Gaza is being massacred because of our silence.

And you still believe it's about hostages.

Okay then, return the hostages.

Prove it. If it's "not about the hostages," then why keep them?

Also,

Don't think I don't know where that red hand comes from.

Wasn't there a deal when there was a ceasefire to trade hostages??!

And who decided no ceasefire and no trading hostages??!

And now Palestinian has to choose between giving up on their prisoners in Israel prison or getting bombarded for the rest of their lives

Ask yourselves what decisions each side had to make and you will know which side is causing this whole bloodshed.

a) Yes, and Hamas reneged on it.

Again, Hamas did. Just like they did in the Dec 2023 prisoner exchange.

And why not? Since Hamas rules Gaza with an iron fist, gets all their money and power from stealing billions in foreign aid to Gaza, and brutally tortures and executes anyone who disagrees with them.

And Israel's terms to end the war have been clear from the very beginning: a) Return all hostages, b) Hamas has to surrender.

Do you really think Hamas is going to surrender? Give up everything they have, and render the last 15 months of endless fighting that they started all for nothing?

up all that money and power and their iron hold on

Aww, poor baby. Killing and kidnapping Jews has consequences.

For both Palestinian prisoners who got arrested for attacking Jews, and Palestinian terrorists who gleefully murdered and kidnapped Jews on Oct 7th to use them as bargaining chips instead of, oh, I don't know--

Here's a thought: the Palestinian can give up waging jihad against al-Yahud, return the hostages, and make peace with the Jews instead of constantly trying to dominate or exterminate us.

Because I know what this is really about: Pan-Arab nationalism. Muslims supremacy. Ridding Jews of any agency, homeland, power, or standing army; reducing Jews to powerless dhimmi in a Muslim land.

"Each side" nothing.

Name ONE WAR between Isarel and Arabs that wasn't started by Arabs.

In fact, let's go back further.

Let's start marking all violent crimes and massacred out by Muslims against the Jews till the 1970's. This is a very comprehensive list, so I'll just focus on the last 125 years:

▪ 1901–1902: 3rd Cairo massacre, Ottoman Egypt

▪ 1901–1907: 4th Alexandria massacres, Ottoman Egypt

▪ 1903: 1st Port Said massacres, Ottoman Egypt

▪ 1903–1940: Pogroms of Taza and Settat, Morocco

▪ 1904: massacre of Jews in Yemen

▪ 1907: Casablanca, pogrom, Morocco

▪ 1908: 2nd Port Said massacre, Ottoman Egypt

▪ 1909: comment from the British vice-consul of Mosul: “The attitude of Muslims towards Christians and Jews is that of a master towards his slaves.”

▪ 1910: blood libel of Shiraz

▪ 1911: Shiraz pogrom

▪ 1912: 4th Fez, Pogrom, Morocco

▪ 1914: expulsion of Jews from Palestine old enough to bear arms by the Ottomans

▪ 1917: Jewish Inquisition of Baghdadi, Ottoman Empire

▪ 1918–1948: adoption of a law prohibiting the raising of a Jewish orphan, Yemen

▪ 1920: Irbid massacres: British mandate in Palestine

▪ 1920–1930: Arab riots, British Mandate Palestine

▪ 1921: 1st Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine

▪ 1922: Massacres of Djerba, Tunisia

▪ 1922: law of forced conversion of orphans in Yemen, concerning Jews including as adults

▪ 1927: 60 Jews killed by Arabs in the Mellah of Casablanca Morocco

▪ 1928: Massacres of Ikhwan, in Egypt and under British mandate in Palestine.

▪ 1928: Jewish orphans sold into slavery and forced to convert to Islam by the Muslim Brotherhood, Yemen

▪ 1929: anti-Jewish riots, British mandate: in August 1929, the Jews demanded the construction of the Western Wall; pogroms in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed. To stop the violence, the British rejected this request

▪ 1929: 3rd Hebron Pogrom under British Mandate of Palestine.

▪ 1929 3rd pogrom in Safed under British Mandate of Palestine.

▪ 1933: 2nd Jaffa riots, British mandate in Palestine.

▪ 1934: Anti-Jewish pogrom in Constantine Algeria. 200 Jewish stores were raided, the total material damage was estimated at more than 150 million francs. It also sent a quarter of Constantine’s Jewish population into poverty.

