Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
the audio recording is on their page here if you scroll down. Do you think this is legitimate or AI-generated?
Speaking of, whatever came of the various audio logs the IDF claim to have intercepted? Was there ever any good analysis done on those?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
You mean like the work permit program that was going on and growing prior to the attack?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
A bar owner is a powerful and scary enough wizard to scare away one of the main villains of the game, while the entire Hogwarts staff, and government of magical England is just kind of an afterthought that the evil wizard isn't worried about at all?
I will admit, i do love the classic D&D trope of "the bartender is a retired level 18 fighter" and wish more media would lean into that. The evil overlord *isn't * afraid of the king, a level 7 noble, or his guards, a bunch of level 5 warriors (at best). But the old dude who wrecked 15 dragons and seven demon lords, and has his old +5 hackmaster hanging above the fireplace (crossed with a decorative useless sword), and the dusty suit of armor holding the menu is his mithral full plate of speed? Now *that's * who the overlord worries about, plans for, and tries to keep out of the fight.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I suggest you remember the maine instead.
The spontaneous coal combustion?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Underdog analysis can also be complicated by questions of scope--are we talking about Israel vs. Hamas, Israel vs. Hamas + the wider Islamic world that funds them, or Israel + its supporters in the US vs. Hamas + the wider Islamic world?
That's one of the interesting things about power... local power can be a massively different beast than total power, or even future local power.
"My garden may be smaller than your Rome, but my pilum is harder than your sternum", and all that.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
The SoS dissent memo?
SoS dissent memo? I tried various searches but couldn't figure out what you're referring to.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
There's a difference between "deliberately targeting civilians" and "collateral damage in urban combat".
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I really wish right wingers ever got this kind of charitable takes.
As do I! I wish everyone received charitable takes, and I'm damned well going to fight for everyone to receive charitable takes (other than possibly in a "I know you didn’t mean this, but now maybe you are a bit more empathetic to what it's like to be on the receiving end of this sort of thing, and how stupid it all is.")
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
That was the only weird part to me as well. Why on earth would someone have left it in the photo? But this makes a lot of sense.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
This is exactly the sort of thing I'd hate when it was used by the Left against the Right, and turns out... I still hate it. A pox on whoever first decided that "dogwhistles" were a thing. You might as well say she's pro-corporate-monopolies.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Shame about his passing this year. He was good at what he did.
What I wouldn't give for him to have been here for the System Shock remake and BG3.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Wasnt there that white kid who was also kneeled on, died, and then the cops were aquitted? Had an alliterative name, i think.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
The usuals amongst my friends are already talking about how it's a war crime to shut off the water (that Israel desalinates...), so I don't expect this to change the moral responsibility assessment in most people.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
In a world where a lot of financial and material support for the vilings relies on a large portion of the world not thinking they're the baddies, taking into account the larger strategic goal (or blunder) does in fact make sense.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
TF2. 24/7 Insta-Respawn 2Fort only.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I'm pretty sure it will just be interpreted as "here's yet more proof that Israel is a colonialist/apartheid state, they don't even allow the Palestinians to control their own basic human needs like food and water!"
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I used it as a mirror to your own number.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
A better world for...whom? Only the very highest climbers, the one in ten thousand factory-worker-to-party-boss types, aren't worse off under communism than before.
Other way around. It's only the one in ten thousand who's currently exploiting the rest who will be worse off under communism; without them everyone else will be either around where they already are or better off.
The people who believe this may not be correct, but it's what they believe and are fighting for: a better world for everyone except those with unearned privileges. They certainly don't believe they're fighting for a world where 9,999 people out of 10k are going to be worse off.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Weird meta-thought: if Hylinka had gone for a paraphrase of the Dr. Samuel Johnson quote about a woman preaching being like a dog walking on its hind legs (not done well, but you are impressed that it is done at all), would that have passed muster by seeming high-effort? Same sentiment, better language.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
shouldn't it have been enough of a problem that he fought against the Russians during WWII?
A lot of people fought against Russians in that time period, and Canada has a large Ukrainian population with unfond memories of the Russia of that era.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
The reporting there is fascinating. I appreciate how long it takes for them to actually name the hand gesture in question. Uncharitably, because they know their readers would take it less seriously if they used the phrase "OK sign".
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Again, though, we're back to the question of why it is that "not surrendering when you're invaded" is "Western warmongering".
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
There was something something pressure and corruption and scandals and such, or possible two such incidents that I'm conflating (Burisma, Hunter Biden, corrupt prosecutors, military aid being blocked?), such that the left was generally "Ukraine establishment good" and the right was generally "Ukraine establishment corrupt". That and the fact that once Biden was Pro- arming them, the Right had to swing against him, and then the Left had to get in line.
Will Al-Shifa be the turning point, one way or another? Or will nothing change? If the IDF takes the hospital, and there are tunnels there, will anyone change their tune, or will it be "Well, the IDF was telling the truth this one time, but they still shouldn't have killed babies"? If there are no tunnels, will Israel back off and end their campaign in shame (their own and the US intelligence community's), or will they try to brazen it out and assume no real net change in total hatred for them? If Hamas blows the tunnels and collapses the area to avoid giving Israel evidence, will anyone accept that it wasn't an Israeli bomb?
Or am I overestimating the importance of this one battle and the massive accompanying news coverage?
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