My story is similar.
When I made this account over 20 years ago I was an active tournament player. I pushed aside my trepidations about the lack of a dress code, the indifferent tournament directors and the annoying kids.
I was going to be one of the best chess players and these costly tournaments would be in my rearview mirror.
That never happened.
Long story short, I'm waiting to be eligible for the seniors tournaments which have a 50+ and 65+ setting.

@shavixmir said
Yeah, so have you, you racist kunt.

When your brain can only think of obscenities, you are a defeated man.

@sonhouse said
@Rajk999
That is one point. Did you live there? Me and my family lived in Jerusalem for years and I saw really stupid shyte the Israeli's pulled, like in the Palestinian village we could see from our flat above the 'Peace" forest, every year some Jewish holiday or other, maybe winning the 67 war, not sure, but they had several bus loads of high school kids go into that vill ...[text shortened]... mmunity, played gigs up and down the country, several years at the biggest festival, Jacob's ladder.

There was a time when suicide bombers were paid [ie their families received large sums of money] to strap bombs to their chest and detonate them in crowded malls, school busses etc. That is not something easy to fight because it requires insanity which is common among Islamic extremists. In response to that the IDF came up with the plan to let it be known that when you die [like a suicide bomber], killing innocent Jews, then your family will also die, home destroyed and even your village bombed.

This plan worked and the suicide bombing stopped.

@Mott-The-Hoople
What? You are a citizen? Did not know that. I thought you were a commie spy considering how you love Putin and hate Ukraine.

@sonhouse said
@Rajk999
One of our Jewish friends was, and is, Muriel, a gifted violinist who won a classical music contest with an eight thousand dollar first prize. Anyway, she was busking in Tel Aviv at a mall there and a bomber came in and blew himself up not 20 feet from her, she lost some of her instruments and what saved her was he was facing away from her but his head got blown of ...[text shortened]... week, we picked out glass shards out of her hair for three days.
It was traumatic to say the least.

So you knew one of thousands who was affected by the actions of suicide bombers. How do you fight that? Kill the family of the suicide bombers, destroy their homes and villages ... So that they will think twice. It worked.

The Jews will keep on killing and destroying until the Jihadist die.

@athousandyoung said
It requires desperation not insanity.

Extreme religious fundamentalism is as powerful as desperation or insanity.

@athousandyoung said
It requires desperation not insanity.

If desperation leads you to commit suicide you are f..king insane.

@sh76 said
Extreme religious fundamentalism is as powerful as desperation or insanity.

They are convinced by their religious leaders that they will go to heaven if they kill Jews and infidels.

@athousandyoung said
Some insane Americans:

https://listverse.com/2020/01/31/8-harrowing-facts-about-the-9-11-jumpers/
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/kyle-carpenter-you-are-worth-it/

Those who jumped off a burning building are not insane at all.
I dont need to explain that to you like you are a 5 yr old.
Did not open the second link. Not interested.
Islamic suicide bombers are insane. Nobody cares why to be honest.

@AverageJoe1
I doubt you really want to know but here is the hush money indictment, the whole thing. PDF file.

https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Donald-J.-Trump-Indictment.pdf

@cliff-mashburn said
And YOU are neglecting to mention that that "Border bill" spent almost none of that 20 billion on actual border security and basically would have changed nothing. The 20 billion was for mostly Democrat BS they stuffed into the bill. That's why it got vetoed.

You don't know that. No one read the bill. It was squashed in committee before discussion. Republicans are in charge they could have changed it or written a better bill. They chose chaos.

@mott-the-hoople said
“are jobs no american would want. ”

I keep hearing that, show me some proof of an American saying they don’t want these jobs.

To hear you libs, one would think we were all on starvation and doing without before these illegals came along. show your proof.

"I keep hearing that, show me some proof of an American saying they don’t want these jobs."
The fact that they are filled by immigrants, dumbass

Do you think these employers are intentionally turning away americans? Are you this moronic?

https://www.farmprogress.com/wheat/crops-rot-while-trump-led-immigration-backlash-idles-farm-work-142405

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/farmers-pushing-immigration-reform-counter-labor-shortages-escalating-rcna45741

@VESPIN

Agreed. I played him a couple of months ago and saw he was throwing open invite games after a few moves to keep his rating down when he was much stronger in reality.

@cliff-mashburn said
It was all over the news what was on the bill, you just don't know because MSN, etc wouldn't cover how ridiculous it was.

The NOS, the BBC, Reuters, Volkskrant…

There are international news sources which basically trash everything you are claiming.