which had previously been cooperative with the KPD after the establishment of the Weimar Republic.

Famously the SPD didn't work together with fascists to create the kill squads that murdered Rosa Luxemburg.

To reiterate what I said the last time centrists acted revisionist about this shit, nobody in history has been more vindicated than Ernst motherfucking Thalmann. Social Democrats are objectively the moderate wing of fascism and they enthusiastically participated in suppressing everyone to the left of them until there was nobody left and the Nazis decided it was their turn.

I've visited the museums in China, truly among the most inspiring places on this earth. The world's largest and most powerful country is also its most free.

Your characters walk into a magic shop, but instead of buying magic items the shopkeeper offers to sell them scrolls of ownership. "There are infinite number of these scrolls," he explains, "but they all use a decentralized mechanism to determine ownership!"

"Okay, I'll buy one. Now where's my +1 sword?" The fighter asks.

"The scrolls say that you own it" the shopkeeper unhelpfully reiterates. "And every other scroll will be updated to agree that you own it."

The one I remember is the one where the kid gets chiffed that his manager at the general store told off some girls for wearing swimwear in the store and quits his job.

Those are the rules when you're occupied by a foreign military. Imagine if Russia had control over all of Ukraine - people in occupied Kyiv would be justified in attacking Russia, but Russia would not be justified in retaliating against the Ukrainians.

If Israel wants to make it so that the Palestinians don't have every right to retaliate against them, they would have to end the occupation, the blockade, the settlements, etc.

I think they assumed that Israel wouldn't be so bloodthirsty as to put the hostages at risk, which would give them a bargaining position so that once they weathered the initial retaliation they would be able to get concessions such as allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza, ending the blockade of Gaza's ports, ending Israeli control of Gazan water sources, etc.

But as we've all learned since then the IDF has an explicit policy to kill Israeli civilians if it looks like they're about to be captured, and Israel's political leadership simply aren't put off by the possibility of killing every single remaining hostage in their campaign to flatten Gaza.

Like all things it's a spectrum. This conflict has been about 1% a war between Hamas and the IDF, and 99% the IDF indiscriminately killing civilians.

Israel is an occupying/besieging force and Hamas' attack against them was justified morally, ethically, and under international law. Israel's retaliation against the entire population of Gaza is completely unjustified, and completely illegal.

My parents have "the new minivan" and "the old minivan," I guess that's what happens when you adopt four kids and two dogs.

Elections in America are all about vibes. People who care about facts are nerds.