I mean, the capacity to reason, perceive reality, experience emotions etc is clearly shared with animals as lowly as mice and lower. There's no clear dividing line between our consciousness and theirs either. But we clearly value human consciousness above theirs too.
Americans are not prepared for the reaping of what our government is sowing.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Both of the comments he made that you've responded to are lines from the movie. Not that your arguments aren't correct, but I don't think he's arguing.
As a jazz guitarist I think there's a serious conversation to be had about "preserved arts" like jazz, ballet and opera that have lost cultural sway and depend donations and the academy, etc.
But as an artist it feels shitty for TC to bash others pursuing their dreams like he did. That's all.
Dave: Yeah, that random guy deciding to take over the Presidency based on vibes is awesome > This man should be prosecuted.
Office Space: These men are justified in stealing from the company for downsizing them > These men should be prosecuted.
A girl I used to date told me she read 5 biographies of Hitler, and her conclusion was "he was just trying his best like everyone else!"
She was my first love and I'll always have a special place in my heart but... gave me pause to say the least.
When someone writes "/s" at the end of a post that means everything before it was sarcasm. It's very useful for indicating tone but not universally known.
In KFile's reporting he found posts Platner made defending service members with nazi tattoos years before he supposedly "realized" what his was.
So we're asked to believe he was coincidentally out posting on forums defending nazi tattoos long before he knew he had one. Odd choice & not believable.
I think he's running a good campaign and would be enthusiastically supporting him if it wasn't for that one deeply avoidable rake he keeps jumping on.
He's not even the nominee! This came out with many months before the primary - there's no reason to circle the wagons like our majority depends on it.
It turns out "people who call out racism and other biases" are both deeply annoying and in their absence what rises is nazi grade misogyny and racism.
There is no just right middle bowl of porridge to choose.
It's an interesting question which members of this administration being shit-canned would actually materially change the work their agency did.
My guess is the list of irreplaceables contains only Trump, Miller and Rubio. Everyone else is, to quote Nuremberg, just following orders.
I'm about 2 hours into the audiobook and was pleasantly surprised to find even the "and he grew up as a child with parents!" section was very interesting and well written.
We've also had only the beginnings of consequences so far, with the possibility it could go much longer and get much worse getting more and more likely
The fact Bush sent Powell to the UN, Cheney on Meet the Press and worked Judith Miller at the NYT are all huge changes.
The Bushies talked down to the mainstream media, but they still tried to push their message out through it. Trump has totally embraced the "fuck you, you're biased" approach.
Democrats should be able to easily pass a bill making parenting a child with someone in custody of CBP or ICE a federal crime with a long sentence. The child's DNA will definitively identify the parent.
The thing about "just take the L" is literally nobody cares or will think about it. Getting into an extended defense of it isn't worth your time, and I know because I've done that shit hundreds of times and was never glad once.
But if Crockett had won black voters THEN the narrative wait did I even pay attention to this race at all?
Alternatively, Genghis Khan's chosen religion (Tengrism) was so open and pluralistic everyone he conquered got to keep their own religion and as a result Tengrism is incredibly rare today.
To the extent there were brave, decent Republicans, I think 2010 and birtherism was the end. Once the tea party led in the GOP primaries the "moderates" couldn't be seen as out of step with it. Coburn, Warner, Hagee - If you treated Obama like a patriotic American there was no room for you.
Honestly I remember the show as being great but I have no idea if the broader mystery stuff holds up at all.
Trump will be gone in 3 years, and RFK had 5-10% at his peak. The battle lines for control of the party are between the immigration restrictionists and the techno-fascists, with the most likely outcome being they remain locked together in coalition.
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I hope his agent has contacts at Newsmax studios because finding a job anywhere else is gonna be fraught for a while.
Calling someone "fat" has always felt insane to me. We don't call body builders "muscle" - we call them muscular. It's an aspect of their identity, it doesn't subsume it.
I love that the subtitles keep referring to her as "Ms Gnome."
Israel has a right to exist in freedom/peace as much as Palestinians. As a democracy it also requires criticism.
They don't have a right to west bank settlers seizing land and terrorizing people. They don't have a right to collective punishment in gaza. These actions make jews everywhere less safe.
"Owning the libs" in one form or another must be the most gratifying feeling ever because so many people just cannot resist the urge.
