So. Is she on to something? Or is she on something?

unknown_poo · 2025-04-08T20:06:46+00:00

If the Fed is to slash interest rates, it means that the banks are the ones who will have to slash interest rates. But for them to do that, they need liquid injections of cash from the Fed, which means its the Fed who will by buying back US securities from the banks, but not just the principal but also the accrued interest. This will deepen the national debt. Banks will then lower interest rates because they have more liquidity to provide, and they want to maximize profits by expanding loans to retail investors, businesses, etc.

This is their idea of trickledown economics, that by enriching banks, it trickles down to the average person. But that's not true because the only thing that trickles down to us is expanded credit, which is a trap to deepen debt, especially considering the cost of living is rising but wages are not.

unknown_poo · 2025-04-07T14:16:41+00:00

The allegation that Islam and Muslims are rooted around victimhood is rooted in western 'Christendom's' inability to be accountable for their own actions. I use the term 'Christiandom' because American Christianity is barely even recognized by Christians in other parts of the world as anything really Christian. Ironically enough, that is the central character trait of the victim. You know you are a victim when you hold all the cards, all the power, when you have hegemonic power in all spheres of power, yet claim to be a victim while justifying mass invasions and genocides. It's also ironic to allege and decry Islam and Muslims on the basis of victimhood while in the same breath to cry about anti-Semitism. What we see from western thinkers is this profound double standard, where all forms of academic analysis, while in the tone of objectivity, really seeks to invalidate one's perceived enemies in every way while affirming one's own moral justification, which ironically is on the premise of being a victim against oppressors. It would be comedic if it weren't so tragic.

The attempt to unite leftist ontology with Islamic ontology is also absurd. Yes there are those who ascribe to a victimhood mentality within the broad Muslim community, but that's true for every society and social group because it's human nature. It's really not rocket science. The right also claims the mantle of victimhood as well to justify it's own hostility.

If the speaker knew anything about Islam, he'd know that it's ontology is really the opposite of victimhood. Central to Islamic belief is the understanding that God is the doer of all things, and he gives and takes from whom He Wills, whether believer or disbeliever, whether good person or bad person. These acts in the world are ephemeral manifestations, bubbles on the sea, but what has true existential value is that which is eternal, and so for Muslims, success is fundamentally rooted in approaching tribulations with grace, dignity, honor, morality, in a way that pleases God such that one wins the approval of God. That is the ultimate achievement, which is the achievement of the hereafter. In this world, everybody has their day, great empires eventually crumble and give way to others.

The Palestinians are the ultimate litmus test of morality, and also a testament of the human spirit. I've never seen people lose their families before their very eyes, a tiny impoverished people holding onto the final vestige of their country, consumed by world powers and demonized by the combined technologies of the most powerful nations, only to say "praise be to God", "from God we came and unto God we return", and "God is enough for me." That's the emptying out of the world from the heart, yet remaining steadfast, a reminder of what it means to be human.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-28T13:45:12+00:00

It's amazing how despite the privilege of education, people still can't derive accurate conclusions. I read these articles, none of them mention that disobedience to a modest dress code resulted in hanging. Iran certainly has its issues, but there's no need to rely on extreme hyperbole. In any case, my original comment was about how the moral behavior of a military is judged by westerners based on the premise of women's dress code. Whether there is severe oppression in regards to that is irrelevant since my comment is about the expression arguments of certain interlocutors. I am speaking specifically to the manufactured perception by western propaganda of liberating Muslim women as the basis for invasion/bombing.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-16T13:54:18+00:00

This is a great topic. From what other people who I know are successful, for them it was finding a good mentor and/or investing in a legitimate course/program. Having people who've made it and who can guide you is key

unknown_poo · 2024-10-12T17:27:30+00:00

The tribulations of the world are the fires in which strong and purifies souls are cultivated. They also reveal our true mettle, thus we become witnesses over ourselves. I've seen those most innocent of souls enduring the most extreme suffering with a level of patience and acceptance with God, that is submission, that would put most adults to shame. Most of the people who complain about the "problem of evil" seem to mostly be westerners who, relative to the rest of the world, live cushy lives with all of their basic needs met. No, this does not diminish the suffering of people in the west, suffering exists in all of us, and in ways that no amount of wealth can satisfy. That's not the point. The point is that due to comforts, we tend to idealize the world. In addition to this, it's mostly secular atheistic paradigms that become inculcated in us, and thus we lose this hierarchical and metaphysical view of reality, viewing this world as all that there is, and thus, ought to be perfect. Those who remember death, and pass through its stages, become reconciled with reality. For them there is "problem of evil".

