The NYT published the proclamation of Hitler verbatim without criticizing it

Yes that is how journalism works. It is a report not the op-ed you seem to want it to be. If you want to be told how to feel, as opposed to reports, don’t look to journalism.

Conveniently Godot is not a game and general consumer reviews have no real relevance

To what end?

Apologies, I was busy not being chronically online. Made some noise for you so that you can pass judgement upon me at your leisure.

My opinion is that they are a people, caged. The conditions that they live in are far below what they deserve for being human.

That’s my opinion really: they’re humans, just like all others and they deserve to be treated with dignity and to be loved and to be able to sleep knowing that they are safe. They have been deprived of these things for far, far too long and I believe that is deeply wrong.

What’s your opinion on Palestinians?

Why not? Hell I’m Jewish and I think the Israeli govt is regularly in the wrong and I feel for the people of Israel that could have better lives and those the govt harms. I also think Hamas is evidently wretched and those perpetrating these abhorrent acts deserve everything coming to them.

Unfortunately, while I’m sure Hamas will suffer, the civilians of both Israel and Palestine will once again bear the true cost of this conflict.

Luckily the moon is a quick day-trip away in case we return to sticks and stones.

a god that we worshipped

Would they be wrong? What’s the line between idolization and worship?

attention-grabbing messaging

This is what the GOP would call a senator wearing a rainbow shirt, for instance. Should that be a reason to restrict self-expression?

400,000 people is a large town or small city

That’s basically the population of my whole state… always interesting what people think of as “large towns” or “small cities” lol