Honestly, i dislike his age, his stance on Israel and some other general things but overall I think Biden has accomplished a lot of good things as president.

Some examples:

• rejoined Paris Agreement
• rejoined WHO
• ends federal private prison contracts
• 130+ billion in student loan forgiveness
• Russia sanctions
• national registry for police fired for misconduct
• executive order protecting travel for abortion
• gas prices down (not all in his control but still)
• inflation reduction act
• Arguably the best post-pandemic economy in the world

Good point, Skyrim is definitely the biggest mainstream game, but also the biggest sign of their move to making Action RPGs instead of incredible lore and world building.

BG3 might be more comparable to Bethesda’s Morrowind (maybe Oblivion). Similar to Arena and Daggerfall, Larian has released some great games like Divinity Original Sin 1 & 2 which were hits, but BG3 really put them on everyone’s radar.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Oh shit, what was my safe word again? LET ME OUT!

My worst imagination is a nefarious entity using our data to determine if we are a threat or try and categorize people for some kind of psyop manipulation.

Something like Captain America Winter Soldier but more realistic. Even things like Cambridge Analytica show it is not that far fetched.

While social media companies and amazon may not have the desire to do those things, they sure make it easier for others by greedily collecting the data.

Well the other crazy thing with voting is how narrow the margins are.

It doesn’t have to convince everyone. Only a small percentage across the country mixed with a few people in key locations and you can change everything.

Lol he has been in politics for like 50 years.

While your at it, why not look up your childhood friends? I’m sure they are in a phonebook.

At least 200 are variations of saying “kill”

Nice info. I couldn't remember the details about the connection with money lending and banking, but I was trying to refer to it with the stereotypes and standing out.

Also, you are right and i edited my comment about Jews being responsible for crucifying Jesus because it is something i was taught and i know people believe it, but I am not trying to spread that information as fact.

It is varied and complicated throughout history-

1. Pre-Christian anti-Judaism in Ancient Greece and Rome which was primarily ethnic in nature

2. Christian antisemitism in antiquity and the Middle Ages which was religious in nature and has extended into modern times

3. Muslim antisemitism which was—at least in its classical form—nuanced, in that Jews were a protected class

4. Political, social and economic antisemitism during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe which laid the groundwork for racial antisemitism

5. Racial antisemitism that arose in the 19th century and culminated in Nazism

6. Contemporary antisemitism which has been labeled by some as the new antisemitism

Christians have some historical antisemitism because the Jews are blamed for crucifying Jesus.

Muslims i have less knowledge, but i know in modern times they hate the founding of Israel among other reasons pertaining to “conflicting sky daddy”

Also for some other context, many practicing Jews kept traditions that made them stand out in the past. Leading to negative (and often false) stereotypes.

Lastly, it doesn't help that they proclaim themselves God’s chosen people in the eyes of outsiders.

Edit: corrected mistake

Religion, plus they were an easy minority to scapegoat historically.

Yeah, i mean that sounds great until 40% of the country gets so fanatical and dehumanizing that they decide the only choice is to fight a war.

I prefer finding common ground, deprograming, and forgiveness over violence unless that is the only path that remains.

Right? Like great, vote for the GOP, they will definitely care about Arab policies. /s

Foolish and short sighted. Sorry but 2/3 of the US population supports Israel in this conflict, and likely all of the remaining 1/3 is from the young liberal left. Biden is an old democrat, expecting any other result was naive.

But sure, elect an authoritarian Trump. Then instead of protesting, just get thrown in a camp for not being white and christian.

2 quotes come to mind

The problem:

“you cant reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into.”

• Jonathan Swift

And the solution:

”He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In!”

• Edwin Markham

You have to draw a bigger circle. It is the way to deprogram people from that tribalistic mentality. Teaching them and “winning” debates will not work.

Good thing he isn't currently a diplomat.

Also good thing Hamas founding principles don’t say anything about destroying Israel…

“The Day of Judgement will not come about, until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” -Hamas Covenant

…oh.

While i do not wholly agree with your last sentence, i do respect your balanced view. Making any war one of “good vs. evil” is dangerous a step toward dehumanizing the enemy and it only gets worse from there.

Also i agree Israel’s response has been very strong and cold, but i believe they were not left with many choices.

Things could not return to status quo with Gaza after the attack on the 7th and there was no clean option left for them. Diplomacy failed over and over for decades. Both sides share blame for the diplomatic breakdown, but Israel has no allies and many enemies in the region and must project strength to keep opportunists away.

Even if it was an iron dome rocket, which is not impossible; it was not targeting the hospital. It was targeting a hostile missile launch.

I also trust international orgs fatality reports more than local sources on this one.

Y’all keep talking about war crimes, but Hamas is not even distinguishing themselves from civilians which is the basis from where almost every other IHL rule stems.

Well more than 1… but also form and motive are important here.

The “1” was an innocent woman who was raped, tortured, and murdered slowly and publicly to spread terror because she was at a music festival.

The “3000” are civilian casualties of war because said terrorists are hiding behind them as a combat strategy.

Both are horrible, but you are making a false equivalency.

Good thing Hamas never lies or we would have no idea who to trust.

Like when “500 people” died in that hospital parking lot from that IDF bomb that totally didn't look like a failed Hamas rocket explosion. /s

Sounds like a seafood trade embargo with extra excuses.