Allah is “the god” in Arabic and applies to the Abrahamic religions. Similar to Algebra but also has a contraction with the Al/“the” part.

IDF/Israel Defense Forces/Israeli army

I haven’t played it much because I didn’t get that far but I did watch some gameplay and it’s basically the paper game but with guardrails so you can’t do illegal stuff. Supposedly it’s also possible to build meta decks as a free to play player if you use your free currency well.

Legacy of the duelist might be a better choice to jump into on PC because its single player even though its a bit older.

It’s almost impossible to break into yugioh at this point. The people playing it today are mostly the same people who kept playing it since childhood. The powercreep is so bad that it’s all a sequence of different “archetype” decks that do their own specific thing and if you’re not familiar with each one, you’re gonna have to do a lot of reading either on the spot (great gameplay experience) or get a master’s degree in yugioh on your own time.

Card text length, phrasing, esoteric rulings etc all make it very inaccessible unless you’re willing to devote a lot of time to the game. I came to the conclusion that’s it’s not worth it for me right now but you could try playing some of the older video games to gradually learn the new mechanics and cards and then spend time in Master Duel if you’re willing to put in the time.

Sure, framing it as mandatory wholesale support for x,y,z is disengenuous the same way it would be to call someone who is not vehemently against the United States as a concept in its entirety a bigot due to their current persecution of racial and LGBT minorities. Multiple things can be true at once but when you zero in on specific injustices that nearly the entire world exhibited just 2 decades ago and apply the same standard to people experiencing very different conditions (for example, people who have only known conflict for their entire lives and have not had the same opportunities that rich, safe countries have had) then it comes off as dishonest or at the very least just very myopic and ill informed. Should those injustices be criticized: yes. Are the people pointing out the perceived hypocracy doing it because they genuinely care about LGBT people impacted in those countries: no. I don’t agree with all perspectives expressed in the other direction but I understand why they exist when we exist in a space where certain people are painted with broad strokes while others are afforded infinite nuance in their positions.

You’re engaging in bad faith just like the post itself is doing.

They dont want to be in power they want to endlessly criticize power in context of leftists

Would suggest you skip paying for the DLC here because it’s not as good or as fleshed out as other borderlands DLC

2 things to note: They want to deport him to Syria or Algeria and not to El Salvador so hopefully he remains free at least.

The judge making this assessment is part of the executive branch and not a federal judge and made it on very literal terms (spineless and ethically bankrupt but not the final decision). Secretary of state said hes is a threat to US foreign policy in writing therefore he can be deported as the law states that he can be deported if the secretary of state says he is a threat to US foreign policy.

Yeah, it is a fight but I think you’re misunderstanding the sides involved. A small company with like 5-15 employees (just an example) also has mouths to feed. Larger multinational corporations can and have passed American tariffs costs along to buyers from other countries to “soften the blow” for American buyers and are usually better equipped to weather the storm by taking a hit to profits over the medium term than small businesses. At the end of the day, only business logic applies because the unfortunate reality is that no one cares if you can’t afford food or housing in most countries so benevolence is not an option for most.

I don’t love exploitative companies either (this one seems to be on the smaller side and exploring all avenues) but why would they willingly lose income that they probably rely on to live for some sort of greater good when they can just advertise in different markets especially when they’ve already done the legwork of setting up production in China. Even the most ideologically comitted business owners wouldn’t willingly lose money unless they were doing it for PR (We’re not just talking about losing out on profit at a 104% tariff rate)

If Americans didn’t make their problems everyone else’s we wouldn’t care about or comment on your politics.

Why would they when they can just sell to literally every other country on earth instead

Keep in mind this isn’t the first time Israel struck Lebanon since the start of the “ceasefire” as they have struck dozens of times since then but the first time anything came from Lebanon at all. The source was determined to be from 3 small makeshift wooden launchpads in a field by the Lebanese army.

The reporting in French I saw said “voile integral” which is niqab/burqa and I checked the bill itself and it just said face covering (excluding medical purposes)

I don’t think this law bans all hijab but just the niqab which is the one that also covers the face and is generally seen as fundamentalist in most Muslim countries. The bill itself says face and not head covering. Not to say that this entire bill isn’t driven by some level of xenophobia (Christian symbols and holidays are seen as heritage/culture while non-Christian ones are seen purely as religious etc)

Trump is continuing what Biden started and Harris would have continued. The United States’ fully bipartisan, murderous foreign policy is a stain on humanity and anyone who supports candidates with murderous policy is culpable.

Thats where your instance’s servers are hosted

This is just straight up racist propaganda. No other way to describe it

sabaya is straightforwardly associated with what we moderns call rape

Absolutely factually incorrect. Sabaya is the plural of sabiye which means young woman/girl. The masculine form is sabi which means boy or shab for young man (not exactly symmetric like use of guy vs girl in english). Zero sexual connotation and used in everyday language in levantine arabic.

Didn’t the meme originate from Chinese social media lol? A bit of a reach