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Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
- secondary_op 6mo ago[flagged]
- seydor 6mo agoHormuz is not a minefield though. According to sources, ships are moving near the coast of Iran, according to other sources they are being charged $2M per passage. According to other sources only Yuan paid oil is allowed.
- jonplackett 6mo agoI’m not sure this is intended to be factually accurate
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- diath 6mo agoYou can see for yourself if anything is passing: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.7/centery:27.1/zoom:7 https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.7/cente...
- mmmwww 6mo agoI've seen reports of ship turning off their AIS before attempting the strait, not sure if this is still valid but Marine Traffic only shows AIS signals that are turned on, which is as simple as flipping a switch. Also something Chinese fishing ships do around the galapagos and other regions to fish illegally.
- oxfeed65261 6mo agoA small number of ships are crossing with AIS off (and without the benefit of GPS, because it is jammed) by coordinating with Iran. For example: https://gcaptain.com/iranian-navy-guided-indian-tanker-through-hormuz-crew-member-says/ https://gcaptain.com/iranian-navy-guided-indian-tanker-throu.... These will not show up on Marine Traffic as they are transiting the strait.
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoWonder why US doesn’t spam the strait with fake AIS signals. Do Iranians have capability to spot ships in dark at night? If they employ radar - why not geolocate radar stations? Is there other techniques Iranians have for spotting ships (EW, SAR, etc)? If Shaheds use Starlink - how come SpaceX can’t geolocate the launch sites?
- raincole 6mo agohttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geg0eeyjeo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geg0eeyjeo > Before the war, about 138 ships passed through the strait each day according to the Joint Maritime Information Centre, carrying one fifth of the global oil supply. > The data provided by shipping analysts Kpler shows 99 vessels passing the narrow strait so far this month, an average of just 5-6 vessels a day. I mean, it's bad, but it's factually not a minefield. The threat isn't coming from mines anyway.
- wood_spirit 6mo agohttps://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html
- CoastalCoder 6mo ago> I mean, it's bad, but it's factually not a minefield. That's not clear. Mines are generally concealed. It's the reason that mine-sweeping is slow and dangerous. And there's no public information (AFAIK) that let's us rule out mines having been, or even currently being, laid.
- samus 6mo agoThe risk of being targeted by missiles or drones works just as well. There is a reason NATO has to patrol the Red Sea with warships.
- sbuttgereit 6mo agoAs others have mentioned, that's simply not going to tell you anything. AIS can and is often times turned off in such situations and it ships can spoof their location by sending false AIS... something that situations like could encourage, at least one could well imagine. I find Sal Mercogliano's "What's Going on With Shipping?" to be a better source to understanding what's happening in the Strait. Here's a link to yesterday's episode "Strait of Hormuz 3-Week Recap | What is the Status of the Ships, Transits and Escort Mission?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64cOs7GN_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64cOs7GN_4
- 0dayman 6mo agocorrect
- beloch 6mo agoIt might not be. It might be. Uncertainty is the point of what Iran is doing. There might be mines in the straight that are sophisticated enough to be armed, disarmed, or moved on command, or there might not. There might be artillery emplacements* hidden and not found, ready to pop up... or there might not. There are probably still plenty of drones and missiles all over the country that can be called down on Hormuz at will. Iran might choose to save them for something else... or they might not. If a few oil tankers get through without Iran's permission, one might conclude everything Iran has in place has been found and that the straight is safe. Then again, it might not be. The Iranians might save a few choice surprises for the first aircraft carrier that gets too close. They might also choose to actually sink a large ship**, blocking the straight long-term. The Iranian regime has been planning specifically for a U.S. invasion since it's inception*** and they probably have some very well hidden and nasty surprises as well as plans to use them to maximum effect. Merchant vessels can't get insurance to go through because of all this uncertainty. The U.S. Navy has completely refused to go in there because losing a multi-billion dollar military vessel along with hundreds or thousands of sailors for a war that's already unpopular would likely knock the U.S. out of it completely. This is why Trump is desperate for other nations to come in and clear the straight. He doesn't care if they lose ships, but he can't afford to lose even one American ship for a "Wag the Dog" war that's already exploded the budget. ------------------- *The straight is narrow enough that artillery can actually cover it. Even the most sophisticated anti-missile defence systems aren't meant to deal with artillery shells fired from nearly point blank range. **The straight has only a couple of channels deep enough for large vessels to transit. One or two well positioned wrecks could block the works. *** They rebelled against a Shah installed by a CIA backed coup after all.
