This is a bad move. They’re asking the same price as Dropout, but with 1/30th the content, especially in back-catalog. They already had a very profitable Patreon, and switching to a sub model is just going to lose them a lot of viewers.
I fired up 7DTD a couple months ago, and I definitely did not feel like it was anywhere close to being done. Releasing out of EA feels like they just want to be done with it.
I never said you can’t; that’s your choice to make whether you can compartmentalize these from each other on an emotional level.
But whether you are happy for Ukraine or not, on a factual level you cannot ignore that this bill’s passage is also furthering a genocide.
Unless you are openly valuing the lives of Ukranians over the lives of Palestinians, I’m not sure you can say the bill’s passage is ultimately a good thing.
But this, in fact, is what actual war looks like these days: Sometimes it’s a volley of 300 missiles and drones, and sometimes it is lean, targeted, and carried out covertly. Gone are the days of vast conquering armies and conventional military confrontations between two parties. So long as experts, the government, and the...
Everyone in the world (except for Russia, with their ‘special operation’ euphemism) recognizes the invasion of Ukraine as a war. People are still pretending that Israel bombing targets inside Iran and Iranian military units in other countries, and Iran launching a large-scale missile strike against Israel, isn’t a war. It’s no longer a proxy war, it’s a direct conflict, but because people are still stuck in exactly that mode of thinking- that ‘war’ means artillery and troops and taking ground- people are treating this as something else.
I don’t think the author is correct that war won’t still look like the WW1/2 paradigm of conflicts as well, but as of right now there are 16 countries involved in the Israel/Iran not-war:
Direct involvement:
Israel
Iran
US
UK
Syria
Iraq
Jordan
Yemen
Lebanon
Logistical involvement (including intelligence sharing and air defense deployment):
Kuwait
UAE
KSA
Qatar
Oman
Djibouti
Bahrain
I think the salient point is that the US’s insistence that they/we’re not yet in a war is a lie designed to both avoid blame being put where it belongs (Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, and the US’s involvement, that kicked this all off), and to temper calls for more action to stop the war, which will require stopping Israel in Gaza.
By calling for preventing a war, the US is attempting to blame future actions, whereas if they acknowledge we’re already in a war, they’d have to admit that it’s because of actions that already took place, and the US wants desperately to make Iran the bad guys here, and claim this has nothing to do with Israel doing war crimes both in Gaza and in Lebanon.
So you’re saying that people fighting with nail-studded sticks, or secretly assassinating internal political opponents in the other’s territory, is a similar level of conflict as flattening an embassy with a laser-guided bomb, or firing 300 drones and ballistic missiles, and then having a retaliatory strike on the location of another country’s nuclear program?
This strains my credulity, that you are suggesting this.
If China bombed a US embassy in Japan, the US fired 300 missiles at targets on China’s eastern seaboard (which were intercepted), and China retaliated by striking targets in San Diego… no one on earth would be denying that they were at war.
If the ultimate goal of a war is to force one nation or group to surrender to another through military might
I don’t think it is the ultimate goal of war, that’s overly restricting the definition based on, as I said, this conception of war as only being these wide-ranging conflicts (really, what “total war” refers to). Many wars have been fought purely over control of land or resources, where surrender or government toppling was never the goal.
war, noun, ˈwȯr (1): a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations
Some people think in simple binaries, and lump people into groups based on who they believe holds a certain view.
Say anything negative about Israel, you must be pro-Hamas.
Say anything negative about Biden, you must be pro-Trump.
Say anything ‘negative’ about Ukraine (even something as simple as that Ukraine’s youth being conscripted and dying is horrible), you must be pro-Russia.
It’s hard to overstate how much danger this intentionally places protest organizers in. There’s essentially no way to risk even holding them under this ruling, because some Right-wing asshole can show up in a mask, throw a brick at the cops, and they can arrest the organizers and charge them with felony assault of a police officer.
They’re just brainwashed by puritanical, capitalist “work ethic”. A lot of people who have nothing and work their way up by engaging with systems that steal their labor, in turn see those systems as good because they’re ahead of where they were before, without understanding that those systems intentionally create situations of poverty in order to drive disadvantageous labor participation.
Yes, but she’s not going to be part of this election, for all sorts of reasons both cultural (misogyny, Democratic fear-based-voting pushing people to only unify behind the Party candidate even when they can’t win, her anti-doctor statements [1], etc), and structural ones like primary and debate rules being set by the Party to favor its candidates.
Check my post history if you think I’m pro-Biden; I am most assuredly not.
[1] she has insisted she is anti- pharma-industry, which is totally correct to be, but many of her statements are not actually attacking just pharma companies, but doctors for prescribing things like antidepressants. It’s one thing to question the influence of pharma in medical decisions, but attacking whole classes of treatments is the same as attacking the doctors doing them, and she’s not qualified to be making those kind of statements based on her personal experience with depression.
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
Hell yeah. Let no one claim ignorance of what is happening over there; no “I don’t keep up with news much” to shrug off the choice to ignore a genocide. Put it in front of everyone’s faces.
i avoid hype but as a massive fan of the original kcd and the honesty of this reveal, im hyped! wont be pre-ordering though, never pre-order its bad for the industry and consumers.
However, despite routinely portraying themselves as both climate champions and defenders of taxpayer interests, New York governor Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders have so far declined to include the legislation in the final state budget, which is being ironed out this week.
