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#71

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by celedhring - December 14, 2025, 05:10:25 AM

So... There is a new Animal Farm movie coming out next year.

Just...  I...  WTF?

Wait, this is Serkis passion project? Turning Animal Farm into a 2000s Dreamworks comedy cartoon? I was expecting Smash Mouth to play at any time.

Also, seems the message has been revised to communism becoming shitty because capitalism corrupted its leaders? 

#72

Off the Record / Re: Dead Pool 2025

Last post by Solmyr - December 14, 2025, 04:32:00 AM

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/13/entertainment/peter-greene-actor-death

#73

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by HVC - December 14, 2025, 04:24:16 AM

Also not true, planting trees requires quite a few years of stewardship until they're large enough. Be it weeding until they've grown enough not to be shaded, and perhaps more difficult keeping deer away from saplings. Deer are opportunist dicks. Besides that have you seen planted forests? Diversity is not their strong suit. Not even talking about the mono culture of the trees themselves, but the undergrowth is often poor and not actually that great for wildlife. That's why reforesting is often heavily managed. At least in this area fast grown trees (often pine) are planted to create shade canopies then decades later thinned out and deciduous trees planted and managed. Again, over decades. Not exactly hands off. You're better off letting margin land on existing forest become colonized, but that takes a very long time. In the meanwhile you have a weed field that fucks over neighbour farmers. Anyway, I might be mistaken, but when I think Texas I don't think verdant forests

#74

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josquius - December 14, 2025, 02:54:25 AM

Turning lawns into meadows takes some work.
Though planting young trees isn't a huge amount of work and they need zero maintenance if you want them to actually be trees.
I've no idea of the landscape of this land though so won't pretend to know of the practicalities there.

#75

Gaming HQ / Re: Total War: Warhammer is co...

Last post by jimmy olsen - December 14, 2025, 02:38:43 AM

Total Warhammer 40K

#76

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - December 14, 2025, 01:28:36 AM

That's bad.  Shouldn't do that.

#77

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Zoupa - December 14, 2025, 01:16:34 AM

Telling that Raz ignores the war crime but instead posts about his interaction with a rando on facebook, of all places.

So you are really going to defend this?  Of course you are...  She's your ally after all.

I didn't even read your exchange with her. I don't think having conversations with random ppl on facebook is a good use of anyone's time, including yours or mine.

Anything to say on the execution of prisoners though?

#78

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Razgovory - December 13, 2025, 11:08:49 PM

So... There is a new Animal Farm movie coming out next year.

Just...  I...  WTF?

#79

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Valmy - December 13, 2025, 10:51:28 PM

On the Internet these days I can never be entirely sure a rando is even a real person.

Seems like a real person.  She lives in the U.K.  Isn't illegal to post stuff like that there?

Don't know. Just saying I would often get into discussions with people online and get really worked up just for it later to occur to me that might not have even really been a real person.

Which is why I rarely get into it outside of Languish anymore.

#80

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - December 13, 2025, 10:21:59 PM

Your link doesn't go anywhere.

Fits right into this argument then.

I didn't make an argument.  But I have noted two things about left-wing antizionists:

Most are interested in fighting racism or at least appear to be fighting racism.

Most would rather prefer to see the people they are opposing not as Jews or even Israelis, but far-right Americans.  In particular, evangelical Christians.

These seem to be the primary motivation.  For the most part, they are not antisemitic.  In fact that Israelis are Jewish is terribly inconvenient.  If the Israelis were white Christians, they could really go in on the eliminationist rhetoric.  The shift in the American far-right against Israel really bothers them.  I've read several tirades and articles about how Tucker Carlson and his ilk aren't really antizionist.  Unlike the far-right, a real antizionist cares very deeply about the lives of brown people, the lives of Yemenis, Syrians, Uyghurs, etc notwithstanding.  Those far-right anti-Israel types are only interested in instrumentalizing the suffering of Palestinians to destroy their political enemies, Jews and the like.  A real antizionist would never make this about anything else but the lives of Palestinians.  Unless it was the Capitalism, American Imperialism, Environmentalism or some other part of the omnicause.  Anyway, it's clear they don't like being on the same side as the Far-right.  It's very hard to virtue signal when your allies are big fans of the "Austrian Painter", and it's hard to be against Christian evangelicals when you are agreeing with them.

Anyways, I think it is helpful to see what what antizionists actually say.  After all, there are probably more Muslim antizionists than white Westerner ones.  What are the real ones like?