I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

but the US knew Saddam had chemical weapons

Yes, I know… the US knew about every gallon of mustard gas and sarin Saddam had - not only did the US provide intelligence to Saddam to specifically help his use of the stuff during the Iran-Iraq War be more effective, they could also literally read almost every damn ciphered communique of the Iraqi army at the highest levels thanks to the fact that Iraq used compromised ciphering machines bought from the CIA front company Crypto AG in Switzerland.

They knew perfectly well Saddam had destroyed all his stockpiles - if he hadn’t, Bush would have never dared to invade Iraq.

but we do owe them an apology once all the information is out.

No - we don’t owe a serial killer an apology if turns out they murdered ninety-nine people instead of a hundred.

the polite thing to do is apologize for thinking badly of them

No, there is nothing “polite” about “apologizing” to a genocidal settler-colonialist state.

They don’t bat an eyelid when you accuse Israel of being an Apartheid-state - it’s like water flowing off a duck’s back. Call Israel a kapo state, however, and they lose their shit. That they can’t ignore.

I have zero sympathy for anyone that bought anything connected to Phony Stark. Zilch.

You knew what you were buying into - you live with it.

I recently came back to Lemmy from reddit to escape the batshit pro-Israel censorship happening on there right now and I have to say that the quality of the content and discussion has just gone up.

I know, sorry… Can’t help but be honest about these things.

It’s fine… it’s not your responsibility to come up with answers to these things.

But we’re going to have to find ways if we don’t want our children and grandchildren growing up in bombed-out open-air prisons as well.

Okay… that’s a pretty bleak picture.

Sooo… how do we beat AI surveillance?

And your insult of me is transphobic and ableist, you bigot.

Not proud of being a white supremacist, eh? Now why do you imagine that would be?

In other words, these laws are not “fighting pedophilia”. They are enabling child abuse.

So no different than all these laws that (supposedly) “stop sex trafficking” which only exist to clamp down on sex work while… drumroll… making absolutely no dent in actual sex trafficking?

Yeah… that tracks.

So you admit this meme is simply straight up misinformation?

That’s strangely honest for a white supremacist.

Considering that western media is hysterically blaming Palestinians for Israeli atrocities now, I’d say it’s rather Israel’s (alleged) “plight” that’s getting the limelight - not Gaza.

How convenient… every time Israel indiscriminately murders Palestinians, it’s just going to be blamed on Palestinians?

Riiiight… US intel “confirms.”

Have they found Saddam’s “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” yet?

Some frag grenades and claymore mines would have probably helped, too.

Nobody is in the clear right and nobody is blameless.

No matter what anyone has done - it is Israel (and it’s western backers) that carries full responsibility for what occurs here. Period.

Really? Tell that to all the “liberal” regimes that enabled fascists when said liberals couldn’t keep working-class revolt in check… Weimar Germany literally did that to crush the “Spartacist” revolt after WW1.

There’s a saying amongst leftists - you can’t have a harvest of fascism without liberals loosening the ground for it first. Fascism is not some “aberration” of the classical liberal nation state and it never was.

all have severe issues with fascism right now

It’s not an issue… fascism is a feature of classical liberal nation states - not a flaw.

super-duper-mega-unregulated-corporation-shareholder-moneymaker3000 type of ultra capitalism

Sooo… just bog-standard capitalism, then?

You’d be better off arguing a case of genocide instead.

You mean… that thing people who know better have been accusing Israel off since the very start?