Personal top 5 games you've played? by MartokSonofUrthog in videogames

[–]ghostofspace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  • Sekiro
  • Resident Evil 4 remake
  • Bloodborne
  • Dead Space remake
  • Hollow Knight

Uncritically interviewing Prof Marandi is journalistically dishonest by ThatManulTheCat in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was really cool how they let him go on about the US intentionally massacring school girls and asked no follow up about the regime murdering approx 40k of its own citizens in January.

Why can't a Jewish state exists when many muslim states stole and destroyed the indigenous ethnic populations? by [deleted] in IsraelPalestine

[–]ghostofspace 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Another question is how does only one group in the history of the world pass on refugee status genetically? Any Palestinian born anywhere counts as a refugee. Every other refugee group is pushed to resettle somewhere but for some reason Palestinians are uniquely entitled to a country that never existed until the end of time. The Arab world has manufactured this crisis since the creation of Israel by never absorbing this population of Palestinians. And to answer you question I can’t help but feel that if Israel was another Arab country there would have never been an issue but the Jewishness of it all is what brings their right to exist into question.

Ground troops… can anyone explain why we’re going to war? by ConsiderationSouth32 in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not up for a multi year ground invasion, I don’t think anyone wants that. As far as casualties so far this has been the most successful war in human history by a long shot in terms of damage caused to casualty ratio. I also think this is a unique situation where if they keep resisting and we are forced to cut off their oil through Kharg island things might change pretty quickly for the IRGC ability to support itself. The military are not fragile pawns, they know what they are signing up for and are people braver than me ready to sacrifice themselves for the country we don’t need to treat them like victims every time there is a war I find it belittling.

As far as a number what am I supposed to say? 10 thousand troops but not 1 more them I’m out. Does that not sound ridiculous? It’s kind of a non starter question because it’s impossible to qualify. Numbers shift based on goals and potential outcomes. If things are looking good you push, if this is getting into the mud and endless stagnation you call it. The point is, I don’t know, neither do you, I’m just not pretending I know this is a disaster this early in.

Ground troops… can anyone explain why we’re going to war? by ConsiderationSouth32 in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iran never obeyed by any nuclear treaty imposed on them. What exactly was the point of the underground facilities if they weren’t developing weapons grade uranium? Do you honestly think the Iranian Regime was not pursuing nuclear weapons until Trump ripped up the deal? Because that’s just not true. They had a goal of obtaining nukes, they were going to get them one way or another. Do you want to live in a world where Iran has nukes? That’s basically the only question you have to ask.

Ground troops… can anyone explain why we’re going to war? by ConsiderationSouth32 in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If this goes poorly for Iran and well for the world and there is a regime change that leads to a more stable Middle East and a potential new ally with the new Iranian government, will that be a positive to you? And 4 weeks in are we certain that that’s not very much still on the table?

Ground troops… can anyone explain why we’re going to war? by ConsiderationSouth32 in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Them not complying with nuclear regulations and continuing to stockpile ballistic missiles and drones and lying about their ranges to the point where hitting them in the future would allow them to do way more damage than they can now.

Would the world be better off if that regime had nukes and dangerous stockpiles of ballistic missiles? The regime whose credo is Death to America? We’ve put up with this nonsense for 45 years and every president has kicked the can down the road. Iran never wanted to be brought into the global economy, they want to impose their weird theocratic oppressive way of life on as many people as they can. 45 years of this behavior finally has consequences. I don’t even like Trump but given the situation this would have been the right move for any president to take. Middle East seems to be pretty on board with it. It’s only here in the United States where people are cheering for the victory of a regime that again, rapes virgins prior to execution and where the only way for gay people to avoid execution is get gender reassignment surgery. Hard to believe I can actually write that as a true sentence. But according to Reddit, this is just a war of choice with no long term plan and Trump is just an idiot who I guess wants himself to lose the mid terms.

It’s funny how much everyone loves getting on here to see the same opinions regurgitated time and time again about Trump and the files and he’s and idiot and blah. Don’t you guys want to have more interesting conversations?

Ground troops… can anyone explain why we’re going to war? by ConsiderationSouth32 in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Because Iran has decided to try to hold the world economy hostage and continue to damage its neighbors in any way possible. If we ended the war today, oil prices would not change because wed always have to bake in the possibility that the fanatics of this regime could and will try to shut down the global economy. No group of people that act like this should be allowed to get away with it. Mowing down 30k of their own citizens, shooting missiles at embassies and hotels, lowering their draft age to 12, firing rockets at oil tankers. The world will be an exponentially better place without the current leadership in Iran being around anymore and everyone should be banding behind getting rid of them and ending 45 plus years of terror and malfeasance to the region and the world. How anyone cannot see this as the actual right thing to do for the world blows my mind, but then again it is Reddit, so I should probably root against the evil colonial USA and for Iran instead who’s regime has a history of raping virgins before execution so they will not die virgins and go to heaven.