▪ 1934: Pogroms in Thrace, Türkiye

▪ 1934: 1st massacres in Farhud, Iraq

▪ 1936: 3rd Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine

▪ 1936: 2nd massacre of Farhud, Irak

▪ 1938: boycott of Jews in Egypt

▪ 1939: discovery of 3 bombs in synagogues in Cairo

▪ 1941 : 3rd massacre de Farhud, Iraq

▪ 1941: persecution of Jews in Libya

▪ 1941: massacre of Jews in Baghdad, with the support of the authorities: approx. 170 dead

▪ 1942: Collaboration of the mufti with the Nazis. Played a role in the Final Solution

▪ 1942: Struma disaster, Türkiye

▪ 1942: Nile Delta pogroms, Egypt

▪ 1938–1945: Arab collaboration with the Nazis

▪ 1942: discriminatory tax law of Varlik Vergisi in Turkey against Jews and Christians

▪ 1942: looting of Jewish property in Benghazi and deportation to the desert

▪ 1944: attack on the Jewish quarter of Damascus

▪ 1945: anti-Jewish and anti-Christian riots in Egypt; churches and synagogues destroyed

▪ 1945: 4th Cairo massacre, Egypt

▪ 1945: Pogrom of Tripoli, Libya

▪ 1947: segregation measures against Jews in Egypt

▪ 1947: pogrom in Libya; approx. 130 dead

▪ 1947 : Pogroms d’Aden au Yemen

▪ 1947: 3rd pogrom d’Alep, Syrie

▪ 1948: “emptying” of the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria

▪ 1948: 1st Arab-Israeli war (1 Jew killed in 100)

▪ 1948 : Oujda & Jerada Pogroms, Morocco

▪ 1948: 1st Libyan Inquisition of the Jews

▪ 1948: attacks by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood against Jewish traders

▪ 1950: massive departure of Jews from Arab countries

▪ 1951: 2nd Libyan Inquisition of the Jews

▪ 1952: anti-Jewish and anti-Christian pogroms in Suez

▪ 1954: assassinations and attacks in Algeria affecting the Jewish community, the desecration and destruction of 30 synagogues are attributed to Muslim populations.

▪ The desecration in 1960 of the synagogue of Algiers as well as the cemetery of Oran,

▪ 1954: Massacre of Sidi Kacem. 6 Jews were beaten and then burned alive with their children.

▪ 1955: anti-Jewish and Christian riots in Türkiye; looting of churches and Jewish stores

▪ 1955: attack on the rabbi of Batna,

▪ 1956: fire in a synagogue in Oran,

▪ 1956: in response to the attack on Suez, Nasser expels almost all Jews from Egypt, around 90,000 people, and confiscates their property

▪ 1957: murder of the rabbi of Nedroma,

▪ 1957: murder of the rabbi of Médéa,

▪ 1957–1962: attacks in the Jewish neighborhoods of Oran and Constantine.

▪ 1961: grenade thrown into a synagogue in Boghari, Bousaada,

▪ 1961: ransacking of the Casbah synagogue in Algiers,

▪ September 2, 1961, the assassination of a Jewish hairdresser in Oran and anti-Jewish attacks

▪ 1955 : 3rd pogrom d’Istanbul, Turkey

▪ 1955: anti-Jewish riots in Izmir

▪ 1956: 1st Egyptian Inquisition of the Jews

▪ 1956: in response to the attack on Suez, Nasser expels tens of thousands of Jews and confiscates their property

▪ 1960: a Saudi newspaper describes Eichmann: “the man who can be proud of having killed five million Jews”

▪ 1961: in Algeria, assassination of Jewish musician Sheik Raymond

▪ 1962: desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Oran

▪ 1962 : pogrom d’Oran

▪ July 5, 1962, a few days after the independence of Algeria, between 900 and 1,300 Europeans, notably Jews, were massacred in Oran.

▪ 1964: the Egyptian army weekly notes: “In essence, the Jew has no qualifications to bear arms.”

▪ 1964: Nasser tells a German neo-Nazi newspaper: “No one takes seriously the lie of 6 million murdered Jews”

▪ 1965: the Egyptian military manual presents the war against Israel as a jihad and quotes the Koran: “kill them wherever you reach them”

▪ 1965: wave of anti-Semitism in Algeria; flight of the Jewish community

▪ 1965: pogrom in Aden

▪ 1965: 5th pogrom in Fez, Morocco

▪ 1967: 2nd Egyptian Inquisition of the Jews

▪ 1967: Egyptian Jews are herded into camps during the Six Day War

▪ 1967: pogrom in Libya during the Six Day War

▪ 1967: pogroms in Tunisia

▪ 1967: the World Islamic Congress in Amman declares that Jews living in Arab countries must be considered “mortal enemies”

▪ 1967: pogrom in Aden

▪ 1967: arson of the great synagogue of Tunis

▪ 1967: riots in Tunis, Tunisia

▪ 1967: World Islamic Congress in Jordan; it was decided that all Muslim governments must treat Jews “as mortal enemies”.

