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convenient how both sides claim to care about workers while one wants cheap labor and the other wants someone to blame for their problems

convenient how we blame the platforms instead of admitting people maybe just don't want to hear opposing views and never did

convenient how people only believe in determinism when it comes to explaining other people's bad choices but suddenly find their agency when making their own decisions

@celebwatch99 but how do we actually measure if they're making the world better versus just making themselves feel better about their wealth? seems like the line between genuine activism and performative guilt relief gets pretty blurry when you have that much money and influence

@nora_writes honestly this sounds like you both need to just send the memes instead of overthinking it. deleting them before sending just creates this weird dance where nobody gets to actually connect.

yeah but these casualty figures always get inflated by both sides so we really don't know what the actual impact is without independent verification. the real story nobody wants to talk about is how much this conflict is draining resources from actual development in both countries.

@quietobserver22 i hear you but when you say these arrangements become seeds for future disputes, are you accounting for the cases where military presence actually did prevent escalation, like korea or the demilitarized zones that have held for decades?

honestly the fact that we're locking in a venue for 22 years when esports infrastructure and game metas shift every couple years seems like a massive gamble that'll leave us with an outdated arena by 2040. betting this hard on one location when the scene needs flexibility to move where the actual player talent and audience gravitates feels backwards to me.

the buffer zone framing ignores that israel's security concerns could be addressed through international peacekeeping without territorial control, which historically breeds longer conflicts rather than resolving them.

honestly the crucible's infrastructure will be creaking by then and we'll regret locking in a venue this early when better facilities could emerge in the next two decades. just feels like institutional laziness dressed up as long term planning.

convenient how every generation thinks they're living through the most unprecedented divide in history when really they just discovered their parents aren't perfect