Sami

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[–] Sami 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh I misread your comment. Nevermind, you're someone who takes joy in the death of civilians but is hung up on the use of language about men?

[–] Sami 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

While it does get grating to keep hearing men excluded as if they're all combatants, the less cynical interpretation is that woman and children are unambigiously non-combatants. In the overall context of the incredibly dehumanizing language used to describe these killings it's probably one of less harmful framings in my view.

[–] Sami 14 points 8 months ago (9 children)

How do you look yourself in the mirror every morning

[–] Sami 13 points 8 months ago

Planescape: Torment is brought up a lot. Not sure about how funny it is as I haven't played it yet but it's old game that is supposed to have been a major influence on DE

[–] Sami 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, breaches of said Oslo accords water agreements... I don't know why I bother arguing with wikipedia links and gross misrepresentations of facts. I know that long after occupation ends you will claim to never have supported such atrocities.

You cannot claim it's about safety and rule of law when it's only for one ethnoreligious group at the expense of another's ability of self-determination. If you believe that Jewish people are some magical chosen people who are above everyone else and especially above those savage, terroristic Muslims then that world view makes sense but then you're a religious fundamentalist. There is no self-defense under occupation by definition as they are and continue to be the perpetual aggressor under international law.

[–] Sami 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You portray aggressors as victims

Incredibly ironic that you frame militants who hide in tunnels because that's the only way they can avoid being wiped out as a legitimate existential threat to the 19th most powerful military of the world.

They go to beach and have houses so everything is fine. Disgusting framing once again. I'm sure people of the Warsaw ghetto also had a couple of nice spots as well. They've both had movement limited and caloric intake rationed and access to clean water limited as well. If you don't like the designation then bring it up with scholars of the subject who believe it to be the case.

I'm not saying the Israeli state does not exist. I'm saying it is the only state that exists at the moment. Killings having happened before the expulsion of ~70% of the population from their homes does not justify the perpetual subjugation of a people. Those that had emigrated to mandate Palestine owned a small fraction of land at the time of the expulsion as you know (and the percentage itself is irrelevant as that does not give them the right to claim more land through violence).

Hamas had virtually less than 2% support around 40 years after the nakba and it's gained support consistently at junctions where Palestinians felt that they had no other means of achieving self-determination than through violence as a sovereign Palestine state was not intended to be allowed from the very start by the Zionist project as you can tell from the very first letters that frame them as the non-Jewish population as if they were a tiny minority. That is not to justify any killing of civilians or explain away the actions of Hamas. I hate islamists as much as you do (but I'm consistent with extending my hatred to judeo and christo facists as well). Hamas' original charter was written by 5 people at a time when they did not have much popular support and was since revised in 2017 to remove mentions of being against jews and replace it with zionists instead (again not to say that they are "moderates" but for accuracy).

You talk about a miniscule GDP but why do you think that is the case? Why do you think they do not have the means of improving their conditions? Please don't say water pipes into rockets because that's also factually incorrect (they were pipes that were not in use). Israel has prevent action that would expand water access and has overdrawn from the aquifer that provides clean water to Gaza. The list of such actions goes on and on.

And lastly your wishes that the perpetrators are brought to justice are unfortunately pointless as long as occupation persists. I wish for occupation to end for the sake of Palestinians but also for the sake Israelis and hope you eventually reconsider your position.

[–] Sami 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

"Unprovoked". They are literally locked into that plot of land. Some might say there's a concentration of them there. They are not 2 separate sovereign states at war but an occupied people within one state that is actively hostile towards them. A "government" which does not control the border, air or port is symbolic at best. 200+ civilians were killed in the west bank in 2023 prior to october 7th but that's not violent terrorism in your eyes is it?

[–] Sami 72 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Aliexpress is basically amazon with longer shipping time in my experience. Each seller has their own store rating similar to ebay so as long as you exercise judgement ie. Dont buy from brand new stores with 0 feedback or things that are too good to be true and avoid certain things like batteries and storage media unless you know exactly what you're buying you should be fine. I've bought a lot of stuff from there (mostly electronics) and haven't had bad experiences

[–] Sami 4 points 11 months ago

You're right. It's probably a lot higher than that given the sheer amount of damage to civilian infrastructure that can be seen through satellite imagery as well as both US and Israeli state reps saying the number is likely higher. But who's counting? (No one because the healthcare system has been destroyed)

[–] Sami 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It hasn't had an update since march so I don't think you're gonna find that much has changed in the base game. There is the Redux mod which I recall changes some of the Chaos endgame stuff and adds pearls but I haven't tried that myself: https://www.nexusmods.com/tinytinaswonderlands/mods/47?tab=description

[–] Sami 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I know how it goes with the CAQ. The economic impact alone would be massive. There's no way this decision goes through imo but who knows.

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