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Mecha_Sonic posted...

i think that would be a wonderful outcome, provided everyone can get along and not kill each other.

the arabs in the occupied territories outnumber the jews in israel proper, so they would likely win any one-state election. i remember when something similar happened in iraq after the shias won, and it led to persecution of religious minorities + sectarian bloodshed/civil war. so my honest questions to you are

1. what is your plan for stopping Hamas or a Hamas-like party from winning this election, coming to power, and then genociding all the jews.

Prior to the terrorist attack and response Fatah was somewhat competitive in Palestinian favor with Hamas. I imagine people are in less murderous moods when they're not being murdered. In the scenario of a unified electorate it would be best for Israeli Jews to throw in with a Fatah-like party to stave off the Hamas-like party.

Granted there are no guarantees in democracy, we can't even keep Trumpists out of power in America despite a much less bloody recent history.

Mecha_Sonic posted...

2. what is your plan for convincing israel to go along with this and grant suffrage and political freedoms to every palestinian in the occupied territories.

"Do it or we don't support you anymore." America's been forceful about spreading democracy in the past...

Mecha_Sonic posted...

israel exists. it isn't going anywhere. it's not going to be dissolved as a country, nor should it be.

How about just remove the apartheid elements and let everyone within Israel's led territory vote on the country's future? Peacefully and democratically.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

Why do we care if he hates him? He SHOULD hate him. The man is quite deserving of hate.

Yes, but the point is that he hated him before the good reasons to hate him manifested. He's now using these legit reasons he doesn't actually care about as a vehicle for his original hatred. For example the dude threatened to take his music down in response to Spotify deplatforming convicted child molestor R. Kelly but now he's pretending to be a defender of women and youths just because Drake is the one creeping on them.

Kendrick just hates Drake's whole vibe and the fact that the guy achieved success despite it. He doesn't like how an upper-class Canadian guy slid into American rap culture pretending to be hardened and tough. He is "authentic" and views Drake as "fake". Even when Drake's public image was clean and he was nothing but helpful to upcoming artists (including Kendrick) Kendrick was resentful of him. Dude's a full blown culture gatekeeper lol.

DrizztLink posted...

It's not like he's got much more than 2 years of "useful idiot" left before they completely abandon him.

Because of racism.

That's still a lot of money and connections to be made. >_>

Intro2Logic posted...

This is being bought, except he thinks he's the buyer.

Thing is the GOP voters are fully onboard with the move too, so it doesn't matter that donors also push it. Conservatives rage over closed coal mines and oil pipelines. Even if it wasn't an option to get paid for doing so Trump would still roll back the regulations.

Climate change is either "someone else's problem" or fake China propgranda, according to which MAGA you ask.

Conservatives believe energy regulation contributes to inflation.

Vivek's counter was actually pretty clever, just calling her out for identity politics like any alt-righter would do to liberals lol.

He can't go any harder than that because the conservative voter base wouldn't like it.

Rika_Furude posted...

If republicans are elected and enact fascism then its the republicans and non-voters fault.

It's odd to blame non-voters who had no involvement with the process but not also extend blame to those who did a bad job fighting.

Mecha_Sonic posted...

a better argument would be that biden doesn't suck and he's actually been a really good president, which is the truth

Not everyone's gonna agree with that. Some people believe he was soft on executive orders, mismanaged his legislative leverage, and ordered subpar foreign policy.

Enclave posted...

It's a strategy to neuter the twitter faction of the Republican party. Every time they fail it reduces their influence and power.

Thing is there's no political benefit to doing that, and the Twitter right would've failed anyway when a less right-wing Speaker than Johnson was chosen to replace him.

Trump is very happy the motion to vacate failed, since it keeps his fascist stooge in power:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1788337094919614797

Ryangrad posted...

Zero good happened when the government shut down. The House can't really do anything "bad" because the Senate and White House wouldn't approve of it anyway without it being bipartisan.

You are, as usual, wrong and also incredibly shortsighted.

The government didn't shut down, they passed continuing resolutions to keep the government open until a Speaker was chosen.

Anyway either way there's a fumble here. Either McCarthy shouldn't have been thrown out or Johnson should've been thrown out too. There is no way to argue it was a good idea before but a bad idea now when Johnson is literally more extreme than McCarthy.

Reoublicans and Democrats both love massive foreign spending so of course they did.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

The next guy would be worse unless it was Hakeem Jeffries

There is literally no way the next guy could be worse, Republicans have less votes now than when they picked Johnson.

I guess Democrats refused to throw Johnson out because he hasn't lied to them yet. He's just been honest about being a far-right conservative and not wanting to pass their bills. McCarthy reneging on deals really was the reason he got thrown out.

