I’m not denying warcrimes aren’t happening. It’s a war, and these things will happen.

An old guy in my hometown killed a civilian in WWII for no goddamn reason. He wasn’t court martialled, just chewed out by his CO, and they moved on. The other old fellas in my town wouldn’t talk to him, but no real punishment.

Do you now think that Canada committed genocide in WWII?

If you had video of all the war crimes from another war and kept watching those videos back to back over and over again, you’d think any war is a genocide.

You should be disgusted by the things that happen in war. War is a horrible thing. Only children think war is like a CoD game.

Personally, I don’t want another Gaza war to happen. Promoting hatred of Israel makes it more likely another Gaza war will happen, and it will have a similar result to this one. Is that what you want?

There’s a much much bigger indy market now. I’m sure people will still be playing games, just not AAA games they can’t afford on hardware they definitely can’t afford.

**trillions

Oh… a single issue voter. You’ll be voting Republican within a few years. Maybe it’s better if you don’t vote.

There’s just a general downturn in the economy. People don’t buy video games when they’re struggling to pay for groceries.

That and MS probably wants to throw more into the AI money pit.

The head is a little different. Other than that, yeah it’s the same thing.

Yeah many things should’ve been done 30 years ago. That’s irrelevant now. The only thing that matters is what is done now.

Point at where I’ve denied genocidal acts.

OK:

because of what you’ve been told hamas did on october 7th (emphasis added)

You’re saying “you’ve been told” implies that you think Hamas didn’t do these horrific things. Which explains why you’re so warped. You believe everything bad about the racial group you hate and doubt anything negative about those that are against those you hate.

I haven’t been exposed to shit. Have you not been listening?

I don’t think you’re listening.

You’re on the internet, you’ve been exposed to foreign propaganda. If you’re conscious of it, you’ll be able to better spot it.

If you insist on being so naive and pretend everything that makes you outraged on the internet must be real, you’re open to manipulation.

Spam.

Thank you for confirming my post. You have no clue about socialism other than USSR.

You’re lacking in reading comprehension. The working class doesn’t care about your hair splitting. You’re in a socialist movement that’s incapable of communicating with the working class. But your post confirms this… you care more about sounding smart than convincing anyone of anything.

Also socialism in the common usage (e.g. non hair splitting lefties) covers from anarchism to European style soc-dems.

Lemmy and the content algorithmically recommended to you (by systems created by capitalism) is no “common usage”. You’re in a bubble and you can’t handle anything coming from outside your bubble.

Hasan Piker is currently on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos. You never question why that is LOL.

So you don’t know what socialism is and its different types. Wikipedia has a nice overview.

Do you think anyone in the working class has the time to read a bunch of hair-splitting from academia? The USSR had socialist in it’s name. The word socialist will always have a connotation of “something to do with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”. You’re the ones who chose to describe yourselves with a loaded and ambiguous word. You’ve chosen to always be on the defensive in the political arena. Whoever you’re debating with can just say “I don’t want breadlines” and win the debate, because nobody in the working class has time for academic hair-splitting.

So you don’t know much about macroeconomics either. Supply-side is just a set if tools which works in certain conditions like a supply shock.

Ok so you’re pedantic. When I talk about supply-side economics, I’m talking about reaganomics, trickle down, all of that bullshit, not some specific “certain conditions”. Obviously.

Russia went from a country lagging ~80 years behind Europe to the first space faring country.

How many people starved to death in that time period? How many people got sent to the gulag?

Also I note how you are simultaneously saying “there’s many forms of socialism” to distance yourself from the Soviet Union while also wanting to stick up for the Soviet Union. You’re not coming across as honest here.

And this is why socialism loses in any debate from the perspective of the working class. It only works in academia. Some “socialists” (whatever that even means) may win in safe Dem districts with a large number of people that went to university and took a poli-sci class. It loses in any debate from the perspective of the working class. Academics fail at being able to communicate with the working class. If you were serious about communicating with the working class, you’d stop using the word “socialist”. But you won’t because the point of 21st century socialism is to impress your peers, not to be effective.

