Dr. Gonzo

What you said wasn’t complicated. It’s just fucking stupid. If you recall, it’s not too many posts ago you conflated the Houthis with the whole of Yemen. The Houthis are awful people, you’re just praising them because they’re attacking the right people” in your eyes. Propaganda is wild, no sane person should sit by and praise the Houthis for involving their civil war ravaged country - that’s suffered its own genocide at the hands of the US & Saudi Arabia - in this conflict. It’s also insane that nobody gave a fuck about Yemen for years but now they’ve gotten themselves involved in this stupid conflict so the pro-Palestinian crowd love the Houthis now. What a world!

Lol your “case by case” basis is: do these human rights abusers hate the human rights abusers I hate? “No good guys, but I’ve taken a side in a conflict between two human rights abusers so I’ve clearly decided one side is good.” Alright you’ve lost me on “at least your ideologically consistent”

I started Cyberpunk 2077 last night. Seems ok, I didn't get very far. Hilarious that I could give my character a massive cock though.

Yeah I mean at least you're ideologically consistent. I'm sure it won't be long before you twerk for Khamenei. I don't think Faisal's statement is true of modern day Saudi Arabia, tbh. You don't have generations of people getting increasingly cushier lives built off the back of oil suddenly willing to give up living these cushier lives to go back to living in tents and eating lizards. The stability of the house of Saud ruling the country depends on their ability to not piss off everyone living there all at once - so they'll keep treading the fine line between voicing support for Palestine while also doing what they can to keep the oil flowing. Faisal might have cared about things like "Arab unity" and the idea of "the Arab state" - I don't think MBS does, or if he does... I don't think he cares about it as much as he cares about money and power. The only thing that'll force Israel's hand to show more restraint is international pressure being put on Israel by its allies & Israelis demanding accountability from their government, imo. The rising civilian death count has already brought about a change in public statements from the UK and we're seeing divisions in Biden's administration with some members of his staff calling for a ceasefire & a split between Biden & Haris over the support given to Israel. The whole world should be calling for a return to following international laws & a return to the internationally recognised borders.

Lol literally praising the Houthis stopping international shipping lanes. By the way, the Houthis aren't really the government of Yemen - there's been a ceasefire but the "legitimate" government of the country is very much at question. There's the internationally recognised government of Yemen, which is a Saudi puppet. And then there's the Houthis, who are a Iranian proxy group... so an Iranian puppet. While these are the belligerents of the Yemeni civil war, there's a good case to be made that neither is a legitimate government for Yemen. Yemenis deserve the right to self determination rather than have their country be a battleground between two despicable regimes.

Yeah, even if those 3 were Hamas combatants - that would have been a textbook war crime to shoot someone unarmed and surrendering. Instead they’ve shot 3 of the hostages. The IDF has got a serious problem with restraint and so many Israelis or pro-Israelis have a serious problem with viewing Palestinian civilians as human. If you’ve looked at any of the IDF footage of the combat, you will see lots of GoPro videos of IDF soldiers seeming very jumpy and very quick to pull the trigger, a lot of soldiers aren’t following the rules of engagement and are firing first and worrying about what they’ve shot after the fact. So I’m not really surprised by this.

Yeah... probably not a good idea to take ketamine in a hot tub

Have Hamas leadership really fled from Qatar to Turkey? I’d have imagined they’d have gone to Iran. I feel like it’d be easier for Mossad to get them in Turkey.

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Stock market reacting well to positive inflation news - Dow Jones hits its record high and my stocks are making me erect.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-president-regulatory-agencies-government-e68011d7be18ba4156d17ef6f2c2eaaa I suppose the cartels are enough overside for AMLO's government. I feel a bit bad for Mexico, because the guys a total joke of a leader, but... they voted for him and in a democracy you get the leaders you deserve, even though Mexican politics is fucked purely because of the drug problem their neighbor to the north has.

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I like how it's just signed "Rabbi" - I wonder if it worked in spreading hate. It seems like it would only work on the very stupid.

Some shit that was spread around the Armenian community in Glendale to try to get Armenians to hate Jews.

How much pressure are both of these dickheads under now? Poch looks like a shadow of when he was a good manager at Spurs. His comments post-match after they got beaten by Everton are amusing too, considering the fortunes of the 2 clubs. One manager's operating on a shoestring budget and his club's financial violations have actually been penalised. Meanwhile another has an endless wad of cash and his club's financial violations are seemingly ignored. Chelsea fans are usually quick to turn on their managers, not as quick as their players, but still quite quick. And I think that's been a mistake for them in the past... but I'm not sure I'd have any faith in Poch after those comments. Saying you need to spend to compete is fine, but after you've spent a lot and the side looks worse for it... it makes you look like a bit of a fucking moron ; if Chelsea are seriously going to go spend an absolutely ludicrous amount again... 1.) that's hilarious, 2.) I can't imagine they'd want him to spend it. With Ten Hag, there's just been some serious regression for United on the pitch and he's demonstrated man management that makes me think "if I were a United player, I'd hate this guy." He did win manager of the month recently, but United still seem like a worse side than they looked last season. I assume Poch is under more pressure because this season he's basically looked pretty fucking useless... but I still can't look passed these 2 as being the next to go, even if I was wrong about one of them being the first to get the sack.

