Netanyahu has consistently signaled that he does not care at all about the hostages. He’s in this war for his political survival and to stay out of jail on corruption charges.
Peace cannot possibly be achieved while he is in office. The hostages will die of starvation and thirst eventually, just like the Palestinians are doing right now en masse.
When/if Trump loses and the threat of another attempted coup or civil war has passed would be ideal. Demotivating voters who would keep Trump out of office is bad for everyone, as is emboldening the people who would commit treason to take the office by force.
This situation is specific to the US, but because of the election, right now is the exact wrong time to be raising alarm bells and turning blame toward the Biden Administration. It’s not that they haven’t made mistakes; it’s that the alternative is so, so much worse. What’s happening is a tragedy, but it will only widen in scope and be replicated elsewhere if Trump takes office again.
It’s a goddamn shame how evil the world is. And it’s incredibly sad that people become desensitized to it, but they do. Incremental improvement does very little for the present, but it’s the only feasible solution right now.
The alternative is to turn right wing and make everything exponentially worse. It’s incredibly sad that the people everywhere are powerless, but it’s a fact of life in the world right now.
Make a good fucking game. That’s your job. Get out of the creatives’ way and quit insisting that garbage microtransactions be inserted into everything.
It isn’t hard. Gaming companies were able to do it for decades. It’s the rent-seeking executives who are fucking up the gaming industry the same way they’re fucking up everything else.
Sometimes, I think Cointellpro figured out that you don’t need to insert provocateurs to talk about terrorist shit. Just put one nerd in the chat to challenge a subgroup’s purity, and every leftist movement will collapse into infighting and dissolve.
This was always going to happen after the pagers exploded. Netanyahu is finalizing his legacy before he loses the next election. He’s taking out all of Israel’s enemies’ ability to wage war.
Netanyahu is ensuring October 10 doesn’t happen again in the foreseeable future and also expanding land grabs at a rapid pace. He doesn’t give a single fuck about civilian death tolls to achieve his goals.
When you think about it, Cuba is still being punished for being an ally of an empire that hasn’t existed for over three decades.
“So, you said you’re auditing the class. Why are you so interested in learning German?”
“Uhh… memes. You can tell they’re fire, but I can’t read them.”
The events of the last year have made it crystal clear to me that the lives of people from certain parts of the globe—not only from Sudan, but also from Gaza, Congo and so many other conflict zones of the Global South—are deemed entirely disposable. That the world will look back to Rwanda and say, ‘how could we let it happen?’ and yet stand by as it happens again, and again, and again.
It’s not that people in the West don’t care, necessarily; it’s that those with wealth and influence keep stories from the region out of the news, or at least sufficiently under-covered, that popular anger and a demand for action never materialize.
Sounds like a country that desperately needs to call a general election.
GreedFall. Old school RPG that flew completely under my radar. It has a 00s Bioware feel to it, before the dark times. The graphics aren’t perfect, etc., but it’s a really fun game with a decent story (so far).