Lurker > Hornezz

Teehee

Curious about the answer to this question as well, the announcement does specify "who currently has access" so that does sound like they're gone.

dancing_cactuar posted...

Does the "purged people are permabanned from CE" apply to people who are currently in purgatory.

If so, can name a couple people that just got yeeted from CE.

All for raising the barrier for CE but a total ban on politics talk everywhere else seems wild.

How are you supposed to dance around the subject when games, movies, comic books can all touch political themes?

I think he just blocked everyone ITT lol

This guy likes to call other people terminally online.

I don't think this subject matter lends itself well to snarky topics like these.

Mystereave posted...

So, if Biden did change stances on Israel, and then ended up losing the election as a result of that (since there IS still a lot of Israel support here, what with things like AIPAC)

Is there any proof that Biden would lose more voters by changing stance than he would by continuing to provide weapons for genocide?

Opinion polls suggest approval for Israel's campaign in Gaza is all the way down to 18% among Dem voters.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx

The game plan:

1. Charge face forward
2. ???
3. Win fight

Rogue's super strength and flight aren't part of her mutant powers. She got those by absorbing them from Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel), which badly injured Carol and left Rogue with those powers semi-permanently.

More aid is supposed to be entering the Gaza Strip. Why isnt it helping?

Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel has promised to ramp up aid to Gaza dramatically, saying last week it would open another cargo crossing and surge more trucks than ever before into the besieged enclave.

But days later, there are few signs of those promises materializing and international officials say starvation is widespread in hard-hit northern Gaza.

Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said this week she accepted credible reports that famine is now occurring in the area and urged Israel to take further steps to expedite humanitarian aid shipments.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-hamas-aid-trucks-unrwa-30173642b5c298c829f1457db357071e

An important excerpt:

But Israeli officials this week dropped the plan to open Erez. Instead, they say a new crossing will be built, though it is unclear when it will open. The Ashdod port, meanwhile, is not yet accepting aid shipments and Gaza aid groups report no significant increase in trucks received at their warehouses.

...so the promises made after Biden's phone call last week have been mostly hot air.

Reminder that the ICJ has ordered Israel to take measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including opening more land crossings to allow in aid trucks.

World of Warcraft.

Never played it myself, but a few high school classmates of mine completely gave up on school and life in general for that game.

You win a Togepi if you beat the E4 with just Exeggcute

The man's chaos incarnate

Don't remember much of it other than it ended with me trying to throw a punch. And then I woke up and punched the brick wall.

So there I was, middle of the night, bandaging myself and trying to wash blood stains from my sheets. Now my hand looks all busted like I was in a bar fight. ..which is probably what I'm gonna tell anybody who asks what happened.

The game is rigged

At the very least it throws a wrench in the narrative that he was a good guy with solely good intentions - which a lot of his fans seem to want to push. It shows that the idea of playing a vigilante had been on his mind before, even if that meant shooting people.

Whether that's enough to make a difference in his claims to self defense is a different story. Ideally that should've been a jury decision, not dismissed beforehand by the judge.

videospirit posted...

From what I recall the Judge forbid them from showing the videos where Rittenhouse was recorded saying "I wish I had my gun with me so I could shoot looters"

Correct. This is the video that wasn't allowed in court.
https://twitter.com/DerenicByrd/status/1460304785974956032

Israel's Netanyahu says 'There is a date' for Rafah invasion

JERUSALEM, April 8 (Reuters) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that a date has been set for an Israeli invasion of Rafah, Gaza's last refuge for displaced Palestinians, without disclosing that date as a new round of ceasefire talks take place in Cairo.

"Today I received a detailed report on the talks in Cairo, we are constantly working to achieve our goals, first and foremost the release of all our hostages and achieving a complete victory over Hamas," Netanyahu said.

"This victory requires entry into Rafah and the elimination of the terrorist battalions there. It will happen - there is a date."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-says-there-is-date-rafah-invasion-2024-04-08/

Some warnings against this earlier:

EU: "An attack on Rafah would be absolutely catastrophic ... it would be unconscionable"
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-warns-israel-against-catastrophic-rafah-offensive-2024-02-19/

UN: "Rafah invasion could lead to slaughter"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-warns-israel-rafah-invasion-could-lead-slaughter-2024-02-13/

US VP Kamala Harris: "this would be a huge mistake, the White House would rule out nothing in terms of consequences"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/kamala-harris-israel-gaza-war-rafah-netanyahu

Tanthalas posted...

So basically you demand that Biden completely abandon a long-standing ally in the middle of a war. This isnt a realistic demand.

Yes.

Biden's administration wrote this into policy:

"The newly revised CAT Policy is committed to strengthening U.S. national security by reinforcing respect for human rights, international humanitarian law, democratic governance, and rule of law, by: - Preventing arms transfers that risk facilitating or otherwise contributing to violations of human rights or international humanitarian law"
https://www.state.gov/the-u-s-conventional-arms-transfer-policy/

Rights lawyers go to court to stop German arms deliveries to Israel

Human rights lawyers said on Friday they had filed an urgent appeal against Germany's government to stop exports of war weapons to Israel, citing reasons to believe they were being used in ways violating international humanitarian law in Gaza.