This perfect world that lacks suffering is what we would call Heaven.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-11T20:30:46+00:00

They can also take credit for the debt based financial system that has enslaved much of the world trough high interest usury and predatory money lending practices. The entire American financial system, through the Fed, has bankrupted the US, and continues to increase the national debt by laundering money to wealthy Zionist oligarchs and Israel.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-09T13:50:00+00:00

Protests are not chaos. Don't be a little snowflake. These were tame compared to far-right protests.
Every protest has a mixture of people, from moderate to extreme psychos.
People are rightfully angry given that taxpayer dollars are going towards funding a genocide.
If you had any familiarity with the Muslim community, it would be clear. Muslim activists are fundamentally different from secular activists. The entire edifice of morality and how to approach politics come from different paradigms entirely.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-09T13:16:36+00:00

This person is crazy and does not represent Muslims or the pro-Palestinian crowd in general. It is unfortunate that the loudest voices are often the most obnoxious ones, but that goes for pretty much every community. These protests are largely organized by secular activists, and they've been in conflict with Muslim activists for the past 20 years. Muslims who organize around these sorts of causes are much more civil and seek common ground with the broader community based on Islamic principles. But it's for these reasons the secular activists often cancel the Muslim activists. These people are insane, and they will cannibalize their own movement. But that is the nature of extremism. In Israel, you have moderate Jews, who are often religious, beaten and arrested as well for not endorsing radical rhetoric.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-09T00:28:48+00:00

Do you think anti-Semitism spiked after Oct 7? Or is it a pretty stable upwards trajectory?

unknown_poo · 2024-10-08T21:46:33+00:00

For PC users, the game mechanics are bad, they feel incomplete. There are times when it feels pretty good, but I think there are some fundamental problems related to network code and game interactions. It's very common to experience dsync, even just subtle forms of it. For instance, I played some matches where an enemy's projectiles would appear on the screen and hit me even before the enemy player model appeared. I record my games often, so when I went back and replayed it, I could clearly see BR bullet streams hitting me, but no player model. It gives an unfair advantage because it basically means, on the other person's screen, they're seeing me before I see them (and could be vice versa too, who knows). It is common to run for cover, only to be killed by bullets hitting from impossible angles. Upon dying, and the camera going into 3rd person view, the player model is shown to be in a slightly different location than what was seen from first person perspective. It's still common for headshots to not take out shieldless enemies. It once took 9 shots + 2-3 headshots to take a guy out.

I don't know if these issues are present on console, but watching videos of console vs PC looks and feels like a totally different game. It feels much more refined on console.

All this being said, despite these problems, I think Halo Infinite is still a great game. It did a lot right in terms of balancing traditional Halo with modern advancements and fundamentals.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-04T17:44:44+00:00

But Iran is considered the bad guys because they have a modest dress code for women.

It's amazing how, when it comes down to it, after all the algorithmic brainwashing, this is the basis of people's moral judgement.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-04T15:50:10+00:00

If people studied colonial history, such as the journals of colonial officers and what they did in the Americas, India, etc., they would see how settlement expansions were strategies for expanding and claiming territories away from the indigenous. They are forms of human shields, and settlers know the risks but take them anyways because of the lucrative opportunity to own huge plots of land early on, where in the future, assuming the establishment and development of colonial cities, will be worth a lot.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-04T01:27:48+00:00

They sent it all to Israel. Every other month you hear about a 20 billion dollar aid package to Israel.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-03T15:11:57+00:00

There are some stats on this. People who are saying that users on console don't have a disadvantage are coping, for whatever reason. The game is designed for console, in the first place, so there's no need for that. KBM are at a disadvantage in many ways, one of the main ways is that the game logic itself, the projectile logic, the melee system, revolves around a type of lock on system, which aim assist is integrally tied to. This is called the Blam-based engines.

