I agree that ending arms shipments to Israel is the correct action. But don’t labor under the illusion that the US can “force” Israel to do anything. I can think of numerous instances in the past where Israel defied and betrayed her patrons. And not just the US, but also the UK and the Soviet Union.

I can only think of one instance where Israel backed down due to pressure, and that was the Suez Crisis. And that took the combined influence of the US, the Soviet Union, and the UN. (as well as help from Canadian diplomats.) Not to mention that Israel was a partner of the UK and France for this adventure and thus didn’t have the final say.

I lost a lot of faith in Burns after he heavily featured some lost-cause dilettante in his Civil War series. After I saw him pictured on one of the retreats that Clarence Thomas was bribed with, I plain don’t trust his judgement about American History.

Art isn’t a progression. “Realism” isn’t necessarily a goal.

If capturing some subject in the most naturalistic way possible was the goal of art, there would be no need for paintings after the invention of the camera, and sculpture would be obsolete because of 3d scanning. Art must be something beyond capturing nature, otherwise there would be no reason for humans to do it.

One of the reasons for creating the system of death camps was that Nazi soldiers and policemen tasked with murdering Jewish people and other undesirables had elevated rates of PTSD. Also, during the Cultural Revolution, the People’s liberation Army switched to a lower caliber sidearm because all the executions were giving them carpel tunnel.

You don’t want to loose sight of humanity just because you’re committing atrocity.

Never mind that genetics can’t reliably predict IQ. The important thing is that IQ can’t reliably predict intelligence.

1. IQ Intelligence is colloquial and subjective. It can’t be objectively measured anymore than beauty or since of humor.

2. IQ depends on their only being one kind of underlying intelligence.

3. IQ hews to cultural categories in defiance of biology and genetics.

And if that doesn’t work, there’s always factor analysis.

All the other parts, if that’s how he wants to blow his money. That’s his money.

USS Thresher

Just in case you didn’t know, there is a pretty cool song about this disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUbxOrYJyI

Harris lifts up the voice of the anti-Zionists ^{by having them escorted away by security}

I suspect that this is a smart TV being used as a monitor.

I suppose refugees and trans people don’t figure into your equation because erasing them is the only way to make it balance.

It confuses me when people who argue “both sides” claim to support all those left policies when they don’t appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized. I’m left to conclude that this brand of leftism must be based on vanity, because the only thing it protects is the ego of those who promote it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZVpb0cVkE

The music industry is a microcosm of capital exploiting labor that everyone intuitively understands. Even children have a sense of outrage when they find out Taylor Swift doesn’t own her old songs or that Prince had to change his name to release music.

Bongino is a former NYPD officer and Secret Service agent with three failed congressional bids under his belt. He rose to prominence as a conservative pundit on Fox News during Trump’s first term as president. He very briefly had his own show on the network before “parting ways” with the company in 2023. (His 2018 departure from NRATV prompted a failed defamation suit against the Daily Beast.)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bongino became one of the loudest voices against mask and vaccine mandates, which ultimately led to a permanent ban from YouTube in 2022. He currently hosts The Dan Bongino Show on the conservative platform Rumble.

It’s extraordinary that while Kamala is spending the final stretch trying to expand her voter base, Trump is preaching to the choir. Ignore the “Trump exhausted” narritive. WTF is he wasting his time with this third tier clown in the middle of October?

Randomly choose 0.001% of the books.

If you think that’s a bad plan, it’s been the norm for the history of books.

I love the democracy vs. republic talking point on the conservative side. It’s not new, I first encountered it in 2005.

“We’re not a rectangle you idiot, We’re a square!!!” -every conservative dumbass

Bachelors and Toddlers everywhere are inconsolable.

The King James Bible has the phrase those who “pissith against the wall” several times. In context it’s pejorative for the rude class or enemies of King David, but Christians who insist on the KJV struggle to read and understand it, and have taken it as God’s own description of male. and therefore pissing standing up isn’t just an aspect of masculinity, but it’s essence.

What astonishes me about people like Elon or Clarence Thomas is why, at this stage of their lives, are they seeking out people to whom they are subordinate? Is it a Daddy thing?

Sure, but does the set of all sets that don’t include themselves include itself?