CableZL posted...

I didnt even realize she tried to do it

hopefully this is the start of the end of MTG running their party

MTG has never run anything, all her proposals flop and she was kicked out of the Freedom Caucus. They only give her trivial seats on committees to placate QAnon types.

See now this is where the website jumps the shark.

You can't just have a biased admin locking long-time users out forever over trivial reasons while letting randoms he likes in. That's not healthy management at all.

At least CJayC stuck to his guns. Not a soul was added to LUE after the signups were closed.

Makeveli_lives posted...

So Ive heard but in other news he sneak dissed him in a Disney soundtrack.

https://twitter.com/genepark/status/1788041355198906739?s=46&t=MclOgjiC_DZiKahxLVoZDg

Yeah it's overlooked that Kendrick has basically hated and taken jabs at Drake for years no matter how respectfully Drake tried to treat him.

Drake's only real play was to just keep ignoring him and let him look like the immature one, because Drake isn't really viewed as a serious rapper the way Kendrick is. He can beat other pop rappers, but not a "real" rapper, so he needed to leave it alone. Instead he responded with fucking AI rap.

dave_is_slick posted...

Being directly accused of pedophilia should be reason enough to sue. Unless, he knows that if he goes that route then things might come out...

Filing a lawsuit over a diss track would cement Drake as the softest rapper alive, which is a stigma he's been trying to fight his whole career.

People underrate Trump's political awareness just because he's stupid in most other regards. He was able to build a cult for a reason, and his previous choice of running mate was far more strategic than he's given credit for.

The idea behind picking Noem before was that she was a Trump loyalist with the public image of being a somewhat reasonable conservative. Unfortunately for Trump she killed that perception in order to sell a book, but he obviously notices how far her stock has dropped.

Makeveli_lives posted...

Drake has been trying to win over the black community for over a decade. He goes that route and itll never happen.

It's too late at this point.

Well he's been looking for this beef for 11 years and he's winning, why stop. >_>

Compsognathus posted...

Today, I do recognize that there is value in having spaces to foster healthy male bonding, so I can understand the disappointment in losing Boy Scouts as that sort of venue, especially for boys who don't gravitate for sports.

Never even thought of it that way, I'm horrendous at sports so the only manly thing I could've even done in my youth would've been scout stuff. >_>

Rounding out the South Dakota governors Friday was the Rolling Stone report based on sources of the publication who recounted how Trump has expressed disgust with Noems killing of Cricket in closed-door meetings and telephone conversations.

Why would she do that? Trump who is grappling with nearly 90 felony criminal charges, among other legal problems was quoted as saying. What is wrong with her?

Rolling Stone added: He has expressed bewilderment that she would have ever admitted to doing this, willingly and in her own writing, and has argued it demonstrates she has a poor grasp of public relations.

This is how he actually feels.

What any politician but especially Trump says to donors, people he's trying to grift for money, is generally bullshit. He just won't throw a MAGA worshipper under the bus in a professional environment since he doesn't gain anything from doing so. He'll officially praise Noem despite personally being done with her, same as he's doing for Kari Lake.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

lol wut

I'm saying a dude could make it obvious as sin that he's another poster but with no actual proof he is there's nothing that can reasonably be done. There have been many cases where this board's community and especially the Politics board's community that migrated here have accused two posters who actually had nothing to do with eachother of being the same guy and it'd be ridiculous to penalize anyone based off of false suspicions like that.

Trumble posted...

Let's be fair, the users who tend to be a problem aren't very good at hiding who they are.

Doesn't matter, if the mods can't actually link the accounts either through site metadata (shared cookies, IPs, etc.) or personal admission they can't actually enforce this rule. Suspicion isn't enough, the community's been notoriously bad with witch hunts along these lines.

Girl Scouts still exists as a gender exclusive organization. They should've just kept the Boy Scouts exclusive too.

Fenriswolf posted...

Implying that Sony never closes any of their studios LMAO

Sony closes studios it created, nobody cares.

It's annoying that MS buys studios then closes them, could've just left them the fuck alone in that case.

Didn't someone just shoot one of his guards? Sounds dangerous to be him at the moment. :/

WingsOfGood posted...

If you switch places you gotta respond to Kendrick

:/

Humble_Novice posted...

Russia's become more and more desperate

They were trying to do this from the start of the invasion. >_>

Kaiser-Mazoku posted...

With their keyboard, presumably.

Their account was made after the board was closed and has so little karma it wouldn't have been allowed to post even before the board was closed. Their presence makes no sense. >_>

The types of people calling to free Palestine aren't viewed as obtainable votes for Trump at this point. He doesn't want to go up against AIPAC to court progressives that are very unlikely to support him.

