Palestinians within the territories suffer under terrible conditions, I don’t think anyone will deny that. I think most would agree that Israel deserves a large share of the blame for that, although not all. There’s a reason that Israel doesn’t exist within its 1948 or 1967 borders: it won wars, largely defensive, to…

It’s just a fact, not a value statement. There is a state with a majority of Palestinian people, it’s Jordan. It’s relevant in the debate over whether “nations of people” deserve a country of their own. I may have hit “reply” to the wrong comment, but I was intending to address a point that basically argued that…

They should probably keep Palessi and turn it into an actual separate vertical, it might earn more profit than any Payless shop ever could. 

There is already a Palestinian state, more or less. Jordan is majority Palestinian. 

His speech specifically says that justice requires a free Palestine from the river to the sea. It’s not misconstruing his words to read exactly what he says. He didn’t say “an Israel where Palestinians are free from the river to the sea” did he? Sure, after the fact, he’s backpedaling now that his wallet and his…

He called for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” Having a state named Palestine occupy that territory would necessarily mean Israel doesn’t exist. 

Have you ever seen a map of Israel? It is bordered on one side by the Jordan river and on the other by the Mediterranean sea. “River to sea” means all of Israel. 

“Thrives off the blood of innocence” is just policy criticism I’m sure, right? Just like when he called for a Palestinian state to occupy all of what is currently Israel, that was mere policy criticism. 

How is it better than having people report to security directly? Are consent guardians given better pay / different training? 

This is becoming the best counter-point to that stupid “good guy with a gun” trope. Trying to decide how I can maximize the number of people who unfriend me after I share this on Facebook. 

To say country music has “roots in American blues tradition” is a little simplistic, even using the article you linked to. Black musicians have been contributing to country music for centuries; white musicians have as well, bringing in traditions from most of the same sources as America’s waves of immigrants. 

The doctors and the hospital didn’t create this problem. The government that will pay a million dollars for a transplant but not 5,000 for anti-rejection drugs created this problem. The doctors make the only decisions they can make within this system, absurd as the outcomes often are. 

the fact that this broken scenario is “endemic to the gaming industry right now” is a serious problem that is worth writing about over and over. Paying $60 bucks to be an alpha tester on a shitty shadow of a game - with no guarantee that the “full release” originally promised will ever show - makes a sucker out of…

And yet here you are in the modern world with all of its shiny, new infectious bacteria. Too bad being raised in the 17th century didn’t inoculate you against 2018 diseases!

Most people who die in America are under a doctor’s care. They still die, becoming a doctor doesn’t grant a magical wand. 

We should definitely get on raising salaries for Congress people then!

I wonder sometimes about how much Prog power exists outside Chitt. Cty, but then the Democrats win a supermajority in the legislature and it’s at least clear that BTV isn’t an island unto itself in every respect. 

Thanks, I said basically the same thing about my own vote. However I didn’t know Hallquist voted for Scott - that’s rich!

At least to me I saw a lot of issue based coverage, far more than coverage that talked extensively about her transwoman status. VT Digger, Seven Days, Free Press, even the smaller papers all ran well reported articles about her background in policy and management, her positions on various issues, etc. Not sure I could…

No, but as Anneke suggested - we turn our gov out of office on a pretty regular basis even without term limits.