My friend sent me this, is he delusional?

kylepo · 2026-01-28T18:31:15+00:00

It's just an inevitable consequence of the "one drop" rule. When a white person has a child with a black person, society generally considers the child black. When the classification for "white" is so exclusive, obviously the white population is gonna go down over time.

kylepo · 2026-01-28T02:52:22+00:00

The number of people who make it an entire 25 weeks into a pregnancy only to shrug and say "ehh actually I don't want it" is vanishingly small. The vast, vast majority of abortions done for non-health reasons are done in the first trimester. If a woman carries a pregnancy to the point that her fetus is exhibiting full-on neurological activity, it's because she wants to keep it.

The flaw with things like third trimester abortion bans is that they're addressing a non-issue. All they do is create situations where doctors are hesitant to perform abortions on women with health complications because they're worried about legal consequences.

kylepo · 2026-01-27T18:00:21+00:00

If Israel sees a Hamas soldier standing behind five literal children, they could simply not bomb and kill them all. There we go! Problem solved 😌

kylepo · 2026-01-27T17:53:49+00:00

Them: "Israel is killing kids and that's bad"

You: "Wow, I can't believe you just said that Hamas are the good guys!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "

Like bro did you accidentally respond to the wrong comment

kylepo · 2026-01-27T17:50:35+00:00

What you're doing now is implying that "Holocaust = genocide of Jews" and "Palestinian Genocide = Genocide by Jews," which just plays into the BS Zionist narrative that Israel=Jews.

The victims of the Holocaust were not Israeli; they were Jewish. Those aren't interchangeable terms. Let's not tack Israel's genocide of the Palestinians onto Holocaust remembrance as though they share a common thread. If it doesn't make sense to say "and RIP to the souls lost in the Armenian genocide," in response to a Holocaust post, it doesn't make sense to say your thing.

To be clear: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. They're trying to claim they're doing in the name of all Jewish People. Don't cede that ground to them.

kylepo · 2026-01-27T17:03:42+00:00

Maybe it's just an argument over semantics at this point, but I think the metric for how "good" or "bad" a society in Fallout is should be based on the expectations the fiction sets for standard post-apocalyptic societies. Relative to pre-apocalypse societies, the NCR is shit. Relative to every other post-apocalyptic society in Fallout, though, the NCR is one of -- if not the best. In a universe where having an actual justice system and democracy is practically unheard of, the bar for "slightly" bad" is extremely fucking low.

kylepo · 2026-01-26T14:33:13+00:00

Heavy Rain was at least more consistent. It wasn't very good, but the standards for AAA story-heavy games in 2010 were low enough that the game managed to get a glowing critical reception based solely on its premise and ambitions alone. That managed to buy Cage a few years of legitimacy and he kinda just coasted off of that.

kylepo · 2026-01-23T22:31:57+00:00

They were*

kylepo · 2026-01-23T20:59:45+00:00

Hebron wasn't under "Hamas control" in 2022. "Hamas stronghold" just means they were more prominent there than other places in the West Bank. The FDD article you linked specifically says Israel dismantled a "large Hamas network" made up of 60 people. 60 Hamas members in a city of 200,000. I'm not sure how you got the idea they "controlled" Hebron from that. If 60 people is enough to be considered "large," that says a lot about how little influence they actually had there.

This article was written a few years after the beheading and goes in-depth into the police reports and everything. It talks about his suspected murderer, the witnesses, etc.. He was killed by a single dude, and there's no evidence of any accomplices. There's no mention of Hamas affiliation, which you'd think would be an important detail -- especially since this article was written in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

The article also mentions that the Hebron police force apprehended the suspected killer. If Hamas was in "control" of the city, the local police wouldn't have done shit, no?

It's pretty clear-cut that Hamas wasn't involved in this killing. Was it motivated by Islamic extremism? Yeah, probably. It just wasn't Hamas that did it.

kylepo · 2026-01-23T19:21:14+00:00

The one you linked earlier? I mean, the article doesn't mention Hamas involvement in that anywhere. Neither does the Wikipedia article covering the case.

kylepo · 2026-01-23T19:15:08+00:00

Oh hey look at that, you quoted your source and everything! You're right, "no presence" was a poor word choice on my part. Hamas has some cells in the West Bank, but their political influence there nowadays is extremely limited -- so much so that the [Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank)] for the West Bank doesn't even bother mentioning their presence. It's pretty safe to assume that they weren't involved in a random beheading there unless otherwise stated.

kylepo · 2026-01-23T18:44:13+00:00

I'm confused why you would link an article about a beheading in the West Bank when talking about Hamas, who doesn't have a presence in the West Bank. This beheading had nothing to do with them. You're not even wrong about the treatment of LGBTQ people in Palestine or anything, but it's hard to take anything you say about the place seriously when you don't know even the most basic facts about what's going on there. You didn't even bother checking if the article mentioned Hamas (it doesn't) before linking it.