Keynes was about something else (understanding that an economy is a closed / semi-closed system which lead to the concept of a fiscal multiplier which is still being studied.).

We know Keynesian policies and trust busting solved similar economic problems we’re having now. We know absolutist socialism failed.

I’m not doubting they’re dropping flyers. I’m asking why a country intent on genocide would ever drop flyers instead of just dropping bombs? Why engage in psychological warfare on people you intend to kill?

Be careful, you’re giving evidence that it’s a war, not a genocide. That kind of talk will get you banned in these parts.

Following this with “wars are necessary” and tacking on “(not justified)” as if you didn’t justify wars by saying that Israel is justified in genociding the palestinians because of what you’ve been told hamas did on october 7th.

Ah ok, so you’re just straight up denying genocidal acts now. Do you also believe Hamas didn’t take hostages into Gaza?

Anyway, you don’t actually care about atrocities occurring, you’re fine with it as long as it’s against women and children that “deserve it”.

But please do co tinue to try and tell me how and what I think, fascist.

How do you define the term “fascist”? Just people that don’t agree with you?

You’re revealing how you think. Keep talking. You’re the one revealing how unhinged the anti-Israel movement is, not me.

Long johns… it’s the only way to be sure.

How cute, you’re a millennial and so you think that makes you special. You’ve been exposed to imagery of a war on the other side of the world and so you think it entitles you to be an asshole to people where you live.

It may be hard for you to accept, but you’re not all that much different from the boomers. Just mindlessly consuming things on the internet that make you angry. Not giving any thought about who is making you angry and for what purpose. Boomers tend to gravitate towards the Russian propaganda, while you gravitate towards Chinese and Iranian propaganda.

The only thing that I find offensive about the Iran conflict is that western lives and resources are being wasted fighting people we have no reason to hate.

The Iranian regime is making you hateful. It’s easier to convince people of lies than it is to convince people they’ve been lied to.

My conversations with younger generations are basically identical to my conversations with boomers. Same tendency towards conspiracy theories, same distrust of any media source that’s not conforming to their feelings. Your generation doesn’t make you anything special.

The Governor pardons state crimes, not the President.

Killing everyone in a city is genocide, dumbass. So you support genocide.

Are you so naive as to think the Lego videos were the only thing they’ve produced? Iran is behind only China and Russia in terms of internet propaganda operations. It’s fairly trivial to count the number of accounts on social media that are active every day, but coincidentally not active at times when the power’s out in Iran. They operate troll farms same as China and Russia does.

How do you think the Lego videos came out of nowhere and got picked up by the algorithms? Upvoted by the troll farms.

I’ve seen some strange activity on Lemmy like the exact same content being posted from multiple accounts. Always pro-Iran and anti-Israel.

You’re being incredibly naive if you think they just put out some cute little Lego videos and nothing else. You’re the target of an information warfare campaign, and it seems to be working. You need to think a little more about what content you’d expect troll farms in China, Russia, and Iran would be producing.

That’s not what the article we’re discussing is saying.

Thinking democracy is supposed to be about “having it your way and right away” is why democracy is failing in the US. That’s the Burger King slogan, not how democracy works.

Americans don’t approach voting as making a decision, y’all think of it more like buying a product. You act like consumers, not like citizens with a duty.

Democracy is a grind. You vote in every election over decades. You hold your nose and vote for the least worst option so there will be a better least worst option in the next election. You’re supposed to vote as part of your duty as a citizen, to be the ultimate check on power. Authoritarian populists lie and say “vote for me and you’ll never need to vote again” to appeal to the entitled laziness of Americans, and it works.

The narcissism of Americans mean they can’t compromise and vote for someone unless they like them, want to have a beer with them, say the right slogans, or whatever. It’s all about being coded to whatever aesthetic the base likes. Policies, checks on power, rights, these things don’t motivate Americans to vote. Americans are primarily motivated by narcissism so they vote (or not vote) according to how it will appear to their peer group.