C0unterfactual

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does Hamas try to contact civilians who live in harm's way to leave targeted areas? Nope, that's the IDF.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Casting area-of-effect spells recklessly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

They intentionally break the government so they can campaign on how broken the government is. And their constituents eat it up, because it's mostly like rooting for sports teams.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I loved it and also found it surprisingly difficult in places. I think the use of mixed media is brilliant, like the various flavors of video clips and music you stumble across. A couple boss battles were very challenging. One in particular, but you can finish the main storyline without beating it.

The section of the Oldest House that opens up into a vast maze of hallways is totally epic, IMO. The soundtrack gets metal in a cinematic way right there (Old Gods of Asgard, I think, from Alan Wake? Plus Porcupine Tree!)

I enjoyed the dark and yet whimsical vibe, if you couldn't tell.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Israeli jews are indigenous to the Middle East, many expelled from their homelands in places like Iraq, Egypt, and Yemen. Your claim of "colonialism" (the word you're looking for here) may be a common view in the West, but it's an outright misconception.

The wars you're talking about: the big ones in 1948 and 1967 were started by groups of Arab states attacking Israel for declaring their independence. Israel defended itself.

Most importantly, October 7 of this year was an absolutely brutal bloodbath perpetrated against women, children, elderly people -- civilians. Twenty-year-olds dancing for peace. Residents of left-leaning Kibbutzes, many of whom were outspoken supporters of Palestinian rights. Members of Hamas and other Palestinians streamed across the border and shot civilians, beheaded them, lit their houses on fire, killed their children with grenades, tied women and girls to trees and raped them.

The next day, before a single Israeli bomb had fallen in Gaza, there were demonstrations in the West against Israel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Okay, but do you acknowledge that Hamas has a great deal of responsibility for the lack of infrastructure for civilians in the Gaza Strip, of which they are the government? That Hamas spends literally billions of aid money toward building a vast system of tunnels from which they fire rockets at Israel, attempting to kill jews, because it's in their mission statement?

Can you see that it's a little more nuanced of than simply "Hamas good, Israel bad"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To your response, "no they are not lol":

[Jews, Like Palestinians, Are 'Indigenous' to the Middle East

](https://reason.com/2023/10/18/jews-like-palestinians-are-indigenous-to-the-middle-east/)

I don't agree with IDF's plan. But nobody's acknowledging that Israeli jews are a constant target.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I suggest you learn more

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Referring to the murders by Hamas and other Palestinians on October 7. That has everything to do with the current conflict, right?

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