It's mental to see how radicalised people have become on reddit over this conflict. Pro-Israelis justifying absolutely insane genocidal rhetoric that would make the Nazis proud, pro-Palestinians that seem like they would be mortally wounded if they had to admit that what happened on October 7th was a barbaric act of terrorism. Social media really brought about the death of nuance in discourse in a way I never would have imagined.

Social media, especially the site formerly known as twitter, is full of people happy to pile on with hateful shite anytime anything comes up that is remotely close to whatever culture war shite is being promoted by the US news media. This has to do with whether or not women can do something on TV that's typically been a job reserved for men - so of course the chronically online who have nothing better to do with their lives than be useful idiots fighting culture wars online take to the culture wars. With something like "women can't talk about football on TV as good as men can" - that's going to get a huge number of misogynists and incels bitching and moaning about women. Yes, they should be more focused on trying to lose their virginities and fixing their miserable personalities that have them sad and lonely. But that's difficult, whereas being hateful little shits that blame women for all of life's problems comes easy to them.

Joey Barton is a massive twat. His family is full of nasty people, but the only reason Joey's not considered the worst Barton is because his brother literally killed someone by taking an axe to their head. Or as Joey Barton would describe it "my brother went to jail for a little scrap." The less attention we give to him and his thoughts, the better. Some people are just better off ignored. It's commentary - a man or a woman can possess the same skills to be a good commentator, it's not like they have to physically compete to give football commentary. Same with pundits.

The evolution of fullbacks isn't even that new. Cafu and Roberto Carlos are good examples of how some top fullbacks of the past were also incredible attackers - and in Cafu's case, an incredible defender as well as an incredible attacker. It's just as football has progressed, attacking fullbacks have evolved a shitload. Pep and Klopp have shown you don't even need to have the attacking fullback attack from the wide for these players to be incredible playmakers.

I do think if Israelis are serious about not wanting to appear genocidal on the world stage, they should do something about the political culture of extremists they've cultivated. this is insane genocidal rhetoric that does nothing to create peace between the two people. This is akin to shit Nazis said about Jews and that's why Israel gets criticised for acting like Nazis. Innocent Israelis and Palestinians end up dying because crazy people like this dickhead and the leaders of Hamas have power and they just want to kill off their "enemies." That is the most horrific thing about this conflict. For decades the world sits back and watches as innocent people die because two sides of genocidal fuckheads refuse to stop being genocidal fuckheads.

Again though, that's not really an issue with the sample size - the number of people that were asked the question is fine. That the findings are extrapolated to the entirety of the population from a sample of the population isn't really an issue with the survey. That's what surveys do, you take a sample size that's big enough to give you the confidence interval you want... and then you can take the data and use that to extrapolate to say "these are the findings for this population with whatever confidence level we used." The issue is we don't really know much else about the methodology. How was the question worded? Where did they find the 500 respondents? Were they all outside mosques? Because you'll probably find more diehard believers at Mosques. Every survey like this will have issues with bias - and there's things that can be done to minimise bias and get better results. And yes, getting a larger sample size can help (although you'll find after a certain point, adding to a sample size really doesn't change a whole lot). The Telegraph is reporting on the study because it's shocking to say 40% of UK Muslims support Sharia law. They don't really have a care about any bias problems in a survey. They care about spreading information that makes people afraid of Muslims and wants to end immigrants from those countries coming to the UK. But regardless of whatever biases do exist in the methodology that might taint the results... as someone who works with statistics an awful lot at work, I think its definitely concerning that any survey could lead to 40% of respondents being pro-Sharia law. Anything above 10% in a study with a 95% confidence interval would be concerning to me, even if the actual study had massive flaws. Because it is insane to me that people could have family that have brought them away from that kind of shit, or even found themselves fleeing or displaced from that shit, and still want that brought to the UK. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if one of the problems with this is asking immigrants from Muslim countries if they're a "British Muslim" might invoke a reaction like "absolutely not" - my mum's from a Muslim country, she is very much not religious and doesn't identify as religious at all even if her grandparents were practicing Muslims and her parents, my grandparents, identified as Muslim but in practice were very secular. So are they excluding a group of people they would have wanted included in the survey simply by the way the question is phrased? Are they limiting the possibility of appropriate respondents by making the population only "British Muslims?" Cos I am just shocked by even a very flawed survey (and I don't know how flawed this survey was) would end up with those results - although I still think it is concerning if that many believers felt that way in the UK. Regardless if nothing has happened in 17 years later to make Sharia law closer to happening - that's still a dangerous view to be held by a pretty large number of people.

I think options 1 and 3 bring the world closer to world war 3, so that's not great.

The military alliance with the US and UK is also a very strong deterrent, if they have a signed alliance it means an attack on Guyana will be responded to by all 3 nations. The huge increase in troops was probably a concession they need to make because the US and UK most likely don't want the optics of sending in troops to fight for oil companies and want to be able to point to the fact that they're strengthening Guyana so that it can defend itself if need be.

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Wanting a military alliance with the UK/US and buying US weapon systems is absolutely them feeling the support of the US and UK. This is the kind of support Saudi Arabia gets. Guyana will get US aid, that is then going to be turned around and spent on US weapon systems. In return, Guyana is armed to the teeth with advance military equipment as a deterrent to Venezuelan aggression. The US gets to feed its military industry complex, so they'll see it as tax dollars well spent.