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DarkGamer , 4 months ago

This source is heavily biased against Israel. I wouldn't trust them for news regarding this conflict.

While it demonstrated a clear opposition to Israel and the West, The Cradle did not appear to weigh in on other topics relevant to right-left U.S. politics. Site searches for "liberal," "conservative," "right-wing," and "left-wing" yielded few results.
However, The Cradle frequently cast "far-right" Israeli politicians in a negative light. While the reviewer noted that this was likely due more to the region's specific politics than any alignment with U.S. partisan polarization, The Cradle's clear anti-Israel stance made it difficult to justify a Center rating.
The reviewer noted a general trend of coverage sympathetic to Arab Muslims and suspicious of Israel and the West. This could be seen in The Cradle's extensive coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which often highlighted faults by Israel. Notable headlines included "Israeli police unable to verify 'Hamas rape' stories," "Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs," "Michael Hudson: A roadmap to escape the west's stranglehold," and "'Unprecedented' surge in West Bank settlement activities." The Cradle also published interviews with representatives of militant groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Middle Eastern politicians like Iraqi ex-PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Thanks!

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Because I disagree with you the only possible explanation is that I don't think critically? Piss off.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

I said it was from a biased source, not that it was wrong, but if you want to see an example of why it's bad compare the death count in the CNN report vs. this one. It's not "thousands" gunned down, even according to Hamas:

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said 104 were killed and more than 700 injured in the incident, one of the deadliest since the war in Gaza began.

It also includes IDF statements which paint a very different picture of events:

In an initial account, Israel said Gaza residents surrounded the aid trucks and looted the supplies. “During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling,” the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
An Israeli military spokesperson later said in a briefing that there were two separate incidents involving aid trucks.
First, he says trucks went to the north and were swarmed by crowds, with trucks running over people. Subsequently, he says, a group of Palestinians approached Israeli forces, who then opened fire on the Palestinians.
“The truckloads went into the north, then there was the stampede, and then afterwards, there was the event against our forces. That’s how things transpired this morning,” the spokesman said.

I don't believe anything offhand from such a source, especially on matters regarding Israel, nor should you. Stick to credible organizations if you prefer objective reporting to emotionally charged propaganda.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Smallpox did most of the genociding, killed ~90% of Native Americans. It would have been a much different situation and outcome if colonists arrived and the Americas were not depopulated from pandemic. I often wonder what that world would be like.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Being a right wing antisemitic white nationalist union busting troll probably doesn't go over well with the German public.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Free games in exchange for identity theft. No thanks.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

South Korea is run by a handful of enormous family owned companies. This is probably related to the fertility rate.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

His video on how to make eggs has totally changed how I prepare them, now breakfast is my favorite meal. I like his cooking more than his reality TV schtick.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXtrScuC30E

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Use a VPN that doesn't keep logs, make sure you have a good adblocker, then go to these sites.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Yeah but in context it's actually pretty hilarious. Handsome Jack's monologues made borderlands 2 for me. Such a great villain.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

At this stage the move is largely a symbolic measure to express solidarity with the Palestinians as, he said, the union’s workers have yet to be involved in any weapons shipments to Israel since the Gaza war began.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Muslims often have massive group prayer, it's about outlying public participation for one specific religious group.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Every now and then for about 5 minutes after the revolution but before the new corruption.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Wouldn't that also put the characters into public domain like Wile E Coyote? I can't imagine they'd do that for a tax write-off.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Well that would be different from how it works with Mickey Mouse and Sherlock Holmes, in both of those examples, some works involving the character are public domain and others are still under copyright. As such, people can do their own versions of Mickey mouse as long as it's the steamboat Willie version of Mickey mouse but not Mickey mouse from more recent works. People can write their own versions of Sherlock Holmes stories as long as they don't have the characteristics of Sherlock Holmes in later novels.

I suspect the same would apply to Wile E. Coyote if this film went into the public domain, people could use the character as long as it's the version of the character from this movie and not the version from the '60s cartoons.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

The problem is isolationism often leads to situations we can't ignore, as with the world wars. We were isolationists before then, and we benefited greatly from our international involvement ever since. We are the richest country in the history of the world largely thanks to our geography and international involvement. The dollar is the world's fiat currency. We prefer not to fight wars for other people, rather we usually just fund and arm groups that share our interests.

If we withdraw back into our shell, we lose the privileged place we have in the world.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Yes, being late to the party did benefit the US, but only because we stopped being isolationist.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

https://radiolab.org/podcast/bit-flip

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Neat there's even a video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Discovery is valuable even if it doesn't have immediate engineering applications. Much of our understanding of physics and the standard model has come from just smashing things together with higher and higher energy levels.

DarkGamer , 4 months ago

Considering really the only difference between peaceful prosperous modernity and the barbarity our ancestors experienced is technology, yes.

DarkGamer , 8 months ago

When your government refuses to negotiate for viable peace then ramps up hostilities by invading and murdering hundreds of innocent civilians
"Why can't we have peace?"
Guess it's a mystery.

DarkGamer , 8 months ago

You can’t really say it’s “their government” when the Palestinians in Gaza haven’t had free and fair elections in years.

Many people live under governments that are not democracies, those are still their governments. Last time Gaza did have free elections, they elected Hamas.

Hamas has fucked the civilians in both Israel and Gaza.

They sure have.

Civilians of either country who don’t support the aggressive actions of “their side” (countinued settlement, terrorism) shouldn’t be suffering as a result.

And yet that's predictably what always happens in war. I'm sure that there were many innocent civilians who opposed Nazi policies in Germany, yet still shared consequences of the regime that they lived under.