Good point. I would assert that they pull that off largely by their alliance with the hardcore True Evangelical Believers though.

The IDF is one of the best-organized, -funded, and -trained militaries in the world. They have been able to repeatedly repel invasions even when they were much weaker than they are now. The fear of Israel’s destruction is overblown propaganda.

OK I can admit I had more to learn about the case. However, I don’t see any reason it was legitimate to try her as an adult, nor any reason she shouldn’t have been released at 18. She was abused, neurodivergent, and young, and people have gotten much less time for doing much worse things.

This can never be said enough. Israel’s biggest non-Jewish supporters in the US government are anti-Semites who believe Israel will trigger the Last Judgment.

He was a child rapist. I’m not sorry he’s dead and I don’t know why anyone else is either.

Please please please do this. Cyntoia Brown did absolutely nothing wrong and if she’s not given clemency she will lose most of her life for it.

FOSTA/SESTA. Innumerable flubs on race. Blamed by approximately 50% of the Democratic Party for Hillary losing in 2016. Bernie has plenty of baggage that makes him unpalatable to both the left and the left-of-center.

I switched my default engine to DDG the day I found out about Project Dragonfly. I’m now in the (surprisingly difficult) process of weaning myself off Gmail. I’m not tossing my Android phone yet or anything, but if I can take a few pennies away from them then why not.

I haven’t been able to get a bench in months. My gym has two racks and two benches - why can I always get a rack and never a bench? Are people literally just doing bench presses and then going home? Anyway, point being don’t listen to Beth. Look how cold it is outside. You don’t want to go out there. Stay in bed where…

It’s not enough. It will not be universally repeatable on its own, as some companies absolutely have more tolerance for bad press (or just downright hostility to workers). But it’s a start, and every time ordinary people organize and win it shows more ordinary people that they can organize and win. And at some point…

Maybe not: millennials and under are too alienated and terrified to have sex much.

You’re just persistently mistaking the thing for the symbol of the thing. The problem with religion in government is legislators attempting to impose their religion on others by force of law (or force of arms). Wearing or not wearing a religious symbol has nothing to do with it, and would not affect the legislators’…

It’s illegal for CA apartments not to provide heat because that used to be what’d kill you. They should have made it illegal to not provide AC back in the late ‘90s when heat waves started killing people.

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find this.

New Orleans is a city. Paradise is a town in the middle of a sea of nothing, in a county with a methamphetamine epidemic. The nearest thing vaguely resembling civilization is Chico; the nearest actually-inhabitable city is either Redding or Reno. Nobody’s paying good money to move there.

Well, I’m looking at a lot of people. I have been called by so many people wanting that job. We have some great people.

Probably because they had eight years to investigate the war criminals in the Bush administration and they didn’t.

The Great Regraying was obviously super effective.

I had to answer a series of multiple-choice questions any of my acquaintances could easily answer.

Seems like a lot of work to do when you can just randomly steal mail and get an equivalent payoff. I signed up anyway though. Might as well shut that door even if it’s unlikely anyone will walk through it.