Yeah, I’m not as nihilistic as you might expect from this exchange. We’re in the middle of a conservative backlash in the west right now, but it’s a lot better than mainstream thought even 60 years ago. We’ll move forward again soon enough.

The conservative government in Israel has more or less stopped trying to…

Maybe we should add western imperialism fucking up things to death and taxes as the only guarantees in life.

The problem with your proposal is “all we had to do was not antisemite.” Europe had been particularly bad at that at least since the Spanish Inquisition. It wasn’t just the Germans, my family left Ukraine during…

My point was strive to be different all you want. Great! Gold star for you! Doesn’t make reality any different. There are still people out there striving to be the biggest piece of shit possible. If your security is in the hands of someone else you are unfortunately at their whim and completely fucked if they turn…

Would have failed, too much complaining about the cold.

Sure, we could have put it in Germany, but that STILL would have required evicting people form their lands. The west is going to fuck over brown people instead of its own whenever it can help it. It still doesn’t get around the fact that the only place that all Jews share a connection to the area around Jerusalem, but…

As Sheldon said when trying to figure out the conflict, “If we put a wall in Mexico could you still wail at it?”

It’s impossible to say that South America wouldn’t have had similar issues with relocating native populations. Sure, you don’t have the same history of conflict (it would be brand new conflict!), but this is…

How can you call it a dim view? We’re regressing towards it in the US. It’s much worse in other parts of the world. This is the reality of things. You can’t just structure things based on how you would like the world to be, cause some asshole is going to come in an fuck it up. Do you leave your house and car unlocked…

I agree with you. Jews who want to live in their ancestral home should be able to live there free and peacefully. So should the Palestinians. So should displaced Kurds, Roma, Choctaw, Serbs, etc. We should fight to make this a reality for everyone. But it’s not a reality yet and we need to deal with the situation…

I mean that would have been deeply satisfying... especially since they put it basically in the only place MORE hostile on the planet.

I’m cool with this, although that means my sister is only a few hundred miles away again!

As someone who works in IT and has relatives who are in the DOE I can tell you their security protocols are woefully inadequate. So yeah I can definitely say it’s their fault. But also it’s near impossible to completely prevent access to a system that someone has physical access to.

I hope the law changes and she can sue her ex into oblivion and get the DOE to pay up too.

In the mean time though, fuck the system’s puritanical bullshit. Every one of you came from people fucking (except for the few that came from in vitro, but most of that is because fucking didn’t work). Your precious little kids…

The problem is where else do you put Israel? The Jews were a people without a home, not so much by choice but because they lost control of their ancestral home to the Romans and it basically got passed along through various empires and they never had an opportunity to reestablish themselves.

It’s really easy to look at…

Since things like “bridge-building,” bipartisanship, civility, and relationships mean jack shit to the GOP, tell me why we these supposed skills the old guard Dems have are relevant or necessary?

Step the fuck aside so some new ideas can actually rise up in your party and make people actually give a shit about the Dems…

Yeah, but he’s obviously too much of a bitch to for “hold me back” to be believable or to have boys.

I mean, that’s on you for not just telling her she smelled like bullshit and decay and then leaving the room.

As they say, the truth has a liberal bias.

I’d say most of the highly intelligent people I know end up somewhere around the center-left on the political spectrum. The far left has tons of dipshits there too. The difference is the dipshits on the left are advocating socialism, alternative medicine, putting jade eggs in…

The hand itself, I’ve personally seen happen at least half a dozen times.

It’s a sick way to bust the final table bubble though. Context is bigger here than anything.

Really loving all the 1/2 NL takes here, “Well if you have KK and two guys go all in before you, one of them definitely has aces.”

This is not how tournament poker works, and certainly not at these levels.

To quote Herm Edwards here, you play to win the game. Unless you have a stone cold read on the guy for Aces you…