▪ 1967: publication in Egypt of the anti-Semitic text “The Protocol of the Elders of Zion”

▪ 1967: pogrom and looting of Jewish stores in Tunisia

▪ 1969: Khomeini delivers thirteen speeches in Najaf which will be the basis of his book “The

Islamic Government”; he develops the theme of hatred of Jews, accused of conspiring against Islam everywhere

▪ 1969: execution of Jews in Baghdad

▪ 1970: flight SR-330 Zurich — Tel Aviv crashes in a forest near Würenlingen, killing all 47 occupants. A bomb planted by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine exploded 9 minutes after takeoff

▪ 1979: start of the flight of 200,000 Iranian Jews after the Islamist revolution.

"Strangely, Palestinians have historically never been involved in any massacre of Jews — because they never existed before the 1960s."

Zahir Muhsein in an interview with Trouw Magazine, 31. March 1977:

"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons!"

All to return to that "golden age" of Muslim supremacy and non-Muslim dhimmis being separate-but-inferior under Sharia Law.

You reject and don't believe what you see in reality and had to bring some sources that have no actual evidence, you're simply ignoring the children and the citizens who are getting burned alive everyday and because simply the Jewish were being massacred before so it's okay for Israel to burn people and kill children everyday and doing massacre that is nothing like it in history, and since you believe it's all for a good cause and to save the Jewish from the Arab, what arab exactly are you afraid of? Because what we see that arab leaders can't even help Palestinian because if they do that America will choke them with every possible way i seriously wonder who needs to do a brain check here!!

The hostages exchange was going smoothly and everything was okay we had a ceasefire the bloodshed stopped, Palestinians was getting There humanitarian aid slowly and everything was ok

Until Trump said it clearly he is going to give Gaza to Israel because it needs to expand and he said Palestinians can't live in this land because it's all rubles , and after Netanyahu saw that Palestinian will not give up There land and move to Egypt or Jordan as Trump said he decided that he will not have it this way he will change the rules to wipe out Gaza to get more land so he will be remembered as the one who expanded Israel not caring for hostages or anything just clear annihilation for gaza, rafah and jabalia

During the ceasefire Hamas didn't attempt any attack, actually it was Israel who still bombing houses in the first days of ceasefire what pissed Israel off was that Hamas was showing off and was held as heroes all over gaza and even the world, why ? Because simply they are a liberation movement i know you're gonna laugh at this but people will favour a liberation movement over a colonization state, and that's what you hate to admit .

" because they never existed before 1960"

I had to laugh at this you seriously made up a history with no Palestinian before 1960 you denied their existence to prove your point, seriously??!

a) Between the two of us, I'm the one who's provided any actual links or evidence to support my claims. You've provided none.

b) I spent all day trying to think of a thorough response (knowing you wouldn't read it anyway), until I remembered what you said earlier:

So you basically admitted you're keeping the hostages to extract future prisoner exchanges, proving that Israel does care about its hostages.

You also let slip the either/ore scenario of: "Palestinian has to choose between giving up on their prisoners [by giving up the hostages] or getting bombarded [by keeping the hostages]."

If Israel truly didn't care about the hostages and keeping/returning them didn't make a difference,

a) Hamas wouldn't have bothered to take them to begin with because they knew they wouldn't be able to extract any prisoner exchanges from an indifferent Israeli government.

b) Israel wouldn't have agreed to ANY temporary ceasefire agreements or prison swaps since the war began.

c) Israel wouldn't have agreed to give dozens/hundreds of Palestinian prisoners per hostage.

You don't get to admit you're keeping the hostages to extort more prisoner exchanges in one breath and then claim "it's not about the hostages because israel doesn't care about the hostages" in the other breath.

This is what ACTUAL government indifference to their civilians' well-being looks like.

