Lols [they/them]

evidently they dont give much of a shit either way

im so glad that blizzards internal culture and conduct align with microsofts values enough for them to skip the hands-on approach theyve shown with other subsidiaries

what does that even mean? 'ok he supports a genocidal ethnostate, but its only cause of power projection in the middleeast'

thats awesome

who are you

if rehabilitation is possible, there is no real benefit to society to just keep folks in prison indefinitely, and in fact refusing to accept change for the better disincentivises folks from doing so

besides this just being false, her being considered an easy target is still pretty unambiguously influenced by society's unfavourable view of trans folks

this isnt false, but it still feels a bit off to frame the female murderer as being way more accepting of trans folks

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"i had to go through miserable bullshit so you have to too" is not doing what you think its doing

sorry, but isnt that the exact reason they exist at all

i mean, with the amount of effort this took even a single quick glance resulting in a miss would be a pretty big win

its a silly idea but theres hardly any reason not to try it

not to mention that its probably still pretty effective in low visibility situations

"a naval blockade without weapons", also known as 'asking nicely to pwease stop'

i can excuse hiring mercenaries to rough a guy up for leaking cards, but using AI art is a step too far!

man i wish there were some way to test that theory

maybe we could do sort of a 'stopping the ongoing genocide' test run, see how they respond

and then keep it going indefinitely because genocide is bad

sounds like they need to put some pep in their step stopping the ongoing genocide then

your brain treats para-social relationships extremely similarly to social relationships, which is the whole reason its a thing in the first place

acting all surprised and befuddled because someone talks about a content creator this way while invoking para-social relationships is extremely weird

@[email protected] raised the fair point that opposing a weapons deal is not the same as opposing funding

here is a more concrete, applicable example

he’s been very weak on the ceasefire demand up until very recently.

this isnt relevant to whether sanders has pushed for blocking funding to israel

he’s talked about blocking arm sales

blocking arms sales not being the same as blocking funding is fair, however:

He has not called for an end to the sending of money to Israel

is at least misrepresentative

Even as Republicans have raised serious concerns about the border provisions of the bill, the $10bn allocated for aid to Israel has sparked criticism from Bernie Sanders . In a letter sent to his colleagues on Tuesday, the progressive Vermont senator warned against providing a “blank check” to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, as the death toll in Gaza continues to climb.

“No, I do not think we should be appropriating $10.1bn for the right-wing, extremist Netanyahu government to continue its current military strategy,” Sanders wrote. “What the Netanyahu government is doing is immoral, it is in violation of international law, and the United States should not be complicit in those actions.”

After it became clear that the bill would fail to advance on Wednesday, Sanders joined Republicans in opposing the procedural motion.

even if it was in response to specific bills as opposed to a complete and total cut, he has explicitly spoken out against bills funding israel, and saying 'the United States should not be complicit in (the actions of Israel)' in oplosition to a specific bill is still hard to read as anything but a call to cut funding of israel in general

they are remembering right

i mean palestine not being recognised as an independent nation wouldnt mean that the actual place, or leople there are not recognised as existing or being part of a country

but also

The State of Palestine has been accepted as an observer state of the United Nations General Assembly in November 2012.[1][2] As of 2 June 2023, 139 of the 193 United Nations (UN) member states have recognized the State of Palestine. In contrast Israel is recognized by 165.

On 22 November 1974, the PLO was granted non-state observer status, allowing the PLO to participate in all Assembly sessions, as well as in other UN platforms.[34] On 15 December 1988, UN General Assembly Resolution 43/177 acknowledged the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of November 1988 and replaced the designation "Palestine Liberation Organization" with "Palestine" in the United Nations system.[35]

• On 23 September 2011, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application for membership of Palestine in the United Nations.
• On 29 November 2012, the General Assembly granted Palestine non-member observer state status in United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19.
• On 17 December 2012, UN Chief of Protocol Yeocheol Yoon decided that the constitutional name 'State of Palestine' shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents.[36]

if im understanding this correctly, the UN recognises palestine as an independent state to the extent that it actually can but ultimately has no control over whether individual member states actually recognise it as an independent state