Or the US government…

Rabin!

I don't think the narrative is really good vs. bad but rather occupier/colonist vs. occupied/colonised

I often say that religion isn't so much the cause of wars, but what gets the average person to fight them.

The thing about this is that the israeli-palestinian conflict isn't even really about religion to the palestinians. Sure it serves as a rallying point, and Israel justifies its actions using religion in addition to intentionally trying to stir up religious anger amongst the palistinians, but at its base its the same…

That comes from dutch ? We say oriental in french and I think it has latin roots…

Or this is a website about pop-culture that posted an article about a director the commentariat generally likes (or at least likes to discuss) who said something rather interesting, that invites speculation (and is also related explicitly to this week's theme) thus leading to a number of comments.

Noise rock, lots

You're doing something right!

I think vatman is just how you spell batman in spanish

When it comes to subjective things like humor or music, a bunch of people liking it kinda does mean it doesn't suck. I might disagree, but that's irrelevant because it's not my opinion that determines whether something is entertaining or funny in general.

Clearly all of us who upvoted it thought so too

Mmmm, je veux qu'elle me traie

Elaborate? That isn't sarcastic, I'm actually interested in if this is some kind of weird demographic trend you've noticed or whatever.

The maintenance of public roads is paid by taxes too. Buying gas just pays gas companies.

Yeah, those schools failed you because the world (and especially the US) is more Randian than it should be, not less.

Well said indeed.

It actually may have been me who was over-thinking it/half-drunk. Sorry for any hostility.

Think of it this way: while a species is certainly not defined by its culture (that would be ridiculous and un-scientific) culture is a product of what we are. It is just like any other animal behavior, albeit comparatively quite complex and diverse. While we may ascribe "meaning" or what have you to our cultural…

Wait, how do you distinguish the two. Isn't culture really just a representation of what we are as a species?