I know not to expect better but as a parent this is just beyond unacceptable. If I was a parent of one of those lost children I wouldn’t know what I would do with myself other than be more radicalized

All of a sudden the city council decides they need curb the power of the mayoral office.

What is America offering that China isn’t? Hard to believe this administration would give them a fair deal.

BuT JeSuS wAsN’t PoLiTiCaL. NoW BaN aBoRtIoN!

Maybe there’s a better example but the point remains, liberating a people comes with self-determination. It’s not a matter of how little rights the people had before the military action.

Well TIL. But to call it liberation isn’t correct. America is also kidnapping people from their homes and work places but to say of another country was to invade and take a territory wouldn’t be the same as liberation. Liberation has a higher standard where the people of the land receive sovereignty and a self-determined government.

我这样说是因为我了解历史

Y’all are desperate to relive the glory days of WW2 when it was clear who the baddies were. I get it, Americans do the same.

Conscription has always violated human rights but there are certainly better words like “conquer”. And let’s not pretend Russia isn’t also conscripting men (though certainly not those in their 50s).

If you make Roman/Nazi salute than your opinion is not worth considering. Either you’re doing it because you approve of an ideology that will always fail, or you lack the contextual awareness to form an insightful opinion.

Edit: judging from your comment history, if you posted an image for yourself doing the salute I would say the latter. But we all know you’re too ashamed/scared to share an image of yourself doing that “gesture”

Where do you think the Nazis got the salutes from? And for that matter, where do you think we got the word fascism from?

Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.

Anecdotal: traveling to the smoky mountains and rented some bicycles. Owner said rentals are down 30% compared to this time last year.

Don’t bother with this guy, @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works has done some mental gymnastics to justify starving the Palestinian population. So it really isn’t surprising they would want to vote for the most ghoulish option.

The stock market makes no sense to me.

That’s because “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

I call it colonial trauma. Our forefathers would rape the help and the worse that would happen is getting berated by the judge.

As we say in the USA:

“The police don’t protect us, we protect us”

But no one should buy the premise here, because it is so ugly. That premise is that people have fixed racial identities, and these categories are strict. The most disturbing line in the article is this righteous bit—“asked if any of his family had intermarried while in East Africa, he said in the interview on Thursday, ‘They’re all of Indian origin, from Gujarat.’”

Just a damn good point that race is not set in stone but dynamic. Haven’t seen this point until now.

Padme: you are going to release the video footage, right?

Reminds me of an adage:

It takes two to lie: one to lie, and one to listen