- donalhunt 6mo agoLloyds who are one of the biggest players have indicated cover is available. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/20/risk-london-shipping-industry-iran-war-lloyds-of-london-premiums https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/20/risk-london...
- andyjohnson0 6mo ago
- donalhunt 6mo agoIran has indicated they will only target ships tied to countries that are involved in the conflict. That likely means US and Israel. Unclear if countries like the UK that are facilitating the US through use of their bases would be considered legitimate targets (likely yes).
- lukan 6mo agoUnfortunately Iran's leadership is in a bit of distress and communication disrupted, and "involved in the conflict" is a very broad term - so they do make some effort to get chinese oil out, but any ship not asking for explicit permission from Iran - will have some great risk of being targeted. Remember, the strait is not Iranian property, but International waters. So no one would have to ask them for permission, but that is the way it is and most do not risk it (insurance won't cover).
- imadierich 6mo ago[dead]
- fc417fc802 6mo ago> the strait is not Iranian property, but International waters That seems to depend on who you ask. Iran has expressed a differing opinion on the matter and appears to be capable of striking the area in practice.
- Kwpolska 6mo agoNah, the narrowest points are below 24 nautical miles, so all ships need to pass through Iran and/or Oman's territorial waters (12 nmi each).
- Pay08 6mo agoThat's not how mines work. They don't only explode on people you want them to explode on.
- catlifeonmars 6mo ago
- ginko 6mo agoSo is the message here that demining the strait of Hormuz will be fairly easy? I was expecting some curve balls at the end with undecidable constellations but it was all quite straightforward.
- FerretFred 6mo agoSomeone leaked this to POTUS and he based his whole strategy on it!
- amelius 6mo agoWhat strategy?
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoGetting rich, maintaining power, and staying in office.
- samus 6mo agoThere are undecidable situations in Minesweeper.
- jimnotgym 6mo agoVery very good satire. Well done
- 0dayman 6mo agoand missiles too, not just mines
- kentwistle 6mo agoLooks good but can’t play on iPad due to lack of right click.
- notrealyme123 6mo agoYou win if there are no more fields without mines.
- CraftThatBlock 6mo agoLong press flags on touch screens
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- sandworm101 6mo agoThe tie-in with Apple is what doomed the littoral combat ship program. Things got better once they shifted to xbox controllers.
- PythonicNinja 6mo agoadded support for ipad using long press for flags
- simonw 6mo agoDoesn't seem to work on iPhone. I suggest having a button to toggle between mine marking mode and regular mode - I used that on my own little vibe-coded minesweeper clone here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/minesweeper https://tools.simonwillison.net/minesweeper
- PythonicNinja 6mo agogood call, added it
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- galad87 6mo agoIt's missing the double click on a number feature from minesweeper.
- fbcpck 6mo agochording is available only during peace times
- sandworm101 6mo agoClearing more than one sector at a time requires allied support.
- PythonicNinja 6mo agoAdded double click feature
- pimlottc 6mo agoDouble clicking on a tile doesn't seem to do anything different than a single click (Firefox on macOS)
- pimlottc 6mo agoOh, I see - double clicking only works when you have already marked the correct number of adjacent mines. I didn't remember that's how it worked in the original. I also never knew it was called "chording", that's worth an explanation.
- alexwebb2 6mo agoIt's still middle-click in my muscle memory from the Windows XP days! God, I used to be _really_ into Minesweeper. One of the earliest games I made back in college was a 3D Minesweeper cube. I remember being really proud of one little detail – the detection and automatic resolution of ambiguous clues that would require guessing, which always annoyed the heck out of me in every other version of Minesweeper.
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- us321 6mo agoThe missile feature is missing.
