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I was in a similar position to you in my twenties, I spent a lot of that time working in bars and restaurants simply because it was what I knew and because I was totally uncertain about the future and felt adrift.

By my mid twenties I was just really tired and soul sick, so I saved up a bit of cash and then hitch-hiked around the US for two years, living out of a pack, mostly outside. It’s an extreme course that I don’t necessarily recommend for everyone, but I think I needed to get outside it all so I could really assess what was important, what I was willing or not willing to deal with etc.

When I finally came back, I went back to restaurants, but with a new sense of scale and possibility about life. A friend I worked with moved to an IT job, and suggested I should apply. Before my period of wandering, I would’ve probably passed the opportunity up feeling like it was too unfamiliar, but my mindset about risk had changed completely by that point and taking the job was a no brainer.

That job led to a different career trajectory, it’s not my dream career but it made it possible to afford a modest home with my sister and to create a lot of security. Goals that seemed out of reach became more realistic, and as I seize on those goals the opportunities tend to compound and it gets easier to plan the future.

The thing to understand about your twenties is you’re afforded the ability to make mistakes and experiment, to take risks. Some people know what they want right out of high school (or it’s decided for them) and sometimes those people do have a very clear course laid out and the means to achieve it. That’s not the case for everyone, and it’s ok to tackle life at a pace that makes sense to you in your context.

The only suggestions I would give is to use your twenties to just take sensible risks and do stuff, even if something seems too big to tackle take a run at it anyway. Pursue opportunities actively and eventually one will stick. You’ll meet a lot of failure or dead ends but that’s perfectly ok and normal because you’ll be learning something each time and honing your life saaviness. Failure can be painful, but it’s good, particularly in your twenties when you’ve got so much time ahead of you. Just be careful of accruing debt, that’s sort of the main thing that can screw you a bit.

It’s got everything a body needs

The great irony is that the far right-wing Israeli government has made Israel the least safe place for jews. Not only that, but they’re undermining their own colonial project – this war is doing exactly what zionists were desperately trying to avoid; prompting the greater public to draw a more clear, accurate line between “jewish” and “Israeli”.

As much as the death and destruction is horrible and needs to end immediately, I think this kind of thing was the only way the rest of the world was going to wake up about what has been going on in Palestine for the past 70 years.

You need to learn to take responsibility for the things you say.

Nothing made up, you joined into a conversation that starts with someone claiming the Taliban is “stabilizing” for Afghanistan. Someone listed many egregious atrocities committed by the Taliban that highlight how absurd that claim is. Your response then implied the Taliban was the same as the US and pretended you couldn’t tell the difference.

So you’re either claiming the US was the same as the Taliban, thus also a “stabalizing force”. Or you’re claiming the US committed mass rapes and executions.

Or, you know, the third option of you don’t actually give a shit about Afghanistan and just saw an opportunity to try and vaguely disparage the US.

But let me guess “nO.”

"Never again…unless we’re doing it to someone else "

Ok, so just “US bad”, got it.

So is your argument here then that the US was a stabilizing force? Or that the US military was undertaking mass rape campaigns?

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So the person being threatened was not exercising their right to speech? I really think you need to re-read what I originally wrote, you seem to think I’m saying something I’m not.

My commentary was concerning motivation. The chinese student was motivated to threaten violence by the exercise of a right.

Sort of, I think you might need to re-read what I wrote.

The person targeted by the threats was exercising their right to speech and the chinese student was attempting to stifle them on behalf of a foreign government.

It is a speech issue for this reason. What made it illegal here in the US was the added threat of violence. If the student hadn’t threatened violence but still tried to prevent them criticizing the Chinese government it would still be about attempting to prevent speech, just not a legal issue.

One would like to believe that, but there were people literally denying the existence of Covid and vaccine effectiveness with their death rattle as they died from Covid itself.

Sadly, I feel like there’s nothing that would break through that level of obstinate, willful ignorance. If you had huge mass deaths up front people would still deny it, or say it was due to vaccines.

My reaction upon reading this was simply that things worked the way they should; heavily brainwashed person makes threat of violence against someone for exercising their free speech, that person then suffers the legal consequences.

As long as that’s always the case whenever people try to undermine speech with violence, I sort of don’t have much to add aside from good riddance.

And Hamas is not actually representative of Palestinians. The majority of people in Gaza are literally not even old enough to have voted last time there was any kind of election.

What Hamas actually is is a group that was funded and propped up by Netanyahu to create an intractable boogie man that Netanyahu could then point too and say “look, Palestinians don’t want a solution, nothing Israel can do about the situation, guess we have no choice but genocide.”

Yeah, it’s important to always keep in mind that jews are no more entitled to that region than the people who lived there before Israel was a thing. When zionists suggest that Israel must be an ethno-state in order for jews to be safe that is a racist proposition and just patantly false.

This is the only course a moral person can take if the IDF attempts to draft them.