A Dutch court has ordered the Netherlands to block all exports of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel over concerns they were being used for attacks on civilian targets in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands have been killed.

The Berlin case, brought by several organisations including the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Law for Palestine and the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, was filed in an administrative court on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza.

In a statement, the lawyers said the arms deliveries and support Germany has provided to Israel violated the country's obligations under the War Weapons Control Act.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rights-lawyers-go-court-stop-german-arms-deliveries-israel-2024-04-05/

So similar as what happened in the UK. Except Germany is the second largest provider of weaponry after the US.

Will_VIIII posted...

I just want to be clear that if you're a US citizen and not voting for Biden, at minimum this means that both the rapist who continues to paraphrase Hitler becoming president again, and project 2025 are things you at minimum are willing to tolerate.

That already tells me everything I need to know about someone's character.

I actually went out of my way to give you an honest answer but clearly you weren't interested because you're only here to start shit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80738550/979746979

Cemith posted...

Okay, so if he does it 3 days from now, are you still going to vote in Trump?

Never once have I advocated for voting in Trump.

All my qualms with Biden would disappear if he institutes a total arms ban. I'll even publicly endorse him for you.

Cemith posted...

But you tell me what the time frame that you're acceptable with,

He should start working on it today. Canada and Spain already managed to do it. The policy is in place.

The atrocities have been going on for months. Biden has chosen to deliver billions worth weapons well after the ICJ had ruled that there was a plausible genocide. It should have been done long ago.

Cemith posted...

Nobody's arguing it can't be done, this is another made up argument that people like you keep spouting so you can be sanctimonious. People are saying it's not going to happen overnight, and that everyone else is already pressuring Biden.

What they're arguing is that it's extremely difficult to undo several decades of bad foreign policy overnight, which is what you guys expect him to do.

You cannot purposefully be this dense and not be called out on it

Gimme a time frame then.

The goal posts have been moving tremendously since "a genocide will happen either way".

Kaldrenthebold posted...

I've posted times of Biden and the US government trying to put the screws to an ally that we've had for nearly a millenia and they expect it to happen ASAP 100% or else my vote is gone.

Canada and Spain recently withheld arms sales. US presidents have placed sanctions on Israel in the past. The U.S. Conventional Arms Transfer Policy is right there. It was written by Biden. It can be used by Biden.

Arguing that it cannot be done is not based on any truth.

Also, a millennium is 1000 years.

Will_VIIII posted...

I'm not happy with how Biden is handling the conflict so

...so I believe he should be pressured by his voter base. So that he addresses their concerns - which is how things work in a democracy - and actually puts his leverage to good use. Last year he revised an arms sales policy to prevent weapons being sold when they're used for war crimes. He should follow that policy. This is not a crazy demand.

By doing so he'll wipe away the biggest criticism that's hurting his election chances, and wins back the protest vote. I'll even happily endorse him.

It's beyond me why this scenario is so much more offensive to his voters than telling anti-genocide protestors that they are nazis who need to shut up about genocide.

Cemith posted...

Trump will ruin things for everyone, Biden will ruin things for less people.

Right. Good reason for him to go out and win some votes I would say.

But you're vehemently against that. It's ludicrous.

Yazarogi posted...

Thank you Hornezz for advocating for an even worse genocide for Palestinians.

Nothing what I've said has advocated for that.
This is a complete delusion.

Cemith posted...

Better than being cool with domestic stripping of rights under a fascist regime

Insisting that "Biden doesn't need to win voters" in an election year is bringing that fascist regime a lot closer to reality than demanding a president to follow his own policies on human rights ever will.

MrMojoRising posted...

Really enjoying all the arguments about how not voting for Joe because he's perpetrating a genocide means that I'm actually pro-genocide. I guess that's the kind of stuff you have to tell yourself, though.

They have to. Because 'endorsing dropping bombs on Palestinian children because that somehow saves the world from a Trump dictatorship' sounds a lot better than 'endorsing dropping bombs on Palestinian children because its in America's geopolitical interests'.

rynobot posted...

Obviously this dude wants more Genocide. Uncle Joe is just too restrained for his taste for death.

The absolute brain worms needed to say shit like this. You're all working really hard in reassuring yourselves that accepting bombs on Palestinians is somehow necessary for the greater good. That it's actually the nazis who are telling you to protest against genocide.

It's bullshit. This is not winning voters for Biden. There's no evidence whatsoever that says Biden would lose if he pivots.

SaikyoStyle posted...

No tolerance for collaborators.

Absolutely. No tolerance for genocide either. Or for anyone supporting it. Or for anyone justifying it.

SaikyoStyle posted...

I do not tolerate collaborators.

> refuses to denounce genocide
> accuses someone else of nazism

Hmm.

SaikyoStyle posted...

People are offended by the fact that youre a collaborator.

Do you believe support for genocide is a deal breaker when you vote?

Is it something you can accept from a candidate?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

There it is. Thanks for playing

So you see no situation where he stops supporting genocide?

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

So are you going to vote for him

Depends. Is he going to stop supporting genocide?