- abdusco 6mo agoWonderful! Now make another app that lets you pick which children are ok to kill
- jacquesm 6mo ago[flagged]
- roysting 6mo agoIt’s rather ironic that you would make this kind of comment at the same time as your other comment (I happened to notice) about the pen being mightier than the sword, considering that it’s light skinned Iranians (including literal Aryans) being killed by a hodgepodge of skin colors in Israel and among the US troops assembled for invasion and who will die killing the light(er) skinned Iranians. Although the American troops are wildly disproportionately “white” because that is historically the pool of peasants the people with the pen draw on to sacrifice and murder for their wars, if you look at the forces and the US military in general, it’s the most diverse, multi-cultural, rainbow coalition in existence on this planet. You literally have people of every race, ethnicity, and nationality included in a rainbow of killing and they are proud of it; yet here we are being sarcastic about it being as simple as “whites” killing “browns”, not realizing that just demonstrates the pen’s lingering albeit still useful control over the mind. Your point is well made though, the pen is indeed far more powerful when it can hide in plain sight the multi-cultural, rainbow coalition, diversity sword of the maniacal, narcissistic, psychopathic, child raping, Epstein class right in front of you. The pen is indeed far mightier than the sword
- jacquesm 6mo agoAnything other than lily white is brown, don't you know? More so if they're sitting on top of a bunch of oil, or have the wrong religion, or just happen to be born in the wrong spot. Racism isn't necessarily perfectly confined to color, it's just a convenient shorthand so people can do what they want to do anyway.
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- BoredPositron 6mo ago[flagged]
- ghywertelling 6mo agoThis is symptom of the misunderstanding among people that somehow more people being knowledgeable about politics will bring about a change. "Pen is mightier than sword" was probably written by a person who only wielded pen. It's a collective psyops inflicted by people on themselves, belonging to an era where it made sense. In today's world, it doesn't matter. Bring missles to a sword / knife fight. Only true power is respected.
- mulnz 6mo agoCool man, can you please just pass the blunt.
- ghywertelling 6mo agoListen to Netanyahu speech where he said Evil can win over Good through sheer power.
- mulnz 6mo agoTotally. After reading your poorly worded screed on geopolitical ethics, which itself was a random and inane response to a comment mocking that exact type of behavior. Too rich. I will now go listen to the words of a bloodthirsty fascist. Thank you for the advice.
- ghywertelling 6mo agoWhy do think I support Netanyahu? The fact that he choose that example says more about his ideals and psyche. I am merely pointing out the fallacy that a better informed populace doesn't immediately translate to good policies.
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- general_reveal 6mo agoTrump is trying to prompt the Straight like it’s ChatGPT.
- roysting 6mo agoI have not finished a game, but I would be very disappointed if I didn’t get credit for stopping a war once I’ve won.
- ChristianJacobs 6mo agoNext FIFA peace price for you!
- tclancy 6mo agoDo not fix this perfect Freudian slip!
- notrealyme123 6mo agohttps://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/sport/soccer-world-cup-peace-prize-trump-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/sport/soccer-world-cup-pe...
- jfengel 6mo agoHe's referring to the word "price".
- notrealyme123 6mo agoThat explains a lot
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- leosanchez 6mo agoIt's not
- petesergeant 6mo agoIncredibly this actually happened and isn’t a slip
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- justintiime 6mo agoMissing feature where you blanket nuke the whole area to destroy mines.
- specproc 6mo agoWHO is currently doing readiness for a nuclear attack in the region. This is America, the country willing to do the unconscionable when they're not winning fast enough. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-nuclear-weapons-who-warning-b2941153.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
- anonymars 6mo agoOther than that, of course, WWII was perfectly civilized
- specproc 6mo agoThe unfortunate thing is how keen the US and its allies appear to recreate it.
- samus 6mo agoLast time I checked, only the US and Israel. Europeans don't want anything to do with this war, and the USA's East Asian allies also like it not even a little bit.
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoAs a Brit, I'm disgusted that Starmer is allowing UK bases to be used by the US for launching attacks. I can see it being just a matter of time before Starmer drags us into another war of lies. (Last time it was Tony Blair, also a Labour leader and he still hasn't been tried for his war crimes).
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- seboapps 6mo agoGreat
- lukan 6mo agoOk, I did win. Do I get cheaper gasoline now?
- axegon_ 6mo agoProbably not. Afaik only the Dutch have eaten their leader in a time of desperation and while I'm not saying that other nations should have taken notes, we are probably all thinking it...
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- tyre 6mo agoI don’t think it was in desperation but to disrespect him for his crimes
- fluidcruft 6mo agoidk prions are a concern
- flyinglizard 6mo agoThat's it? Momentary gasoline price is all that matters now? Not geopolitical interests, alliances, _Doing The Right Thing_? If that's the only angle you care about, then US subduing the Iranian regime would go a long way to de-facto dissolving OPEC and bring much more flexibility to oil prices.
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- nullzzz 6mo agoWell done! I don’t quite agree with making fun of the situation that’s deadly serious to many innocent people. Yet I’m sure the intentions of the author were good. Hoping for peace.
