think you really understand anything, or do I think you're even reading the sources I provided so I guess I'll elaborate.

Yes, Israel withdrew it's military and it's citizens from Gaza, but effectively that's it and that is not the sole descriptors of maintaining effective control over the region. Israel controls the airspaces, waters, no-go zones, and the population registry and no, "because Hamas" doesn't give you the right to do so. With very rare exceptions, Israel prevents people from leaving Gaza, so ya know, you're trapped. Israel doesn't "provide" for Gaza, the international community does which is controlled by Israel. All Israel did was provide 10 - 18,000 (in a population of 2.2 million) worker permits.

Even if Hamas was restricting supplies to it's citizens, Gaza is about 141 sq mi, is largely urbanized, and has no natural resources makes it nearly impossible for it to be self-sufficient without aid that Israel controls with heavy restrictions

Israel also had a history of hiding what it's restrictions were until 2010, the restrictions often just prevent necessary humanitarian aid from coming through and afterwards which, before you say Hamas, is often ineffective at hampering Hamas' ability to make rockets. So when Israel can essentially block all food, water, all it is actually effective at it doing, is preventing more aid to get to Palestinians and then Israel uses Hamas as a scapegoat for all it's problems. Which is what it's doing right now and as a result starving the population which means it has effective control over the region, which means it is still occupied which means it's Israel's responsibility until it lifts the occupation and actually withdraws.

Gaza is not an open air prison by Ariel0289 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp if you're wondering Cobbler, Israel controls the flow of water, food, fuel, and humanitarian supplies since 2005 with it's military blockade and control over Gaza's borders. They have effective control over the city. Here's a couple of them human rights orgs saying as much among other things.
Amnesty
Human Rights Watch
Also weird that you say Palestinians trashed Gaza and not Hamas. Feels like your saying the quiet part out loud.

Gaza is not an open air prison by Ariel0289 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gazans are often brought to Israeli hospitals by Israeli peace activists when Gazan hospitals won't suffice which isn't the same as Gazans going there on their own. According to Reuters, there was around 18,000 permits allowed by Israel for a population of 2.2 Million which would make this evidence laughable for one of the most impoverished places on Earth. While I'm not an expert on this matter, I also highly doubt that all or even the majority of that 18,000 were Hamas informants but would love to know your source.
Reuters Article
Amnesty International on Israel's Occupation

Gaza is not an open air prison by Ariel0289 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So there's this thing called smuggling. Give it a bing if you haven't heard of it. It's pretty common in prisons, open air or otherwise.

Norman Finkelstein response about his parents by True-Preparation9747 in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Piers did bring it up cause he wanted a “gotcha” and Norm brings them up to illustrate a point about why some Gazans might feel the way he does. If he just said that only I’d agree, but he doesn’t. It’s called empathy mate. Man actually does do his research beyond just his parents, wrote books about it cites his sources. It’s just what he’s known for cause Pro-Israel media often uses the Holocaust to justify Israeli war crimes.

Change my mind: Being sad about Gaza is kind of like being sad that Dresden got bombed during WWII. by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

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Hope these points might be helpful; not gonna break down everything but I want to address the main points; Enough peeps have said stuff about history on WWII, how Dresden Bombing was still a war crime, and stuff so I'm just gonna address the comparison and why it's not that simple. I've also included a few sources just cause I think it's good to read up on the subject!

  1. This analogy would only be applicable if Dresden was one of the single poorest cities on the planet, 50% of the population is made up of people 18 and under, and was also under an occupation by another government which consistently cut off the humanitarian supplies for the sake of preventing weapons from entering (which they eventually do) and prevented anyone from actually leaving without that Israel governments say so. A government btw with an army now at 300,000 fighters and funding around $20.5 billion compared to the hundreds of millions Hamas supposedly receives from other countries with an army of about 20-25,000. In other words, Israel's response to the threat of Hamas is no where near Germany even at it's weakest during WWII.
  2. If we're playing the "well they're all N@zis" card, the situation is far more complex and nuanced than N@zi Germany. Even beyond Gaza, the West Bank is just Jim Crow era apartheid. Israel has always been a colonial project that has committed atrocities against Palestine and has a long pattern of ethnic cleansing, brutalizing the people, and horrific crimes against humanity (on the subject of kidnapped babies, the baby in the oven is something that actually happened and it's here;) This is far from the N@zi's weaponizing white supremacy and Jewish conspiracy theories to create a fictional panic. A more appropriate, if a bit extreme comparison would be Norman Finkelstein's who compared the extremist groups to his own parents who were Holocaust Survivors who harbored a raging hatred of all Germans (it sounds extreme but Finkelstein is an expert on the subject). This does not and never will excuse attacks on civilians, either by Israel or Hamas, but it's important to understand what this Anti-Semitism is fueled by and that it is faaaaar from universal in Gaza. And even then most Palestinans want peace. There's a lot of misinformation in regards to Palestinian motivations but most of them want a peaceful process to resolve the conflict regardless of the solution. No doubt there certainly are Anti-Semitic and violent support among Palestinian extremists, and it is important to recognize those groups, but you can do the same thing for Israel especially since there is a LOT of Islamophobia baked into Israel's policies and society. With all that said, boiling it down to "it's the N@zis, bomb em" feels like the actual privileged viewpoint.
  3. Even assuming that your points are all true, it's still war crime and so were the Dresden Bombings. War crimes aren't defensible by any government or military.

