@zubcast Whenever the whole state/prov tax debate is brought up, ppl fail to take into consideration that players are paid in USD. If you are playing in Canada, you are effectively making +20% in purchasing power, given the difference between CAD and USD.
Everyone screams Israel stole the land, but here’s the truth: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel all formed around the same time, carved from the Ottoman Empire’s ruins.
After World War One, Britain gave us Jordan in 1946. France split Lebanon in 1943, Syria 1946. Egypt broke British chains in 1922. Israel? 1948. No ancient kingdoms—just colonial borders. All these states, same origin story.
But only Israel, tied to 3,000 years of Jewish history—temples, coins, scrolls—gets branded colonizer. Why? It’s not history’s fault.
It’s the Islamic rejection of any Jewish sovereignty, rooted in ideologies that erase Jewish presence, even as end-time narratives justify wiping them out.
If everyone’s a colonial kid, why’s only Israel illegitimate? Think about that.
I’m sick of hearing people say “both sides are led by extremists”, as if this conflict is some mirror image of two nations held hostage by radicals, while the silent “normal majority” on both sides supposedly just wants peace.This is not only wrong - it’s dangerously naive.
Let’s start with us, Palestinians.
Only a handful among us are willing to say out loud that the Right of Return - the idea that millions of us will one day “return” to live inside Israel, is a delusion. It’s not just unrealistic; it’s the fuel that keeps generations trapped in resentment instead of building a future where we are.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: this isn’t a fringe belief. It’s consensus. Ask anyone - educated or poor, secular or religious and they’ll tell you, “Of course we will return to our land.”
That’s not extremism from the margins; that’s mainstream thought.
Now look at Israel.
Take the most far-right politicians: Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and others who might dream of a “Greater Israel” without Arabs. Their supporters represent maybe 10–18% of Israelis. It’s not consensus. It’s a political minority and not the soul of the country.
That’s the asymmetry people refuse to see.
On one side, a society where extreme goals like “returning to Haifa and Jaffa” are seen as sacred truth.
On the other, a society where extreme goals like “expelling all Arabs” are rejected by the majority.
Before you talk about “solutions,” understand this: you can’t solve what you refuse to see clearly.
The problem isn’t “two extremists holding everyone hostage.”
It’s that in our society, the extremism is the mainstream, and until we confront that, we will keep mistaking self-destruction for dignity.
let’s go back to 1948
In Italian, there is a famous phrase: “La verità fa male.” It means, the truth hurts.
And when it comes to 1948, there is a lot of truth that hurts a lot of people. So here it is in an AI video :)
That's 1 minute, see you tomorrow for Day 91!
Wearing a keffiyeh in polite society today is no different than wearing a Nazi armband or Klan hood.
It signals open allegiance to a terrorist movement committed to killing Jews and Americans.
@MarkKersten What’s disgusting is protesting outside a Jewish place of worship or a Jewish community center because you disagree with a democratically elected government’s policies.
@ElectionsCan_E Hour plus long wait at McNabb community centre polling station. Seeing folks come to the polling station only to leave once they hear the wait time. Elections Canada needs to do better. Can’t have ppl showing up to vote and turning away because the line is too long.