That's true. And personally I feel really bad that I was only aware of the history of this conflict very recently, too. But it's good that people are changing their minds and opening their eyes. We shouldn't shame them, but pat them on the backs for coming around. Keep in mind that the US especially has been inundated with a crazy amount of propaganda surrounding Israel for a long time. Lots of these latecomers are victims, not willingly ignorant. People have spent millions of dollars lobbying to keep it that way. (Not just Jewish people, it's not some conspiratorial Jewish cabal before the wrong type of poeple jump on agreeing with my comment lol. The military industrial complex is involved and lots of other actors interested in Middle Eastern affairs and Christian zealotry.)
But then it just comes off hypocritical and disingenuous if you selectively apply pressure. Then it just looks like you're trying to give a competitive edge to US evil social media and preventing youth from learning about the situation in Palestine.
People can say whatever they want, but it's actions that matter. And his actions have generally been supportive of Israel, including going around Congress to give them aid and weapons and vetoing UN resolutions for ceasefires.
What a strange comment. They're being genocided. I'm imagining someone in WW2 being like "well now you suddenly care about Jews when you find out the holocaust is happening", as if that was a bad thing.
It's not a terrible idea if executed well, but I wouldn't do it longer than 1 session, or partway into the second if you hint after the first one that they are close to getting their old power back so they don't spend the time between the first and second session grumbling.
With a million collectibles to pad the play time. There will be crafting to increase the collectibles. Can already predict everything it will have when they say open world =(
I don't see stores pulling out of Israel, confiscating their property, boycotting their vodkas, shutting them out of the bank systems, or any of the other countless stuff international governments did against Russia after their invasion of Ukraine.
A protest is not the same as a coup. A coup is a coordinated attack to replace one regime with another, a sudden, violent overthrow of political leadership by a relatively small group of people. The business plot, Jan 6, Brooks Brothers Riot, were all about that.
Even if it turns violent, a protest is not the same as a coup. A protest is basically where you try to affect change or public opinion through large public demonstrations. It's trying to appeal the public or leadership to listen to you. Meanwhile, a coup doesn't really need the public. You're forcefully attacking the levers of power or the process to change leadership itself (ex: stopping elections, disrupting people counting votes, stopping electors from voting or swearing in, etc.). Meanwhile, even if some hooligans burn a police car during a BLM protest, that doesn't suddenly turn the protest into a coup.
Occupy was mostly peaceful anyway. The whole joke at the time was that it was a bunch of dirty hippies doing drum circle in the park and in front of finance buildings, like that they were peaceful to the point of not being effective, just annoying. That and their demands weren't clear. There was no criticism of them because violence that I remember at all.
Basically every war we did during the Cold War was about "sharing" the greatness of capitalism over communism, too. We're still pretending our embargo against Cuba is just for the same dumb reason.
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