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But I hear the sentiment you're voicing in other spaces, but no one has been able to point me anywhere. Please, help me understand what it is you're seeing that makes you feel that way.

This is a massive rant with no points related to the actual conversation at hand, sort of just 5 or 6 point thrown out without extrapolation.

I think I get the general gist of what you're pointing to, but I just don't see it. People said 'if you support Trump (who actively said racist, misogynistic, and deplorable things) then you support those people/ideologies' and that's not even an insult, it's a fact.

There's no flood of media im seeing saying 'all boys are bad and should feel bad'. I AM seeing a flood of "men aren't being held accountable for their actions, and that's influencing how young boys perceive the outcomes"

5th grade reading level, gotta leave the term Foibles behind if you want people to hear you, apparently

I acknowledge that capitalism is an inherently evil system designed to extract all value from an object, I do not recognize that's what makes the world go round.

And I'm not saying to close the borders and prevent all foreign trade. But I'm staunchly against any land purchases by foreign entities. China has already shown it's hand in how it handles international disputes about its purchased land, we've seen how they behave in Africa, along the Indian border, their investment and meddling in the housing markets of Australia. You want Lithuania or Poland or Uzbekistan to have some business deals, sure, with regulation have at it. But keep China's land grabs and the US's military bases within their borders.

This is still seemingly a case of a Chinese business developing on land they don't own. Even if they do own it, economic expansion into other territories SHOULD worry some people when it comes to the major powers (US included) as it's been shown they don't play nice when they have access to your Major resources.

Germany couldn't give up Russia for Oil, don't make the Baltic states rely on China for electricity. Subsidize builds in your own country the best you can, but competing with government-backed foreign entities is a good way to lose a bidding war.

You can say Israel has the right to defend itself and mean it as long as you're talking about the immediate retaliation (even then, as a nation with access to high level intelligence and technology, the responses civilian death was still unacceptable).

You CANNOT say it in relation to the months that came after. Israel isn't 'defending itself' anymore, their borders aren't in dire need, their citizens as a whole are not in danger. But, similar to Russia prior to Ukraine's successful long range strikes into their territory, Israel will spout nonsense about protecting it's citizens that see danger on a scale 1/10000th of that of the occupied territory of Gaza.

It's definitely been more than a decade. But I keyed back in to get back in the headspace for the prequel book she released. I recommend it too, if you haven't checked it out. Not quite the same tone, but I liked where she went with it.

Peta expressed genuinely loving her from day one. On the train, when he's holding her he even tells her about how he felt and why he threw the bread, feeling it was selfishly motivated.

Hers were confused, and she remarks that maybe, had life been normal, she could have developed feelings for him or gale for real, but because she didn't have the chance she's never sure which part of the show she even believes in. She accepts by the end that he loves her and that she loves him as much as she feels she's capable of after all the trauma

And if you got 'romance plot' as the major storyline and not 'surviving capitalist techno-hellscape post failed-revolution', I think you read Divergent and said "these are all the same books"

Reread those books, if you read them.

The point is that she doesn't WANT either of those two boys. She's forced out of a friendship with both due to their feelings, and she has to play the part to keep some kind of normalcy for both the capital's cameras and for her partner's mental sanity and safety while in the ring. She's never happy, never CHOOSES Peta, and is the result of trying to cope/maintain sense of self while constantly shoved into roles constructed for her (the Volunteered Tribute, The Girl on Fire, The Mockingbird all being personas she takes on behalf of someone else's needs/desires and often just survival for her/her family)

Yeah, but he's saying skill issue with your reading retention.

But I'd agree with the poster above that I remember plenty of camp half blood. I don't 'remember' hogwarts, but I remember the same 'bits' and fields and important repeated places as much as I remember then from the Percy Jackson series.

Maybe it's that there isn't 7 movies tied to it to keep it fresh in your brain with extra images.

Except January 6th, apparently