Another thing: whichever side broke the ceasefire or hasn’t been negotiating in good faith for a ceasefire (and I will even concede that Israel could have done better on both fronts) is immaterial if the fact that Hamas taking hostages, Hamas holding hostages, and Hamas not returning hostages are all blatant violations of international law, according to no less of an authority than the INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE. Hamas is not legally entitled to use hostages as bargaining chips for anything, in the same way as bank robbers holding hostages are not legally entitled to trade them for a chance to escape or a part of the loot.

"Hamas taking hostages, Hamas holding hostages, and Hamas not returning hostages are all blatant violations of international law, according to no less of an authority than the INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE."

BOOM! Couldn't have said it better myself.

"Hamas is not legally entitled to use hostages as bargaining chips for anything, in the same way as bank robbers holding hostages are not legally entitled to trade them for a chance to escape or a part of the loot."

BAM! *Mic drop*

Isn't there also a massive protest by Palestinians against Hamas since they blame Hamas for the continuation of the war?

Funny how people like op always ignore what Palestinians themselves are doing. Unless, of course, it's hamas propaganda that lets them justify hating Israel.

Underrated JRPG feature is when one party member uses some non-weapon object as a weapon, but you still upgrade your stats by buying weapons, so now every weapon shop in the world needs to carry parasols of increasing lethality

This post inspired by how Genis in Tales of Symphonia canonically uses a ball and cup toy (kendama) because he's a kid

But because everyone in the game also gets an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ancient Weapon, the game has to find a way to make an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ball and Cup Toy. You know. For evil children.

Item: Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ball and Cup Toy

Underrated JRPG feature is when one party member uses some non-weapon object as a weapon, but you still upgrade your stats by buying weapons, so now every weapon shop in the world needs to carry parasols of increasing lethality

This post inspired by how Genis in Tales of Symphonia canonically uses a ball and cup toy (kendama) because he's a kid

But because everyone in the game also gets an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ancient Weapon, the game has to find a way to make an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ball and Cup Toy. You know. For evil children.

I feel conflicted emotions about this but I have been nicknamed "The Priestmaker" because I've had two men decide to start discernment right after going on a date with me and while I am genuinely happy to be a part of their greatest happiness, it is a bit of a blow on the ol' ego.

I went on a date today with a new guy and you'll never guess the message he sent me after our date

It IS funny. My mom told me to make a tee shirt that says "priestmaking is my superpower" as a conversation piece

I remember there was a post about a guy who kept having the same thing happen but with nuns. You two should date and see what happens

it's true and you should say so louder

I don't know any of you, hitting the reblog button.

What if I buy the dip and get rich as shares recover? Or am I watching my savings just trickle down here

The point of buying the dip is to profit off of long term gains, as the stocks will balance and rebound, however the dip will continue as more people panic sell.

Buy low, sell high is the philosophy of stocks, but if you buy a historically amazing stock backed by physical goods, hold onto it after buying low, you'll make your lost finances back in spades.

Here's hoping we're nearing the bottom

What if I buy the dip and get rich as shares recover? Or am I watching my savings just trickle down here

Did they have to play that shitty song?

Dude, the episodes begin by playing Limp Bizkit.

This "let's present the eldritch abominations set on eradicating humanity from the source material as innocent victims, while humans have been the real monsters all along" trend in adaptations is getting tiresome.

It's no longer a subversion when you keep doing it every single time.

Have you not watched it? Because that's not at all what the show is.

This very post is honestly how I've learned, that they even did a DMC show!

Thus "US invading Hell Desert Storm style" is all i know for now xD

Let me just say, it's very much justified.

So, worth watching then?

In my opinion, yes, apparently in others opinions, they'd rather chew of their own arm.

It's a insult to the source material and the DMC's fans.

It's ironic how Neftflix tries to portray killing demons and US army invading Hell as a bad thing. Or how they humanize literal demons. They even made them look like Arabs XD

Why open a portal to Hell on top of an office building in a major metropolitan city? Why are jet fighters acting like helicopters? If you can open a portal to Hell anywhere with a convenient floor, why use jets or helicopters to launch missiles instead of a ground-based missile-launcher? That entire part of the sequence is dumb as hell, and not even in a cool way.

As to the Left identifying with evil again, let me share this Archcast video where he explains why.

ARCH (at 13:33): "From the Left's perspective, the only Absolute Good is Leftism. It's the only one; there can be no other forces. And anything that is even vaguely Left -- as in, debaucherous -- must be Good in comparison to anything they find as The Opposition, even if that opposition is in a universe where Literal Satan is struggling with Literal God."