- Swenrekcah 6mo agoI don’t see it as making fun of the situation per se, rather the people responsible for it.
- hakrgrl 6mo agoI don't really agree with rooting against the USA just because you don't like the president. An Islamist Iran with nukes is a scary proposition. I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it rather than sending palettes of cash on an jet to radical Muslims.
- pell 6mo agoThe way you describe the alternative option seems not very good faith.
- hakrgrl 6mo agoObama actually did this in 2016. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-... > Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
- skeeter2020 6mo agoWhile the optics of this may look bad, the same thing happens after armed conflict too; the US has spent boatloads of money in Afghanistan on top of all the military costs, and we're basically in the same situation as before.
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- alecco 6mo agohttps://sweepthestrait.com/ https://sweepthestrait.com/ This one was made the first week of the war.
- steveBK123 6mo agoThis one looks a lot easier though, maybe I can play it during boring meetings without getting pissed off..
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- franze 6mo agohere is my version with algo generated levels and you have to navigate a ship from left to right https://strait-sweeper.franzai.com/ https://strait-sweeper.franzai.com/
- jsnell 6mo agoOn Chrome, right-click brings up the context menu in addition to flagging a mine, which basically makes this unplayable. Also the ship is not explained at all (the graphics, the controls, the systems). I'd recommend at least a one paragraph help section in the menu.
- onfir3 6mo agoCool! But on level 10 the ship can't move further to the goal although the path is cleared. No movement forward is allowed
- franze 6mo agofixed. thx for the feeback
- whatsupdog 6mo ago[flagged]
- CoastalCoder 6mo agoOnce you have enough karma you can flag stories.
- mothballed 6mo agoYou can be shadow banned from flagging and vouching at which point you can still click it but nothing will happen. Not sure if it counts for stories.
- hakrgrl 6mo agoThis was my first thought too."Trump bad" is fine on HN. I've seen it multiple times. The zig guy wrote anti ICE propaganda in the zig docs and everyone here lapped it up and upvoted it. Any pro ICE discussion on HN was literally flagged and removed.
- nutjob2 6mo agoSounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people, who would support that in good conscience?
- hakrgrl 6mo ago> Sounds perfectly fine to me. Pro ICE is equated with supporting arbitrary execution of innocent people That is a false equivalence, ignoring the countless criminals that have been removed from our neighborhoods. One of THOUSANDS of examples below. You want this guy as your neighbor, really? Kindness to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. "Eduardo Temoxtle-Calihua, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, convicted for cruelty toward a child and DUI in Lincoln County, Idaho." https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/16/ice-continued-arrest-murderers-rapists-and-child-abusers-over-weekend-keep-america https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/03/16/ice-continued-arrest-mur...
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- mppm 6mo agoThank you for Making Minesweeper Great Again!
- baobabKoodaa 6mo agoMMGA
- joe_mamba 6mo agoWe're gonna build a wall(ed garden) and have the Linux penguins pay for it.
- AnimalMuppet 6mo agoThe penguins who are running the servers for your walled garden? Good luck with that. Let me know how it works out for you.
- layer8 6mo agoMinesweeper Achieves Greatness Again!
- mentalgear 6mo agoMAGAGA
- hakrgrl 6mo agoHow about you make an app about "winning" that involves flying a cargo plane loaded with so much cash to Iranian Islamists that it struggles to stay aloft. Because that was the strategy before Trump and it led to terror tunnels, terror proxies, and weapons grade nuclear enrichment. Edit: For the record this actually happened 10 years ago under Obama. https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-400-million-cash https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-iran-... > Washington CNN — The Obama administration secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash on the same day Iran released four American prisoners and formally implemented the nuclear deal, US officials confirmed Wednesday.
- selimthegrim 6mo ago[flagged]
- hakrgrl 6mo agoI don't even know who that is
- dylan604 6mo agoIf only there was a way to search for information when you were unfamiliar with a subject rather than showing your willingness to attempt an argument willfully ignorant by not doing a 10 second search.
- themgt 6mo agoAccount made 53 days ago with sole interests being defending Palantir and Israel/US war. I love how highly organic and genuine the discussion of certain topics is here on HN.
- beepbooptheory 6mo agoListen, you have posted a lot, are very passionate here about this Obama thing. You have multiple times said "how about make an app that...". Why don't you make the app? I for one would love to play a game where you are Obama the money smuggler or whatever, it sounds kind of awesome.
