DarkGamer

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago

I thought he presented a clever solution that could work if the political will were mustered. However, that's assuming all these concerned parties actually want a solution and not just to vilify Israel.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago

It's more than "calling them out" when they helped create the situation. The Arab league invaded Israel with intent to destroy it and genocided and ethnically cleansed Jews from Jerusalem and the West Bank while they were at it, providing justification for the very annexations they claim is a major cause of all this violence and refusal of diplomacy. Or, how Egypt pretends to be concerned for Gazans while not letting them out.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Well, that was what Jon Stewart's plan was, to get the Arab League to enforce a demilitarized zone between Palestine and Israel and guarantee safety for both. That's what I was talking about.

Keep using the term genocide incorrectly and it will soon be meaningless. It doesn't mean a lot of civilians died from collateral damage, it means intentional extermination/destruction of a protected group, which is not happening.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You're ignoring that first part, without which every military action would qualify under that statute:

with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,

Israel's started intent is to destroy Hamas, which is none of those protected groups.

Plausible does not mean probable. The ICJ didn't order a cease fire, which would be odd if this was in fact a genocide.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yes, it's clear you've made up your mind, good thing you're not a judge on the IJC misinterpreting the law.

I would say the most important thing Israel has to do is defeat Hamas, which means either destroying them or getting them to surrender, while not breaking the law. They have a responsibility to protect their own people and to honor their treaties. They're letting in 100 humanitarian aid trucks a day into Gaza on average, each one has to be searched, protesters are blocking many of them, and many humanitarian aid organizations have decided it is too dangerous to send trucks, if that is not legally sufficient they need to let in more.

Good day.

DarkGamer OP , 2 months ago

The Problem gave me emotional whiplash as the tone constantly went from serious to comedy and back again.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago

Put a fork in her, she's done. The GOP has finally and totally embraced Trump and dictatorship.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago

One down, one to go.

DarkGamer OP , 4 months ago

I suspect there was good kompromat on the hacked GOP e-mail servers, which were curiously not leaked like they did with the DNC's.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

That's a onecan.

DarkGamer , 5 months ago

Very cute! I would name this little fella Harvey.

DarkGamer OP , 5 months ago

So much for upholding the constitution, specifically the 14th Amendment. What good is it if not applied to insurrectionists?

The Michigan Court of Claims judge who first got the case said state law doesn’t give election officials any leeway to police the eligibility of presidential primary candidates. He also said the case raised a political question that shouldn’t be decided in the courts.
His decision was upheld by the Michigan Court of Appeals, which said: “At the moment, the only event about to occur is the presidential primary election. But as explained, whether Trump is disqualified is irrelevant to his placement on that particular ballot.”
The order from the Michigan Supreme Court was unsigned, and the court did not release a vote count.
Unlike in Colorado, the Michigan courts rejected the case wholly on procedural grounds. They never reached the questions of whether January 6 was an insurrection and whether Trump engaged in it.

Cowards, tacitly supporting anti-democratic fascism and not even signing their names to it.

DarkGamer OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

If he is reelected it will be a Brexit-like self imposed wound on the US that I fear we will never recover from. If we lose Ukraine and weaken NATO, America loses. If he installs cronies willing to break the law for the supreme dictator, America loses. 2024 elections are existential.

DarkGamer , 6 months ago

Another great move by the Biden administration! I wonder if it will be acknowledged by his critics?

DarkGamer , 6 months ago

I'll save my praise for when the trains start running.

That won't be until well after 2024.

DarkGamer OP , 6 months ago

Biden is absolutely a liberal.

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion, constitutional government and privacy rights.

DarkGamer OP , 6 months ago

I dont know where your copy pasta comes from and I'm not clicking on your link.

Can't learn if you don't click, random stranger. I linked to the wikipedia article on liberalism, what that "copypasta" was cited from.

Clearly it's the definitions that are wrong, lol.

DarkGamer , 6 months ago

Pro crime Republicans protected him from consequence

DarkGamer , 6 months ago

It's in there! Listed as the Stokke Barstool. They are not cheap.