In other words, a Leftist will imagine a setting in which God and the Devil are fighting for the fate of mankind, and because neither of them are Leftists, the Leftist considers them both equally bad.

In Arch's opinion, "If humanity's choice(s) are "get used as the fleshs of Beelzeub" or "do horrible things to survive", you do horrible things to survive and you are 100% justified in doing so. No questions."

But Arch explains that this doesn't register to a Leftist. They don't care that the Devil and his demons and his human cultists are the ones prosecuting this war and that their victory will be the objectively worse outcome for humanity. Because a Leftist knows that God and the faithful are not Leftists, the Leftist holds them up to an impossible standard of perfection, and says that their desire to destroy the demons to secure peace makes them just as bad as the demons.

And if that sounds like considering sheep as evil as wolves for wanting to kill all of the wolves to stop them from eating any more sheep, then you're not crazy. You're sane enough to realize how crazy a Leftist is.

This is the same sort of Leftist who says True Communism has never been tried, because they define Communism as something that must succeed. Because their True Communism must succeed by definition, then by definition any failure wasn't a real attempt at Communism.

This also allows them to disown all of the horrible atrocities committed by Communist revolutions and Communist regimes. Even as the Leftist insists on using the same tactics again, and cannot begin to explain how they expect a different outcome.

This is the sort of person that looks at a physical war between God and Satan, with tangible proof of a Heavenly afterlife and a damned eternity, and says both sides are equally bad, and if the Leftist was in that world, they would start a third, atheistic side that would be Absolutely Perfect and would never need to make a single uncomfortable decision or hard sacrifice.

They are Mary Sues in their own imaginations, capable of solving every problem with the wave of a magic wand, and being loved by everyone for how perfect they are.

And when they have to make those hard choices and terrible sacrifices anyway, they never apply to themselves the same impossible standard of moral perfection that they applied to The Opposition.

“To my friends, anything; to my enemies, the law.”

"Rules for thee, but not for me."

"Everything is okay when I do it."

They must always project all blame onto others, just as every Communist Regime blames foreign and domestic enemies for its failures.

He didn't open the portal to Hell on-top of an office building, that's a naturally occurring portal the device in his hand was designed to find, and exploit.

A much larger gate to Makai was opened just prior to that dinky doorway just moments prior, in which a veritable legion of demons poured out into the US, before Dante stopped it.

Because the helicopters were already there dealing with the prior invasion, and ground troops would take too long to climb the building and pour through for a decisive strike.

I've watched Arch's video, this is nothing like that.

Skipping the screed, there is no tangible proof of heaven in the DMC universe, just Makai, a realm that is parallel to earth, and is home to monsters demons, and beings the show calls Makaians.

Demons have an ego, and intellect, they rule Makai with an iron fist under Mundus, the Demon Lord, they have powers and magic, consume intelligent life, and enslave the Makaians, while living for thousands of years.

Monsters are the massive, unintelligent beasts that roam Makai, also called demons by humans, their lifespan is unknown, but they are vicious predators, who constantly roam the wastes of Makai, consuming Makaian and Demon alike, while occasionally breaching a portal to earth to consume humans.

Makaians are the human-like individuals shown in this brief clip, they are the lowest rung of Makai, serving as slaves, food and test subjects for Demons, their lives are short, miserable and filled with constant strife, and unlike the Demons and Monsters of Makai, they can't breathe the atmosphere of Makai.

This makes me believe that prior to earth and Makai being cleaved by Sparda, the Makaians were born, or bred by demons from human and demon stock to act as slaves, which is why they appear so much like us.

Again, people, watch the show before judging it off of a short clip.

I'm not watching that pice of shit, I'd rather play the games. Isn't only that single clip you defend so much, but the rest of the show is ass as is explained here.

Yeah, that is certainly an opinion piece, but no, I watched it, the show is great.

Ok as someone who loves DMC to pieces, regardless of any opinion above, they turned it to propogandist trash the MOMENT they let Green Day do anything with it.

It's a song.

It's Green Day. Anyone else I probably wouldn't care. If you can't fathom the psychological impact of propoganda and how it works, I can't explain this to you. It ... Really is Like That™. Starts out with a song, then love for the band, then the internalizing of that band's politics. It's subtle. Subliminal. And outright malicious.

Whether the company or employee or whoever may or may not realize what it is they're doing, I certainly do.

And you may be immune to this type of propoganda. Others certainly the hell are not.

I say this as someone who was once an anime loving little girl who fell in love with Billie Joe Armstrong's voice, politics and sound.

It is not harmless, and Armstrong is a shill.

It's a song, next you'll say I can't listen to Rage Against the Machine because they're leftists.

It's as ridiculous an argument as saying I can't read the works of JK Rowling because she's against men in women's bathrooms

Oh my god I never said YOU can't do anything.

Re-fucking-read.

I did read it.

You are stating a product can't, or shouldn't be enjoyed because you deemed it propaganda, stating that Green Day is insidious.

That just enjoying the songs will alter your perception, because minds are easily changed and clearly all music isn't just propaganda for a specific worldview.

Every band, every musician, every artist has their own brand of political perspective, and their art often elicits a response in one way or another, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used, art is art, and so long as it is moral, I do not object to it.

I stand by the fact that you are making a ridiculous argument, that one cannot enjoy, or utilize art because some may interpret or be influenced by it in one way or another.

I will say though, I found it rather funny Netflix chose the radio censored version of American Idiot as the song is against censorship, and for artistic freedom.

Green Day has changed, or rather, who they support became who they once stood against, this does not mean their songs, and the messages in them are now bad.

Separate the art from the artist as it were, if you can't do that, that's on you.

Did the artist not sync the art to an Iraq style invasion of Hell by the US military by the evil Christian VP?

Evil? He is doing God's work, were the Crusaders evil for striking back against the Saracen invaders?

Is it framed as good, or is it framed as evil imperialism in the plot? The introduction of poor refugees and innocents getting gunned down to a song criticizing America feels like if Paul Verhoeven stopped trying to even attempt subterfuge

Did they have to play that shitty song?

Dude, the episodes begin by playing Limp Bizkit.

This "let's present the eldritch abominations set on eradicating humanity from the source material as innocent victims, while humans have been the real monsters all along" trend in adaptations is getting tiresome.

It's no longer a subversion when you keep doing it every single time.

Have you not watched it? Because that's not at all what the show is.

This very post is honestly how I've learned, that they even did a DMC show!

Thus "US invading Hell Desert Storm style" is all i know for now xD

Let me just say, it's very much justified.

So, worth watching then?

In my opinion, yes, apparently in others opinions, they'd rather chew of their own arm.

It's a insult to the source material and the DMC's fans.

It's ironic how Neftflix tries to portray killing demons and US army invading Hell as a bad thing. Or how they humanize literal demons. They even made them look like Arabs XD

Why open a portal to Hell on top of an office building in a major metropolitan city? Why are jet fighters acting like helicopters? If you can open a portal to Hell anywhere with a convenient floor, why use jets or helicopters to launch missiles instead of a ground-based missile-launcher? That entire part of the sequence is dumb as hell, and not even in a cool way.

As to the Left identifying with evil again, let me share this Archcast video where he explains why.

ARCH (at 13:33): "From the Left's perspective, the only Absolute Good is Leftism. It's the only one; there can be no other forces. And anything that is even vaguely Left -- as in, debaucherous -- must be Good in comparison to anything they find as The Opposition, even if that opposition is in a universe where Literal Satan is struggling with Literal God."

In other words, a Leftist will imagine a setting in which God and the Devil are fighting for the fate of mankind, and because neither of them are Leftists, the Leftist considers them both equally bad.

In Arch's opinion, "If humanity's choice(s) are "get used as the fleshs of Beelzeub" or "do horrible things to survive", you do horrible things to survive and you are 100% justified in doing so. No questions."

But Arch explains that this doesn't register to a Leftist. They don't care that the Devil and his demons and his human cultists are the ones prosecuting this war and that their victory will be the objectively worse outcome for humanity. Because a Leftist knows that God and the faithful are not Leftists, the Leftist holds them up to an impossible standard of perfection, and says that their desire to destroy the demons to secure peace makes them just as bad as the demons.

And if that sounds like considering sheep as evil as wolves for wanting to kill all of the wolves to stop them from eating any more sheep, then you're not crazy. You're sane enough to realize how crazy a Leftist is.

This is the same sort of Leftist who says True Communism has never been tried, because they define Communism as something that must succeed. Because their True Communism must succeed by definition, then by definition any failure wasn't a real attempt at Communism.

This also allows them to disown all of the horrible atrocities committed by Communist revolutions and Communist regimes. Even as the Leftist insists on using the same tactics again, and cannot begin to explain how they expect a different outcome.

