[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

my guesses, PR boost? solidifying support? people who are on the fence about Arce given the division between him and Evo might be negatively polarized into a more favorable position given the idea that he's under attack yet holding the line for MAS, galvanizing the public into active support given the trauma of the previous coup. Like a "you may not like Arce, but he's securing us from western sabotage" feeling

I'm not going to pick sides until this line is further probed, just trying to probe the logic here.

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i'm not going to lie, it is kinda sus that the coup attempt essentially did like, nothing. I know the Venezuelan coup attempt was pretty much this but these mfs got into the presidential palace? face to face with the man himself? this reframing isn't out of the question

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rainbolt twitch.tv/hasanabi... [LOUD CLICK] ...nice

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You could argue they already have, but I think they're still in the transitory stage, as there are still (as far as I have heard) living Israeli hostages/POWs in the Gaza Strip. I think the clue for when that transition tips qualitatively is going to be when the hostage families, as an action group, become a pro-war force domestically rather than a relatively anti-war force.

Once there are no more verifiably-living Israeli captives in the Strip, there is going to be a campaign originating from either a) the Israeli government itself or b) a citizen group mixed with grieving families of unaccounted-for IDF captives/civilian hostages and unhinged settlers/zealots, which will subsequently be co-opted into official policy, that lump-sums the captive count and the unknown count into a rhetorical 'unknown, possibly captive' count that is used as justification to continue the war.

There’s pretty much a seamless setup for this idea to take root—so much so that I believe it is almost inevitable:

  1. The promulgation of "Hamas' labyrinthine and sprawling underground tunnels" as rhetorical justification for indiscriminate targeting is very neatly slotted into a mythos of mass captivity of an unverifiable amount of people in said tunnels
  2. Mass bombing and indiscriminate targeting inevitably and demonstrably leads to mass casualty and wasting of infrastructure. Ruling out the laughable idea that the IDF is an entity with iron-tight discipline among its ranks, you are going to have rank-breaking, overextension, and hooliganism (a la Looney Tunes' Greatest To Ever Do It World Cup Flag Kicker), often unaccounted for, that will have combatants buried under the rubble or generally out-of-sight in the aftermath, pumping the MIA count
  3. On-the-ground journalism in Gaza has been decimated, both by the carnage and by Israel’s active hostility and repression towards outlets that don’t toe the line
  4. Hostages are already being killed in Israeli airstrikes, and the indiscriminate nature of these strikes as well as there being no count (as far as I’m aware) of the current number of verifiably-alive and verifiably-dead captives lends itself to a blurring between the POW and MIA counts

I am willing to put money on this being a major facet in the domestic movement to continue the current state of the war within the decade if Israel continues to exist as the entity as it is now. The only thing that holds me back is that I think it would be irresponsible for me to take others up on that wager because I feel like I would be scamming people with an unwinnable bet.

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SKEPTICAL HAMAS MEMBER – I am antisemitic but I think that the explosion that just happened had the aftertaste of Islamism.

HAMAS LEADER – I have assigned Mohammed to the rockets we make out of food imports. Mohammed, did you do this?

MOHAMMED(using the voiceless bilabial plosive) I have killed some babies so that the Jews will be blamed!

HAMAS LEADER – Classic Mohammed! Very funny. Save some for dinner tonight. We do not need aid because you have secured our food supply, which is these babies, if that was not obvious. I love doing terrorism!

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trans-heart vivian-shrug lets-fucking-go

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freeze-gamer

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I got so stressed about the time limit that I just fuckjng stream of consciousnessed all over it. why the fuck did I not just rewrite the paragraph. I had like 15 minutes left. need a premature autopsy performed on me to figure out what the fuck is going on. Finals week is regressing my brain back to fifteen years of age shinji-screm

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michael-laugh

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sopranos-poker you regret one bajillion percent of the posts you don't send. keep arguing

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 130 points 2 months ago

Hitler condemns Warsaw antiwar riots, says 'Order must prevail'

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tentative but enthusiastic recommendation as I haven't finished it but have loved what I've played thus far. Insofar as I have experienced the story (just got to expired grove) it is fundamentally anticrabitalist.

gameplay loop is fun, the combat and movement feels really polished, the dialogue and bits have been consistently good (gotten a few good chuckles outta me), has good accessibility options for if soulslikes aren't your wheelhouse ~~and it's the only real souls-adjacent game with an arthropod protagonist (silksong literally never)~~

https://aggrocrab.com/ACT crab-party

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 126 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not adding a burning the Star of David emote, apologies, but that's the line I draw, being Jewish. I know that's not the intent stated, but it still is as such. I'm not trying to say that Israel's use of it is in any way legitimate, nor that I disagree that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state that deserves 1000 October 7ths for all the terror they wrought, but it just makes me viscerally uncomfortable to have an emote depicting that.

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>knowingly create situation where people will act out against you in an uncivil manner and use the skewed power in your favor to manifest it

>get mad at the people acting out, shut down discussion regarding what you did, act victimized

yeah that’s a certified Israel classic if I’ve ever seen one yea

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 100 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

don't see where you mentioned Tiananmen Square lea-think

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 100 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i love how libs' brains just break at the thought of someone being more left-wing than them. it never gets old.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 104 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hypersus IT'S AN ALLEGORY FOR FASCISM
hypersus IT'S LITERALLY WORD-OF-GOD AN ALLEGORY FOR FASCISM
hypersus IT COULDN'T BE ANY MORE CLEAR-CUT
hypersus YOU CAN LITERALLY GOOGLE THE PHRASE "WHAT IS WARHAMMER AN ALLEGORY FOR" AND YOU WILL GET THAT AS A FRONT-PAGE RESULT

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