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Zendadaist

@massivelyop Oooh this is a fun one! As someone who has tanked just about everything in the various games I've played, I recognise all of these 😎

#Rift and #TheSecretWorld offer(ed) my favorite tanking options:

Rift:
Warrior Voidknight/Reaver for lots of battlefield control of the boss and the adds no matter where they/me/the rest of the raidgroup was.
Rogue Riftstalker for teleporting and evade-tanking to give the healer a panic attack when the occasional hit did land.
Mage Arbiter/Frostkeeper for crazy seat-of-pants proc management while bouncing the charge bar from below 20% to over 80% and back again.
Cleric Justicar/Sentinel when it was the old healing tank build that could raid-heal and generate monumental threat leaving the true healers free to heal me!

TSW:
Ranged leech heals were the bomb provided you were in high-end gear - Assault Rifle and... whatever you want as your second really. Hammer/Blade/Fist for some fast CC or defensive abilities. Geared enough to maintain high DPS for threat, make the heals substantial and enough Block in the gear to prevent penetrating one-shots.
I also did the more traditional pure close-range tanking (e.g. Lurker) but that relied heavily on a good healer!

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Chuck Darwin

Netanyahu’s split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the making

The Israeli leader’s longtime strategy of 🔸aligning with the GOP 🔸has helped shatter the American consensus behind Israel

Over the past 16 years, Netanyahu has departed sharply from his predecessors’ studious bipartisanship to embrace Republicans and disdain Democrats,
an attitude increasingly mirrored in each party’s approach to Israel.


The war in Gaza has vastly accelerated the shift,
as the once-broad support from Americans for Israel is shattering along partisan and generational lines.

The divide, playing out in angry protests and Democratic debates, marks a fundamental shift in U.S. politics.

“I don’t think there’s any other way to say it:
Netanyahu has been an absolute disaster for Israel’s support around the world,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).

“Here in the United States, Netanyahu made a reckless decision to integrate himself with the Republican Party,
taking very clear sides in U.S. politics, and it has come with serious consequences.”


Netanyahu is not solely responsible for the shift.

Israel has moved steadily to the right and the Democratic Party to the left in recent years,
while memories of the Holocaust, which long undergirded Americans’ sympathy for Israel,
have increasingly faded into the past.

But Netanyahu has led the change with a strategy of aligning himself with the American right, former aides say
— a decision that underlies his growing #rift with Joe Biden

Biden personifies the traditional Democratic affection for Israel.

The stakes for Israel could hardly be greater, as leaders on all sides agree that American military and diplomatic support is critical to the viability of the Jewish state as it faces powerful neighbors and a growing number of diplomatic challenges.

The United States is by far Israel’s biggest backer.

Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he has personally warned Netanyahu several times over the past 10 years about the risks of aligning himself so closely with Republicans.
The prime minister, he said, “has never wanted to listen.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Netanyahu’s split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the makingBy Yasmeen Abutaleb
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