Crysta

This looks like a fan game. 😕 Not something I'd expect out of Nintendo at all. EDIT: Very tech demo feel. And why is it in Chinese?

It's done already.

Feeling a lot better now than I did 2+ weeks ago Let the squealing about voter fraud begin (or rather continue)

yeah i'm not going to have any snarky commentary for any of this it's just going to be awful through and through

Lmao I don’t like Newsom on a personal level, but him not wasting his time entertaining the completely unserious right wing trolls is the smart move. Republicans have traded policy for posturing. What he should be worried about is bringing the dems to the polls, because most Californians aren’t aware of how we do our recall elections.

I'm fine with quitting if the job gets too tough. Worked in customer service for 6+ years -- never again. But I think they can probably move some of the money away from tanks and robot dogs, personally.

Crime rates are rising everywhere last time I checked. Conservatives are suddenly very sympathetic to people refusing to do their jobs and still getting paid. Though I guess these guys at least quit?

I find this is a good explanation behind why qanon is appealing even though it seems insane to anyone outside of the rabbit hole.

whataboutism is a widespread Russian propaganda tool 🙂

Yeah they're not selling me on the AP = Hamas, either. I still think that the government increasingly kowtowing to right wing elements is enough to make them feel emboldened enough to do this sort of thing, though.

probably just look at how our politics/country has transformed in the last four years. did you think the jan 6 insurrection was something on the horizon back in 2015/16?

I’m pretty sure perceptions are changing now because there really was no precipitating incitement beforehand to justify the violence Israel is dishing out. There’s been some interesting mental gymnastics from supporters to try to justify it retroactively, but they’re ringing pretty hollow. Not every building is a Hamas hq. Things change, even ancient problems.

The history behind the situation and the solution is complicated. I don’t think the morality is, though, because of just how asymmetrical the power is. Hamas being bad does not justify what Israel is doing, nor does their belief that the land belongs to them.

Hasn't the West Bank been demilitarized since 1994?

It’s hard to “both sides” this when there’s such a huge power discrepancy between the two powers involved: it stopping is more contingent on one side stopping.