DarkGamer

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

If you're going to define your movement as anti-genocidal you should really have a firm grasp on what genocide is and who is committing it:

Article II of the Convention defines genocide as:
... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Hamas, what Israel has been clear they intend to destroy, is not a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. However, Jews/Israel/Israelis, what Hamas has been clear they intend to destroy, are. Therefore, legally Oct 7 was an act of genocide, and Israel's war on Hamas is not. Such a designation has nothing to do with body count.

I support Israel because I oppose the genocidal. Binding their hands and preventing them from retaliating in self-defense only serves to support genocidal Hamas by keeping them in power.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

It's almost as if words mean things and have specific definitions, especially legal ones. Feel free to criticize such behaviors with different accurate words for things you don't like.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

If someone punches you to death, declaring they weren’t trying to kill you doesn’t make them any less guilty of murder.

Actually, in the US it could. Intent is the difference between murder and manslaughter.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Sorry to invade your echo chamber with dissent. It must pain you to be reminded that not everyone agrees with you, that must be so hard for you.

an occupying nation like Israel can not claim self defense when attacked

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. A blockade is not an occupation.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, some Jewish scholars stress

DarkGamer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Oh, I forgor, the United Nations is Hamas now.

Oh no don't forgor. They're not Hamas but they do exhibit significant anti-Israel bias.

Three countries were on said commission of inquiry:

Navi Pillay (South Africa), serves as chair, Miloon Kothari (India) and Chris Sidoti (Australia) serve as members of the commission

Many more opposed their methods and conclusions:

June 2023, United States and Israel joined 25 countries in condemning the open-ended nature of the UN investigation and "the long-standing disproportionate attention given to Israel in the council."

But that's the UN for you, lots of scrutiny and condemnation of Israel, not a peep when Jews are ethnically cleansed from neighboring countries.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

Oct 7 literally is an act of genocide, see my post above. You're saying they don't have credibility because you don't understand what genocide is. This designation has nothing to do with body count.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

Are you really suggesting that every asymmetrical war that is conducted successfully is genocide? O.o

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

To a certain degree, as they mentioned in the article regarding the casimir effect. While one cannot keep out the quantum foam entirely, it can be restricted to specific wavelengths by altering the volume of the space.

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watch#Allegations_of_anti-Israel_bias

DarkGamer , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Because clearly no one but me can disagree with the official social media narrative and only those paid to do so could possibly disagree? 😆

Sorry to inform you that many people disagree and reality sometimes conflicts with your preconceptions.

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

Ad hominem, for when you don't like an argument but are unwilling or unable to refute it

DarkGamer , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

No, my comment was providing more context, by pointing out that HRC, rhe source being cited by this BBC article, is not an unbiased source when it comes to matters regarding Israel, as detailed in the link I provided.

It is highly relevant and not derailing at all, you just appear to hate on anyone who refutes your narrative.

Casualties due to collateral damage and fog of war are quite normal in war, but HRC holds Israel to a different standard than every other Nation, is far more critical of Israel, and takes a lot of money from Qatar and sources that are very anti-israel.

They are not a good source for information regarding this conflict unless you want your anti-israel preconceptions catered to, which it seems you do.

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

Mustn't be exposed to dissent, enjoy your echo chamber

DarkGamer , 4 days ago

That doesn't make sense. I regularly interact with people who disagree with me.

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

You're presuming this was IDF without evidence to that effect

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

And you're presuming it was one of those three branches without evidence to that effect. Lot of presuming going on here.

DarkGamer , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I'm saying you shouldn't make up a story without evidence and you should save your outrage until the facts are in. It's not complicated. You don't know what happened. Stop pretending you do.

You are clearly eager to blame Israel without evidence.

DarkGamer , 5 days ago

Yes, yes you are.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

The quality and variety of what produce you can eat will be much higher, though. There's a lot of cultivars that don't make financial sense at scale but are wonderful to eat.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

I keep thinking it would be funny to make a throwaway D&D Character, perhaps an NPC, named Emma Gerd who talks this way.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

Lol what a tale! It's cool to hear the story behind the meme, thanks for sharing it.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

"Emmagerd, gerblins!" (drops dead from goblin projectiles.)

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

The AVGN videos on this game were classic.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

Bravo. You took the unique thing about the setting and character and made it into unique gameplay elements that fit the theme and sounds like fun. Superman's dilemma is not being able to stop everything despite his power and the rules of the game tell that story. I think you'd be a good game designer if you aren't already. The only thing I can think to add is maybe Kryptonite makes him have a health bar and diminished powers for a while, so he has to turn from the cat into the mouse for a little while until it wears off, kind of like stars in GTA.

