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[–] [S] 294 points 8 months ago (26 children)
  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    So we've gone from:

    I like pancakes.

    Why do you hate waffles?!

    ... to ...

    Killing children is bad.

    Obviously you must have brain damage that causes you to spread hateful bigotted conspiracy theories.


    Somehow, reality ended up being more ridiculous and less believable than Metal Gear Solid 2.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Its b/c they specifically responded about Jewish people. They're outing themselves as child murderers b/c they feel attacked by the statement.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I... I know that... I'm just trying to point out how the insanity knob appears to just ratchet forward and there seemingly is no way to dial it back... we're just gonna keep cranking it up untill it blows out the amp, so to speak.

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  • [+] -72 points 8 months ago (21 children)
  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    That's the same excuse as

    "The Nazis genocide is, so it's fine if we genocide others back"

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  • [+] -11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    "The Israelis hit civilians when destroying the rocket launcher we put on top of a hospital, so it's okay for us the paraglide into a music concert and just start killing and raping"

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    You can simply take the side of innocent people here, you know?

    This isn't two sports teams going against each other. There are people okay with the mass killing of an entire people to further their own political and ideological goals, and there are those who are not. It really doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    And why exactly does Hamas exist in the first place? Surely not because Isreal has been killing Palestinians before Isreal was even an official state.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This is actually something I don't understand when this argument is brought up. Havent they both been killing each other since well before the modern period?

    It made a little more sense when the argument was that Hamas is bad, but that doesn't justify collateral damage to Palestinian civilians when targeting them. But it seems to me the rhetoric I see often has switched to making excuses for Hamas, who directly tries to kill children whenever they get the opportunity, including putting their own Palestinian civilians in the line of fire to confuse attacks against them and get them killed as "martyrs". Which they use to justify their actions, even though they caused it.

    I don't see how Israel' careless around getting noncombatants killed justifies deliberately targeting civilians, which Hamas does constantly, or doing things like putting a rocket launcher on top of a hospital just so it looks bad for Israel when they destroy it. It's not like Hamas wants a peaceful two-state solution and Israel just isn't playing along. And theres not a lot of anti-Hamas sentiment in Gaza since they get murdered by Hamas, and they did vote them in in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    If you count the modern period as after 1900, there was no tension between the Jews and Palestinian Arabs because there were very few Jews actually living in the area. Jews made up about 3% of the population until the first Zionist conference in 1897. Following on from this, the colonial project began with European Jews moving to Palestine.

    Historically every time a settler colonial population moves into a new area the demonise, oppress and attempt to kill off the native population. We had the British in Ireland, Spanish and Portuguese in south and central America, northern Europeans in North America, British again in Australia and new Zealand, European powers in the "race for Africa" and now the Jewish setter colonisers in Palestine. Israel does not want a two state solution, it is quite clear from the evidence at hand that the "greater Israel" project is their goal. The rest of the world needs to wake up to the obvious, Israel is shouting about it and the world is not listening. Boycott, Divest and Sanction the genocidal Zionists, this worked for South Africa and their apartheid regime.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    She hosted Motaz Azaiza, the "journalist" who frequently praises Hamas, and was present with Hamas at the October 7th attack itself. So I correct myself, he only might have participated in directly killing civilians and children, but he was at least hanging out with his friends when they were doing that.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

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

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/palestinian-journalist-motaz-azaiza-gaza-1.7092862

    https://www.newarab.com/news/gaza-motaz-azaiza-anti-war-comments-divide-palestinians

    What are you talking about.

    Is this the statement that made him Hamas? Fuck off with your goalposts

    “If you want a besieged Palestinian to condemn it, you need to declare that you condemn what Israel [has] been doing against Palestinians before the 7th of October, since 1948 and during the genocide, and after it. Palestinians are not or not terrorists, Israeli killing Palestinians everyday like it’s a duty for them. Israel is a terror state,” Azaiza wrote on March 11, after he had left Gaza for his new base in Qatar.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-jews-decry-normandy-region-plan-to-honor-pro-hamas-journalist/

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  • [+] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    She hosted Motaz Azaiza, the "journalist" who frequently praises Hamas, and was present with Hamas at the October 7th attack itself. So I correct myself, he only might have participated in directly killing civilians and children, but he was at least hanging out with his friends when they were doing that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    This is Hasbara. So is everything else that you've written in this thread and, looking at your post and comment history, it looks like the MAJORITY of what you type up on lemmy is Hasbara.

    Sooo, and I'm pretty against fedjacketing people online, and find that it can be pretty dangerous. But I'm fairly confident you are working for Mossad.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago

    She hosted Motaz Azaiza, the "journalist" who frequently praises Hamas, and was present with Hamas at the October 7th attack itself. So I correct myself, he only might have participated in directly killing civilians and children, but he was at least hanging out with his friends when they were doing that.

