it's not a sign of weakness to live in the world as it is, instead of fantasizing about an apocalypse

Uh huh. Always a critical demo to court and pander to, even at the expense of alienating more important voters -- and never ever responsible for a loss.

Motion passed; everyone should agree that leftists are completely irrelevant and completely ignore them

Gender essentialism: what if one of the genders isn't fully human

Love and companionship under terrible circumstances is a material benefitl

Maybe experiment with being 8% less virulently sexist. You can do it, I believe in you!

Actually that's a lie, you'll go on being a total shit to politicians who are women.

She should go do what Bernie did, run for the nomination again.

Discourse founder is Barro, who is American though

The idea is that the bigger electorate (November elections) should have bigger role in deciding the governor, rather than small electorate in a Dem primary de facto deciding who the governor will be.

It's not clear that Chewy did anything culpable; Amazon was communicating with manufacturers, persuading them to raise prices on non-Amazon platforms.

The entire argument behind western financial, diplomatic and occasionally military support for Israel (Outside Jewish diaspora communities) is based on the idea that Israel is more concerned with morality Than the groups it’s fighting. Therefore it’s natural they are held to higher standards.

Duverger's Despairing Recommendation, I think it's called in the literature

Dems are not a real party (laudatory), Labour is

Also Labour could defang Reform at any time by passing proportion representation

Proto-Finno-Utics fought valiantly against people who thought that chairs had a gender, and they deserve everyone's respect for that

I'm sure previous generations of English speakers looked to them for inspiration as they realized that a chair is just a chair.

People don't like being treated with contempt; they care much less about other people being mistreated, hence all the cemetery desecrations, Koran burnings etc Israel has carried out in Gaza being a matter of indifference.

If I had to pin it down, it's "this is yet another incident of Israel treating us / its US supporters with contempt."

Well, you didn't say anything about it. That's kinda what I'm pointing out. I agree that anger about the desecration of a Jesus statue is disproportionate to the context of the invasion and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon, but it's not really relevant to random hate crimes.

People are much more enraged about a desecrated Jesus than murdered Lebanese, something you seem indifferent to.

Israeli soldiers gleefully desecrating religious symbols associated with Christianity spits in the face of Israel's primary patrons in the US, which is why Israel's government is trying to do damage control rather than gleefully jerking each other off over it.

Lingering American support for Israel is premised on the claim that Israel is better than Hamas, and indeed is a liberal democracy that isn't smashing up other people's lives, homes, and countries out of spite.

It's particularly bad to desecrate religious symbols while invading a foreign country to engage in ethnic cleansing.

Currently at Princeton for a conference, and... same.

How is it that college students keep getting younger and younger? These are children! That could not have been the case when I was in college.

The worst impact was to my grandparents, who were rightly very concerned since neither had functioning immune systems-- they went a little nuts and became extremely isolated. Ultimately died of unrelated causes.

I lived with my sister and her kids, then I spent three months living with my parents. It was pretty wonderful.

I can't say I even experienced death.... no one I knew died from Covid.

I hope AI outcompetes slavery for the industrial scam industry

That's fine. My dad cooks the best salmon in the world, so your dad can have the best sweet and sour pork.

Problem is, I like sweet and sour pork and rebelled from my family by hating salmon.

Just in my thirteen years in NYC, I’ve seen a lot of public or semi-public space slowly get more and more restricted, surveilled, and delimited

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

My 8 year old niece noped out, she found the friend rejection storyline too traumatic to handle

I really enjoyed it