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Gideon the Ninth - this was a huge surprise to me and lots of fun. I've never read anything else quite like it.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - This is usually my go-to book recommendation for "whats your favorite book"

Mortal Engines - The first book of a surprisingly poignant YA series which is not only fun throughout, but has one of the greatest and most thought provoking endings of all time.

Cloud Atlas - A beautifuly written story that somehow manages to intertwine separate narratives across time.

Children of Time - A wonderful story about time, evolution, survival and what it means to be human.

Israel was not created by "stealing Palestinian land."

"Palestinians have never stopped defending themselves." Do you mean when they explode suicide vests and shoot rockets at cities? Is that what you call defending themselves?

"genocidal occupation..." I find it hilarious that people can say a population with some of the highest growth on the planet is at the same time suffering a genocide.

"The end goal seems to be to occupy as much of “ancestral Israel” as possible." Explain how forcing your citizens to leave Gaza in 2005 fits into this master plan.

If these are being released in order to raise military funding, why were they not released when they were filmed a decade ago? The military is always looking to increase funding.

And on day two the Biden white house was "fact checked" so brutally on a tweet that they ended up deleting it. That would never have happened under the previous regime. A republican white house - sure, but not to Biden.

Quoting fatality numbers does nothing to disprove the statement. How many armies fire warning shots to let people vacate the area before airstrikes?

Regarding who hold the keys to peace, and who has their finger on the trigger, I think the government glorifying and paying people who sneak into towns and slaughter sleeping families with knives is a pretty big impediment to peace.

Inequality seems to be a completely pointless buzzword to me. The only thing that matters is if there are more or less poor people, and how poor are those people compared to similar percentiles in the past.

It shouldn't matter how rich the richest people on earth are. I really love seeing people on the Internet try to convince themselves that because Bezos or Musk are worth $100B, they must be stealing it from poor people.