bartolomeo

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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 120 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard always reminds me of this:

https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741

Keep in mind that article is from 1998. Prescient as always, the Onion really is America's Finest News Source(TM).

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, it's also the law, which was passed to protect us from %checks notes% antisemitism:

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(4) clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is antisemitism;

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago

And you have to consider that Israel controls Palestine's birth register and ID card issuance. Palestinians can't be desaparecidos if they never appeared (on the books) in the first place, right?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The message needs to be: if you have the audacity and the cruelty to do this to Israeli civilians, your fate will be violent and it will be short and you will be by the end of that process, you will be dead. That is the message that Israel needs to send, not because we are a warmongering nation; we are a peace-loving nation.

We want to live in peace, in security, behind our internationally recognized borders, but we understand that the way for our enemies to respect us is by showing that if you wrong us in such a horrible way like Hamas did on October 7, you will face the most severe of consequences.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This isn’t about Israel. You know the Houthi flag starts with “Allahu Akhbar” and then the second line is “Death to America.” Then it’s “Death to Israel,” “Curse be the Jews” and then “Victory to Islam.” But it’s first “Death to America.” And that needs to be remembered.

Lmao this reminded me of another hit piece from our friends at jpost:

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-775160

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 5 points 8 months ago

So what would your answers be then?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 5 points 8 months ago

I often enjoy your comments and this one is no exception.

There are communes you can buy from and there are food subsciption services from local farms but they are significantly more expensive. It's absurd that the method of farming that will not kill us is priced out of reach of the majority of people, while the method of farming that will kill us is subsidized by our own tax dollars (depending on the country, of course).

Same with energy. In the U.S., the fossil fuel industry is subsidized to the tune of about $20 billion a year, while green energy (although it does have some minor tax breaks for individuals etc.) is mostly left to compete in a "free market" a.k.a. unsibsidized. It's utter madness. Either allow a real "free market" (renewables are now cheaper) or give the subsidy to the method of production that doesn't threaten every single living thing on the planet.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I know you're angry about injustice and indifference to injustice, and I am too, but I think it would be effective to take a less aggressive stance against people who are obviously blackout drunk on the Kool-Aid. It's not productive to scare them off.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No, unfortunately you're not. I'd love to get your opinion on something though:

Are slave revolts justified?

Was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 4 points 8 months ago

This is an excellent point but this right here

We write a lot of fiction about AI launching nukes and being unpredictable in wargames, such as the movie Wargames where an AI unpredictably plans to launch nukes.

is my Most Enjoyed Paragraph of the Week.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Collect profit and maintain their current power.

XD my man... I knew you could do it! You just had to stop attacking your assumptions for 2 seconds!

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