Hasn’t Sanders opposed Israeli military policy pretty publicly, including voting to block arms sales? [1] [2]

Didn’t AOC accuse Israel of committing genocide on the house floor? [3]

In what way do they support Israel? It hasn’t been my impression that they support genocide or American culpability in it.

I appreciate this is a joke but I don’t know what definition of personal responsibility requires me to own the actions of people 2000+ miles away from me lol. London is slightly closer to Moscow than San Francisco is to Northwood, IA.

And an obsequious “dissent” from that, too. As a treat.

Beep boop, this is your browser speaking. You have stated that you need a browser that spies on you more one (1) times.

Atlas Shrugged changed my political beliefs entirely when I read it as a teenager. Real life experience and empathy changed it back again a few years later, thankfully. It’s tough when you’re young, recognizing that the world is flawed and searching for something that might be an answer.

It’s not quite the same because I was never any kind of ardent “pro-nuke” activist, but the movie Threads took me from a position of resigned ambivalence regarding the existence of nuclear weapons to a strong believer in global disarmament. If anyone is neutral on the topic of nuclear weapons, I’d suggest they give it a watch.

Being calm doesn’t make you correct any more than being angry makes someone else wrong.

Look, everyone, this guy labelled himself as logical and reasonable, and his opponent as ignorant!

Apply the So What principle: So what if I, as a private citizen, make a judgement about people who work for a government office? What’s the practical impact for this oh-so-unfairly-maligned hypothetical person you constructed? Nothing.

Now, what’s the practical impact when a government agency denies due process to people when it unlawfully detains them? Oh, yeah, that does seem like a real and substantive impact, doesn’t it?

I haven’t denied anyone’s rights to their life or their liberty, so you can take your false equivalency and shove it.

If you currently work for ICE and you haven’t quit, you’ve demonstrated you’re okay with going along with illegal and immoral actions. That makes you a bad person.

There might be an argument to say that not everyone who has ever worked for ICE is a bad person, but that argument holds little water in 2025.

Due process is required for legal judgements, not moral ones, FYI.

Leaked pictures / more confirmation. It’s “real” now, or at least a more solid rumor than before.

It’s hypocrisy in the name of saving a buck. Should we not want intellectual consistency from religious affiliates that seek to dictate the terms of our laws and our lives?

You’re absolutely right - the article did this no justice. The text is quite cringey on its own, but this is… Even more yikes.

I’ve been enjoying it, although it is still unpolished. I think ultimately whether you like the new direction (changes to the age system/picking new civs mid game) is going to be a matter of personal taste. To me, I now feel like my unique civ bonuses are always relevant, instead of just in whatever specific era. I also find myself more engaged in mid to late game.

But I’ve also read a number of comments where people prioritize other aspects of the Civ experience, and those folks do NOT like the changes to game flow. Your mileage may vary.

I couldn’t take the suspense and I had to look it up.

Musk also told the crowd that he didn’t like the ideas he was presented with early in the week. “I was a bit worried at the beginning there,” he said, “because frankly nothing was funny.”

He then went on to reveal his idea of funny, describing one pitch in particular that did not go over well.

“One of the things that everyone’s been wondering this whole time is: Is Saturday Night Live actually live… or do they have a delay just in case there’s a wardrobe malfunction or something like that?,” Musk said to set up the pitch. “But there’s a way to test this.” (SNL does, in fact, air without a tape delay.)

In Musk’s vision, he’d tell the audience he was going to put this to the test by taking “his cock out.”

“So I’m going to reach down into my pants… and then I pull out a baby rooster,” Musk explained. “Like, ‘This is my tiny cock.’”

Unfortunately, the joke didn’t end there.

“And then Kate McKinnon walks out,” added Jason Calacanis, co-host of the All-In Podcast, who was also present in the pitch meeting. “And she says, ‘Elon, I expected you would have a bigger cock.’”

McKinnon, meanwhile, would have been holding a cat.

“You can see where this is going,” Musk told the crowd

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I like a bubble bath with extra suds.

Wait hold up on the first one. Doesn’t everyone do a quick rinse with the shower after a bath? You’ve been sitting in soapy skin soup!

I enjoyed the first book! I’ve got the second tucked away somewhere, too.

The Battle of Chile is a three part documentary about the military coup against Salvador Allende in the 1970s. Patricio Guzman and his associates recognized that crazy things were about to happen and took to the streets to capture as much footage as they could, knowing that a record needed to be kept. One of the cameramen was disappeared, tortured, and presumably killed, while the others smuggled the footage out to Cuba.

It may feel too prescient for American audiences now. Gods, it was plenty powerful to me as an American watching in 2012. It is well worth your time.

They might even kill some “military aged males!”

I’m kind of surprised by how many people have an answer for this already considered. I don’t think this is something I’ve had to consider since primary school.

I’d probably consider the day over just because I would be worried by whatever medical condition led me to shit my pants out of nowhere.