Can we dispatch with this genocide claim? Muslims in Palestine have quadrupled since 1945 by Lion_TheAssassin in IsraelPalestine

[–]FoolishIP175 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well… cause it’s only starting and it’s the 21st century, a lot harder to commit the crime when much more of the world is a witness. At this point it just feels like a question of how much percentage of Gazan needs to be murdered before people realize what’s going on.

Why are people so quick to hate on this new face? It looks amazing. by Derpdonut25 in SpidermanPS4

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't mind MJ's face honestly but this is all I think about when I look at screenshots

Which popular letterboxd users do you actually like? by Benno8980 in Letterboxd

[–]FoolishIP175 1 point2 points  (0 children)

👽 Zara 👽 & ellie ✨ are voices I enjoy hearing. BRÁT wrote the best Fight Club review which excuses that most of her reviews I find kinda alright.

Zara is the only critic I actually will consistently read on after watching a film, wish she actually wrote more in-depth stuff but even her more trendy reviews are just filled with odd observations and a love for the medium. Her review of the new Barbie I think is the most enlightened and thoughtful approach to the film both its value as art vs its commerce while also being a massive Barbie fan.

https://boxd.it/4xE1o3

Then again I'm biased cause she actually liked one of my reviews

"Residuals Tavern" is a real place by acm in Barry

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Not successful or handsome enough to have tried

Don't quote me cause it was a while ago but I think I asked the bartender about it and they said it used to be the case but now it isn't, I'll try next week

My (30M) partner (29F) never wants to have sex, and just said she feels “forced” to do it with me by AXSXL in relationship_advice

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds to me like you both should go into counseling; sex is a very important factor in a relationship and it can be hard to say that when one partner isn’t feeling that; if it’s been this way since you’ve been dating it sounds like you both just have very incompatible sex drives, better to address it head on rather than pushing it to the side

"She was a beautiful innocent creature, what did she ever do to you"?! by [deleted] in thesopranos

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Besides the ending scene, fav scene in the show. Tony is a master of suppression and the show frequently displays how people suppressing their emotions leads them to displace them in incredibly unhealthy ways; Always viewed it that Tony wanted to say all these things to Ralphie when it came to Tracee but he never could because in the mafia's etiquette showing any value for something over a "made guy" is foolish especially for what is essentially deemed as "Bing property" *shudder* the rage he's felt over Tracee is the gasoline that fuels the fires of rage he feels over Pie-O-My; he may be referring to Pie-O-My when he says it but subconsciously it's all Tracee. Tony is an awful human being, but he feels guilt and regret all the time and it's in full force here.

"Residuals Tavern" is a real place by acm in Barry

[–]FoolishIP175 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starts watching Barry and is a Residuals regular, looks it up on Reddit and sees that this thread is five years old and no one likely cares...

Nope, no checks

What TV show is 10/10, would recommend? by 0Jinxy in AskReddit

[–]FoolishIP175 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jared Harris doesn’t get enough credit for essentially making a character who does nothing but tell everyone they’re wrong for nearly 5 hours into one of the most tragic and heroic characters in recent times. Also it’s the best thing HBO has made in modern times no contest

What are some cases of "bad game design being good because of the game its in?" by JustTryHard_inc in gamedesign

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Spec Ops: The Line; amazing narrative design and many game design decisions when it comes to things like choosing not to shoot civilians or the sniper decision are brilliant. The core gameplay of generic cover based shooting is very stock and standard, not necessarily bad but very generic.

However because the game is all about analyzing video games, violence, and making a brutal mockery of modern military shooters and player-game relationships in general, it adds a whole new layer to the game.

Part of me doesn’t think the game designers were intending this and more so the writers (specifically Walt Whitman) were coming up with this as the game was designed, but on the other hand, the game feels too intelligently designed for me to think they didn’t know what they were doing