I’m a year older than OP. Also have a young kid.

The incentives simply aren’t there for the decisionmakers, because a lot of the decisionmakers simply don’t have enough skin in the game. Our political, diplomatic, and economic power centers - in the West, particularly the United States - are ruled by septuagenarians. They’re not worried about consequences in 2050…

I’ve found the uber-successful folks I’ve encountered are “off” in some way. I’ve worked in Congress and interacted with elected officials, worked at international development and got to collaborate with Nobel Prize-tier economists and ministers of finance, and today work in the private sector where I’ve had dealing…

It’s a misquote. He actually said “plastering the axe gash”.

Probably wanted to reduce the associated healthcare costs. 

I’d never survive in prison. I love canned mackerel and would eat all my currency. 

Sounds like you’re the one who needs to brush up on history.

All of Gaza is full of terrorists? 12k dead Palestinians, all terrorists? Half of the dead children, all terrorists? More than 1M displaced, all terrorists?

If it’s laid anything bare, it’s that any criticism of Israel is branded as “antisemitic” in order to stifle Palestinian perpsectives, and has been for a long time.

“Boy this Trail of Tears stuff sounds like it was a raw deal for the native tribes.” - Ortega

I think at least Splinter got to have a goodbye note of sorts, if I remember correctly. And the Deadspin stuff was out in the open.

Robocop and Starship Tropper video games (what is it about Verhoeven?)

My father was born and raised on a farm that had been in our family for generations, in a village outside Haifa. He and his mother and siblings had to slip out in the dead of night and sneak across the border into Lebanon. My grandfather stayed behind to sell their possessions and had to hide in a closet and keep…

You’re not showing how “complicated” the situation is. You’re cherry picking responses and outright ignoring what I’ve said.

Glad to see The Duelists didn’t get relegated to some forgotten slot at the bottom of the list. Personally I would rank it ahead of KoH and Gladiator.

I can’t tell if you’re a Dunning Kruger case or arguing in bad faith.

It’s complicated! Who can say, what really happened and when and why Gaza exists the way it does in the first place? We have no way of knowing, other than that this whole thing started on October 7th and not a second before that. Evil Palestinians woke up and decided a pogrom was just what the day called for, so they…

What the fuck is this. God forbid you call a spade a spade or look up at the sky and say that it’s blue.

Not proud to say a version of myself would have laughed as well. When I was 13. In the early 90s. 

how complicated are dead children