- Waterluvian 6mo ago[flagged]
- hakrgrl 6mo agoOr machine gun defence when you're protecting tens of thousands of Iranians from the Islamist regime. The difference is the US had bad intelligence and acknowledges it's a tragedy. The regime intentionally murders by the thousands and would murder more if it wasn't thwarted by the US and Israel. And somehow you're more upset about the former not the latter. > Since the beginning of the 2025–2026 Iranian protests, the government of Iran has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and also imported foreign militias to suppress widespread public dissent across the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
- ykonstant 6mo agowhatabout iran
- hakrgrl 6mo agoThe implication being what? "What about Iran" as if I don't think killing schoolchildren is terrible and shouldn't happen? You missed the entire point of my comment: to us it's a tragedy. To them it's a strategy. That's why we're bombing them in the first place. They are commiting genocide.
- Waterluvian 6mo agoI think true competence of this subject matter is having the ability to comprehend that "it was an accident" or "they started it" score zero points. Simple minds wail for simple framings of deeply complicated situations, and Americans chose to elect simple minds. I think the U.S. has grappled for a long time with the growing chorus of simple mindedness, volunteering itself for wars that ultimately serve no outcome other than further destabilization. The tragedy of simple minds is their being unable to learn from these mistakes, let alone identify them as mistakes. To put more simply: it doesn't matter what logic or reasoning there is. There are real, tangible consequences to killing 150 children with a cruise missile. The tragedy will be when simple minds understand those consequences as little more than, "it's because they're subhuman terrorists who hate America."
- cyanydeez 6mo agoEvery player action needs to be followed by a drone animation randomly crashing into the remaining tiles.
- ppap3 6mo agoHello folks. Some times I am afraid we are going to a place where there is only destruction and death. No once can stop it alone But it can be stopped
- torusle 6mo agoYea.. having fun with war.. Most American post I have seen here since ages.
- zdc1 6mo ago[dead]
- selimthegrim 6mo agoHow do I chord with a MacBook trackpad?
- _9hey 6mo ago[flagged]
- fc417fc802 6mo agoLiberal? Satire about this "totally-not-a-war" that's widely unpopular among the commoners on both sides of the aisle in the US? Spearheaded by a person who promised his base there would be no new wars on his watch. Isolationism and noninterference was a pretty big selling point to a lot of them as I recall.
- tartoran 6mo agoCould have used hex tiles https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=155566 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=155566
- ReptileMan 6mo agoClick with both buttons to open all when cell is surrounded with right number of flags is not working or missing, which slows the game a lot.
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- input_sh 6mo agoConsidering how many comments you left in this one thread, it definitely sounds like quitting would be beneficial for you.
- chrony3705 6mo ago[dead]
- wiseowise 6mo agoNo! Think about the irreparable damage that will cause to the rest of us!
- pepperoni_pizza 6mo agoThis is not an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.
- _9hey 6mo ago[flagged]
- frenchtoast8 6mo agoYou have commented more than a dozen times on this post. I think you are more than happy to contribute to this “cesspool”
- _9hey 6mo agoExcellent. Finally some diversity of thought. Going to regret this in the morning.
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- shevy-java 6mo agoWe all want different things. I want affordable prices rather than the current inflation amplified by two countries invading another country.
- Vexs 6mo agoBuddy you've got like 10 top-level comments on this thread are you doing okay
- _9hey 6mo agoBetter than ever! Getting some awareness raised. This whole post should be flagged, and people need to quit crapping on the people of Iran by trying to make this a Trump thing.
- Ylpertnodi 6mo agoIt is a trump thing, though. How, just how, is it NOT about trump?
- bronco21016 6mo agoI’m trying to write a nuanced response but frankly it’s difficult. If they want freedom they should take it. The same way Ukraine is standing up to their bully and the same way countless other revolutionaries stood up. Behind the scenes help is perfectly ok. The colonists didn’t form America entirely on their own. I think where so many have issue with this war is that a couple of old men decided they would try to overthrow an incredibly dug in regime with a little air power. It’s like Iraq and Afghanistan all over again. The results are wildly predictable. The regime is entrenched and waiting it out while causing havoc with semi-guerilla tactics of bullying the Straits and attacking neighbors. Change comes from within. Not from cruise missiles.
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- ilovecake1984 6mo agoThey are both very bad guys.
