You all make these arguments about every war that is, supposedly, going to turn into WW3 and have for decades.

Meanwhile, history tells us that not only are you basically always wrong, but usually we’ve sunk a trillion-plus dollars into a quagmire. In the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, it was several trillion, and you all told us that it would only take a few months to liberate Iraq and it would cost, at most, tens of billions. (Because that’s what Dubya told the news and your worldview is wholly based on what your preferred news program tells you.)

So no, I’m sorry, but you don’t get to pretend to be right here simply because your preferred news program and social media algorithm are assuring you that you are.

You’re not democratic. You don’t care about freedom. You’re just warmongers, and a less-than-ideal ending to a war is preferable to permanent war.

If that’s how it goes I’m perfectly happy to let them fight it, provided my tax dollars no longer have to be involved.

I think that, as with any war, there’s never a solution that’s going to please everyone.

Ending the war, by itself, is a good thing. That the US is getting mineral rights as part of the resolution is a great thing (at least for the billionaires) and that economic incentive will work to prevent any new outbreak of hostilities.

The last thing Dems should be doing right now is performative bullshit.

Hopefully they are active and interesting people.

Yeah, that person’s comment reads like a corporation blaming the individual because they don’t recycle enough, as if the individual’s recycling habits are in any way comparable to the widespread pollution corporations create.

Unless you’re a billionaire or willing to go player 2, you have no meaningful power to change any of this. What you do have the power to do is make your own little corner of the world slightly better, and everyone should.

No one with any real power to make meaningful change cares, because they’re benefiting personally.

I have a friend in NYC who searches his entire apartment every year or two because he had a few BTC on an old thumb drive. It is a bummer that he lost it.

I got some dogecoin at a one cent and sold it in the twenties, which was a nice little gain, but nothing huge like being an early BTC holder.

Is it still the same SJW hellhole it was a decade ago?

True, but in America, you’re far more likely to get an armed protest than a general strike.

It really is.

Change will come much quicker when protest groups ditch peaceful protest and show up armed, en masse, with AR-15’s.

Guaranteed.

Good.

Make the bastards scared to leave Israel. They deserve so much worse than being confined to their own country.

Probably Disney Dreamlight Valley or Zelda:BotW.

Definitely not Dragon Age or Game of Thrones.

His existence is just wild in so many ways.

Schools do not teach about him. I didn’t learn about him until reading history books for fun as an adult, but yeah, Lay was an incredibly courageous individual for his time.

It will take the protests being armed.

Because if the protests aren’t armed, they’re not going to accomplish anything. There will be no change if the wealthy class isn’t made to live in fear of the public.

I hate that phrase “product of his time”.

People like to use it to defend this sort of shit going back centuries, but I know about Benjamin Lay, the badass 1700’s-era hobbit (no really, he was a short king who lived in a cave) who was friends with Benjamin Franklin and told him to his face what a motherfucker he was for being a slaver. He also walked from city to city spreading his views, because he was a vegan before his time and felt it was wrong to ride horses.

There are always people who know something’s wrong, and generally plenty of people willing to say it.

Oh wow. They’ll shut down a website for a day.

Whoop-tee-doo.

A bad person can create a good product. It’s that simple.

Also, I love that you’re self-righteously typing this out on a computer produced by slave labor, likely involving kids.

You’re better than me for sure.