DarkGamer , 7 months ago

Seems like a stupid move to destroy such a popular platform, and highlights the risk of relying on cloud services.

DarkGamer , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Two-timing

DarkGamer OP , 7 months ago

It's frustrating when only one party cares about reality and consequences. Anyone still voting Republican must be either incredibly ignorant, (they believe the GOP leadership when they openly lie,) or malevolent, (they are aware of what they are doing, implementing christofascism, trying to end democracy, and they like it.)

DarkGamer , 7 months ago

Is he trying to get thrown in prison so he can blame Democrats for his inevitable loss?

DarkGamer , 7 months ago

Well he'd be hindered in campaigning, raising funds, giving speeches and interviews, and making back-room deals. I can't imagine that would help his chances. Knowing Trump it would give him someone else to blame, as he seems incapable of accepting responsibility for anything.

DarkGamer , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I think exceptions need to be made for obvious propaganda, disinformation, gaslighting, and hate speech. Dangerous lies and calls for violence do not need a platform, that's quite different from silencing people for merely having a different opinion.

DarkGamer , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I used to believe the free marketplace of ideas worked this way, then the Trump years and the pandemic happened. It became clear that many people cannot and/or do not care to know the difference between evidence-based conclusions & obvious and dangerous lies.

“A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on.”—Mark Twain, (possibly apocryphal but still relevant)

DarkGamer , 9 months ago

Nah, you make them stateless they will use the same tool to go after people they don't like. We should keep them here and make them accountable and show them consequences like this one.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

He will keep threatening people, he always has. Jail him. He can be tried from custody.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

the "main allegation," Bloomberg reported in June, "is expected to be that Amazon leverages its power to reward online merchants that use its logistics services and punish those who don’t."

I hope they continue leveraging antitrust laws, America has far too many companies that are both both too big to fail and too big to compete against. If we are to have the upsides of capitalism we must have viable competition.

DarkGamer OP , 10 months ago

I'm not sure what can be done besides packing the court, given that impeaching a federal judge requires a 2/3 senate majority, as well as the majority of the house. Republicans are not going to hold their own accountable.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

They don't form opinions so much as inherit them from authoritarians via social pressure.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

More than the CCP? More than Russia? More than North Korea? Please.

DarkGamer , 10 months ago

It seems like it doesn't matter where the parent company pretends to be on the political spectrum, they all hate unions. I hope they remember who their customers are.

DarkGamer OP , 10 months ago

The university had signed an offer letter in a public ceremony saying it would hire her as director in a tenured position to revive its journalism program. Soon afterward it reneged on the offer amid right-wing backlash over her work for The New York Times and interest in diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Texas A&M System acknowledged in its review that system and university administrators made mistakes in the hiring process, as certain procedures were not followed. Race and gender were not involved in any of the decisions made, the university said.

“The (Office of General Counsel) did not identify any other evidence that race was a factor in the internal hiring process. In addition, there was no evidence of gender as a factor in the hiring process,” the internal report said.

Some of the documents released with the report show what McElroy was up against.

"A win for Aggies! The leftwing "journalism" professor/DEI advocate that A&M tried to recruit won't be taking the job. After she was exposed by @Texas Scorecard for her racist beliefs, she decided staying at UT was a better fit," says a photo of a tweet under the name Michael Quinn Sullivan, the publisher of Texas Scorecard, a far-right website. The site published stories about her hiring that focused on her diversity work. The tweet that was part of a text from a board member included a photo of a Texas Tribune story about the hiring mess.

They scream and shout about "cancel culture" while pulling shit like this. Add it to the pile of right-wing hypocrisy.

DarkGamer OP , 10 months ago

The way to prosecute someone in a criminal conspiracy is to get their cronies to flip on them.

DarkGamer OP , 3 months ago

That was almost 40 years ago, it's doubtful the same people still work at the FBI. A lot of historically bad things happened at that organization under J. Edgar Hoover, but I wouldn't judge the modern FBI on that either.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Earl Warren is spinning so fast in his grave they could use him to power the east coast