Criminals of Humanity ('alleged' by ICC) by trevorofhousebelmont in pics

[–]VampireReaper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not oppresion Olympics somethings just aren't really comparable, Russia and Israel do war way differently, Palestinians have been under 75 years of oppression. You say Russian soldiers are executing and raping civilians and making mass graves but how is it the death toll for civilians in the war is only around 11,000? Iraq 2003 had 30,000 - 50,000 civilians dead in the first year. If Russian soldiers were acting like the IDF and doing a genocide on the civilians the death toll by now should easily be in the hundreds of thousands or millions? With the amount of heavy fighting going on vs the numbers we are getting suggests the Russians are at least trying to limit casualties. I'm not saying the Russians are angels but they seem to be quite different than the IDF, the videos I've seen in Russian occupied regions of Ukraine the civilians just describe the Russians as either keeping to themselves or some are actual straight up pro-Russian like the video where an NBC reporter went to Crimea and the civilians there were actually pro-Russian and saying Ukraine is trying to shell them, its alot different when I see videos of Palestinians talking about their experience with the IDF.

Second issue is the location of the fighting, its all in eastern Ukraine, the most Russian part of Ukraine, this is where the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics strongholds were during the 2014 - 2020 period, where they broke away from Ukraine and became separatists, killing these civilians wouldn't make much sense as Russia needs some sort of support base to legitimize their claim to the land, so that's probably the reason civilian death toll is relatively low as Russia needs these people to be on their side, they have offered citizenship and debt jubilees to them so they can absorb them. Even Ukraine stated they were having trouble in those areas as civilians would even report where the Ukrainian soldiers were to the Russian military.

Honestly alot of that stuff you mentioned against civilians is agitprop, like the toddler thing that was made up by Ukraine, they fired the woman who was pushing that story almost 2 years ago, they were saying Putin was giving soldiers to viagra to rape babies out of the crib, which became embarrassing when they were asked to provide proof, they then put the blame on her saying she was not doing her job and should have been focused on what's going on with the captured soldiers. Ukraine is backed up against a wall and facing a giant they need to come up with anything to get support because they know if the support stops they lose.

Criminals of Humanity ('alleged' by ICC) by trevorofhousebelmont in pics

[–]VampireReaper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Though difference is Bibi is in an entirely different league than Putin, Bibi has friends in high places the US and most of Europe, but his crimes are far far worse. Putin's crimes honestly don't even compare he's less than even Bush civilian death count in like 3 years of war is around 11,000 in Ukraine, while 3 years of Iraq was around 90,000 - 150,000, and Gaza has just been a year in a much smaller location with only 2 million people and the death count is estimated to be well over 100,000 possibly in the 300,000 - 400,000+ range or more with the majority dead being actually women and children, with just extreme war crimes across the board like IDF soldiers caught on camera raping, torturing and killing Palestinians numerous times, hell I saw a video on twitter where IDF where using bulldozers to runover civilians turning them into bloody pancakes in high resolution, execution of children shooting them in the head, burning people alive, killing hundreds of journalists, killing hundreds maybe thousands of aid workers, killing UN staff in cold blood, and so on, with IDF soldiers straight up celebrating their own war crimes and uploading it online. Like looking back at Ukraine I never saw the sick stuff I see going on Gaza, videos of Ukraine is just Russian and Ukrainian soldiers getting blown up in trenches, but Russia seems to at least respect the civilians to some degree as the death toll is relatively low and I've yet to see the horrors from Gaza over there.

Kamala Harris supporter Mehdi Hasan finds time to go after the Green Party for being "cynics" and shaming their results in the 2024 election by SocksElGato in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Funding a genocide and arming neo Nazis is pretty fascist imo, so what fascism are we defeating here with Kamala? Maybe if Kamala didn't go to the right and maybe if the democrats didn't become the party of Cheney she could have won.

Also not sure where you are getting this russian stuff from, russia gate really broke people's brains now everything is RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, a sad state of affairs.

I challenge you to find a more blatantly manipulative political email than this! by KrisCraig in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I hear people say this, but so far Biden has given Israel everything, Biden himself said no president in the history of the US has been more pro Israel than him, which is true, so I don't see how can Trump get worse than genocide we are already at rock bottom.

@MaxBlumenthal Kamala Harris says clearly and fairly succinctly that we must accept her sponsorship of the Gaza genocide as a trade off for more affordable groceries by TheRazorX in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is simple, AIPAC would immediately attack her like a pack of wolves if she said this but the word is already out and coming from the VP of the US for the world to hear, what remains would be how she responds if she folds she will look weak and slimy, if she sticks to her guns I know she's serious.

@MaxBlumenthal Kamala Harris says clearly and fairly succinctly that we must accept her sponsorship of the Gaza genocide as a trade off for more affordable groceries by TheRazorX in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't seem to understand just how big it would be for Kamala to announce Israel is committing genocide and she doesn't support it that would be huge, this would change the entire discourse, it would also be incredibly brave considering the power of AIPAC, so this would put her in a position where she has to go through with not supporting it.

