magikarpet

joined 1 year ago
[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly, i dislike his age, his stance on Israel and some other general things but overall I think Biden has accomplished a lot of good things as president.

Some examples:

  • rejoined Paris Agreement
  • rejoined WHO
  • ends federal private prison contracts
  • 130+ billion in student loan forgiveness
  • Russia sanctions
  • national registry for police fired for misconduct
  • executive order protecting travel for abortion
  • gas prices down (not all in his control but still)
  • inflation reduction act
  • Arguably the best post-pandemic economy in the world
[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Good point, Skyrim is definitely the biggest mainstream game, but also the biggest sign of their move to making Action RPGs instead of incredible lore and world building.

BG3 might be more comparable to Bethesda’s Morrowind (maybe Oblivion). Similar to Arena and Daggerfall, Larian has released some great games like Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 which were hits, but BG3 really put them on everyone’s radar.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh shit, what was my safe word again? LET ME OUT!

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My worst imagination is a nefarious entity using our data to determine if we are a threat or try and categorize people for some kind of psyop manipulation.

Something like Captain America Winter Soldier but more realistic. Even things like Cambridge Analytica show it is not that far fetched.

While social media companies and amazon may not have the desire to do those things, they sure make it easier for others by greedily collecting the data.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well the other crazy thing with voting is how narrow the margins are.

It doesn’t have to convince everyone. Only a small percentage across the country mixed with a few people in key locations and you can change everything.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally prefer killing babies, it is more eco friendly.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

At least 200 are variations of saying “kill”

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing he isn't currently a diplomat.

Also good thing Hamas founding principles don’t say anything about destroying Israel…

“The Day of Judgement will not come about, until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” -Hamas Covenant

…oh.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

While i do not wholly agree with your last sentence, i do respect your balanced view. Making any war one of “good vs. evil” is dangerous a step toward dehumanizing the enemy and it only gets worse from there.

Also i agree Israel’s response has been very strong and cold, but i believe they were not left with many choices.

Things could not return to status quo with Gaza after the attack on the 7th and there was no clean option left for them. Diplomacy failed over and over for decades. Both sides share blame for the diplomatic breakdown, but Israel has no allies and many enemies in the region and must project strength to keep opportunists away.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even if it was an iron dome rocket, which is not impossible; it was not targeting the hospital. It was targeting a hostile missile launch.

I also trust international orgs fatality reports more than local sources on this one.

Y’all keep talking about war crimes, but Hamas is not even distinguishing themselves from civilians which is the basis from where almost every other IHL rule stems.

[–] magikarpet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well more than 1… but also form and motive are important here.

The “1” was an innocent woman who was raped, tortured, and murdered slowly and publicly to spread terror because she was at a music festival.

The “3000” are civilian casualties of war because said terrorists are hiding behind them as a combat strategy.

Both are horrible, but you are making a false equivalency.

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