I know this isn’t your point, but even if it were fancy, it shouldn’t matter. Someone shouldn’t get more time for stealing a more expensive version of a thing. It’s still just theft- nonviolent.

Seriously. Aside from the other horrors of this situation, 19 years for petty theft? Probably he was on probation or something? (Even still, that’s unjustifiable.) WTF!

He was literally at a ‘free speech’ pro-Trump rally shouting about Muslims just days before. Why wouldn’t you call him ‘far right’? He has literally chosen to actively participate in far right rallies and in far right confrontations with antifa. Also he is mentally unstable.

Wait a minute. We do not assume that everyone who votes for Trump is an alt-right free speech troll nor a white supremacist, etc, right? Just like we don’t assume that everyone who voted for Bernie is a Nazi punching member of antifa right? Most people who voted, just voted for someone, and they are now going about…

Let’s use real words. I don’t know what “stabby guy” means. Do you mean the guy who stabbed them or the guys who were stabbed? The guy who stabbed them was mentally unstable and also just a few days earlier on the pro-Trump side of the ‘free speech’ rally. If he also voted for Bernie a year ago in the primary, I don’t…

You know what? Some asshole on the right shot a wobbly at a protest in Seattle. Some racists murdered an Indian and shot another one plus a white dude that intervened shortly after the election. Another right wing “free speech” racist slashed the throats of those dudes in Portland. I’m sick of the false equivalency…

I’m sick of this shit. You know who is shooting and stabbing people? Mentally unstable people and right wingers. In every altercation that has a political motive, it’s folks on the right shooting and stabbing people. Tell me again how this is the fault of leftist punching Nazis.

Yup. I type faster than I think, unfortunately. :)

Well the thing is, there isn’t really an alternative for you to take part in right now. You live in this society, and it’s not really possible to live here and protect yourself (your health, your sanity, your family) without being complicit in environmental destruction and imperialism to a certain extent.

People have…

I’m fearful of that too. The only way I see around it is to create a viable alternative to the far right, endless war and privatization of everything. I think the left could offer that if they could get their shit together. I think centrists are just blindly strolling their way off a cliff. Of course, given a choice…

Over two responses I have answered you in both generalities and with supporting details. It involves a change in US foreign policy in more than specifics, and I gave many general points about how (our priorities, specific enemies and allies, specific goals). What you are asking, to respond in a void to one aspect of a…

I already answered that, both in terms for what we should and shouldn’t do now and in terms of why what you are asking for (short sighted answers to immediate situations rather than longer view changes of policy) is not possible to answer. I’m not sure what you are trying to do here, but it’s not to learn or to teach…

I feel like we are either talking past each other or have very different levels of understanding about what has happened in Syria. Assuming it is the second, it would explain a lot of the discrepancy in our opinion about Clinton’s foreign policy. There are people who believe that the revolt against Assad was entirely…

That’s way too big of a question to answer here, so I’m not sure why you are asking that. In general yes, I think foreign policy is tied to domestic and I can give you a general outline. In the first place, we’d have to give up the idea of US hegemony by any means necessary and this includes stopping supporting the…

Maybe we are being too wordy. I don’t know why you keep talking about voting for Clinton when I have never argued with you on that point.

If you are asking how we are supposed to respond to crises like the Yazidi issue, I’d say you need to keep in mind that these situations did not arise in a void. There are humanitarian crises all around the world and we pick and choose which to respond to, which to ignore, and which to escalate depending on US…

I’m not sure what you are talking about here. If you mean the fact that the American lifestyle is based on imperialism and would I be willing to give up that lifestyle in exchange for not being responsible for millions of deaths around the world and the destabilization of entire civilizations, then I don’t even know…

I don’t think you can see North American privilege. It’s OK, it’s hard.

What I mean by north american privilege is simple enough if you wish to understand.

I don’t disagree with much of what you said. I was responding to your statement here: