Ok, I’ll try again:

Assad is a monster who is the son of a monster. Syria is not a US ally that received billions of dollars in American military aid every year. It is heavily sanctioned by the international community. It is not a democracy that might be susceptible to civil pressure campaigns, nor are its chief international supporters.

Rewarding racists with attention for five seasons, but not six, is not anti-racist. Hope you kept the receipt for the little trophy you bought yourself.

The original piece said “church,” from which Joan leapt to “evangelical.” Turns out they met at someone’s wedding.

“I’ll be honest, I hated the first movie, which was terribly written.”

I apologize in advance, but I literally cannot stop myself from doing this: she’s Pakistani.

The specific wording I was pushing back on was “areas that were not disputed.” Whether they’re disputed is irrelevant. Their “strategic value,” however you define that, is a different conversation.

As long as we’re talking about over-simplifying, “terrorist” is a nuance-erasing word which serious journalists have been working to avoid - or carefully contextualize - for well over a decade now. In this case, for instance, as Hamas are also the governing organization in Gaza, calling them “a terrorist organization”…

“Not once do you mention that it’s Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization launching rockets at Israeli civilians”

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your 2040 Republican presidential nominee.

This whole thing is a rhetorical bait and switch: the authors (accurately) describe “wine mom” jokes as as a way to “self‐deprecatingly” bond “over the stressors of parenting,” and a means of “ coping and escapism.” Then they call it “a false resistance.” Coping and escapism are not even pretending to be resistance,…

Gates does not have an “ongoing” friendship with Epstein, because Epstein is dead. Gates also, according to the article you linked to, cut off personal contact with Epstein in 2014, never entered into business with him despite Epstein’s repeated pitches, and stopped allowing his employees to entertain those pitches in…

Aukland Roadwarks: Dicks, or it doesn’t happen.

I guess the idea is that the public prosecutor should not file motions with information about the people being charged, that the media should not report what those motions are, and a defendant’s criminal affiliations should not be noted in cases where those affiliations might factor into the motive and execution of…

This isn’t a police statement, it’s from the prosecutors’ filing.

Joan at her best is sometimes an adequate writer, in that the words are ordered in a way that are generally understandable. She has never once authored a turn of phrase that surprised or entertained or demonstrated a capacity for wit that wasn’t a pale copy of better writers elsewhere. Her most notable piece was that…

“I assume you have checked your phone once or twice while driving, changed the song, looked up a direction. Once or twice in your life. You’ve never caused an accident?”

“After COVID is gone, the person who you are will be left, the person that went online and told someone they are worthless because they are not following orders will remain so. You will still be that mean person”

My point is that nobody is bullying you for your choices or the reasons behind them, because you have made it very clear that none of us know what those choices or reasons are. You’re a person, sure, but in this thread you are functioning as a slippery hypothetical; a framework here in which you will prove yourself…

Nobody is bullying you, because “you” in this case is an anonymous kinja account that may or may not have been vaccinated, may or may not have medical reasons to not vaccinate and may or may not be a member of an ethnicity with a poor relation to the medical establishment. There’s no “you” to bully in any of all that.