This is the sort of person that looks at a physical war between God and Satan, with tangible proof of a Heavenly afterlife and a damned eternity, and says both sides are equally bad, and if the Leftist was in that world, they would start a third, atheistic side that would be Absolutely Perfect and would never need to make a single uncomfortable decision or hard sacrifice.

They are Mary Sues in their own imaginations, capable of solving every problem with the wave of a magic wand, and being loved by everyone for how perfect they are.

And when they have to make those hard choices and terrible sacrifices anyway, they never apply to themselves the same impossible standard of moral perfection that they applied to The Opposition.

“To my friends, anything; to my enemies, the law.”

"Rules for thee, but not for me."

"Everything is okay when I do it."

They must always project all blame onto others, just as every Communist Regime blames foreign and domestic enemies for its failures.

He didn't open the portal to Hell on-top of an office building, that's a naturally occurring portal the device in his hand was designed to find, and exploit.

A much larger gate to Makai was opened just prior to that dinky doorway just moments prior, in which a veritable legion of demons poured out into the US, before Dante stopped it.

Because the helicopters were already there dealing with the prior invasion, and ground troops would take too long to climb the building and pour through for a decisive strike.

I've watched Arch's video, this is nothing like that.

Skipping the screed, there is no tangible proof of heaven in the DMC universe, just Makai, a realm that is parallel to earth, and is home to monsters demons, and beings the show calls Makaians.

Demons have an ego, and intellect, they rule Makai with an iron fist under Mundus, the Demon Lord, they have powers and magic, consume intelligent life, and enslave the Makaians, while living for thousands of years.

Monsters are the massive, unintelligent beasts that roam Makai, also called demons by humans, their lifespan is unknown, but they are vicious predators, who constantly roam the wastes of Makai, consuming Makaian and Demon alike, while occasionally breaching a portal to earth to consume humans.

Makaians are the human-like individuals shown in this brief clip, they are the lowest rung of Makai, serving as slaves, food and test subjects for Demons, their lives are short, miserable and filled with constant strife, and unlike the Demons and Monsters of Makai, they can't breathe the atmosphere of Makai.

This makes me believe that prior to earth and Makai being cleaved by Sparda, the Makaians were born, or bred by demons from human and demon stock to act as slaves, which is why they appear so much like us.

Again, people, watch the show before judging it off of a short clip.

I'm not watching that pice of shit, I'd rather play the games. Isn't only that single clip you defend so much, but the rest of the show is ass as is explained here.

Yeah, that is certainly an opinion piece, but no, I watched it, the show is great.

Ok as someone who loves DMC to pieces, regardless of any opinion above, they turned it to propogandist trash the MOMENT they let Green Day do anything with it.

It's a song.

It's Green Day. Anyone else I probably wouldn't care. If you can't fathom the psychological impact of propoganda and how it works, I can't explain this to you. It ... Really is Like That™. Starts out with a song, then love for the band, then the internalizing of that band's politics. It's subtle. Subliminal. And outright malicious.

Whether the company or employee or whoever may or may not realize what it is they're doing, I certainly do.

And you may be immune to this type of propoganda. Others certainly the hell are not.

I say this as someone who was once an anime loving little girl who fell in love with Billie Joe Armstrong's voice, politics and sound.

It is not harmless, and Armstrong is a shill.

It's a song, next you'll say I can't listen to Rage Against the Machine because they're leftists.

It's as ridiculous an argument as saying I can't read the works of JK Rowling because she's against men in women's bathrooms

Oh my god I never said YOU can't do anything.

Re-fucking-read.

I did read it.

You are stating a product can't, or shouldn't be enjoyed because you deemed it propaganda, stating that Green Day is insidious.

That just enjoying the songs will alter your perception, because minds are easily changed and clearly all music isn't just propaganda for a specific worldview.

Every band, every musician, every artist has their own brand of political perspective, and their art often elicits a response in one way or another, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used, art is art, and so long as it is moral, I do not object to it.

I stand by the fact that you are making a ridiculous argument, that one cannot enjoy, or utilize art because some may interpret or be influenced by it in one way or another.

I will say though, I found it rather funny Netflix chose the radio censored version of American Idiot as the song is against censorship, and for artistic freedom.

Green Day has changed, or rather, who they support became who they once stood against, this does not mean their songs, and the messages in them are now bad.

