I don’t think they did, at least not the extent of it. It was a massive embarrassment to Netanyahu. 86% of jewish Israelis blame him for the attacks and more than half are asking him to resign.

First off, the abaya is not a burka. It’s a fairly standard clothing item. The idea that an abaya in itself is harmful is absurd.

The harm comes from limiting the freedom of self expression. And that’s what France is doing now. Most Muslim girls in the west are fairly progressive, they don’t feel that they’re being forced to wear what they wear. So what happens then when the government actually infringes on their self expression? It’s not gonna make them look kindly on the institutions that will teach them western values, they will gravitate more to the institutions that will teach them Muslim values.

If you want rid people of their conservative ideals, you do that through education. If you try to force people to conform, you’ll get blowback and people only get more radical.

My computer is providing a pretty neat little metaphor for how I expect those talks will go at a lot of outlets. Will there be room for two massive RPGs? Will some opt to make room for Starfield while others go for Baldur’s Gate 3? Will Tears of the Kingdom take up the space they otherwise would have occupied? Or will another game that hasn’t been released yet plant its flag in the proverbial hard drive?

Way to deliberately miss the point.

Absolutely. And that behaviour should be condemned. But punishing people for their choices of clothing is not the way to go. Target the harmful ideas, not people’s personal expression.

It has little to do with that. Embracer Group is more than 2 billion in debt so they have to do anything to show to their investors they are resolving it. Publically doing massive layoffs and destroying beloved studios is very popular with investors.

It’s the same showrunners as Westworld and Amazon has the money so I’m still optimistic

If you’re looking for a community that doesn’t exist, you gotta create it. People will come.

That’s an insult to Charles’ talent. The man is a professional voice actor and his sense can’t be replaced by AI. Replicated maybe, but not replaced.

RDR runs great on yuzu

They’re angry libs, yes.

GTA 6 will inevitably be labelled woke, but I don’t think that’ll be the issue. I just don’t think GTA’s humour works nowadays and needs to evolve. Even ignoring the childish poop and sex jokes, writing poignant satire in 2023 simply is a lot harder. I think ultimately Take-Two is just gonna play it safe, take no risks and the end product will be bland as a result. Just like the new Saints Row.

The fact that this is only going to PS4 and Switch makes me think a remake really is coming…

The author clearly has an issue with the money going to left-wing orgs specifically. They’re making a big point out of all the antiracism and one of their bullet points asks why Mozilla has no problem alienating their user base.

a man who possesses a vision for Russia and the high principles to lead it

Just a friendly reminder that the guy who the US media is constantly writing propaganda for is a white supremacist whose only problem with Putin is that he isn’t openly racist enough. Fuck Putin but fuck Navalny as well.

That doesn’t dispute my comment though? If Poland were to attack Belarus and Belarus retaliated with an attack on Polish soil, they could absolutely invoke article 5.

Enlighten me.

As long as an attack happens on NATO territory, it’s considered an act of war. Even if the NATO country is the aggressor. Ideally the aggressing country would be suspended before they could invoke article 5.

Anti LGBT, white supremacist, antisemitic. She also openly praised Mussolini when she was young and her party used fascist imagery. But when she had a vote of no confidence against her she said she’s not a fascist so it’s all good!

Government ID is mandatory in the Netherlands so almost everyone already has one. They’re also relatively cheap and easy to obtain. The US has no official government ID, so you would need to use a passport or driver’s license. Most Americans don’t leave the country and don’t have a passport so that would mean you would have to have an up to date driver’s license. That’s not cheap and the DMV is hell on earth so a lot of people don’t bother. Requiring ID to vote therefore disproportionately targets low income groups. In the end, the US doesn’t really have a voter fraud problem so there’s no need to require ID.

You just mentioning the Outer Wilds’ motif gave me goosebumps. That should tell you how well that game uses its music.