What Wario game are you referring to? I haven't owned a Nintendo system in a long time.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

It's a good time to be a PC gamer, this is a good move for Square Enix. I really like how even games from decades ago are still playable and very affordable. There's a big market for quality single player RPGs as evidenced by the success of Baldurs Gate 3 and Persona 5 Royal.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

it’s still the act of measurement, not the act of a conscious person looking at that measurement, that causes the collapse of the wave function.

That's not the case here; when particles are measured and the which path information is erased/nonrecoverable it remains a wave:

what makes this experiment possibly astonishing is that, unlike in the classic double-slit experiment, the choice of whether to preserve or erase the which-path information of the idler was not made until 8 ns after the position of the signal photon had already been measured by D0.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

That's a matter of opinion. I can understand why many Palestinians do find it appropriate, especially given the intense indoctrination that Palestinian children experience, and the lack of available unbiased credible information there.

Given my own experience and information, I find it a lot more appropriate to fight back against Hamas, the oppressive regime that instigated this war, hides among civilians to maximize casualties, and has refused to surrender to end the war, which they could do at any time. I believe they are the primary cause of all of this death and destruction and suffering, not Israel defending itself.

Would I feel the same way were I in their shoes? Hard to say.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

• A google search for this 20-1 claim yields no results. Credible citation?
• If they did far better than their maximum acceptable casualties, and better than the average casualties under such conditions, isn't that a good thing that should be celebrated?
• Genocide, the crime, is a claim of intent and not casualty numbers. Israel says they intend to destroy Hamas, which is not a protected group under genocide statutes. Hamas says they intend to destroy Jews/Israel/Israelis, which are protected groups under genocide statutes. There is only one explicitly genocidal party in this conflict, and it's not Israel. I support them because I oppose the genocidal.

Fuck you.

Childish insults? It's sad you can't respectfully disagree and support your position like an adult.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

Some questions cannot be fairly answered with a simple yes or no, like, "Have you stopped beating your wife?"

There's a lot of bias packed into your question. If the IDF is in fact MURDERING, as in, illegally killing people, yes they do. However, if the IDF is acting within the law they absolutely do not. Either way, I'd say it's probably a bad move to do so and likely to get one shot.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

20-1 lavender yields a bunch of skin care products and this marijuana strain. Do you remember where you learned this information?

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

Of course they are people. Stop making me your strawman.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

No, that's a legal attack on Hamas. If they take up arms they are defending Hamas as a militant.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

Sadly, there are no magical munitions that don't cause collateral damage, nor is Israel infallible. They still have a right to self-defense and to eliminate the threat against them.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

I'm here in good faith, and I would appreciate the same without such jabs. And I will also block you because you clearly aren't.

Thanks. It's almost as if google doesn't show the same results to everyone, especially in different countries. I have read about their AI but did not recall its code name, nor do I recall that specific ratio. I'll read up.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

If your answer is “Hamas is there,” well they were somehow able to raid a hospital without killing everyone inside it and still get a whole bunch of Hamas people, so maybe they should do that instead of dropping bombs on children.

As you acknowledge, they are targeting Hamas, who often attacks them while hiding in areas full of children. Going in without air support into a well prepared guerilla fighter's den is likely to cause a lot of casualties. Even though that is acceptable every now and then like in the hospital that does not imply that's a viable strategy for all of Gaza.

Hamas counts on this "think of the children!" and the bad PR it causes, that's why they do this. They also want Israel's hands to be bound so they can do Oct 7 over and over again.

The right move is to minimize civilian casualties but not stop until the job is done, and that's exactly what I believe Israel is doing.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_human_shields_by_Hamas

According to a New York Times report, "Hamas has long been accused of using civilians as human shields and positioning underground bunkers, weapon depots and rocket launchers under or near schools, mosques and hospitals."[63]

DW military analyst Frank Ledwidge has said that "it's been described... as 'common knowledge' that many of the headquarters [of Hamas] are located under hospitals... [with] entries and exits in places like mosques or schools... [or even] UN facilities... that's why we've seen... so many non-combatant casualties so far".[64]

John Spencer has said that "[Hamas has] built many of their tunnel entrances and exits and passageway underneath protected sites like hospitals, schools, mosques, because it restricts the use of force that the IDF can take without going through the... laws of war calculation.[65]

According to Daphne Richemond-Barak, associate professor of counter-terrorism at Reichman University and author of the 2017 book Underground Warfare, Hamas militants operate under Al-Shifa Hospital gain "the highest level of protection available under the laws of war", as well as a "unique opportunity to operate far from surveillance drones, GPS, and other intelligence-gathering technology". She added that "in Gaza, tunnels are dug in civilian homes, pass under entire neighbourhoods, and lead into populated areas inside Israel... [which] enables Hamas to conceal entry and exit points, and facilitates undetected movement and activity."[66]