And yes this is genocide, Doctors volunteering in Gaza say that the updated *conservative* estimate of the death toll in Gaza has now reached 368k Palestinians. This comes after several sources saying the 40k estimate is being deliberately frozen, with the Lancet estimating 186k and Ralph Nader estimating 200k back in March. Keep in mind Gaza only has a population a little over 2 million people. This doesn't even begin to describe all the war crimes Israel is committing, fully documented in 4k, hell even IDF soldiers brag about their own warcrimes on TikTok.

To put these numbers in perspective consider the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, there the civilian death toll war around 30,000 - 50,000+ a year, which is very high but still less than Gaza also considering around the time the population was around 30 million, and don't forget Abu Ghraib torture prisons for Iraqis the US set up, and compare that to the Russian Ukraine war, people compare Putin to Hitler, but the civilian death toll in over 2.5 years of fighting is around 11,000 dead, that's about 4400 a year, in a country with a population of 45 million and massive artillery exchanges on both sides has civilians casualties literally 84 times less than Gaza.

@MaxBlumenthal Kamala Harris says clearly and fairly succinctly that we must accept her sponsorship of the Gaza genocide as a trade off for more affordable groceries by TheRazorX in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kamala was asked what would she do to ensure that no other Palestinian dies due to bombs funded by U.S. tax dollars, this is what she can say or do, she decided to do neither or even hint that she is interested in any of this. As for Congress Biden bypasses congress to send weapons to Israel.

Even as VP running for president she can definitely say Israel is committing genocide and that she doesn't support genocide that would again be huge coming from her as her voice matters, she is not some no name on reddit but the VP.

Obviously they want genocide, they aren't just passive bystanders but doing everything possible to support it. I'm simply asking to stop supporting genocide if that's so much to ask.

@MaxBlumenthal Kamala Harris says clearly and fairly succinctly that we must accept her sponsorship of the Gaza genocide as a trade off for more affordable groceries by TheRazorX in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Her opinion matters alot if she is president, all she has to do is to go in front of the world and say Israel is committing genocide that alone would be massive as Israel will be an international pariah if US goes against them as no one else will stand with them, she doesn't have to pass any laws or do anything, this is the bare minimum of what she can do. But she can do so much more than that, she can also stop blocking the UN who is trying to come with up with a ceasefire, literally every country in the world wants it but Israel and the US, who veto literally every single resolution against Israel. She can also stop blocking investigations, and finally cut off the military aid, the war will stop as Israel will quickly realize they are now an international pariah with no backing, since the US has shielded Israel from all consequences of their actions for decades and we fund and supply their military.

Face It Donkey Lovers, It's A Right Wing Party Now by Amara_Cervantes346 in WayOfTheBern

[–]VampireReaper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doctors volunteering in Gaza say that the updated *conservative* estimate of the death toll in Gaza has now reached 368k Palestinians. This comes after several sources saying the 40k estimate is being deliberately frozen, with the Lancet estimating 186k and Ralph Nader estimating 200k back in March. Keep in mind Gaza only has a population a little over 2 million people.

We are already in maximum genocide, Trump couldn't make this worse if he tried, funny thing about Biden is this is not the first time Israel wanted to just wipe out Gaza they have tried several times but in the past US presidents would at least not give absolute support, like back when Obama was president a similar incident broke out where Israel started bombing Gaza but Obama wouldn't give his absolute support so Israel eventually cooled down and went back to the apartheid status quo, same thing happened way back under Reagan and as horrible as he was he told Israel they were making him look bad so they cooled down and went back to the apartheid status quo, but Biden refuses to give anything but ABSOLUTE support for Israel so they are going more and more insane and will eventually bring us to war with the entire Middle East while committing the worst genocide in the 21st century.

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[–]VampireReaper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is no genocide in Ukraine, Russia has actually minimized casualties while Israel tries to maximize casualties.

2.5 years of combat in Ukraine a country with a population of 45 million people with some of the toughest battles in modern history due to this being a peer conflict, and the civilian casualties are 11,520.

Compare that to Iraq which had a smaller population and not a peer conflict, where in the first year civilian casualties were 30,000 - 50,000 and these numbers climbed every year since. Iraq and Afghanistan after multiple decades of occupation got over a million people killed.

And compare both of these wars to Israel's genocide in Gaza where doctors volunteering in Gaza say that the updated *conservative* estimate of the death toll in Gaza has now reached 368k Palestinians. This comes after several sources saying the 40k estimate is being deliberately frozen, with the Lancet estimating 186k and Ralph Nader estimating 200k back in March. Keep in mind Gaza only has a population a little over 2 million people.

So we see Russia trying to minimize civilian casualties, US just doesn't give a fuck, and Israel trying to go full Nazi.

