[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 22 hours ago

Whataboutisms aside, if you're going to claim an article is libelous, you ought to at least be able to refute one of the assertions made by it. You haven't actually done that here. Jill Stein's defense is that she's naive to the point of idiocy. So she's either a witting catspaw of Putin and the GOP, or an imbecile that has no business being president.

Furthermore, I was unable to find any language in the senate intelligence committee's report to indicate that she'd been cleared of wrongdoing— merely the absence of an indictment. Regardless of whether she's committed any crimes, she is objectively a spoiler candidate. She could be as pure as the driven snow, and it wouldn't change the fact that the only thing her campaign stands to accomplish is to elect donald trump.

If she really wanted to further her purported agenda, she would use her candidacy to get concessions from Harris in exchange for dropping out and endorsing her. Stein could actually effect change that way. Instead, she parrots Russian talking points, exclusively attacks Democrats, and consequently is completely counterproductive with regard to her stated goals.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 22 hours ago

No, it's the logical and inevitable consequence of the action you're advocating for. Just saying it's "dumb" in no way refutes it.

Whether that's true or not, it doesn't change the math. The world's full of people advocating against their own interests. You still haven't addressed the argument.

Care to engage with any of these, then?

But your proposed course of action clearly doesn't align with your stated goal, for reasons that have already been pointed out to you. I don't see you engaging with that argument. This leads me to believe that you don't actually care about what happens to Palestinians; you just want to feel like you're taking a moral stand. People that actually give a shit tend to care about what the consequences of their actions will be.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the write-up! Am also ex-11B, and this really takes me back. A lot of things I don't miss about the army. Having a new officer come in and make some shitty changes, seemingly just to stroke their ego and put a bullet on their OER—that's definitely on the list.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

That's too bad. No autosave you can load from before it started? I love KC:D; it's one of very few story-based games that I was motivated to play through more than once. I had a quick look, but I couldn't find any mods that let you pause that section and come back to it later.

I really enjoyed Theresa's DLC, but it can be an unwelcome change of pace if you're not ready for it. There's certainly no shortage of people that have had this issue, but it looks like the only fix is to power through it or load an earlier save. You do get a nice Skalitz shield from Theresa when you finish it, at least.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 16 points 4 days ago

Oh, and you can forget about wearing any kind of wrap-around shades! Might as well put on a red hat. I feel your pain.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

Yes, I'd put this right up there with Daisy May Cooper's apoplectic rage at Richard Herring failing to recognize her hippo!

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 18 points 5 days ago

Can you see that you're arguing against fictitious strawmen? You seem to be operating under the delusion that for all the dumb normies who have "bought into" the existing two-party system, politics is just a game that they play without understanding. You've reduced them all to NPC's who lack the capacity to reason; obviously their only motivation could be mindless conformity to their "team".

Is it your contention that it doesn't matter what party controls the branches of government, because they're both the same? While this is factually inaccurate, it would at least be in line with the actions you're advocating. Speaking of which, how exactly do you imagine a "protest" vote would deny the subsequently elected government legitimacy? What force and effect do you foresee that action producing? Because anyone with a working knowledge of our electoral system can tell you that the only discernable result will be the empowerment of the minority party, which in this case seeks a fascist overthrow of our democratic system.

What you're doing here is applying shallow, childish logic to a complex and nuanced problem, while pretending to have some high-minded motivations which—if they exist at all—clearly haven't been thought through.

[-] ochi_chernye@startrek.website 46 points 1 week ago

Literally nobody is saying this. You're full of shit.

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