Avi Issacharoff has said that Hamas militants are "under the houses and neighborhoods of Gaza City, hoping that Israel won't attack them because they're hiding underneath human shields, and that if Israel will attack those neighborhoods, it'll kill many civilians, and the whole world is going to accuse Israel for war crimes". "The sad thing about all this", Issacharoff said, "is [that] Hamas doesn't care about their own people" and aims "not only to kill Israelis but for as many Palestinian civilians [casualties as well]".[67]

It's almost like starting a war when most of your population is children, then hiding among civilians and under schools endangers them. But I guess that's Israel's fault. Why can't they just send in soldiers without air support? They make easier targets that way.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

I'm saying this is a strategy Hamas uses, and they haven't stopped. They have been launching rockets from Rafah, hospitals and other civilian areas, they told civilians not to evacuate from war zones, and since half of Gaza is children that means yes, Hamas is attacking Israel from among children.

I'm saying using such despicable tactics is not a free genocide without reprisal card, nor should it confer a tactical advantage as that just means more of this in the future.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

Collateral damage is not murder. I feel like a parrot having to refute all these same inaccurate characterizations over and over again. Calling it murder doesn't make it so.

Good thing you're not in charge of any defense forces. If your opponents strapped their own children to tanks I suppose you'd just let them roll in and take over.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I used a somewhat satirical metaphor you don't like, so now I'm not here in good faith? Interesting reasoning.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

• I am neither defending Ben-Gvir nor Netanyahu, they are both assholes and should be removed from power. What I'm defending is Israel's right to self-defense. (I'm not your strawman, stick to things I actually wrote, please.)
• The alternative to using bombs is sending in troops without air support to a well-prepared guerilla den, suggesting Israel should sacrifice its own to protect civilians of a hostile nation, 72% of whom support the genocidal regime who attacked them.
• The pro-pali crowd certainly likes to make this sound like they are starving out Gaza in a medieval siege but that isn't reality.
• Said schools and hospitals were used as military assets by Hamas, making them into legal targets.
• Are you referring to the one outside the hospital? Mass graves do not necessarily imply war crimes, rather burying of the many dead that occurs in war. Israel says it was dug by Gazans to bury their dead.
• I read the statements SA submitted to the IJC, the most egregious quotes were from people who are not involved with running the IDF and waging this war (like Judeofascist Ben-Gvir and Amichai Eliyahu) and I do not believe they represent Israel as a whole, and as such they do not meet the standards for genocide. In fact Amichai got reprimanded for his statements. Many of the other quotes were taken out of context. (I did a deep dive on every quote cited a while back, which I would be happy to post here if you're interested.)
• If torture prisons exist that's a good reason to prosecute Ben-Gvir of war crimes if such orders came from on high, and also any guards who break the law without CO approval. If war crimes have happened I approve of prosecuting everyone responsible. However, I see a lot of people accusing Israel of war crimes inappropriately.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

As if those are the only two options. Refugees in Rafah are evacuating, very few are being blown up or becoming militants.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Then they are lying. I encourage you to watch the Oct 7 attack footage, (Content warning: violence, cruelty, death,) if you have the stomach for it, which clearly disproves any such claims. This is not collateral damage. They target civilians. Full stop.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Collateral damage still isn't murder no matter how many times you repeat it, nor does hiding among children make Hamas immune from reprisal. Regarding women and children, their casualty figures were faked by Hamas and recently quietly revised by the UN.

Your outrage over child casualties is being manufactured and manipulated by Hamas.

DarkGamer , 7 days ago

Citations and sources in the comments.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

If I'd done that, it would have been worthless. You need the additional context provided in that post.

DarkGamer , 6 days ago

I'm informed and simply disagree with you. Is that not allowed? Is disagreement always "propaganda?" Do you prefer an echo chamber?

Israel is not infallible. This is a war, sometimes they get bad Intel, sometimes collateral damage happens, sometimes there's fog of war…

In both of those attacks Israel was targeting militants and appears to have hit civilians.

DarkGamer , 8 days ago

The rivalry continues to today, as detailed in the link it seems like you didn't read.

In March 2024, Hamas and its allied groups in the Gaza Strip criticized Abbas' appointment of Mohamed Mustafa as the Palestinian Authority's new prime minister following Mohammed Shtayyeh's resignation. They issued a statement referring to the changes as "formal steps that are devoid of substance" and questioned the Palestinian Authority's ability to properly represent the Palestinian people. In response, Fatah condemned Hamas as being itself disconnected from the Palestinian people and accused them of "having caused the return of the Israeli occupation of Gaza" by "undertaking the October 7 adventure".
Later that month, Hamas accused Fatah of sending security officers into northern Gaza in collaboration with Israel, saying it had arrested six individuals and were "in pursuit" of the others. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement refuting the claims by Hamas.