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- _9hey 6mo ago"good people on both sides"
- kennywinker 6mo agoThe problem with saying “good people on both sides” is that one side is literal nazis - the origianl quote is referencing a white supremist march in Charlottesville where marchers chanted “jews will not replace us”. So what exactly is the problem with saying both bombing school children and machine gunning protestors is bad? Be specific.
- throwawaypath 6mo ago>The problem with saying “good people on both sides” is that one side is literal nazis - the origianl quote is referencing a white supremist march in Charlottesville where marchers chanted “jews will not replace us”. That was fake news, never happened. You've been duped by Russian and Iranian propaganda: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
- kennywinker 6mo agoYour link that supposedly says it never happened seems to say that it happened pretty much exactly as i described. > Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. > He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally." If you are marching alongside nazis, at a march organized by neo-nazis, you’re a nazi. There are by definition no good people who march alongside nazis, so his (and your) attempt to differentiate falls flat.
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- Forgeties79 6mo agoWe’ve seen with Palestine that human suffering, unfortunately, does not motivate Americans like gas prices do. So it’s not a reflection of my priorities so much as something to point to to get people to stop supporting Trump’s policies. At the end of the day, we have heard the same thing for a decade. Ignore his tone, ignore his words, ignore this or that policy, because the economy is/is going to be great. When the economy is not doing great, he still gets excuses. Gas prices, however, are what they are. No amount of spin control can stop that.
- _9hey 6mo agoThis is not about Trump. Sorry about Oct. 7th. Israel has a right to defend herself. Sorry terrorists hide behind their own children. All human life is valuable.
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- Forgeties79 6mo agoPretty sure there were no terrorists in that school. If that wasn’t the case let me know and I’m happy to rethink my comment to an extent. > this is not about Trump It has everything to do with Trump. It is his administration. It is his military dropping those bombs. It’s literally his job. We’re just going to give him credit for taking out Iran’s leadership but not hold him accountable when we bomb children going to school?
- magic_hamster 6mo ago> human suffering, unfortunately, does not motivate Americans like gas prices do. Absolutely right. It also makes sense most people will care about something tangible like gas prices than the lives of other people half way across the world. But this doesn't mean that half way across the world there isn't something truly urgent that needs dealing with. I honestly don't know what will come of this war but I do know with a fair bit or certainty that a nuclear Iran would have caused the US far more damage than a few weeks of higher gas prices, and they wouldn't even need to use it. But to truly and fully understand this people need to put a real effort and research the region.
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- _9hey 6mo agoNot even a well known clown
- kennywinker 6mo agoLol. What exactly is it teaching me to think? Imo it’s barely political. Like it’s political in the sense that it’s topical, yes. And it has a mocking tone about the “tired of winning” speech, but that isn’t exactly a partisan position - even if you’re a supporter of his policies that’s a rediculous and mockable speech.
- _9hey 6mo agoEasy framing 1. provide outline 2. audience fills in gaps 3. audience doesn't realize they were led to come to a certain conclusion. The more subtle the better.
- kennywinker 6mo agoOk. What conclusions? Like I agree this is a topical game. But to call it political implies it has a political position. If you belive it does, what is it?
- _9hey 6mo ago[flagged]
- wiseowise 6mo agoIs there Ukraine-Russia DLC?
- shevy-java 6mo agoThe smiley button does not seem to be doing anything. Good to see minesweeper is still existing today. As for "winning" - Trump will say everything, from A to the opposite Z. It is the flood-the-zone-with-shit strategy, as explained in the 1980s by Yuri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9apDnRRSOCk So, rather than evaluate what Trump says, one has to evaluate what is happening. What I see right now is the USA committing more and more to the invasion. Ground troops will come next; first as "limited range", lateron as Vietnam 2.0. Trump is kind of like Lyndon B. Johnson now, just that the country is Iran rather than Vietnam.
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoAt some point, he'll release the Epstein Files to distract from losing the Iran war.
- shrubby 6mo agoMuch winning such wow.
- mkl95 6mo agoThat was only Q1! So much winning left!
- pimlottc 6mo ago"Mines only spawn on water" is a bit confusing; there are no clickable tiles that are fully on land, but tiles that touch land can also have mines. So I'm not sure what that is telling me.
- excalibur 6mo agoWell done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.
- snickerbockers 6mo agoI was hoping that when i actually win i'd get a video of him doing that goofy dance he does.