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  • My Lai was not an isolated incident.

    Only one involved was convicted as stated, but then completely let off so who cares? The higher ups that enabled it were completely let off. Others who were involved in the cover up completely let off. The whistleblowers, etc were shunned and ostracized by the military for decades.

  • Israel immediately declared a state of war, launching air attacks on Gaza in retaliation, killing over four hundred Palestinians, most of them civilians. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to “take mighty vengeance” against Palestinians, calling Gaza a “city of evil” and vowing to turn it into “cities of ruins.” Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has already approved a sweeping call-up of reservists.

    In the West Bank, the Palestinian town of Jenin is still reeling from the devastation of a recent unsparing Israeli attack, which left the town a razed ghostland. The small town of Huwara has yet to recover from the deadly horrors unleashed by settlers on its residents.

    So far this year, Israel’s military forces have killed over two hundred Palestinians in the West Bank.

    To make life hell for Palestinians, settler mobs and far-right gangs, backed and emboldened by Israel’s ultranationalist government, have been sowing terror and wreaking havoc among Palestinians, burning villages and houses, lynching and killing civilians with impunity.

    In Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers and security forces have allowed the settler mobs to run amok, evicting Palestinian families by force and occupying their homes. During the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, settlers stormed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Jerusalem, staging provocative tours, harassing and beating worshippers, and spitting on Christians.

    I would love to hear the average Lemmy/Reddit liberal comment on this. I wonder if they'll remember their outrage as the civilian casualties rise in the coming months, especially if they maintain the asymmetry that has characterized this conflict for decades. Will they justify it as "collateral"?

  • "I used to have support for the Native Americans, but then a tribe massacred an outpost on the land that was slowly being carved from them by colonizers. Now I've lost all goodwill for their struggle"

    The indigenous, oppressed peoples proceed to get wiped out and the colonizing states take over the entire land mass

    This type of violence does not need to celebrated. It should be mourned as tragic. Its perpetrators condemned.

    But so many are applying fairness or rules to a conflict that has neither.

    If you create the conditions for war and terrorism, do not be surprised when war and terrorism come.

  • Yes, but by subjective calls do they mean penalty decisions and red cards? What about decisions that are not reviewed? That's what I mean. It's only showing corrective actions.

    If you look at the 2021-2022 link, the Rodri handball incident is not included.

    Here are a couple pretty biased articles if you want a read.

    One and two

  • Every fanbase thinks the refs are out to get them. Liverpool also have a historical reason to distrust authority in the country with the Hillsborough coverage and accusations as well as general Thatcherism

    And this is just tracking whether VAR decisions (e.g. corrective reviews) either led to a goal that was disallowed or vice versa, etc..

    It isn't tracking issues like what occurred against Spurs or the Rodri handball incident.

    It's also a single season of statistics.

    The point of this anyway? We trying to act like it wasn't a colossal mistake last weekend?

  • centrists understand the issues but don't think an extreme left/right solution is the answer

    Think they do but typically show their ass as being completely ignorant of leftist politics.

    but elements from both sides should be considered.

    Rarely, and typically more so the right.

  • Have movies typically planned and scheduled 10+ sequels/spinoffs in a shared universes prior to the MCU? I don't remember ever hearing that X1 is going to come out this year and Y1 the next with Z1 in the winter, etc etc over the course of 4-5 years.

    Is that really similar to "pirate movies" or westerns or whatever from back in the day? When it comes to budgeting? Locking yourselves into set releases publicly, blocking theater schedules, etc?

  • Something can be lighthearted or action based and still be interesting film making in contrast to the paint by numbers MCU films and some others.

    It's pure action, but Fury Road is an example of a simple action movie that had thought put into the editing, cinematography, etc. Barbie is light hearted but similarly had some ideas to play with.

  • I honestly hate stories like this. What is the use of knowing this? Who does it benefit to hear this story and proliferate it?

    So we can all go "wow what a monster" in the comments?

    How many things happened today that actually will affect our lives instead?

  • Sony started this game

    Did they, though? I think exclusives predate Sony and even the PS1. They've been a part of the console space since basically the inception of the medium. Xbox itself launched with an exclusive "killer app" in Halo. Timed third party exclusivity and exclusive Map Packs were very popular with the 360 when it was on top in the seventh generation as well.

    I don't think Sony has ever made an acquisition of the same scope as Zenimax either in price or in how much of the market was fenced off from a studio they previously had access to. That's not even going into the Activision deal.

    Maybe we can now point to Bungie, but that was still half the price. Most of Sony's acquisitions over its time were studios that were already de facto developing exclusively for their consoles. Even Insomniac. If you look at their history, Sunset Overdrive is a lone anomaly.

    Exclusives suck, but I don't see them going away as long as consoles and capitalism exist. You're basically throwing shade at Sony for daring to fund the development of critically and commercially acclaimed games that gave them the reputation of having a quality first party library. Starfield on the other hand was developed as cross platform title until Microsoft paid 7.5 billion to acquire a major publisher. Wasn't this confirmed this week by the document leaks?

    Few complain when Halo is released exclusively because no one is being surprised that those games are now exclusive titles. That isn't the case with the new Bethesda deal.

  • What the fuck did you think was going to happen?

    Microsoft would develop their existing first party studios and improve the quality of their first party titles, invest in third parties that they already had exclusive relationships with, or invest in up and coming studios?

    Had Bethesda published a Microsoft exclusive since Morrowind?