jason.revolutionarygames.co
Jason Godesky (he/him). Game designer for @revolutionarygames.co, husband of @giuli.revolutionarygames.co. #rewilding #ttrpgs #webdev #ux
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Now a bot that just responds with random aggression and defaults to "ok bot" when it can't calculate anything else, that's actually pretty easy. I wrote a few scripts like that for my AI course back in college, years ago.
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I generally don't. In this particular case, I'm repeating what Doctors Without Borders explained in the article linked right above, which you clearly didn't read. You do know how to read, right?
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Ye gods, am I really going to have to repeat this for every single troll who cycles into this endless thread? You've got to be the fourth troll who's rolled into my mentions from this endless thread demanding that I explain this basic concept to them yet again.
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By "malfunctioning," you mean that I think nationalism is evil? That would be because it always ends in fascism and genocide, because nations are imaginary and people aren't, and sacrificing even one real, flesh-and-blood person for an imaginary nation is an abomination.
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Because they can't: the border is sealed.
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Damn, I wish I could write a bot that sophisticated.
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I guess it would be because, even though I never had the faith to actually convert, core Jewish principles like pikuach nefesh and tikkun olam still speak to me so deeply that I feel like I have an obligation to speak out against injustice, fascism, and genocide.
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Rafah was the only way that food or medicine was getting into Gaza until Israel seized it and closed it off. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/whats...
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Ah, well, so I guess you can’t talk to her NOW, she got so sick of your bullshit that she blocked you. She is wiser than I.
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That would be @giuli.revolutionarygames.co She’s been in this thread a whole lot longer than you have — including several posts up from the one you’re responding to, with this gem. bsky.app/profile/giul...
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Hey, see, I knew we could eventually find a point of agreement.
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Yes, I am aware of both of those things, as well as how they’re irrelevant to the conversation at hand and do not change the fact that as of 2023, most of Gaza’s population was made up of refugees displaced from homes across Palestine who’d been denied their right of return for decades.
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Anyway, yes, this really has gone everywhere, hasn’t it? Which of those points, exactly, were you imagining as “the point of the conversation”?
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…and focus only on the 2/3 who were innocent civilians, but when the IDF brags about how they’re the most moral army in the world when they do the same thing, we should ignore the 2/3 who are definitely innocent civilians and only talk about the 1/3 that they claim were Hamas fighters.
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…we actually lived for many years in Squirrel Hill, a few blocks from Tree of Life, then you came in to tell me that when Hamas does a military operation that they say went wrong it’s not a military operation, it’s just terrorism, and we should ignore the 1/3 of those killed who were IDF soldiers…
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I spent some time trying to argue why nationalism is bad (yes, even when Jews do it), they said how dare you speak for Jews when I say that nations are imagined, my wife eventually chimed in to say she’s Jewish, they tell me I have no idea what antisemitic violence is like, I point out that…
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I entered the conversation to argue that, while Israel should not exist, Iran isn’t good, either. That person accused me of running hasbara and blocked me. Then a gaggle of Dutch Zionists found me saying that Israel should not exist and said I’m an antisemite arguing for eradication of all Jews.
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You’re coming in real late here. So is Daniel. I’m not sure either of you actually know what the point of the conversation is. This started with someone saying that Iran and Israel heading towards war is bad. Someone responded that Israel is bad, Iran is just responding to Israeli aggression.
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…and accepted — OK, that seems a little silly to me to insist upon, but I can get along with “it’s still Israel” if it’s that important to you. How we describe that process is far less important than that we move towards a world where Jews and Palestinians can live in peace.
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If you agree with that process as the way forward but disagree that it constitutes the dissolution of Israel, then our disagreement is purely semantic. If you think you can transform Israel into something that is no longer in any meaningful way a Jewish state — just a state where Jews are safe…
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…Jewish state that’s a problem, it’s any nationalistic modifier to the word state at all. I would say that even if you keep the name, a change that fundamental would constitute the dissolution of Israel as we know it today and the creation of a new state, even if it has the same name.
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…citizenship, right of return, and rights to move about, work, and live to all Palestinians. Even if that means Jews become a minority. It would mean choosing democracy over being a Jewish state, because democracy really is incompatible with any ethnostate. It’s not the Jewish part of the…
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…same country now that De Klerk ruled over in 1994. Israel could do something similar. It could maintain a continuous government, it could keep the same name, flag, and symbols (though some of those could be awkward). The important part would be to repeal the Nation-State Law and grant full…
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Under apartheid, South Africa imagined itself as the country which upholds apartheid. Ending apartheid meant dissolving and reforming the entire concept of what South Africa was and what it meant to be South African. It did so with a continuous government, but it is not in any meaningful way the…
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I never said it exists in a vacuum, those play their parts, but they’re minor parts. There is no symmetry in this relationship. Israel has all the power. Israel can end this at any time. It goes on because Israel chooses to continue. youtu.be/7ebPj_FqM5Q?...
