The sycophants that help the CCP still are Hong Kongers, like it or not. And it was passed in Hong Kong by Hong Kong legislators. Just that it’s not been done so democratically.

Ben Gvir needs to be locked in the Hague forever.

Both sides have said the same thing and offered peace deals that the other side is unwilling to accept, doesn’t really matter if neither side wants to negotiate. Sucks that the civilians just have to suffer while two assholes fight it out.

I’d given up hope about Pokémon Z ever being a thing, ngl, much less expecting a Legends game for it. By the time this comes out I’ll have been waiting for this game for a literal decade. I am SO fucking hyped.

as an aside, I probably will never end up actually calling it its real name cuz Pokémon Z lol

FINALLLYYYYYYY

I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.

I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible

no they’re not, they specifically were fine with giving it back to Egypt cuz they didn’t care about Sinai. It’s historically never been a Jewish place, they have no reason to want it, and Egypt is somewhat an ally of theirs.

Read this as Biden being 14th worst, not the best headline :p Kinda impossible to rank them especially when either one could have another term still…

Not Sinai though

but yeah, irredentist fuckery is annoying

Not Gaza, the West Bank. Gaza hasn’t been settled since 2005, just blockaded and stuff (which is still very bad)

caveat of course being that the Israeli far right are full of cuckoos

why would Israel want to annex Gaza? they’ve entirely destroyed most of its infrastructure, and it’d cost a massive amount to rebuild, and it’s not even really in their identity in the same way that “Judea and Samaria” aka the West Bank is

Not much point in recognising the PA when it doesn’t even rule over Gaza, is there? I mean, it should happen anyway, but probably limited effect on both Israel and Hamas…

Maybe not in America with the Super Bowl but sports can do a lot more than just “a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around”. The Ivory Coast making the World Cup caused a civil war to stop; the qualifications between El Salvador and Honduras started one. Hong Kong beating China in 1985 caused riots in Beijing; while basketball has given America someone who can do diplomacy with Kim Jong-un because the Supreme Leader of North Korea likes basketball

Single incidents of murder or other crimes also don’t “impact the world in significant ways” but are most certainly news. Why is this not? It affects more people.

Cats are natural predators after all

He’s a Russian, can’t have reasonably expected this lol

Oh I agree, Freud’s work was important. As was Aristotle’s. But if Aristotle had suffered much of the scrutiny that Freud has, science would have advanced a lot faster. Obviously extremely unlikely though, given that Aristotle kinda predated science.

A lot of what he said was just plain wrong, and without the existence of the scientific method back then, no one really questioned him. For example, he basically made the only argument justifying slavery in ancient times, and he notably also got a lot of physics wrong that took until Galileo’s time to get resolved, such as with gravity and the elements.