redballooon
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- Comment on A good deal of IT work, too 11 months ago:
If it spits out the wrong syntax my compiler will tell me immediately.
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
Your comment reads like you’re addressing mostly the history since 2005 or so. I definitely see that Israel after the 2nd intifada has had a very different strategy than before, including these things that you outline.
Just don’t ignore that there was a history before. There was an offer for a 2-state solution on the table where the world agreed it won’t get any better. Arafat just walked away and started the 2nd intifada instead. Hamas is still much older than that. Irans support of the Hamas is newer, though.
It’s so lame to blame it all on Israel. My take on this still is that for the security of Israel, it doesn’t matter much what Israel does. Their tries for peace negotiations were largely ignored, and their hard crackdowns do shit for their security. The signal to deescalate the conflict must come from Iran, which will impact how Hamas and Hisbollah work.
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
Yes, there is all that. As I said, I think Netanyahu and his bunch belong in jail, not in power.
But when this guy is out of the way, here’s a few more questions to consider:
- Do you agree that after Oct 7th, Israels strategy of building a wall and an “iron dome” must be considered totally failed?
- Do you agree that the Hamas can not be talked with?
- Do you agree that independent from the Hamas, Israel is surrounded by militant groups that want to erase the state from the map?
- Do you agree that in the past no palestinean negotiator seriously considered a 2-state-solution?
What are, positively speaking, Israels options? What should a moderate follower of Netanyahu do to achieve some sort of piece? I’m lost here. Do you have any ideas other than saying “not this way”?
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
That is at best a totally skewed version. Yea we know Netanyahu for a few years let the Hamas grow, and we have records of him with vaguely the reasoning you have there.
But to make Israel entirely responsible for the existence, what the Hamas does and wants, demands a world view of an all powerful Jewish government that plans and executes for immense time frames. Don’t we have that though pattern in widely spread antisemitic conspiracy theories?
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
Really? What we have in the news these days is published by the conflict parties, independent verification is almost never possible.
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
To the leftist who is stunned by this message:
Think of Jordan Peterson. There was a time where he was riled up against “ideologies who would kill people in the name of a higher good.” And he named examples, Stalin and Mao most prominently. For all the abstract criticisms of ideologies, he rarely distances himself from Fascism, named Hitler only very occasionally as an example.
Now he is forethinker for the Republican Fascist party which is now normalizing the exact dehumanizing language that the Nazis used to prepared and justify their concentration camps.
Antifascists caught his thought patterns early on and warned of him using fascist arguments much more sensitive than most people, the missing distancing from Hitler along his other prominent examples being one of them.
Now, dear leftists, the mirror of this arguments wants to ask you if you are really only motivated by reducing human suffering and wanting peace. And if so, you cannot ignore the role of Hamas in this longtime ongoing conflict nor in this war. If you skip that, if that’s not in your mirror, it’s big time necessary to go outside your bubble. Because then chances are you are a puppet playing the propaganda trumpet for the Hamas, or otherwise playing in their hands.
- Comment on Here's your mirror kings 11 months ago:
Circlejerk rather than shitpost.
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
Which is not a solution because just because while you pay less taxes you still have to go through the process
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 11 months ago:
Just watch the Let’s play if you want the movie 😀
- Comment on Do you think that membership into suicide pacts will increase dramatically within the next decade because the world is falling apart at the seams? 1 year ago:
You say that as if critical thinking was ever taught in school.
- Comment on Damn y'all fucking love landlords don't you 1 year ago:
My landlord has only this one second apartment and never responds unless we refer to laws and work with deadlines.
- Comment on Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female? 1 year ago:
Those are female last I checked
- Comment on Why is that on the internet, people assume you're a male from America, but if you're a vegan on the internet, people assume you're female? 1 year ago:
I’m neither female nor American. Nobody will guess my identity on the internet.
- Comment on When does "what you know" become realer than "what you see"? 1 year ago:
Sure thing. That’s because the teapot should be in the cuiper belt, right?
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
It would also not have been possible with their design, if all the failguards wouldn’t have failed.
But 2 in 60 years, both of western design, is still more than that study estimated.
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
True but the fallout for each accident is immense. Western Europe dealt with Tschernobyl for years. Japan was just lucky that the wind blew in the other direction.
If the world triples nuclear power plants, and we deal with an accident every 7-10 years, that’s gonna be a serious problem.
In 2023 the alternative is not nuclear vs coal, but nuclear vs wind and solar.
- Comment on why is the world suddebly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group? 1 year ago:
Have you heard about Jemen recently?
No? Then it must be quiet there. No deaths at all.
- Comment on why is the world suddebly focused on the irsali-palestine conflict and hamas group? 1 year ago:
Muslims too
Also Jews
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 1 year ago:
Slightly off topic, there are about 450 nuclear plants on earth. A noted MIT study in 1989 estimated that each nuclear plant only has a worst case nuclear accident every 20000 years.
Statistically that would make one every 44 years.
In our history we have had nuclear power plants for about 60 years, and so far there were three worst case nuclear accidents.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If you don’t want to be called out don’t spread bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Unlike say what Myanmar did to the Rohingya, neither the UN nor any human rights organizations of note have used the term “genocide” related to what Israel does.
Therefore, per the 3-D-Test, this statement fulfills “double standards” and “demonization” and is clearly antisemitic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yeah, but let’s also not ignore that antisemitism exists and often is hidden behind various criticism of Israel. For distinguishing legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism there’s the 3-D rule of thumbs.
How do boycott the Israeli government?
- Comment on How should I find a good hair cut? 1 year ago:
I think that question is totally normal in your age group. Why not, instead of telling your barber something, ask him? And if he can’t help, try a different one next time.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 1 year ago:
Your bike doesn’t sound like I’d want to ride it up or down even a small hill. Unlike the Netherlands, many places on earth have a 3rd dimension, putting additional requirements on a bike.
- Comment on What makes a bicycle so expensive? 1 year ago:
Normal bikes are 200e
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
In my eyes it comes down to the possibilities of building up and maintaining some modest wealth. Most prominent examples are housing prices. With rising prices as we’ve seen in the past 2 decades, many people are forced to remain renters instead of being able to buy their own house or appartment. That’s wealth distribution upwards.
If you have some modest amount of money, say some 10k EUR, trying to invest that such that it doesn’t loose value is close to impossible. The whole finance industry seems to be set up to suck up any gains that these investments can get. As soon as you can juggle a few 100k EUR, a whole other range of investments opens up to you. That’s wealth distribution upwards.
In Germany (I don’t know about other countries) if you work to live and earn little, you’re taxed little, but you don’t earn enough to save anything anyways. If you earn more, you are taxed much more heavily than someone merely lives off a passive income. That’s wealth distribution upwards.
I wouldn’t be surprised, if this graph doesn’t concern itself with passive income anyways.
- Comment on Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see. 1 year ago:
It’s the same as every other Rorschach pattern. I’ll keep it to myself though.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Rough image. And here in Western Europe I’m concerned about wealth distribution from bottom to top.
But maybe that’s different, because this chart says income distribution.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You think antisemitism will be removed enough in 500 years to allow that? I would be glad if that was conceivable, but that’s something so deeply ingrained in so widely different societies all over the world, I don’t see it happening.
Look into the history of antisemitism to get a feeling how this is different than “just” your usual tension between neighboring ethnicities.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
There are several highly armed groups and Iran whose explicit goal is to remove Israel from the map, implying removing the Jews there one way or another.
As soon as Israel loses support from the West, it can not push back military, and there will be no diplomatic solution.