Because that's a deal breaker for me. And for some reason people are offended by that.

creativerealms posted...

We don't have a viable choice that doesn't support Israel's actions. I know that's terrible but it's the truth. Because both candidates will support the actions of the Israeli government no matter what

I don't believe that. Biden will pivot with enough pressure. His rhetoric has already been changing compared to a few months ago. There's still more than half a year for Biden to do the right thing and win voters.

There is no option that's stops the genocide in Palestine. So I am looking at whose better for America, and for the rest of the world.

Just not true though. There are clear and obvious steps that can be taken into pressuring Israel. We should not ever give up resisting it so easy.

CE actually turning into a pro-genocide circlejerk was not on my calendar a few months ago.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Okay can you show me your preferred candidate then?

I only have a choice between 2 people, one of which will actively make my country worse, and take rights away from people I care about. Please tell me what to do in this scenario.

You join protests and pressure Biden into changing his stance on Israel. He can use his leverage to make a meaningful difference and save lives. And he will, as long as there's enough electoral pressure. And when he does, he deserves the vote.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

whats happening in palestine is terrible. Trump will make both that conflict and America worse so im voting for Biden.

Telling voters that there is no other choice but genocide is not actually helping Biden win the election.

Cemith posted...

When they're walking over the bodies of the queer people they gunned down for sport, your abstention will be duly noted.

There's something absolutely vile about making these sort of threats while in the same breath defending this:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4684e379.jpg
How's that brave fight against fascism of yours going so far? Are ya winning yet?

rynobot posted...

Don't let them fool you, they are fascists lying in the weeds.

Surely you mean the sort of people who argue that politicians should do whatever they want and still deserve unconditional loyalty from their base? Surely you mean the sort of people who argue that sometimes genocides is acceptable for the greater good?

Or do you have a very creative different definition of fascism?

"Biden can change! And also all options include genocide!"
"I never accepted genocide! And also me accepting genocide means I'm fighting fascism!"

You haven't made a single honest post in this whole topic.

Now please tell me why Biden has to earn your vote when the other one is a fascist.

I don't give a damn about who you choose to blame or thank for the next election results. Feel free to delude yourself in to believing that politicians don't need to earn votes and that voters should just fall in line even if that means accepting genocide.

There's no such thing as an acceptable genocide, and fuck everyone who argues otherwise.

Cemith posted...

You tell me exactly what part of "I want the president that's most likely to fold under public pressure to win the election" is "accepting genocide".

Don't deny what you said when it's right here in front of you. I literally just quoted you on three separate times saying that all options include genocide.

I'll give you a fourth even.

When I told you: "Begrudgingly accepting genocide as an inevitability isn't the brave battle against fascism you seem to think it is", you replied with "It is":
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80737505/979715260

Biden could still fold. Trump will never fold.

Which is what I've been arguing the whole damn time.

Like holy shit are you so blinded in your reflexive need to defend Biden at all cost that you actually haven't noticed I've been arguing in favor of him getting elected? No wonder it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall.

bfslick50 posted...

Yep. If the international community didn't ask for answers then those 7 killed would 100% be listed as killed members of Hamas.

Right. The uncomfortable truth is that their passports matter here. Just like with the three Israeli hostages that were shot. IDF cannot possibly sweep these under the rug.

There's been 20,000 civilian deaths including aid workers, health care workers and unprecedented amounts of journalists. Those killed with only a Palestinian passport are not offered this sort of scrutiny, and generally don't get their names and photos shown in the internationals newspapers.

hockeybabe89 posted...

Remember when Obama drone striked a bunch of hospitals

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1501968139000725505

When she's right, she's right.

Tanthalas posted...

So are you going to vote Biden now or continue complaining that he did nothing?

He did the absolute minimum what he should have done months ago. The US also voted against a UNHRC resolution today that will hold Israel accountable for war crimes.

Biden needs to suspend arms transfers as long as the human right violations continue. That's not just a demand that I'm making, it's the policy that Biden himself set but does not adhere to.

Quartermuncher posted...

Palestinians are gonna have to take some Personal Responsibility for starters.

Does that include the 13,000 or so children that have been killed?

xsdarknesssx posted...

I cba to read all of that, but when it comes to private browser modes I was always under the impression that all I was really doing was hiding what I was doing from people that took a cursory look at something like browser history if they accessed my computer.

Yes that's correct. It just deletes local data like cookies and history.

If a website decides to log ip addresses or keep fingerprints of users all serverside, incognito does nothing to prevent that.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

https://gazette.com/news/us-world/biden-threatens-change-in-us-policy-if-netanyahu-fails-

to-protect-gaza-civilians/article_01d72545-e165-5f31-afa6-5fa107c15e72.html

Biden seeks to leverage aid to force Israel to take better care with civilians and aid workers. Seems reasonable to me. Trump would surely do this.

Yeah, one phone call and Biden already made Netanyahu fire senior army officers, open up a border crossing and allowing a port to be used for aid shipments.

This is the power the US has over Israel. People have been arguing up and down that Biden could not and would not do these things. Imagine how many lives could be saved if Biden actually started to wave his metaphorical dick around.