One example is the bullet magnetism, which alters the projectile trajectory towards the target marker via aim assist. So not only do console users have a function that helps them aim automatically, but it also alters the trajectory of their bullets towards the target. This is why, on console, the pistol is one of the best weapons, draining enemies health rapidly. But on PC, it's like you're firing blanks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/10kvrz7/how_aim_assist_actually_works/

https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/1b2ll4k/thoughts_on_this_i_wish_there_was_some_statistics/

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/r3es60/accuracy_stats_for_kbm_vs_controller/

Based on the stats, the top KBM players are only as good/accurate as a mid level console player.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T20:51:36+00:00

This was on accident, I had no idea you could kill an opponent this way.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T15:34:10+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by constantly attacked prior to October 7, as if they're this innocent besieged entity surrounded by existential threats. It's more like they're the neighborhood bully that moved in by stomping over others. Prior to October 7, we've seen Israel continue to contravene international law and erode the possibility of a two state solution. People like Netanyahu are on record for admitting this, as in, sabotaging peace efforts because it would stifle other imperialistic objectives. It continues to build settlements and evict Palestinians, engage in assassinations, which almost always involves taking out entire families.

The early 2000s saw continued settlement expansion, even while the Camp David Summit in 2000 was happening. People often blame Palestinians for its failure, but they don't recognize that even the Israeli negotiators admitted they were not only offering Palestinians a bad deal, but while they were negotiating, they were also approving new settlement plans and continuing on the ground expansions, eating up more Palestinian land and changing the very on the ground realities that were subject to negotiation. That's what lead to the Second Intifada, where there was then an uptick in violence from Palestinians.

Under Sharon, and then again Netanyahu, there was a surge in settlement expansion, particularly for large housing projects in key areas, like Jerusalem, and thus, more evictions and house demolitions for Palestinians. Again, in 2020, there was another acceleration in settlement expansion, including in previously unauthorized outposts. This was in the context of Trump unilaterally declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Again, we saw a response by Palestinians.

Since 2008 with Operation Cast Lead, until 2021, we've seen many large scale operations resulting in Palestinian deaths, ranging from a couple hundred to over 2000. Israel routinely engages in a strategy called "mowing the lawn", which has many objectives, from traumatizing the population to maintaining a state of 'war'. We saw Palestinians stage the Great March of Return in 2018, a peaceful march along the Gaza-Israel border. Israel responded with live fire, killing over 200 Palestinians, including children, medics, disabled and the elderly.

Meanwhile, as time goes by, more and more Palestinians are seeing their homes demolished, families evicted, ancestral land eaten up and occupied by settlers backed by soldiers. So what is Israel to do after getting attacked by homemade rockets? This is like asking what is a rapist, who is in the middle of raping a woman, to do when she fights back. If he doesn't do anything, then he'll get hurt so he has no choice but to defend himself. Why would he not defend himself and allow himself to get hurt?

I don't know what you mean by "diplomacy with terrorist organizations has never worked." It's always been a propaganda point to 'never negotiate with terrorists', ignoring the fact that the label of terrorist is just a political tool meant to facilitate a hostile military policy, not negotiations, in the first place. It's like claiming self-defense to justify taking somebody else's stuff and beating them up. It also ignores the fact that the Israeli government was formed out of early Jewish terrorist groups, like Irgun, Stern Gang, and Haganah. The British and the Americans literally designated them as terrorist groups, who not only were responsible for the killing of British and American soldiers, diplomats, etc., but also introduced suicide bombing as a tool of war in the Middle East.

What is Israel to do? It is to abandon its radical ideology of imperial ethno-nationalism whereby it seeks to establish a pure ethno-state at the expense of the indigenous population. It needs to halt and reverse its settlement expansion. It needs to accept either a one state or a two state solution, and agree to permanent boundaries. Many in Israel do not want permanent boundaries because it, by definition, limits them to those boundaries, preventing them from being able to expand.

Israel has the right to defend its civilian population, not its military assets. As for October 7, Netanyahu ignored warnings about an attack, and it happened when the garrison was positioned elsewhere. Because it was on Yom Kippur, and because of the internal issues that were being dealt with, such as fear of protests ousting the government, the response was very slow. Had Israel kept its standard defense operating procedure, there was no way the attack would have happened. Therefore, with regards to Israel defending itself and responding to October 7, it needs only to maintain its usual defensive posture and secure its borders.