If the provisions are excluded, as some environmental groups now presume, the decision would be a massive win for some of Hochul’s major campaign donors who are tied to fossil fuel companies that would have been required to make payments, according to campaign finance records reviewed by us.
In the absence of a new superfund law, much of the cost of climate mitigation could fall on working-class New Yorkers: Hochul has recently declared that she opposes any new tax increases on the wealthiest residents in her state, which has the country’s second-largest number of billionaires.
It doesn’t tell you how to do these behaviors, it’s a list of perceived benefits, and I think the author’s end commentary is making the point that a lot of abuse victims chalk their abusers’ behavior (which they may see in the list) up to personality or upbringing, and this list of all the “benefits” by abusers who are clearly treating this is a very conscious cost/benefit assessment shows that it’s not those, it’s an intentional and willful choice to hurt them.
It was on that day that I realized if I had to choose between providing batterer groups for men who batter or a consistently effective criminal and civil/family court response to domestic violence, I would choose the criminal and civil/family court response every time. There are just too many benefits gained from this behavior.
After that first time asking the men about the benefits of their violence, I began to be much more effective in my work. It was astounding how dramatically the groups changed once I acknowledged and remembered that the violence was functional— and that was why they used it.
The idea behind third parties in the 19th century was you push one of the two parties—or maybe both parties—and they eventually adopt what you’re pushing. And I learned that wasn’t possible. The Democrats would respond not by moving in the direction of working for the people. They responded by scapegoating their losses onto the Green Party.
They’re great scapegoaters—they never look at themselves in the mirror.
I want to ask about 2024. It seems that the rhetoric of the “lesser of two evils” is especially heightened—
Wait a minute. It’s the wrong question. It’s the wrong question. The first question is: Why isn’t the Democratic Party and Biden 20 points ahead of a chronic liar, thief, crook, narcissist, smearer, slanderer, ignorant, stupid Trump and his followers? That’s the question. You don’t take the dereliction of the party knuckling under their corporate political media people and start there. You start with: Why aren’t they landsliding him?
You got to start digging deep, Jacob—you got to dig deep into the malaise, the surrender, the low expectation level, the narcissism, the smugness of our side. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. We have the most powerful arguments in American history, against the worst tyrants and corporate indentured servants in American history.
Damn, this is what establishment politics robs us of; intelligent, coherent, pro-labor candidates.
He’s not refusing to acknowledge spoilers exist, he’s saying that the whole premise is that they are voters who would be voting for the larger party if their policy positions were adopted or engaged with by the party they’re “spoiling”, and yet when the e.g. Democratic Party just refuses to engage with any policy changes and thusly doesn’t gain those voters who were available to them, they turn around and blame the voters, when it was literally a choice they made to decline engaging with their positions. He is pointing out that it is the party choosing to stick with their corporate-backed positions over gaining voters (i.e. over winning).
They either don’t understand, or actively refuse to engage with, coalition-building.
Netanyahu’s government published its platform, which stated that “the Jewish people have exclusive and indisputable rights” over the entirety of Israel and the Palestinian territories and will advance settlement construction in the occupied West Bank.
There are tons of US media reporting on protests in Israel against Netanyahu (not all of which are against his policies, of course), but regardless of protests there is a reason he’s been reelected so many times, and it’s that the progressive Jewish Left in Israel is massively outnumbered by the hardliner ultranationalist and religious Right.
There are huge protests in SF for movements like Land Back (which just last month worked with Berkeleyto return burial land to the Ohlone peoples), but that doesn’t mean even 1% of the US is on board with it.
Watcher’s Move Off YouTube to Paid Streaming Service Sparks Angry Fan Backlash (variety.com)
Watcher Entertainment’s decision to move off YouTube – and charge $6 per month for access to new series – prompted a major backlash among fans.
7 Days to Die is finally leaving early access, but console players will have to buy the 1.0 version again (www.eurogamer.net)
FINALLY!! 61B$ AID APPROVED!! Took long enough. (www.bbc.com)
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Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like (theintercept.com)
But this, in fact, is what actual war looks like these days: Sometimes it’s a volley of 300 missiles and drones, and sometimes it is lean, targeted, and carried out covertly. Gone are the days of vast conquering armies and conventional military confrontations between two parties. So long as experts, the government, and the...
House passes Ukraine / Israel aid package (www.cnn.com)
Supreme Court refuses to defend constitutional right to organize (redphoenixnews.com)
Laziness Does Not Exist (drdevonprice.substack.com)
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood (theintercept.com)
Pro-Palestine Activists Attempt to Block Workers from Entering Arms Manufacturer in Charlotte (unicornriot.ninja)
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters paralyse roads in US cities over war on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
kingdom come: deliverance II reveal (yt.drgnz.club)
i avoid hype but as a massive fan of the original kcd and the honesty of this reveal, im hyped! wont be pre-ordering though, never pre-order its bad for the industry and consumers.
Kathy Hochul Is Leaving a Climate Law Off the NY Budget (jacobin.com)
Abusive Men Describe the Benefits of Violence (voicemalemagazine.org)
Ralph Nader would like to stop having to explain why the spoiler coverage is stupid (www.motherjones.com)
The Palestine Movement Has Completely Undermined the US-Israel Relationship (www.youtube.com)
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Israeli Cabinet Members Join Event Calling for Ethnic Cleansing & Resettlement of Gaza (m.youtube.com)
This is not really news, but good proof of bad conduct