freeman

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[–] freeman -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don’t be obtuse the similarities between the the Syrian Arab spring and the maidan uprising are quite obvious if you actually know what either are.

Ukraine was not a dictatorship unlike Syria. Maidan succeeded and Russia attacked both openly in Crime and with 'rebels' in the East. Western support was limited till the next invasion by Russia.

Syria was a dictatorship. After the Arab spring the US started arming islamic militias and attacking Syrian forces. A couple of years later and we had fucking ISIL devastating a big part of Syria and that is when the immigration crisis from Syria peaked, not at the start of the civil war. The US kept supplying the 'moderate' islamic groups even though it was known that a lot of their equipment ended up on ISIL.

Do you really believe that any of the foreign interventions in Syria has benefited the Syrians? Do you believe it was meant to?

[–] freeman -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As opposed to ISIL and 'moderate' islamic militias? Or Turkey that occupies areas in the north?

Do you think life would be better for Syrians under them? After all the country was under the same regime for decades but the crisis started after the war.

You don't care about Syrians, you most likely do not actually give a shit about Ukrainians either.

[–] freeman -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What exactly was Syria's role in maidan?

Ukraine is also not the fist country that got invaded so I don't think it's somehow the 'last country you should try that argument with'.

[–] freeman 5 points 1 year ago

No, rendering at a smaller resolution and upscaling is not the same concept as only rendering what will end up in frame.

[–] freeman 3 points 1 year ago

The controller had a weird and unfortunate shape. It's still miles better than any PS controller due to Sony's refusal to put the stick on a natural position for the the thumb.

Sega and then Microsoft (after the first huge iteration) got both general shape and analog positions right.

Cartridge is an indefensible choice, it was perhaps borne of Nintendo's falling out with Sony that prejudiced them against CD. Nintendo probably liked that they were more difficult to pirate as well, gamers not as much evidently. The Gamecube going optical but with a bizarre reversed mini-dvd is even worse.

There's also a complete absence of software from your post, whatever it's shortcomings Nintendo and Rare pushed some amazing games on it which people remember fondly.

[–] freeman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? In Reddit you can't reply if you get downvoted so there's an incentive to flip upvoting and downvoting.

In Lemmy there's no such mechanic so why flip them?

[–] freeman 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well in adidas web store you can choose a player whose number includes #4 and it does not seem to be this typeface.

[–] freeman 3 points 1 year ago

It's a violation of free speech, it's just not a violation of US law. Free speech is not the first amendment.

[–] freeman 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And who gets the remaining 75%?

[–] freeman 6 points 1 year ago

Copyright holders.

[–] freeman 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coffee itself is addictive though.

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