SpaceCowboy

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Over 80% of the population of Israel was born in Israel. If you want them to leave then you're talking about ethnic cleansing, not decolonization.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 weeks ago

It would cool to name one after the second guy to walk on the moon. Aldrin would be a great name for a bee don't you think?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Does the amount of vicodin he's using put him higher or lower on the graph?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

DOOM has no need for your silly meme graphs!

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been seeing an insane number of CPC ads and it's just vague bullshit promises about Crime, COMMON SENSE, and here's the flag! It's American style ads just with the Canadian flag substituted for the US flag. Then there's a bunch of attack ads on Trudeau.

And made me feel like "did I miss the news about an election being called?" Nope. They're just starting political ads a year before the election like they do in the US. Nobody wants that in Canada. I don't think they even want that in the US, but they put up with it I guess.

It's going to be a fucking long run up to an election if we have to put up with seeing this asshole's face for a year. I think I may not be the only one that feels this way, so it may be the CPC spent a whole bunch of money on ads that only hurt them.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yes and workers in the Soviet Union also made telephones. But only for the party leaders who didn't see there was a need for ordinary people to have phones.

Yes, workers make phones in any system. But who decides how many to make and what price to charge for them?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bottom line: In Gaza there are urban combat operations in a urban area against non-uniformed combatants. Despite this, the total number of casualties (both combatants and non combatants, the numbers aren't broken down) are less than the casualties this year in Ukraine.

Yes civilians die in war, especially when it's being being fought in urban areas. This war is being fought in urban areas because that's where Hamas is holding Israelis hostage in those areas. If you really cared about the toll on the civilian population you'd be calling on Hamas to release the hostages. But you aren't because you don't care about the civilian deaths for anything other than as a propaganda tool.

You guys can preach these kinds of things to each other, but you aren't fooling anyone outside of your little group. People aren't listening to you because they don't care about Palestinians. People do care about Palestinians. It's just that everyone is catching on to the fact that YOU don't actually care about Palestinians and you're just using them as a tool in a campaign against Israel. Shameful.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Read your history. The Marshall plan didn't happen while the Nazis were running things in Germany. it happened after Germany's unconditional surrender.

So when is Hamas going to surrender unconditionally?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Yes, people in Gaza are human. And like all humans, they have a responsibility for their actions. Hamas committed genocide on October 7 and are continuing to hold hostages. It's almost a year now, isn't it time for Palestinians to start admitting that Hamas is bad for them?

All we see is support for Hamas or excuses for their actions. Or just looking the other way. Can anyone point to any real protest against Hamas by Palestinians? I can understand people living in Gaza and the West Bank may be too afraid to speak out against Hamas, but people who have left the country? Where are the Palestinian voices denouncing Hamas?

When German cities were bombed to ruin in WWII, the German people realized the hateful movement they succumbed to was not good for them. Afterwards Germany was rebuilt into a peaceful prosperous country. When will Palestinians come to the same conclusion that Germans made?

All I see now is people painting Israel as evil for doing pretty much the same thing the Allies did to Germany in WWII. Being influenced into the hatred Hamas espouses. This conflict will not come to an end by promoting hatred of Israel. It can only end when people recognize their hatred is destroying themselves.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

Buy 'em out, boys!

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

MMMmmmmm... tabby...

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure forests exist where there aren't salmon. You hate dams, but I hate coal power more than that. And I hate these endless forest fires caused by global warming more than you hate the relatively small area around a dam being affected by the dam.

"Somebody find a better way" doesn't help. We gotta get past this NIMBYism and learn to accept that it's not just the guys rolling coal in their F-350s that are going to need to compromise. You need to make compromises too. Global warming can't just be used as tool to get whatever you want. The guy in the F-350 is gonna have to get an electric car and you're gonna have to accept there's going to be a dam in your forest.

Please try to look past the trees in your immediate surroundings to see the entire forest. It's currently burning. And it's not because of a dam it's because there's too many coal plants and not enough dams. You're using a device right now that runs on electricity. That electricity comes from somewhere. Where that power is currently coming from is causing this: https://globalnews.ca/news/10574072/bc-wildfire-map-2024-live-today/ Are you really arguing a dam has a bigger environmental impact than this?

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