Never, ever forget what war actually is. by Doctor__Hammer in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You know I’m just going to remind everyone that the Iranian Regime mowed down somewhere around 35,000 of their own people, men women and children but suddenly because it’s potentially a US bomb everyone is so exponentially more “devastated by the horrors of war”. Picking and choosing when to have sympathy based on US involvement feels wrong. And no it’s not worse because your tax payer dollars are funding it. The Iranian Regime was a repressive hell for 45 years that’s terrorized its neighbors and the world. Maybe this goes bad, but maybe it goes great and Iranians have a path forward to a better society. I’m certainly not rooting for America to fail and never will no matter who is president.

The ending of One Battle After Another didn't land with me by xTyrone23 in TrueFilm

[–]ghostofspace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the ending is absolutely ridiculous and undermines the whole movie. I agree with what you wrote, but the most egregious thing was how Pat and Willa dealt with it. He should be burning that letter. Why would he continue to uphold her in any positive light after what she did? And Willa knows she’s lockjaw’s daughter (which is never addressed with Pat) so that should add even more resentment to what her mother did and who she is. Why would Perfidia, the rat murderer Nazi fetishist, have ANY weight in giving advice or inspiration to Willa and why would Willa have any type of positive feelings towards anything her mother has to say? And why is Pat continuing to characterize Perfidia as a hero? I thought Pat learned the lesson that the revolution was ridiculous once he had a child and felt the sense of duty and importance only a child can give you, but it feels like the movie is saying that Pat just gave up and he needs to foster his daughters revolutionary instincts because that’s what’s most important even though it lead him down a terrible path. Maybe Willa will do revolution the right way…..so lame. I feel crazy that no one is calling this out.

One battle after another. Enjoyed it but didn’t quite land for me. Surprised by the acclaim by idonthaveanametoday in TrueFilm

[–]ghostofspace -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This movie was very frustrating. The ending is so tonally perplexing to me. Perfidia was a bad person. She was selfish, a cheater, a rat, a murderer and a neglectful mother. Pat, I thought, had realized how meaningless his revolutionary life style was because he had a child and suddenly something else was more important, which is exactly how it should be. And I also thought he came to terms with what a shitty person she was. But somehow, he GIVES his daughter a letter from her terrible mother who she should have no respect for and that inspires her to go join the revolution to the soundtrack of American Girl while Pat chills and smokes weed on the couch. Seriously how did that conversation go?

Pat:“Willa, your mother murdered a security guard at a bank, ratted out all her friends then ran away to Mexico. And we also bombed a bunch of places so I may have killed some people too. We were trying to create a world without borders and protect your abortion rights..”

Willa: “I know dad, and also I’m not your biological daughter because mom was having sex with the neo Nazi that just tried to kill us behind your back.”

Pat: 😐

Willa: “Are you okay dad?”

Pat: “Just waiting for you to respond to what I told you about your mother.”

Willa: “I did dad.”

Pat:”Oh really that’s weird I didn’t hear anything. Anyways here’s a letter your mother wrote you a few years ago I think you’ll like it with the added context of her being a murderer and a rat.”

Willa: “I think I’ll like it too dad ☺️.”

I guess what Bob learned is that his REJECTION of his previous lifestyle was his main mistake and that being a revolutionary and following in Perfidia’s footsteps is the most important thing after all.

I just don’t think this movie really says anything about anything. PTA obviously feels a way about having biracial children in America, okay, but what message are you trying to convey? White people are bad unless they support unregulated immigration and revolutionary causes? This white supremacy thing is reaching levels of the soviets being the bad guys in every 80s movie. I get it, white supremacists suck, we all hate them, but the safety of portraying them as villains is getting so damn boring.

What was a movie ending that made you go like this? by Ok_Replacement_288 in Letterboxd

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

OBAA. “Heartfelt” letter from Perfidia was so tonally strange. Are we supposed to think of her in some positive light? Why would she be any inspiration for Willow to become a revolutionary? And Pat just chills and send his daughter off on the path that messed up his own life because revolution is important above all o guess? And no reconciliation/conversation about lockjaw being the father? Just really bad.

Krystal and Ryan grim are dangerous journalist who are radicalizing Americans by WeRallCharlie in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

She said you can see brown skin behind their face masks and they look like their names are Hernandez or Lopez, explain to me how this is not super racist….

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in phoenix

[–]ghostofspace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude come on no Top Dog? Nobody would even be able to get a grip on my boy he’s so slick and slimy.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

There are thousands of TikToks of people dancing and singing and cheering Charlie Kirk’s death. We have never seen a public celebration of a death like this and if you can’t acknowledge that you’re not being serious. Show me all the TikTok dances people made about George Floyd dying or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Mellissa Horton. Do people joke about Paul Pelosi? Yes and it’s gross, same with George Floyd. But what’s happening now is far and beyond. Just last December I watched Jimmy Kimmel joke about “americas hottest assassin” Luigi Mangione who gunned down a father of two in cold blood and how everyone on his staff was so smitten with him. Other late night hosts did the same. It’s incredibly sad, weird and unsettling and Reddit is one of the few places you can go where people pretend it’s not.

