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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation (...) protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Kennedy said of one photograph, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.

Calling them brainwashed is disrespectul and ignorant of similar acts that, while they haven't been enough to change policy, have invigorated social movements that sometimes resulted in the goals they were aiming for. The fact that you use "brainwashed" specifically almost makes me think that you can't even understand how people could see the murders of tens of thousands of children as something worth taking radical action for.

Ironically, claiming that the people who call you out for committing war crimes are antisemites is EXTREMELY antisemitic.

Wholesome news.

I've seen the money management in US NGOs earn. If they want to claim they have tight budgets, they have to tighten their belts first.

Why is a non-profit trying to make profit out of this operation, rather than freely distributing the knowledge they've collected? The US are so permissive with their NGOs that it's far easier to find a nest of grifters than a legitimate one.

When they're asking genuinely, I don't mind giving a genuine reply. But when it becomes clear they're doing the online equivalent of filibustering? "You, you specifically are going to pay for it, and I hope it makes you go bankrupt."

I'm not attacking the UN, I'm establishing the comparison that explains why neither can do all they want so that you can understand why the argument makes sense. My mistake, because I assumed you did actually have working brain cells.

Are you daft? "Well where is the UN on Xinjiang protecting the Uyghurs if it's about protecting human rights?" Not all organizations have the means to achieve their goals. Think for two seconds before posting shit.

Sure, but in the meantime, Israel would have the capacity to do absolutely anything they want, which would permanently cripple Gazans. If you want proof, look at the settlers in the West Bank, who have been eating Palestinian territory uninterrupted because the Palestinian Authority plays nice with them, even though they're criminals.

There's "profit-driven" and "seeking exclusively the profits of the next quarter". While capitalism has a lot of downsides in the long run, the vast majority of bullshit people get outraged about is due to publicly traded companies being organized in such a way that their CEOs and shareholders sacrifice all sustainability and instead try to loot your kitchen.

Whatever Steam policies you think are bullshit right now (and I can name a couple more, too), they're not too much in comparison to what they'd be under more typical management.

If there's one thing worse than getting ruled by Hamas, that's Hamas unconditionally surrendering to Israel. What do you think would happen to Gaza's borders if Netanyahu could do whatever the hell he wanted without insurgences nor opposition?

All my support to Gazans for them to regain their own self-determination and democracy, but this might be the worst possible moment for Hamas to disappear from existence.

It's incredible, because by the looks of it, Macron's party seems to be the one that's reacting the worst to Macron's own move, the fascists haven't been caught on the wrong foot, and the real surprise is the leftist coalition that has been pacted in record time after they were at each other's throats during the European elections, so Macron might actually be the most fatal victim of his own strategy if he doesn't even make it to the second round.

Adderall is a drug that:

• If your brain typically produces very reduced amounts of dopamine (as it's usually the case with people with ADHD), it helps your brain achieve more standard levels of dopamine. This usually means that you go from a need for constantly get new, interesting stimuli (so that your brain generates dopamine until it reaches standard levels), to actually become capable of focusing on what you want to do, which usually means in not getting fired and being capable of putting your life in order.
• If your brain typically produces standard amounts of dopamine (as it's usually the case for neurotypical people), it acts as an stimulant, gets you high and is potentially addictive.

There are countries that have extremely tight regulations on Adderall, to the point of enforcing how much it should be produced based on old data from doctors' prescriptions who may or may not be predisposed against believing their patients, for the sake of protecting morons who want to irresponsibly get high, even if it provokes shortages that may potentially destroy the lives of people who do need the drug in order to function without issues.

Do you see the problem with priorities here? If you have to choose between protecting people consistently choosing to behave irresponsible until they need treatment, and people who, beyond their own capacity to choose one way or the other, do need treatment now in order to have a good life, choosing to restrict its production and distribution provokes widespread healthcare issues (with ramifications at the economical, social, and most importantly, human level) in order to prevent another that may or may not actually take place. It's completely moronic.

Let's cross fingers so that the two sides of the French left compromise on taking the good side on Ukraine, and the good side on Gaza, and not the other way around 🤞

However, even when the project had been given the go ahead, Klindžić said the team was "set up to fail from the start", due to not having been allowed a pre-production period. "Whenever we raised concerns about this and expressed we needed more writers if the deadlines were to be met, we were accused of not wanting to do our jobs," Klindžić said.

"Pretty much from the moment the writing team's pitch was approved in August of 2022, the other teams started production," Tuulik added. "We didn't even really know what the story or the characters were gonna be, when art teams were already making first character and environment concepts. I'm sure you can see how this is a big problem, when you're making a narrative-led game.

"Essentially, the writing team had to work double-time from day one to supply other disciplines with work, whilst trying to write the first dialogues and sketch out the rest of the game at the same time. The writing team consisted of myself and Dora at the time." Another developer added: "I don't know if Dora and Argo ever felt in control."

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call the headline bullshit. It should also be noted that Disco Elysium had 8 writers, on top of Kurvitz, and Kurvitz himself still argued that he went through crunch. Current ZA/UM's management is a disaster and nothing good is going to come from it unless a brick falls upon their heads, and they magically learn that making good games requires a lot of work, or if you're a capitalist, a lot of investment.

That also serves as a response to his blabbering.

"Aren't you ashamed that you should have worse intentions for yourself than nature had?"

"My dude, you literally live in a barrel. And cover yourself already."

For your own link:

The ANC repeated its position that the armed struggle against the country's white-ruled government, which began in 1960, was a just war and that civilians had not been deliberately targeted.

But the ANC statement said some of its guerrillas weren't sufficiently trained and "were never thoroughly under the discipline of the ANC."

Avoiding harming civilians was a deliberate modus operandi of the ANC, the same way that Hamas deliberately kidnapped civilians. They cannot be blamed for attacking military bases - they should be blamed for attacking that which was neither military bases nor infrastructure.

If you want a general ethical position on the issue that I have found consistent so far:

• Hamas is fundamentally different from other liberation groups, in that Hamas doesn't intend to integrate the descendants of colonizers into the country they want Palestine (the whole of it) to be. For instance, the ANC saw the white South Africans as South Africans - they were colonizers, sure, but they would be citizens of the country they intended to rule, so instead of targeting civilians, they attacked military targets and infrastructure.
• We see everyday what the Israeli government does on this sub, any person who isn't predisposed in their favor can easily understand that they're a few steps away from going full nazi.
• The vast majority of civilians on both sides are innocent, and don't deserve to be brutalized.

So it isn't really a matter of whether you prefer Israel or Hamas, it is first and foremost, a matter of making sure civilians aren't subject to abuse, and are capable of living their lives freely and in peace. Of course, it also needs to be understood that the construct that is the political system of Israel-Palestine (this is, only Israel exists as a sovereign country, while "Palestine" is a couple of not too self-governed territories over which Israel practices sovereignity) provokes a continued abuse and misery that will ignite further conflict sooner or later. So while the first priority is getting a cease fire now, aiming for a real, practical 2 state solution or 1 state solution where both Palestinians and Israelis are free citizens without being subject to the whims of the other party is needed if we don't want to have a similar mess in 5, 10 or 20 years.

Every time I see an article from The Daily Beast posted here it's such an annoyingly clickbaity headline that I wish the whole thing would just burn.

That does sound less terrible.