BrandoGil

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[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See, this is the shit. Who are the occupiers? Palestine is a remnant of the Ottoman empire. Before that it was the Byzantines or the Romans and just about every other empire in the area in human history. Before Rome , it was the Jews. Then they lost the war and were banished from the region and scattered. It's the major reason there is NO one right answer. People going to a concert don't deserve to be brutally raped and murdered JUST as much as people trying to survive in an open air prison don't deserve to be indiscriminately bombed. That shit has been a dumpster fire for 3000 years, now all in the pursuit of power and clout. We can give a damn about people not in power, AKA the civilians on both sides.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No, it likely has more to do with an assassination attempt on US soil.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

There's a lot of lobby money tied into that but there's another policy pill that's hard to swallow, as well. The US has stated numerous times that after the assault on Hamas is over, Palestinians should and need to be the ones to govern themselves either through a new government or the Palestinian Authority which has been kept out of power since Hamas assumed rule in the West Bank. Israel hasn't committed to that solution and without the US, there is no one to make them commit. So if the US pulls out, now, Israel still won't stop and the resolution will be Palestinians living under Israeli rule. There isn't a right answer or path forward so they're opting for the least bad, long-term.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he did maintain a positive outlook all the way through.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If I have 100 acres of land and cut down 66 acres last year, this year my maximum output is 50% of last year's output but 100% is still going to be gone.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The flaw of the meme isn't that it's picking on religion, the flaw of it is that it assumes illogical views negate logical views. Believing that angels hid golden plates in New England doesn't negate good looks at a P&L in the same way that a Christian working at NASA that believes a dude rose from the dead doesn't negate good math to get a satellite into space. In the same way that me being agnostic doesn't mean I'm always logical and rational in every situation.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I worked at an Irish bar for a while and we had a couple guys from Donegal that would go in on drunk college kids about it. Really the only anecdotes I have on the situation, though.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Now people unironically ask Irish bartenders for car bombs and don't see the issue.

[–] BrandoGil@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not quite sure that's true. Maybe in raw numbers, but we're a living, breathing base of contributing users helping to keep a whole platform and community alive. It doesn't matter if the Federation isn't purely made up of former Reddit users as we've assimilated. Every contribution we make on this platform is one more that the last one doesn't get. Votes, posts, comments, it's all here and not there. I would very much like us to get to the size where the sports subs are active during game threads, but we're still having an impact.

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

I don't know if it's explicit support, but I DO remember a few years ago when both the DNC and RNC were compromised and the only kompromat released was against dems

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