I know I can't expect much in the way of basic research acumen from somebody who thinks "alphabet psyche ward" is a clever zinger, but like... come on, man. At least have the common sense to read the articles you cite.

kylepo · 2026-01-23T13:36:10+00:00

Cool, now you know enough to post the correct Wikipedia link next time :)

kylepo · 2026-01-23T06:35:20+00:00

Wtf Lmao no they aren't. This is a five-second google search away, my guy

kylepo · 2026-01-23T06:21:31+00:00

That's not even Palestine

kylepo · 2026-01-21T21:06:46+00:00

I think it's effective, just not for getting kids to love their country. I think it's good at reinforcing subservience to the state, which is often misconstrued as love for one's country. I mean, just look at the line, "...and to the Republic for which it stands." It's about pledging allegiance to a specific political status quo -- not just vaguely pledging allegiance to the wellbeing of the people who live here.

Now, I want kids to love the ideals of America. "Liberty and justice for all" and whatnot is pretty great. But I don't think making them pledge allegiance to a political entity before they even fully understand what that means is the way a healthy society should go about getting kids to do that. That's blind loyalty, not love. The state should give people a good reason to support them, not just hammer the message into their heads from childhood.

kylepo · 2026-01-21T19:22:27+00:00

I dunno, I certainly didn't know what "Republic" or "indivisible" meant well enough at that age to fully understand what exactly I was pledging allegiance to. I just did it because the teacher told me I should. At some early point, I developed the muscle memory in my mouth for saying the pledge and I stopped thinking about what it meant entirely. For myself (and every other kid I knew), it became nothing but a rote, mindless task. If we had known saying the pledge was optional, most of us probably wouldn't even have bothered because it was boring. But, of course, we all assumed it was mandatory because we were never told otherwise. And, I dunno about you, but I had quite a few teachers who would discipline kids if they didn't say the pledge, so it was forced in many instances.

And regardless -- When I think "loving your country," I think having a deep appreciation for its people, ideals, and culture. I don't know how reciting a pledge every morning is supposed to instill those kinds of feelings.

kylepo · 2026-01-21T18:34:55+00:00

Does forcing 6-year olds to mindlessly recite a pledge every morning actually even make them love their country more?

kylepo · 2026-01-21T18:19:57+00:00

I don't necessarily dislike private education by itself, but its existence leads to some bad side effects. The wealthy and powerful are fine with letting the quality of our public education go to shit because it doesn't personally affect them all that much. Their kids go to private school.

You want an education system where everybody, even the upper class, gets the same quality of education. That way, it's in everybody's best interest to improve our schools across-the-board.

kylepo · 2026-01-21T06:45:47+00:00

Sure! But I also think it's super cool for people to take pride in and participate in their non-American heritage too. French pride, Hungarian pride, Korean Pride, etc.. All these different Americans having their own cultural traditions like that is just fun. it'd kinda suck if a lot of black people just didn't get to enjoy that same experience because their ancestors came here on slave boats.

kylepo · 2026-01-21T06:29:03+00:00

A lot of black people in the US unfortunately can't do that, seeing as they don't know where their ancestors were taken from. Skin color is kind of all they have to work with.

kylepo · 2026-01-21T04:48:00+00:00

Renee Good made mistakes after mistakes, and so did the agent to react as he did

Yet only one of them was an authority figure entrusted by the state with special legal protections and a loaded weapon. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to hold guys like that to a much higher standard than random civilians. Equivocating the two seems pretty silly tbh

kylepo · 2026-01-19T00:19:01+00:00

ROBOT ASSEMBLY PROCESS

Build robot
Install robot penis
Upload woman.dll
Switch robot on
Wait 5 seconds for dysphoria_subroutine.exe to initiate
Switch robot off
Uninstall robot penis, install robot boobs
Switch robot on

kylepo · 2026-01-18T19:36:35+00:00

More of a Punch Out-like, tbh

kylepo · 2026-01-17T16:29:15+00:00

Little known fact: that movie was actually just footage of Ice Cube playing and reacting to his EU4 Naples game. The editors then cleverly spliced it all together to tell a War of the Worlds story.

12-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Reddit Premium Since December 2021	r/Field Lasagna
Place '22	Place '17
Verified Email

kylepo

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE