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Wouldn't be the first time someone in Florida was told they were legally allowed to vote, and then someone came around saying they weren't.

Different reasons. But goddamn if the echo doesn't sound nearly the same.

Does the n-gage not count anymore?

Aloc posted...

He's suspended anyways.

Oh. Well, then.

Is that gone for good now? Or a proper purg or suspension is required?

Mecha_Sonic posted...

therefore, either hillary clinton is right and the protestors don't know history, or the protestors really are anti-semitic

This conclusion is flawed.

It's drawn from the assumption that (1) protestors, as a movement, are "rooting for hamas," and that (2) the river-sea chant means only the things you're ascribing to it.

Those are assumptions are deeply incorrect.

electricbugs2 posted...

Its Greek to me homie

Add New Vegas to your playlist. It's to good to miss.

1) I'm terrified of the precedent "federal worker can only be tried in federal court" sets in light of another federal "employee" who wants his state criminal charges moved to federal court.

2) I'm also deeply tired of isle arguing what LEOs find "reasonable" in the execution (pun intended) of their duties, because it never seems actually reasonable.

electricbugs2 posted...

Las Vegas, not Wall Street.

It was a Las Vegas-specific question. I promise.

The bull or the bear?

JMPzero posted...

Don't throw packages is taught day one of training so lmao at the courier

Sure, it's taught. But what kind of work culture and metrics are enforced on the regular that would make this the better choice than getting up and down in your truck, or pulling down the ramp to drag the dolly and stack the trailer right?

This kind of shot happens because the bosses set expectations that are inconsistent with the training given and then blame drivers and loaders for doing what they have to in order to keep those jobs.

Worked in a distribution center years ago and watched stuff like that happen on the daily, for those exact reasons.

Also, Dana White can go fuck himself in general. You have better things to do, I hope, than ruin some dude's job. And that goes for anyone filming and posting for the express purpose of costing someone their job. He wasn't endangering anyone, which is about the only justification anyone should use to pull this.

John Coltrane or Robert Johnson

Steffenfield posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4db73d94.jpg

I've seen synthwave album covers that go less hard.

Amazing photo!

Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

Carrington event

Learned a new thing today. Thank you.

wackyteen posted...

I'd say at least there's 2 holes to assist with the second fuck hole function but these fucks will ban sodomy federally as soon as they can

It'll be a sodomy ban on the books, but they would never think to enforce it on straight couples. That word only means "gay" to them and not what actual sodomy is defined as.

StealThisSheen posted...

Casinos in Las Vegas had an idea to create a database to track cannabis usage/legality, since it was a product of interest, at the time, while Nevada was debating/voting on the issue, and it was worth tracking for the sake of potential revenue interests.

And even THAT proved to be, ultimately, too large and inconsistent of an undertaking.

So just imagine literally tracking pregnancies on a federal level.

If capitalism can't do it, do you really think the government can? </s>

And I thought the handmaiden SCOTUS justice would be the first to openly, 'Under his eye," on some federal document, but this nutter beat her to the punch.

darkace77450 posted...

but that it hasn't violated terms of U.S. weapons agreements.

We have weapons sales agreements that don't comport to international law? Or don't care about it?

darkace77450 posted...

In a report to Congress, the State Department said it hasnt verified specific instances that would justify withholding military aid.

I'm at the point where I'm going to assume it has been deliberately left unverified.

darkace77450 posted...

we do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance" under the Foreign Assistance Act, the report said.

Read the act again, then read a goddamn newspaper. We have one of the most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatuses in the world, if not the most.

It's absurd to think they could assess something so badly and in contradiction to reality as a matter of the system making that conclusion.

darkace77450 posted...

oted that results in the field, "including high levels of civilian casualties, raise substantial questions" about whether the Israel Defense Forces are "using them effectively in all cases."

Doublespeak. The excuses get worse the more they talk and the longer this article goes on.

darkace77450 posted...

The report also pointed to limitations as far as U.S. access to information from Israel. While Israel provided some information "on request" about specific incidents related to targeting decisions and battled damage assessments, more details are needed, the report said.

If our allies, and allegedly one of our closest and most stalwart allies, is unwilling to share accurate intelligence gathered from the field, why is no one asking whether or not they're still our stalwart ally?

Iran was sharing more details with us before Trump ripped up the nuclear deal than we're getting from Israel about their operations... and somehow our state dept is hunkey dorey with that? What the actual fuck is our government at this point?

We're almost pretending less than Israel that the obvious isn't going on. And Israel hasn't really been bothering to pretend for months.

ScazarMeltex posted...

The Israelis are super butthurt that the UN isn't on board with their genocide.
https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1788952088724062258

Does that mean they reject the charter and have withdrawn their membership from the UN?

I understand the purpose of symbolic gestures. Shredding the cease fire agreement that went through would have made appropriate (but still morally wrong) political theatre. Shredding the charter they're a signatory of? Isn't that like burning your passport and renouncing your citizenship?

CADE_FOSTER posted...

To raise enough cash to make the deal happen, Golden Gate sold off Red Lobster's real estate to another entity in this case, a company called American Realty Capital Properties and then immediately leased the restaurants back.

Isn't that how Toys R Us died? Forced to rent their own property because venture capital bought and sold it to itself?

mistymermaid posted...

What the fuck? Like wow. Reddit has gotten that bad now? I already refuse to use Youtube, because of its abundance of Trumpers.

I'll draw straws which website goes down the shitter next.

You can curate a YouTube feed that isn't totally garbage. Mine's a decent mix of background study music, progressive/liberal politics, and non-ampersand gaming content. There's a little atheist tube and book tube mixed in there for good measure.

I rarely get garbage. (I also never engage with the comments section.)

This is a good thing. Hopefully that headline changes one day from "first" to "first of many."

mystic_belmont posted...

The amphib I served on handled about 3000 at most. It sucked with all the marines on board.

Is this a complaint about crowding or a complaint about marines?

Are you using a mod to get you the "## ft" indicator, or is that an option you turned on?

(It's been a while since I fired my copy up, and that's something I think I want when I go to another playthrough this year.)

Trumble posted...

I would add total demilitarization (with the presence of a neutral third party peacekeeping force) of Israel for at least a generation or two to that list; with them being limited to a Japan style genuine self defence force afterwards. It needs to be for an extended time to ensure not even a trace of their current military's attitudes and worldview remain.

I like that, too!

Toonstrack posted...

Do yall have anything actually realistic that could feasibly happen in the next million years or just a storybook ending where Israel just self deletes into being a non issue and something everyone lives happily ever after?

Israel doesn't have to self-delete. Just Netanyahu and Likud. And anyone else in the Israeli government who said that installing and supporting hamas was a good idea in the first place.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

And now we see why Hamas does it. This is the narrative that people will now believe, despite this being very far from the actual story

Tell us a story, then. Tell us the "actual" story. Please.

HHH_is_the_game posted...

at least I can admit it.

<looks at first quoted post>

You sure?

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Israel didn't just wake up one day and decide to commit genocide for fun.

But they did decide to commit genocide.

Instead of holding terrorists accountable and hunting them down, they first thing they was turn off food, electricity, and water to Palestine, beginning the ethnic cleansing process.

texanfan27 posted...

Hamas needs to be removed, but Israel also needs to be told to get in line cause they overdid it and commited war crimes in the process. Both sides need be hit hard

I'm not sure "get in line" is hard enough for what Israel has done, if you're advocating for the removal of the only governing body Palestine has. Even acknowledging that said governing body has a terrorist faction, your suggestion isn't anything but a "naughty, naughty" in Israel's direction.

I hope you're hoping for something better than that to call it "hitting Israel hard."

HHH_is_the_game posted...

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<dismissive gesture>

HHH_is_the_game posted...

Do you really think Hamas has the Palestinians best interests at heart?

If Israel did, they wouldn't have invited, funded, and supported hamas being in power. Israel uplifted a bunch of terrorists because it was good to have terrorists attacking Israel.

Don't come off saying hamas is worse when Israel engineered the existence of hamas in Palestine.

UnrivaledKoopa posted...

Sure thing buddy. Aren't you a little old to be living on campus?

Aren't you denying the ethnic cleansing and genocide Israel is undertaking by saying this?

pikachupwnage posted...

Anything that doesnt demand all of the following

-Netanyahou, his War Cabinet, generals and thousands of commanders and soldiers being surrendered to the ICC for war crime trials and anyone calling for genocide or civilian death being sent to prison for a long time
-Netanyahou being sacked and banned from all public office or military positions
-Have every party in Netayahous coalition being disbanded and banned
-All land stolen in the last (insert period of years) be returned with reparations
-Israel agreeing to a two state solution
-Israel withdrawing from Gaza entirely
-Hundreds of billions in reperations

Is being exceedingly generous tbh

Great examples. Better than my list.

UnrivaledKoopa posted...

The war will end when Hamas is no longer in power in Gaza, whether that happens through fighting to the last man, or surrender. Only when Gaza is ruled by a PA-UN joint venture with international peacekeepers can the rebuilding truly begin. The sooner that happens, the better for the survivors within Gaza's borders.

"The war will end?" It's been a deliberate and systematic attempt at genocide since about October 12 and all the Jewish ministers and officials started saying there are no innocents in Gaza and 4-yo kids are radicalized hamas members.

What you mean to say is the genocide won't end until there is no Gaza or Palestinians. Because that's Netanyahu's stated goal: that he will invade every inch of Palestinian land until "hamas is defeated," keeping in mind that Netanyahu and his allies consider every male in Palestine (older than 4) a member of hamas.

If Palestine needs to have its autonomy stripped and co-piloted by a UN org, then Israel has it coming, too. If you can't trust one group of genocidal radicals to respect borders and right to exist without a referee can you really trust the other genocidal radicals (see above statements made on international TV for evidence) to respect borders and a right to exist?

Also, and I know you've been called out for this already, but, "Survivors?" The hell is wrong with you, saying something like that?

Modifier posted...

Israel can't beat Hamas with the use of force unless they intend to kill every palestinian. At this point, every palestinian is a potential member of Hamas. Even in the west bank. I mean, imagine what you would want to do if your were put in their shoes. Peace? What kind of peace can there possibly be now?

Especially the kids. And the women. Who are enduring famine. Without shelter, because their shelters keep getting bombed.

I get your point, but I don't see where hamas is going to get much of a fighting force, let alone bolster waning numbers with the populace in the condition its in now.

The sheer volume of casualties and loss of any infrastructure visible by satellite... has kind of achieved Israel's stated goal of defeating hamas. There's not enough left to support or sustain a terrorist organization in the long-term.

At best, they'll be toothless for a generation. Which is a good thing. That's a generation to try and unlearn hate and bring peace to the region. Or at least between the two countries. (Palestine should be a country. Two states. The solution has always been two states.)

s0nicfan posted...

I also don't know how "for every one hostage we return you'll give us 50 prisoners and also you'll leave and also rebuild and also we get to stay in power and also lift your blockade against us" is generous in any way to Israel.

The alternative would be war crimes and crimes against humanity charges for all of Israel's ruling elite, and the results of a conviction... and that would leave Israel rudderless with a political fallout and power vacuum.

Palestine could demand that. And refuse to acknowledge Israel's existence (even if they accepted the '68 Palestinian borders, it still wouldn't be recognition of Israel). And also no cease fire.

So, a prisoner trade that gets Israel alleged recognition, Israel the ability to withdraw without taking more casualties, and an end to rockets into settlements in a sustainable calm... is pretty generous coming from the victims (Palestinians, not hamas; hamas aren't victims) of their violence and genocide campaign.

tl;dr - Israel gets off easy if their leadership isn't in the Hague and they're allowed to withdraw without too much egg on their face

FolkenRawr posted...

I enjoyed running but found lifting unbelievably boring. That and I'm not young young anymore. Working out/strengthening my core could help with my constant back pain, but I have zero energy to test that.

You're weird.

You can change things up, go to different stations, pick a different set of reps, work a new muscle group... it's a dynamic situation.

Cardio is boring. As fuck.

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Doesn't his current power profile stand at something like, "There was once iron in the rich soil the tree growed in, and I can still manipulate what's left in the grains of the wood. So much so, that I will take your wooden gun and shoot you with it, because Omega level bullshittery," on the same level as bloodbending cop outs?

emblem-man posted...

Example of having a dedicated spokesperson

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1787679987094667368?t=ZiMV5yxCpGffNz5xQxuiIg&s=19

I love this woman. She is the best face of the student protests.

conduit posted...

I think it's equally ignorant and short-sighted that people would also project blame onto Netanyahu, as if Bibi and the Likud can be ousted from power and everything will instantly be solved. As if the entrenched hatred, racism and genocidal rhetoric, dehumanisation and vilification of the 'Other' isn't a systemic structural problem that is pervasive throughout the Israeli state, it's institutions and society.

In the same way America started recovering immediately in the wake of Biden's election (because he had a progressive vision), we could hope/expect to see at least a similar bounce attempted in Israel with the removal of Likud and Netanyahu.

Also, if you get rid of Netanyahu and Likud, things will already instantly get better because the party in power won't be directly supporting, funding, and inviting hamas to be part of the power structure of Palestine. Because that's how hamas came to power in Israel: Bible and Likud invited, funded, and supported the terrorist organization in order to cement their power for a generation or more.

So, even if there's not a progressive Build Back Better Israel in the wings with Bibi gone, things instantly get better because someone's not supporting terrorists coming to power in Palestine. That's at least a better.

s0nicfan posted...

--The document refers to the end of the war, described as a permanent ceasefire, according to the official
--They believe it would see female soldiers released too late in the process
--They say the document references a contingency that if 33 living hostages cannot be found for the first phase, then bodies can be substituted instead, which the Israeli official said was unacceptable
--Israel believes it would be obliged to release an agreed number of prisoners from a list that Hamas will provide, with no power of veto for any individual case

Point by point, we can see Israel wasn't going to negotiate this ceasefire in good faith, and are rejecting it to buy time to keep on genociding.

-- Of course "Israel" can't let the war end. Because, in this context, "Israel" is Netanyahu, and he can't let himself go to prison or lose his position of power.

-- This is penny ante bullshit meant to give a pretense to reject. "We'll accept if the language is updated to reflect female soldiers being released first."

-- IDF already knows they bombed or shot enough of the hostages themselves that there's a good possibility that 33 or more hostages cannot be recovered alive. They're deliberately using this as a smokescreen, but it'll work because people (who need to know) aren't paying attention.

-- Israel wants a no-veto discussion on when their prisoners and hostages get released (see female soldiers statement above), but don't expect to extend the same courtesy when it comes to Palestine

Zero surprises. Saying they're considering and then rejected makes it look like this was just to buy them time to bomb more.

AceAttorneyist posted...

He didn't say anything about day trading lol, maybe he knows better to mostly invest in ETFs.

"I can invest better than market experts or the government, who has been trusted to manage this meager retirement fund for almost a century, so better let me do it all on my own, because I am so smart, s-m-r-t," is day trader, get rich quick mentality.

There's a reason we don't privatize retirement and this is... pretty much it.

Not literal day trading. Just their mentality that they can beat the market because they are somehow so much smarter than it. Or investment firms. Or the government.

kinetika_ posted...

I'm the same, I look back on all the SS I paid in and think how much MORE money I'd have been able to invest with, if I didn't have to pay into that shit

Don't lie to yourself (and us). You would have made such shitty market decisions, you would have lost your shirt in '08 alone.

Day trader mythology.

tankboy posted...

If SS is intended to be a safety net, it does not make sense to transfer risk to those who are least qualified to assess the risk. You'd have people losing their savings in beanie baby futures, and then we'd have to pay more welfare to keep them from littering the streets.

Yes. This. You got to it first.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I've seen projections saying we can make SS solvent for a few more decades without cutting benefits by eliminating the income cap on the Social Security tax (meaning high income people would have to pay in more), but that wouldn't fix things forever.

Granted a lot has changed in a decade, but I remember people like Bernie Sanders and Thom Hartmann (probably on Thom's show, no less) say that removing the income cap would make SS indefinitely solvent...?

Smashingpmkns posted...

Jos Andrs and World Central Kitchen. He announced yesterday that they would continue providing aid to Palestinians.

Baller.

There's still hope, even from the most tired of people.

Hornezz posted...

A week ago Antony Blinken allegedly pressed Netanyahu into letting more humanitarian aid enter into Gaza.

Instead, Israel has now closed both the Kerem Shalom and Rafah border crossings in the past two days.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/israel-under-pressure-let-more-aid-gaza-hostage-talks-continue
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-05-07-2024-113bf4ee5dad87dc5c003d76ed2785bf

Blinken did that like twice before and got Israel to promise something like double the trucks (but still under what was the usual amount pre-Oct 7) but reports on the ground were that those trucks weren't being let in because of hours+ long delays and security checks and being turned away for... reasons...

Some of the orgs gave up trying. I forget who it was, but I think it was a big name chef who spent a lot of time and money supporting the kitchen program (even after Israel hunted down those workers and executed them) who saw it as a last straw after the kitchen workers were hunted down and executed.

I might be getting things put of order, but I'm 90% sure I saw reports of, "Israel promises double trucks of aid in," followed by, "trucks can't get in because Israeli bullshit security theatre." Anyone else remember those headlines, too?

CobraGT posted...

I prefer explanations that involve religions like Islam and Christianity spreading due to providing a life style more workable than the previous life style.

"Join our community and you're more likely to survive than you were, as long as you follow the rules of our social contract," feels like... a pretty obvious conclusion to draw for how a community grew and gained prominence in a region.

Is there a bigger takeaway that I'm missing from this? I can sometimes miss entire forests if I'm looking at the wrong trees.

ToteAll posted...

wtf is that

Not a story they're earned the right or the audience goodwill to tell yet.

It's one of the better Supes stories, and maybe one of the last compelling ones easy enough to encapsulate into a single film.

They should pocket that one.

SHRlKE posted...

From a political point of view theyve pulled a blinder in making Israel looking like theyve broken a ceasefire that never existed and Israel never agreed to while trying to garner more international support which seems to be working tbh based on all the Hamas accept ceasefire news articles out just before the Rafah attack begins.

Maybe they wanted to see if the international community would help pull the Israeli's gun from their head first, so they could accept a cease fire in good faith, but had to take it at the last minute because they really feared Netanyahu would attack Rafah if they didn't.

Israel has literally taken all of Palestine hostage at this point. They've said they'll only accept their terms, and if the Israel terms aren't accepted (and sometimes, even if they are), they're going to come in and clear out Palestine completely. Netanyahu's own words, more or less. Israel has offered an option of "take our not really peaceful genocide, but some of you live, as long as you leave" or "we'll just kill you all in the genocidiest genocide of Palestinians we can muster, your choice."

Your "from a political point of view" sounds a lot like an assumption that Hamas isn't operating from good faith (they're Hamas, probably not, but maybe they are because they don't have any other choice) and that Israel is operating from good faith (the fuck they are, because they almost never have been).

SHRlKE posted...

It seems Israel want to go into Rafah no matter what.

You even seem to acknowledge it at the end. That confuses me.

If you're not saying that Israel is operating in good faith while Hamas is "playing political games," then I've misunderstood you. But it sure felt like you think Hamas is pulling a fast one and Israel is just operating normally and is going to be ambushed politically by this, since they were pursuing military action until an actual cease fire is signed and delivered (which they knew it wasn't, and they're the ones stalling while dropping bombs).

Foppe posted...

Seems like the last update in the ceasefire deal is that Israel is examining it.

And they'll "examine" it right up until they look up from the paperwork and go, "What? There's no more palestinians? Did we take too long? Guess we don't need this cease fire now!" in their best mock-shock voices.

Foppe posted...

Seems like Israel just said no to the ceasefire.

They said no to a ceasefire days ago, when Netanyahu said, "Even if there's a ceasefire, we're still burning Rafah to the ground and committing genocide."

(Paraphrased. It was really something about "end the war with hamas," but we all know what he means by that.)

...bullshit? Hasn't Warren Buffet been saying for much longer than 2016 that adage about how it's wrong he pays less tax than his secretary (without figuring out how he could possibly pay more of his fair share)?

The only thing that Republicans want to think about cancer on is how they can scam children with it out of their money.