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Because “notice to evacuate” doesn’t mean much when you keep all the ways in and out sealed. Also, you forgot to mention that damn near everyone in Gaza is there because of some previous time Israel warned them to evacuate and they’ve never been allowed to return in all the long decades since.
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If October 7 was just terrorism, not a military operation, then Israel’s activity in Gaza since then is just terrorism, and not a military operation.
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No more or less than bombing children is a military operation. In both cases, we’re talking about the “mistakes” that are made in war, if we choose to believe the killers. The callous disregard of lunatics who need to be stopped, by my own interpretation.
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So it’s your contention that Hamas did nothing wrong in October 7? Otherwise, you’d be holding them to a standard nobody else is held to, right?
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Hamas’s crimes are sufficient to condemn it to utter annihilation — and there isn’t a single one of those crimes that doesn’t have a direct corollary in something Israel has done that’s 10x worse.
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Israel’s plan was to carpet bomb one of the most densely populated areas on the planet, with a population that’s 50% children. Israel’s plan has been to cut off food and water until everyone in Gaza starves to death.
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The bombing of Gaza was likewise planned as a military operation, but where Hamas ended up slaughtering civilians because their plan fell apart, Israel has been slaughtering civilians on the same scale every single day since because their plans are being executed flawlessly.
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…soldiers had been moved to the West Bank to shoot any Palestinians who dared to fight back against the illegal settlers who were dragging them out of their homes and beating them. There’s a lot to condemn there — enough to justify Hamas’s annihilation — but it was planned as a military operation.
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…is that a murder rampage on Israeli civilians was not the plan. Murders happened because they didn’t have a plan for when they punched through the defenses, because they didn’t expect to get through the defenses. They didn’t know that those defenses were that weak or that so many of those…
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…might be a counter-attack, and went in, guns blazing. There’s a lot to condemn in that: the lack of discipline or rules of engagement, the lack of concern for civilian casualties, the eagerness to kill exceeding your willingness to figure out what’s going on or who you’re firing on. What is clear…
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We were talking about October 7; the Nova Festival was just one part of what happened that day. It’s difficult to piece together all the details, but it seems like Hamas didn’t expect to get anywhere near as far as they did, got reports of a large gathering, didn’t know what it was, feared it…
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You can’t have it both ways. If 2/3 civilian casualties makes you the most moral army in the world, then the IDF’s most optimistic propaganda makes them tied with Hamas for that title. If it justifies the destruction of Hamas (as I think), then it must demand the end of Israel just as much.
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Or did you not know that 1/3 of those killed on October 7 were IDF soldiers, so Hamas actually hit the exact same ratio on October 7 that the IDF brags about as evidence that they’re the world’s most moral army?
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I agree, I don’t think there’s any way to justify October 7. It was Daniel who said that killing only 2/3 civilians is actually really admirable in the context of modern war. I think it’s reprehensible, and any state satisfied with that should be destroyed — Hamas and Israel alike.
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What Hitler had to say about the Jewish people 90 years ago has nothing whatsoever to do with the genocide we can all see Israel, a state that claims to speak for the Jewish people but does not and fundamentally cannot b/c states are not people, committing today. www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
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…conspiracy to wipe out Germans in the 1930s is begging the question. It assumes that Israel is the same as the Jewish people, which is the original point of contention here. It’s also built on the assumption that something that wasn’t true 90 years ago can’t possibly be true today.
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Israel was founded three years after Hitler killed himself. You’re begging the question. Our entire point is that Israel is not the Jewish people and the Jewish people are not Israel. Saying that Israel can’t possibly be committing genocide in 2025 because Hitler accused the Jews of a grand…
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…aren’t demanding to hear your life story and see your credentials to have opinions like you lot keep doing to us. We just address your ideas for the idiocy, lunacy, and bigotry they are, regardless of who you are or why you choose to spew them.
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It’s one category of Jew that I can be sure none of you are. Maybe you’re Reform, or Reconstructionist, or Conservative, though those groups don’t usually line up so well with such rabid Zionism. Maybe you’re just ethnically Jewish, like Giuli, and you just haven’t mentioned it yet because we…
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Then I guess October 7 was a perfectly legitimate military operation, by your standards. I disagree; I think October 7 was unforgivable.
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…assumption (shared by two-thirds of Israelis in a recent poll) that there are no innocents in Gaza, and that being Palestinian is sufficient proof of guilt to deserve death, rape, torture, or worse.
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55k as of when the health ministry lost count more than a year ago because Israel was targeting the hospitals to make it impossible to keep the count up, with more recent estimates hovering around 500k. Half of whom are children. The assumption that the other half are militants is just the…