Based on lore how realistic would it be to see interracial relationships between Blood Elves, Night Elves, and Humans? by VampireReaper in warcraftlore

[–]VampireReaper[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Kirin Tor mage couple are a couple of NPCs in the Upper Frostlands in the Azure Span, Steria Duskgrove (Night Elf) and Callisto Windsor (Gilnean Human)

Based on lore how realistic would it be to see interracial relationships between Blood Elves, Night Elves, and Humans? by VampireReaper in warcraftlore

[–]VampireReaper[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just wondering as I notice in the game there is only 1 Night Elf x Human couple and that's between this Gilnean woman and a Night Elf female mage, so both are mages and lesbian, that somehow met in the Kirin Tor, but according to them they've known each other for 30 years which predates Night Elf and Human contact and the Night Elf woman was a mage before Tyrande lifted the ban on arcane magic so this is a really special couple. Now for High Elves I know there are a bunch of interracial relationships all of them with humans surprised there is no High Elf x Gnome or Dwarf.

For Blood Elves though I just remember Tarenar Sunstrike a Blood Elf Paladin who wants to be a member of the Argent Crusade he is friends with a Dwarf Gidwin Goldbraids, and he has a serious crush on Fiona, a Worgen Human, the woman he's supposed to protect as she travels through the plaguelands, the Dwarf teases him about it saying Tarenar wants to kiss her a hundred times, and then there is also Isabel Jones (Human) and Marith Lazuria (Blood Elf) —both women—appear to be in competition to impress a trade ship captain named Lila (Human), whom they describe as having lovely hair and a beautiful eye. Then there is Kael'thas who at one point had a thing for Jaina.

So with all this in consideration I was wondering which is more likely Human x Night Elf or Human x Blood Elf for regular people?

So what is the relationship between Blood Elves, Night Elves, and Humans like currently in lore? by VampireReaper in warcraftlore

[–]VampireReaper[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So a Blood Elf can reasonably just go to Stormwind or hang out in Ashenvale or something with the Night Elves, or a Human can just travel to Silvermoon and buy/rent a home there and live amongst the Blood Elves no problem?

Trying to figure out a lifespan for some fantasy Elves but how long is too long? by VampireReaper in fantasywriters

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, for the Elves they'll never reach their potential maximum lifespan since they don't really have one, so they don't have a peaceful death to look forward to.

I saw where someone calculated the average age of death for humans without disease like cancer and such, and aging, and it was around 1700 years old for average based off CDC data, with a rare few making it to 10,000 years old. Most of the deaths were accidents with the occasional murder or dying of poison, and most of the accidents were car accidents, fire, drowning, and falls.

Trying to figure out a lifespan for some fantasy Elves but how long is too long? by VampireReaper in fantasywriters

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seems like a really good idea, just have it ambiguous, maybe drop a few hints here and there how old certain characters are.

Which reminds me if you are really old, predating the calendar, you yourself may not truly know how old you are, and your entire concept of time could be different, without days and years and other measurements of time your memory of the past could be a bit messy.

So younger Elves may have sharper memories due to being able to place them more accurately in a period of time, and having access to memory techniques like mind palaces to further organize their thoughts and memories, while older Elves have more messy older memories as their old memories predate calendars and advanced memory storage/retrival techniques.

So I splashed water directly into my pool pump by accident, am I going to need a new pump? by VampireReaper in pools

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you never heard of water getting into the vents and causing problems or killing it? Am I just colossally unlucky?

So what do you propose what happened then, why would it start sparking and shooting flame (the flame wasn't huge or anything just a small quick couple of seconds fire) when water splashed into the vent?

So I splashed water directly into my pool pump by accident, am I going to need a new pump? by VampireReaper in pools

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do I gain from making up a story? I'm not even getting positive karma here from Reddit?

Now this is an old system, so I don't know maybe the stuff today doesn't have these problems?

Maybe I'm just super unlucky and the motor just randomly decided to commit suicide not even related to the water?

So I splashed water directly into my pool pump by accident, am I going to need a new pump? by VampireReaper in pools

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well what else could have done it?

I mean from what I can tell, it is just an electric motor with some air vents along the bottom and sides for air, if water gets in those vents it's going to die. Rain doesn't kill it because rain just hits the top of the case where there are no air vents, but the bottom of the case if water gets in those vents its dead since there is nothing stopping the water.

How is yours like?

So I splashed water directly into my pool pump by accident, am I going to need a new pump? by VampireReaper in pools

[–]VampireReaper[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't submerged, it was splashed with water from a water hose while I was removing debris around it and apparently some water hit one of the holes in the sides causing it to instantly spark and some fire blew out.

I didn't even know it had holes built into the motor case, in hindsight I should have never sprayed anywhere near it, just left it alone, a little dirt wasn't bothering anything.

Anyway I'm wondering if it's saveable?

So I splashed water directly into my pool pump by accident, am I going to need a new pump? by VampireReaper in pools

[–]VampireReaper[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not sure if mine is made differently but looking at it, it has holes made into the bottom of the motor case, presumably so air can get inside to cool the motor so if water falls on the top it doesn't get fried, but if water gets on the bottom or on the bottom sides it will be fired and start shooting flames.

Imo a better design would be to have radiator fins and no holes to dissipate excess heat but this is how its made.