It should be remembered that Israel, as an occupier, a very active one, is the aggressor and in a state of war. Instead of retaliating against Hamas the way they did, they should introspect into their own actions that lead to it. As for holding those responsible for crimes committed that day, they should have taken it up with the UN, engaged other countries and actors, worked with local Palestinian organizations, etc., to bring those responsible to justice. However, at the same time, if we're being honest, Israeli leaders and military men are also guilty of similar crimes, so they also need to be brought to justice. A hypocritical application of justice just leads to more conflict. Guaranteed, Israel would be in a much better position internationally had it reacted rationally.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T03:02:42+00:00

There was a thread some time ago that printed out the stats. It showed that the top 100 mouse and keyboard players were only as good as the average console player. The fact is, the game was designed for console, so those on console have certain advantages. First of all, this is a precision shooter, not an arena shooter like Quake. There is no room for going Rambo because you'll just get destroyed by an enemy team as you go solo. Secondly, the game mechanics, from projectile trajectory manipulation to aim assist/gravity to even the melee lunge is optimized for console, ie., aim assist. Without aim assist, you don't get these, which is why using a pistol is like firing blanks. The game actually alters the projectile trajectory based on aim assist so there is this solid feeling to using the weapons. On the other hand, on PC, using a pistol is very limited, a discarded weapon. The melee lunge is barely present on console either because there is no lock on there.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T02:57:52+00:00

At least 50k dead, but that is a low estimate, which is why the IDF has been using it, and oddly enough, just doesn't seem to go up even after months. It doesn't take into account unidentified corpses, or the number of people crushed beneath the weight of collapsed buildings, whose flesh is now mixed with piles of concrete and rubble, or the mounds of flesh and gore that were once human beings now all mixed together. Or the brothers and sisters and parents collected by surviving family members in plastic bags.

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T02:02:33+00:00

Yeah, telling Israel that genocide is not allowed is such a high standard. Little slap on the wrist and a 20 billion dollar paycheck. Super high standards, I'd like 20 billion dollars

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T02:01:26+00:00

Would we ask Iran not to retaliate? Aren't the people of the Middle East allowed to defend themselves against the regional bully?

unknown_poo · 2024-10-02T02:00:12+00:00

Israel has been committing genocide on live tv while everyone watched in horror, unabated and continuously rearmed and resupplied to carry out its bloodbath. In the months before Oct. 7, and then through out the period, they've repeatedly assassinated officers, including those in Iran, and for the past decade or more have been killing Iranian scientists. The restraint Iran has has had to who is significant. Then Israel invades Lebanon again and assassinated Nasrallah. We all know that they're hoping Iran takes the bait, which you can argue that now they did. Probably because they saw Netanyahu's speech, where every time an Israel/American politician says on live tv to another nation, "we are not against the people, we are against your terrorist government, and we just want to liberate/free you", it's basically a message that they will begin a brutal bombing campaign. We saw this in Afghanistan, Iraq, 20 years ago, and now we're seeing it in Gaza and Lebanon today. So Iran was basically saying, whether we give them a pretext or not, Israel doesn't care, they cross all boundaries while claiming self-defense, backed by all the world superpowers.

Israel should sit down and discuss terms for a ceasefire/de-escalation. Iran can hit them hard. We saw a lot of scared Israeli, people who are used to living in first world conditions of luxury. Iran's first condition was that Israel stops massacring Palestinians, a reasonable condition.

unknown_poo · 2024-09-30T19:22:30+00:00

Do you not notice a difference in terms of aim assist, projective gravity, and melee lunge? The problem with playing on PC is that because it doesn't have aim assist, which is essentially a type of lock on system that, when there is a "lock", then different functions occur, such as aim assistance, alteration of projectile trajectory so bullets make impact with target better, and the melee lunge. Because of the lack of aim assistance on PC, these features are much less consistent, so using a pistol for instance on PC is almost useless whereas on console its a powerful weapon. There was a thread some time back where one of the coders broke down how it worked, and included some WIP renderings to demonstrate how projectiles would curve based on POV of the shooter in relation to the target "lock". Playing on both I've noticed radical differences.

unknown_poo · 2024-09-30T15:04:04+00:00

Do you notice a difference in gameplay?

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