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Congealed is the right word.

Dumble Indumbnity

This guy's a don; do you have the Meridian Response album?

The article says that there's not much point in using filters, for the reason I've already relaid.

tl;dr graphs

Interesting documentary vid:

Whyn't

But more importantly, when do we get to take your money over the poker table, you foldophobe?

Spot on: Hamas are the snail attacking the completely defenceless prized tomato plant except the gardener is not a bully because he seeks to punish the bully, just as a teacher that gives a bully detention is not herself a bully.

There's literally a famous story about this dilemma: Obviously, if you can stand up to and beat the fascist bully then go ahead e.g. as Israel is doing with Hamas; the bully isn't invariably stronger.

No, there will always be bullies but it's important not to put face-saving above self-preservation.

Yes, I am assuming that. For instance I don't think the IDF will continue bombing should Hamas surrender completely. It's a judgement call.

Maybe there is already a word for this phenomenon but what I've coined this term for is cultural works in which the writer/musician/director etc. describes the history of their interest in a particular genre using that genre e.g. tunes in...

Your counter-example (Jews in France) is not representative of my position (my bad): capitulation is the right thing to do when it means the end of people being killed. The aggressed party might complain that their innocents are being killed by the aggressor and so the aggressor should stop, but...

The Biden administration has replaced 'build the wall' with 'the wall is being built'.

Spoken like a true Conservative

France made the right call. It depends how gloomy the prospects look: Ukraine are at a stage where they're sending their young women to the front line. They are auto-genociding. Germany didn't even manage to get a foot in Kent let alone the rest of the country. War is lower stakes these days...

If Trump had let Putin invade Trump would have told Zelensky simply to surrender thereby saving the lives of millions.