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    [–] 93 points 8 months ago

    The Predator was after a worthy opponent. Something to give a challenge. The IDF are just bullies with guns. Think ICE but with different brown people.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    They have more sense than your average American cop, too.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago*

    Of course they do. The first movie shows they are honorable killers / hunters. Afaik, this has always been part of their lore.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    this isnt even a shitpost, its just a good post.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    Lol, I just recognized the name from spending ages discussing the monarchy with this guy. Seeing this post I checked his other comments; jeeeeeeeesus.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Predators do it for the hunt, not because of hate or fanaticism.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    IDF hates kids, think opposite of Epstein circle. Predator is impartial towards kids.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    think opposite of Epstein circle

    In no way the Epstein circle is the opposite. Rape is not love, those people are rapists not pedophiles.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    that was dark humor not factual. I also enjoyed making a connection between two vile organizations. even though it looks like an anti connection the whole point of the joke is to make them look similar, precisely because of the reason you mentioned.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    Hah memes are funny.

    deep sigh

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    That's not a shitty movie detail, that's a depressingly accurate observation.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Predator is a hunter so his threat assessment is superior to trigger happy freikorp LARP.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know about your country specifically, but here in France hunters regularly shoot at cyclists. Their main union even complained about a new law imposing a legal limit of blood alcohol content during hunting sessions.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    our hunting regulations are all over the place but there was a period in history when a number of prominent politicians got killed during hunting "by accident". oddly enough they had ties with russia...

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    I watched the animated Predator movie the other day, and was miffed that

    Tap for spoilerthey would kidnap people who won against their hunters, freeze them for who knows how many years (thereby effectively ending their lives as they know it) and bring them across the galaxy to fight for their lives again. Respect that the winner won you sore losers. Absolutely no honor.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    No honor? The Yatuja believe that the only honor that matters is in your hunting prowess, literally every Yatuja has never lost a fight because they always fight to the death. They absolutely think it's an honor to be brought to Yautja Prime to fight against their leader, which is why they do that instead of just killing the people who beat a Predator. That's a huge sign of respect from them

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I just feel like if they were acting honorably, they would have invited the victors instead of kidnapping them via what I assume was a cowardly ambush (based off the fact they have no memory of it), and freezing them until their loved ones were dead.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The Yautja have no concept of "loved ones". It is specifically brought up that Dek's older brother is a failure because he is protecting his weaker brother instead of culling him for the strength of the clan. You're using human emotional logic to justify your opinions instead of following Predator logic. The vast majority of Yautja would be champing at the bit to fight to prove they can beat the warlord. I still contend these humans have been given an incredible honor in Yautja society

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    If the Predators thought it was an honor, why kidnap them? Surely they would come willingly?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    A warrior's face is the same, regardless of whether or not they chose to be in the situation they are in.

    'Willing' implies choice, including the choice to be a coward.

    Battles imply constraints and conditions you cannot change, combat proficiency implies adaptability to any situation.

    The Yautja force the scenario, as a test.

    Being granted the second test is itself an honor.

    You were worth their time, their considerstion.

    You passed round one, which is ... significantly uncommon.

    To them, they've granted you the privilege of knowing that cowardice, flight, is not an option: You must fight.

    This makes the battle strategically simpler, for you, as a courtesy.

    If this sounds inhuman... welcome to Comparative XenoEthics 101.

    If you cancel the class, you're expelled, if you fail, you're expelled.

    And if you even think about dropping the class: I can see the internal ongoing processes in your brain, in realtime.

    Do not trifle.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    One mans kidnapping is anothers escorting.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    When you're a Predator, they let you do it

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    And American police and gun-toting civilians

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Predator Badlands was dope I’m looking forward to a sequel. Gonna watch Prey this weekend, see if it holds up. They’re kinda hit or miss, Aliens vs Predator should have been way better, hopefully they’ll give it another go with the current cast.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't seen them all but prey is easily my favorite.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I thought they just liked killing kids

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    There's a difference between predators and fascist psychopaths

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Oh, I'm gonna carry that weight.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    One thing the Predator movies always did well was giving the creature its own strange code of honor. Moments like that made it feel less like a mindless monster and more like a hunter with rules.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    IDF are low bar or A.K.A. no-bar.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Not to ruin the shitpost, but Predator didn't attack the child only because it posed no challenge.

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  • [–] 64 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, that's the point. The predator won't attack a human child because they are incapable of defending themselves. The IDF doesn't care about that.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Not exactly. The predator won't attack the child because it would be boring to do so, not some ethical reasons as stated in the meme. I guess IDF finds it entertaining enough.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    The alien sport-hunter who kills people to collect their bones as trophies is not a role model!

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This is why I’m team xenomorph. No agenda, no philosophy, no sermons. Just equal opportunity face-hugging and chest-bursting.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Don't fuck with team Yeerk, they'll get in your head before you know it, live there rent free.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    The andalorians were the real assholes the entire time.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    As someone really big into sportsmanship, no. They really are good role models. They have impeccable sportsmanship.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    TBF they hopelessly outclass a lot of their opponents. 300lb super-strong trained alien fighter with thermal vision and crazy weapons hunting some dude with a rifle if you think of the OG Predator. Their victims probably didn’t even know what they were fighting. Not really that great.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Better than cops too.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think its ethics more a lack of challenge.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Tbf it recognises the gun as a toy.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Some people call me Maurice

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