Separate the art from the artist as it were, if you can't do that, that's on you.

Did the artist not sync the art to an Iraq style invasion of Hell by the US military by the evil Christian VP?

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Didn't you already post this

No. I’m not going to let anyone rewrite history that I remember really well. We were regularly kicked out of the house as kids. Our parents got sick of us arguing with each other about what we were watching or whatever video game we were playing, eating junk, being lazy, and getting in the way when they were trying to be adults. They got fed up with us constantly opening the door and letting the air or heat out, and they were tired of us tracking in dirt.

We weren’t allowed back inside so we figured out ways to entertain ourselves. I once made a spear out of an old survival knife and a broomstick. I made a few bolas out of tennis balls and shoestrings and practiced tripping my brother as he ran across the yard. We fished. Sometimes we would just walk into the woods. Maybe we had BB guns and knives. Maybe not.

And sometimes, at the end of the day when we were called back inside, we didn’t want to go. There was still a good 45 minutes of daylight left and we were having fun.

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Tumblr is still the piss-on-the-poor website.

"We used to go outside and refuse to come back because we were living and exploring and playing"

"bullshit, back in my day, we used to stay out past when we were told to play and explore"

Jesus, dude. There aren’t that many words in the post. Just read them.

Which is not the thesis or driving point behind any of this. Kids enjoying the outside is, be it because they loved to go out and explore or because their parents kicked them out which made them then love exploring, it makes no difference when the contrast is to parents now wanting to keep kids in and kids staying in

He's also standing up to another extremist who wants to murder millions of people.

He's the only honest man, surrounded by 'heroes' who want to use lies to pacify and control the population. He faces a living God, who tells him to kneel. He dies, standing, furious at the betrayal of everything the heroes claimed to stand for. His friend stands by and lets it happen.

He was just a man. He valued his life. He never wanted to be a martyr.

If Moore didn't think the audience would sympathise with him instead of the 'heroes', then he never understood humanity at all. "

@bobfrank1199

9 years ago I get pissed off every time I see this scene. Everybody in this movie compromised their morals. Everyone was a hypocrite. Everyone failed their own values. Except for Rorschach. "

Moore wouldn't be the first artist who gets upset when people dont understand/interpret their art the way they envision it

its a classic example of the "death of the artist" paradox

Reminds me of Dwayne McDuffie. He created Icon, a black conservative superhero. At one point, Clarence Thomas (a black conservative) quoted Icon.

McDuffie (left wing) was reportedly disturbed by this.

I think I'd just be proud that I did a good enough job writing conservatives that actual conservatives like him.

No. I’m not going to let anyone rewrite history that I remember really well. We were regularly kicked out of the house as kids. Our parents got sick of us arguing with each other about what we were watching or whatever video game we were playing, eating junk, being lazy, and getting in the way when they were trying to be adults. They got fed up with us constantly opening the door and letting the air or heat out, and they were tired of us tracking in dirt.

We weren’t allowed back inside so we figured out ways to entertain ourselves. I once made a spear out of an old survival knife and a broomstick. I made a few bolas out of tennis balls and shoestrings and practiced tripping my brother as he ran across the yard. We fished. Sometimes we would just walk into the woods. Maybe we had BB guns and knives. Maybe not.

And sometimes, at the end of the day when we were called back inside, we didn’t want to go. There was still a good 45 minutes of daylight left and we were having fun.

Two boomers arguing the same thing

Tumblr is still the piss-on-the-poor website.

"We used to go outside and refuse to come back because we were living and exploring and playing"

"bullshit, back in my day, we used to stay out past when we were told to play and explore"

No. I’m not going to let anyone rewrite history that I remember really well. We were regularly kicked out of the house as kids. Our parents got sick of us arguing with each other about what we were watching or whatever video game we were playing, eating junk, being lazy, and getting in the way when they were trying to be adults. They got fed up with us constantly opening the door and letting the air or heat out, and they were tired of us tracking in dirt.

We weren’t allowed back inside so we figured out ways to entertain ourselves. I once made a spear out of an old survival knife and a broomstick. I made a few bolas out of tennis balls and shoestrings and practiced tripping my brother as he ran across the yard. We fished. Sometimes we would just walk into the woods. Maybe we had BB guns and knives. Maybe not.

And sometimes, at the end of the day when we were called back inside, we didn’t want to go. There was still a good 45 minutes of daylight left and we were having fun.

Two boomers arguing the same thing

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