Criticizing Netanyahu (albeit over personal drama between the two) is probably as far as he'll go.

Bandit_Keith posted...

Palestinians aren't "white" to them.

Doesn't matter. When Trump said Kim Jong-un and Mohammed bin Salman were cool all of a sudden they were certified badasses to MAGA. He'd just need to find some Palestinian strongman to glorify.

Drake said he and Kendrick Lamar were two of the big 3 rappers and Kendrick took so much offense at being compared in any way to Drake that he set out to ruin the man's whole career and life. >_>

CableZL posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e74db76b.png

Soooooo uuuuuuuhhhh

He said "if". >_>

We don't really have any massively lopsided feuds like that. And usually someone starts getting modded before anything gets too hot.

Drake kinda ruined himself off the bat by using AI Tupac and Snoop Dogg. Snoop isn't even gone lol why do you need to AI him. >_>

You need candidates that match their districts and states. Sometimes it's moderate Democrats, sometimes it's progressives.

Irony posted...

Oh boy an enlightened centrist topic

No it isn't. Enlightened centrists aren't the ones calling the GOP fascist.

Bruh the beef is still going Drake just dropped a track a few hours ago he can still win this. lol

Shadowblade posted...

Super Mario Sunshine.

That was mine too. Dunho why it comes to mind over Melee lol.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Lmao calling Kendrick a clout chaser when his opposition is literally drake is certainly a choice

I was talking about 11 years ago lol. Obviously that's not the case now.

YoungMutual posted...

I know next to nothing about rap, which of them is a pos and which isn't? Who's winning and who's losing?

Basically both are scum and Kendrick started it (he's been dissing Drake since 2013 purely out of clout chasing/admitted irritation with Drake's success, despite Drake helping to elevate him as a mainstream artist and praising his music; Drake failing to keep a guy he helped make bigger in check contributed to his image as a "soft" rapper) but Kendrick is winning in terms of public perception and seems to have way more dirt on Drake than the reverse.

Biden originally considered himself a Republican, but ultimately joined the Democratic party because the GOP was too corrupt.

It's unfortunate how the GOP's depravity alienates moderates who would've otherwise been a neat fit.

Monopoman posted...

We also had Yang run in 2020 and he was also more left than Biden but didn't get any momentum in his campaign.

Yang is not more left than Biden. He's a moderate who supports UBI, that's it. He actually opposes some taxes and social programs that Biden supports.

Absolutely not.

Problem is the ICC caving to this pathetic tantrum would kill its credibility.

The Israeli and American governments should be ashamed of themselves. Vote their asses all the way out.

The level of greed it takes to wait the 10 years (unless you're already rich and it doesn't matter) is unreal.

Democratic leaders reap the bad PR they sow for endorsing this clown.

PraetorXyn posted...

Id give them $500 for Lifetime if theyd let me so I could one-click update mods in Vortex, but Im not paying a monthly subscription. Period.

Yeah that's the thing, I'm fine buying permanent stuff, just not temporary benefits. Don't like the idea of my money going poof over time. >_>

He's referring to their immigration policies, and he's right. We wanted a president who tells the truth regardless of what's politically correct and it's good to have that in some regards.

It wouldn't be consistent to complain about right-wing immigration policies in America but then give them a pass in other countries.

Remember when people got mad at Steam for allowing paid mods. >_>

Anyway NexusMods continues being trash. Praise be to free modding.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Why do so many leftists complain about the system, but do next to nothing about it? This is one thing that the right does effectively.

Right-extremists have help from billionaire donors, mass media networks, and corporations. The non-Democratic left does not have any of this.

Tanthalas posted...

Oh please, there was no way the incumbent president wouldnt run again unless he had serious medical issues, which he doesnt. Its just excuses.

A candidate running doesn't obligate people to vote for them in the primary. The critics simply wanted someone else nominated.

Rexdragon125 posted...

Yes, and it's gonna be worse under Trump. TikTok brain rot really did a number on you guys. You like don't understand cause and effect or something

Projection on the brain rot thing, you cannot seriously be saying people shouldn't focus on bad things the president is doing just because a candidate for an election in 6 months wants to do worse things.

Tanthalas posted...

That's just the excuse. Many of these posters were doing the "Biden is too old" bit before the war started.

That was before the primary in which case it was a valid complaint because younger candidates could've ran. It's only invalid now because the primary is over and we're stuck with the options presented, which are both old.

Tanthalas posted...

Not to mention, that if I had to bet, Biden would rather lose the presidency than abandon Israel in the middle of a war.

If the American people elected a president so committed to a foreign government that they'd forfeit their own nation to corruption and fascism then it's probably time for a collective look in the mirror. I sincerely hope that is not the case.