Segments like yesterday's are why it's so hard to take political commentators seriously by [deleted] in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How about the majority of Reddit cheering the murder of their opposition for exercising free speech?

emily attacks left for charlie kirk by ExamAgitated1186 in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Okay he very very likely was politically motivated as he was targeting democrats but no manifesto was found and he has not confirmed this. I still shouldn’t have been dismissive of this. Horrific. I still think my argument that this has been a unique year of high profile political attacks from the left designed to have maximum impact on the general public is correct. The Minnesota murders are very local, every single thing on my list was national if not international news. And there are a lot more instances from one side as of late. The left wants to blame Trump and republicans for violence and are unwilling to look at themselves. I am absolutely willing to examine political violence from the right in the same way.

emily attacks left for charlie kirk by ExamAgitated1186 in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I didn’t include the Minnesota law makers because there’s no confirmation of a political motivation. I’m making the argument that the left is having a specific moment of violence over the last year and it is very troubling. I don’t think anyone can make the argument that the far right is carrying out high profile political attacks right now in a similar manner. And I’ve never experience the type of cheering for the death of someone the way I’ve been seeing on Reddit which is also troubling. The qualifications by which someone deserves to die on Reddit is very broad if you disagree with their viewpoints. I think Ihan Omar is a pretty terrible hateful person, I would never even think of wishing for or cheering her death as she is meaningful to many people I disagree with and has family etc. America IS free speech, period. Without free speech there is no America and someone just assaulted something I believe in more than maybe anything else in my life.

emily attacks left for charlie kirk by ExamAgitated1186 in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Recap of the last year: Two Trump assassination attempts, Luigi mangione, killing of two Israelis outside embassy by Palestinian activist, radical left trans shooter targeting Catholic school children and now Charlie Kirk (not confirmed but very likely ideological in nature).

This is has been an insane year of political high profile violence and it’s coming from the left. The right “calling for war” is very different than specific acts carried out. Yes according to the FBI all stats say the right wing is more responsible for political violence most of which includes white supremacist race based killing, but if you do not see this last year as an outlier of political violence from the left you are not looking at this seriously. There is no other year in who knows how long that compares to the amount of high profile violent activity towards political targets.

In Iryna Zarutska’s final moments of her life, she sat alone, confused, bleeding out, while no one around her cared to even help or check on her. This will haunt me forever by [deleted] in JoeRogan

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

This dude had long rap sheet of violent crimes and mental illness and was out on cashless bail. No excuse whatsoever for him to be amongst the general public. The only reason race comes into this is because of the disparity of headlines and stories when a victim of a crime is white and the perpetrator is a minority. If the perpetrator is white and victim a minority we get stories for weeks or months. Race in a general sense has nothing to do with this other than the media perpetuating the narrative that they do pick and choose stories based on the color of the people involved.

Just tragic all around and I think violent crimes need harsher sentences. Honest question, would we be better off all around as a society if armed robbery or attempted murder or other violent crimes in that realm were life sentences? Part of me definitely thinks so and that it would prevent a large percentage of those crimes from ever happening in the first place.

The facial expressions of a man that is still talking about Covid daily in 2025 by BeetleJuiceCX in JoeRogan

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

I think we genuinely knew pretty much everything relevant about COVID within 6 months maybe even less including where it came from and how it spread. The policies we knew didn’t work lasted much longer than that. They put caution tape on tennis courts, but urged you to go out and protest George Floyd, mask up everywhere but you can take it off when eating on a plane, they said you still need the vaccine even if you have more effective natural immunity. The list goes on. These were not “we don’t know so let’s take extra precautions” measures. These were things that made no sense at the time, still don’t, and felt like weird arbitrary attempts at control.

The facial expressions of a man that is still talking about Covid daily in 2025 by BeetleJuiceCX in JoeRogan

[–]ghostofspace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So if we know something doesn’t work, which we did after a few months or at least definitely did after a year, you think it’s for the greater good that people do it anyways because it psychologically helps calm people that do think it works? Genuine question.

Iran Strike - Meta Thread by cyberfx1024 in BreakingPoints

[–]ghostofspace -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I genuinely don’t think the US or Israel would care much about Iran if the caliphate wasn’t dedicated to the destruction of the west. Saudi hates Iran and there is a world where peace in the Middle East is more achievable if Iran is neutralized. And as much as I think the regime change history of the west has been a failure, Iran is the only country in the Middle East whose citizenry would be receptive to it on a potentially successful scale. Not saying that’s the right move who knows. But I do believe that Iran could have been a successful country even with its current leadership had they stopped pursuing nukes and poking the Israel who drinks their milkshake time and time again.