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I had a private 1-on-1 discussion recently w/ a Likud politician in a position of knowledge/power who said that if Trump wins they'll likely formally annex Area C of the West Bank, 60% of the territory. Israel is actively planning a permanent ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
@IwriteOK I think it began as a way to avoid censorship and demonetization on YouTube, but that resulted in young audiences picking it up and using it unironically. See also, “Voldemorting”.
@Gwynnion Ironically, this is where I would actually be defending third edition, which had the most creative way of handling this: giving each ability score a separate set of psionics “schools” that they would apply to. It wasn’t great, but it made more sense than the “psychic = int” path
"Leave the kids alone" is a dog whistle meant to paint the LGBTQUIA2+ community as predators and pedophiles. But I wouldn't expect a bunch of cishet bro gamers to understand considering how pervasive racism, misogyny, and Nazi rhetoric is within the gaming community.
Elon’s lawyers just told a federal judge the “Twitter Files” were all a big lie, nothing more than a marketing campaign to appeal to the lowest common denominator
Doesn’t inspire a lot confidence for the future that a sitting Supreme Court justice was caught in a bonkers series of corruption scandals and seemingly nothing has come of it; even the opposing party was like “Well, wouldn’t want to impair the dignity of the Court too much”
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Our society is engineered to make vulnerable people pay the higher costs of brokenness so others can avoid the lower costs of repair, while a few profit on the margin. 2020 was a short window where power hadn’t yet figured out how to keep the costs isolated with the vulnerable.