Oh come on, that anecdote gets way more mileage than the memory of dormroom sex with an ex, right?

Based on your reasoning, it is. The nature of the community is humanity.

It’s not number. It’s also the nature of the community you are engaging with, and the fact that it’s voluntary.

Foreseeable inevitable consequences.

I know another guy who had a tax collector for a friend, and his political and social enemies also wanted to end his mission.

I’m not sure if this is like ... news to you or something ... but outside of Trump, neocons, and hardliners (both Zionist and anti-semitic)... a distinct Palestinian state is what most everyone else thinks is a huge part of the solution.

Naw.

What if I don’t care about banning it, but also have no sympathy for streamers who choose to do it and then wind up treated like cam girls by their audience?

And that’s what reasonable supporters of potentially viable solutions want.

So answer the question “Well, duh, yes” and move on.  What’s so hard about that? There are some people who won’t give that answer.

Naw.

While the USAID gets its shit together,

In a grand moral sense maybe not, but as a practical reality of the world we live in, where caving to people’s desire to eliminate those country would result in the displacement and/or deaths of millions of people, yes, they do.

Oh I agree in terms of the bad decisions made 60 years ago, but as a practical matter ... yeah.

And right on queue, BuriedAlive comes along to prove the point.

Unlike his father, Andrew Cuomo has always been a Republican masquerading as a Democrat.

The best question to ask a BDS supporter to know if they are reasonable or maybe not so much is“Do you think Israel has a right to exist?”

There’s an easy fix for this of course.

If you’re a writer who considers themselves a worker, this sort of gig work—Substack—is what many of us writers have now.

What’s the point of even believing in God if you believe He’s weak enough to be a homophobic loser? I mean, wouldn’t you rather believe in a Serena-like God instead of a market-tested Sharapova-like God who stays catching Ls?