At this rate it will only be a few months until Ghislane is on the rightwing podcast circuit crying about “cancel culture”.
But I think Rogan would be too combative for her, he’s got too much Alex Jones in him. And the Nelk boys probably learned their lesson after their snafu with genocidal war leader netanyahu. So who’s going to rehab the world’s most famous living child molester? My money is on Lex Fridman.
At what point on this graph is ecoterrorism justified?
No, you are just trying to obfuscate by introducing religion into the discussion. Islam is not fundamentally different from Judaism or Christianity.
Zionism is not a religion, it is a nation building project. It is ethnonationalist (Jewish supremacist), expansionist (attacking and invading multiple neighbors), and extirminationist (genocide of Gaza).
I think the definition of Nazism is “a ethnonationalist, expansionist, extirminationist nation building project”, so Zionism and modern Israel is certainly Nazi. I understand other definitions of Nazism may include “Germany” or “1940s” so there may be slight disagreement on semantics.
We should celebrate the win for sure! But calling it “spine growth” is delusional, wishful thinking.
Does it allow synonyms like “no Nazis” or “no fascists”?
I don’t feel strongly about Coldplay, but I think their style is “whatever Radiohead was doing two years ago, but watered down for the masses”.
Nothing wrong with that, but it does evoke a hipster vs. normie conflict.
Over 30 aid massacres in the past 45 days. The death toll is over 1000.
2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings - Wikipedia
This is by design. The Gazan Humanitarian Foundation is a genocidal terrorist organization.
I think the hottest genre is still “survival/craft”, but there are so many similar looking games, you gotta stand out somehow. Two of the best ways to stand out are combining genres, and having an interesting artsyle.
I would start with the basics of Stardew Valley, people love farming, resources management, upgrading tools and buildings, wooing villagers. But what is lacking in Stardew? I think the battle system and world exploration.
Instead of stardew’s generic 2d Zelda-style battles, I would suggest a card battle system like Slay the Spire. At night players can delve into the card battling cave, looking for new cards, new seeds, farm equipment, etc, always trying to delve deeper for better loot. During the day they work the farm, earning money, crafting new cards and foods that can buff their card battles.
For world exploration, it would depend on your style choices and budget. If you stick with 2d pixel graphics I could see a Zelda style map filled with puzzles and unlocks. If you go bigger with a 3d engine I could see a sprawling Bethesda style map.
As for artsyle, you definitely want to avoid being a Stardew clone. Go a bit darker, both in color and theme, while still creating a game that is suitable for children.
Sadly I think the Biden case is very relevant to this story.
Democrats hid President Biden away for months, but they couldn’t hide his disasterous “I defeated Medicare” debate performance. Do you remember what it was like in the months after that? I remember being so anxious watching Biden public appearances, hoping he doesn’t make a fool of himself. And then when he inevitably flubbed, I remember feeling such deep dread, thinking “oh God, Trump is going to be president again”.
As the Republicans begin to give Trump the “Weekend at Bernie’s” treatment, Democratic criticism will not land as hard because we have so much footage of Dems standing behind Biden during his serious cognitive decline.
Prepare yourself for “it’s just a stutter”-type memes.
I like how she tags Neil DeGrasse Tyson as if the funny haha tv scientist podcast man is out there writing budget proposals for CERN or Fermilab
America already tried to save the North Koreans once. It was called the “Korean War”.
We bombed them back to the stone age, then permanently isolated them from most of the world. Despite having good reasons for the start of the war, America treated NK like Israel currently treats Gaza.
Even if North Koreans tried to forget that America bombed every hospital, every water purification plant, all the electricity production, etc; the Kim regime’s propaganda will make sure they never forget.
If we actually wanted to help those people, the first step would be removal of economic sanctions. There is no clean way to remove dictatorship, but the “Arab Spring” model is much more effective and humane than the “Afghanistan War” model.
principled men
Sadly one of Biden’s principles was blindly supporting Israel no matter what they do, even through an ongoing genocide.
When a genocidal war criminal gets a horrific terminal cancer, it is certainly cause for celebration.
Launching a $2 million dollar missile and crushing a few children to death should also be sensational.
Unfortunately here in America that’s just another Saturday.
It’s so good that these countries are finally showing a bit of support for the Palestinian people, but unfortunately I think this is a sloppy way to do it that will likely end in failure.
To recognize a state of Palestine, you must define it’s borders. What will those borders be? So far these politicians have refused to say, it is much safer for them to be vague and noncommittal.
Surely it would not be the pre-1948 borders, that would literally wipe Israel off the map.
Ideally it would be post-1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. According to the UN this is the most just two-state division. But it is also a plan that has been proposed and dismissed for many decades. Israel would need to be forced to accept a plan like this.
One could also consider the horrific possibility that they will use some post-2005 borders, this would make the Palestinian “state” a series of small unconnected bantustans. This would probably end the genocide, but it would also give international approval to the apartheid.