Deterring Iran, mostly.

As a Jew, no, there is no country in the world I can live in without problems, including Israel. America has been wonderful to us, but I grew up seeing swastikas spray painted on my synagogue and being taunted by the goyim. A far cry from the persecution my ancestors have endured, but I don't delude myself into thinking I'm safe here if the economic/political situation deteriorates.

The Ottoman Land Code of 1858 is a good place to start. Essentially much of Palestine was misappropriated to Ottoman bureaucrats and the Ottoman state. The Jewish National Fund purchased portions of this land and leased it to Jewish settlers who kicked the Arabs out with the cooperation of their Ottoman landlords. Legal, but unjust, and I have to imagine most of the Jewish settlers were as ignorant as the Arabs were to the fact that their land had been sold out from under them.

gift which is the linguistically closest word to gif

gin

You mean jayfeg?

I had literally never heard a single person pronounce it with a hard G, through middle school and high school graphic design classes, through an entire web development degree, until 2015 when HelloGeneric made that stupid video.

OHH FUCK YEAH

I had an actual Japanese man teach me at the local art museum.

No, but I do think you need to go back under the bridge where you came from.

HeelvsBabyface or Az is a British commentary, reviewer and gaming YouTuber.

I can get behind the whole: “i’m playing games to escape from the world, stop dragging the real world politics into games” sentiment, but!

If you're playing games for escapism, play a simple puzzle game, or a racing game, or maybe Minecraft. Flight Simulator. Tetris. Rocket League.

Any game that attempts to build a believable world is going to get political occasionally, because a believable world has class politics, war, struggles between technology and the natural world, etc. etc. etc. Even a game like Ratchet & Clank doesn't shy away from the politics inherent in its world-building. Truly incredible how "Gamers" have gone from an edgy subculture that reveled in right-wing panic to a seething mass of bloated man-babies who can't even handle being confronted with ideas.

I, for one, am very upset at seeing politics in muh game that includes mercenaries, piracy, loan sharking, corporate espionage, religious extremism, terrorism, war crimes, gang warfare, drug addiction, poverty, shoplifting, mass shootings, genetic engineering, environmentalism, atheism, corruption, philanthropy, smuggling, ..................

Well, I just rolled a D20 and got a 3, so fair enough...