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No taxation without representation? We can still throw the T into the ocean … I’d feel bad if it was all those teslas: it’d be like a poison reef… so we’ll have to settle for the “other one.”

Give it a few months and we can probably settle for a necromancer. And not because congress reminds me of a mausoleum. Although…

Some of us have certainly considered it.

At the rate we are going I’m not entirely sure if we are going for the perky happy beep when a PC posts or … that other longer one you get when you unplug things…

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

So am I.

preface: next bit will be cold and kind of awful but probable… It doesn’t thrill me but again, reality likely won’t (shouldn’t) surprise anyone.

The event will be out of the public eye and forgotten for the next new hot tragedy that social media is pushing. Assuming schools allow any form of protests at all by then - a new wave of kids will be all grown up and looking to make their mark on society… Our current events will be, at best, a footnote reference.

For example: what ever did happen to those Uyghurs…? (~10 years ago)

For a change to happen it would need to be happening now. For it to be meaningful: it would require other countries to physically step in to do something about it. They aren’t. Yes the American government is providing basically satan with a blank check and infinite ammo (I’ve not checked to see if he said thank you.) But those shipments aren’t being teleported there. Other countries could absolutely act to stop this… but it would require becoming involved. (see my “just don’t want trouble” statement above)

In the end: it’s probable that Israel will succeed in effectively wiping out a large swath of the population and we will see yet another generation of children who will seek retribution through acts of terror … and feel justified in doing so. The cycle continues.

It is unthinkable what is going on there. It’s unthinkable what has occurred in past genocide’s. It’s uncomfortable and ugly and painful. So we tuck it away as something bad which we acknowledge… but only just enough to differentiate ourselves from ‘those monsters’ and let the moment pass. Do we deeply document our own wrongdoings and painful memories? Do we teach and discuss how to prevent such terrible things? Rarely. Because it’s uncomfortable. And so history repeats.

Also referred to formally as that bitch.

… th … the Palestinians man.

I can’t imagine someone finding out their government killed thousands of people just being okay with that.

Unfortunately, this is reality… and reality kinda sucks.

Pick a country. They probably participated in a genocide at some point. Here’s a question: if your country willingly participated in the elimination of a group of people … you going to be in a hurry to try to stop them?

Very few people do.

Reality is most will avoid the conflict as it doesn’t directly effect them … and “they don’t want any trouble.” You needn’t look far or very hard to find out how quickly being a dissenting voice can become collateral damage.

Now I need to be clear: I’m not saying fall in line and keep your head down… but I’m also not so foolish as to think that history will fondly remember the names of those who didn’t.

You seem confused. In 10 to 20 years those who might be questioned about such an event will have only, at best, a passing knowledge of Palestine or any other Middle Eastern historical events. It won’t be taught in schools. Those who seek out such historical knowledge will find a scarce few sources… with likely either deeply softened facts or “non credible” origins.

You’d be hard pressed to find an American student today that could detail much, if any, history involving the native Americans who happen to still exist and continue to live amongst them. History is written, in blood, by the victor… and unfortunately: genocide’s “feature” is that it typically eliminates the wronged party who would draw attention to its existence.

Calling player 2…

Dispatched spiritually. Much faster and the angels don’t cost our government a dime! Check mate socialists!

No, see it’s like a chameleon: it’s for blending into their surroundings. Their natural habitat is most likely… uh … a faux leather seat from the 60s? Or some old slightly off color wood paneling. Get them in their hunting ground and all you will see is a telltale shimmer against the backdrop…

Sure. There are absolutely people in that photo who have a normal skin tone. If the saturation were being brutally jacked up to make RFK look orange then they too would be off color completely (most likely beet red.) The point I was getting at is this doesn’t take much modification (even to fairly benign levels like my example shows) to land him firmly in the topic’s question.

Yes - the observation is being made because it’s funny; but if we’re being honest - the pictures don’t really need all that much assistance to make OPs point, though.

I touched on this above but did a very quick modification on mobile and only adjusted black levels. Not warmth, hue, saturation etc. The man is, unquestionably, of the “fake tan / orange” variety - and the woman, while more “natural,” is effectively leather. I left our head dried apricot in charge out of the picture because he is easily the worst one in the image. The painting is catching some bad light - but it’s still a bit too washed out regardless.

Original:

Black levels eyeballed:

While I won’t disagree that someone upped the saturation on the above photo slightly - and slightly is the key here: it easily could have been auto corrected to that level on a simple photo editor automatically. I wouldn’t be comfortable with malice being the underlying reason for what appears to be an attempt to make the photo look less washed out - which your example appears to be.

The problem is a lot of these people are positively off of an actual human color. Spray / fake tan or years of sun exposure and subsequent damage. Take your pick. Either way: correcting color without intentionally distorting the spectrum to make them look ‘normal’ is not kind to most of the people in the original photo… and not drastically far off from what it appears to be.

Disclaimer: I’m not looking at this at the office where I have a display that has been properly calibrated - but I’m reasonably certain of my assessment.