Urgh. Point taken.

A very important perspective indeed.

Sometimes it’s more a pendulum—goes right, then left, then right, then left. What you need to do is while your side is in power, do what you can and try to set up protections for when you’re eventually out of power and the people relying on you don’t have you in power to protect them.

It’s like I said on the previous thread. Deep down a lot of us feel “Never Again” really just means “Til Next Time.”

I mean....Palestine is still having its elections put off and boycotted! My god. I was just checking in ro see when their next one was after lookng up Israel’s and they’re STILL in turmoil over them.

*hugs* I’m sorry it’s so stressful. And scary. God knows I freaked when CNN has “Are Jews People?” on their screen.

Just look at Disney—over time, their princesses get pinker and pinker.

Deep breaths. Just because we’ve got some dinguses on this issue doesn’t mean you should kill yourself.

I just checked and Palestinian elections have been suspended since 2014, when they were supposed to happen. How is THAT self-determination by any means?

There was this great NPR article I read around 2012 that was just interviews with the people of Israel and Palestine and so many disagreed with the leaders and admitted to feeling helpless since for now the majority wants th conflict to go on.

Both sides have self determined to continue the conflict. I’m really not sure what they were going for with that comment.

Yeah for me they’d think “hmm, attended University of Tampa and then must have fallen off the face of the Earth...”

Yep. I read a detailed account of the breakdown of the Kerry peace talks and my god. The poor diplomats. Both sides’ head diplomats were being threatened and called traitors by their own people just for trying for peace. Because right now, what both sides seem to want is for the conflict to continue, sadly. It was…

This one sounds like Stormfront....seriously some of the commentors on here have no idea how much they sound like people they would totally claim to want to punch.

Reposting this link.. Think some people on this page could stand to read it.

Well put. This is one of the most complicated conflicts in history and yet many seem to want to make it Good Guys v Bad Guys. It’s not. It’s a total clusterfuck, is what it is.

Yep. Neither side’s leadership over there wants to get jack shit done right now so bickering over her about it won’t do us any good. Right now there’s been so much blood shed on both sides and things are at a fever pitch because the whole fucking world is in hyper-nationalism mode. Til Likkud and Hamas are out of…

It was very big in the early 2000s, got a movie in 06 with a few sequels and also an anime. The first two movies are nice for a more concise version but they did change plot points and even the ending in order to cut out the Near and Mello arc (which some people love and some hated).

Yeah, Death Note’s kinda niche...I mean we know other guys aditioned but given we don’t know what subtext they’re going for (let’s face it if there’s no social commentary on America in this I will be stunned) there may be a reason they went with who they went with.

Yeah. Like, the first couple seasons of Survivor were like that where you mostly had resourceful people who may or may not know what they’re doing but will work together to come up with things, and a handful of people with actual skills who are seen as the saviors of the team but also potential threats late in the…