Imo this automatic disapproval of asking for clarification is toxic and promotes circlejerks. If you got something to say to me, say it, but I’m not going to bend over backwards trying to guess what I’d have to do to appease internet strangers. That’s especially true of communities where terrible takes get massively upvoted, like that plus they won’t even voice their problem, at some point you gotta write those types off.

I think the funniest thing would be to have one of those two pope situations straight out of the middle ages, like maybe Vance could be an antipope.

Terrifying. Immigration courts need to be abolished altogether.

That’s just Sunnydale from Buffy.

100% worth. Cry more.

Oh no. Maybe next time they will pay their workers a living wage.

I don’t think you understand how disposably warehouse workers are treated, or how frequently we change jobs. A job is not a gift.

Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam

Wildfires are antifa, but when someone actually does commit arson for class war reasons, it’s an insurance scam? What a bizarre psychosis.

Damn, maybe the company should’ve paid them a living wage.

A technological breakthrough could make Mars colonization feasible. It might even be possible for it to be self-sustaining. Who knows?

But an empire? That’s utterly ridiculous. You might as well say that the thing that the American empire will last eternally unless and until we genetically engineer a race of intelligent dragons who will replace it with a dragon empire, and if anyone expresses skepticism of that fantasy, you could just as easily point to “people didn’t think the Wright Brothers could fly.”

One wrong skeptic a hundred years ago doesn’t mean every fantasy is going to happen. There’s countless predictions that didn’t come true.

That means the service payments on public debt are roughly equal to spending for the same period on both the Department of Defense’s military budget and the Department of Education. These two outlays contribute costs of $461 billion and $70 billion respectively.

I know how we can solve the debt crisis! We just cut the education budget by $70 billion and add $140 billion to the military budget! Problem solved!

If that seems like a comically bad idea, keep in mind that Mr. Peace President wants to increase annual military spending by more than $500 billion.

That’s complete and utter bullshit.

“Frontline of humanity” what does that even mean, historically? Humanity has always been spread across the earth.

I see absolutely no evidence for this historically, what I see is just people in the Middle Ages trying to brand themselves as the successors to Rome for PR.

The idea of Mars becoming an “empire” is pure fantasy. We can’t even begin to talk about the lack of natural resources when there’s literally no air. Maybe in 40,000 years or something, but not on any foreseeable timescale.

If we don’t get spaceflight, the US will stay an imperial entity for eternity.

This is straight up magical thinking. You might as well say that someone has to sacrifice a virgin goat on the night that the stars are in alignment for the US empire to end. There is zero logical or causal connection between those things, and empires don’t just last “eternally” unless somebody casts the right magic spell.

blaming this specific bombing on Israel it very close to a blood libel.

“Um, actually it’s kind of antisemitic for you to be upset about murdered children.” Do you Zionazis not have another line? That rhetoric has been abused so opportunistically that it’s done. I don’t give a single solitary shit if you call me an antisemite for not wanting murdered children.

Follow your leader, Nazi scum.

Go fuck yourself. “I hope the family allowed for it to be used like this.” You allowed it to be used like this by creating it.

That’s from the school in Iran that was bombed. But it’s fine, I guess! Iran said mean things about Israel, after all! Also, Iran may have been trying to get a deterrent, so obviously we had to kill their schoolchildren over it!

What the fuck is wrong with you? Your war is literally proving that the things they say about Israel are correct and that they were justified in seeking a deterrent.

“Rhetorical device?”

This is what you’re justifying right now.

I hope you have to explain yourself to murdered children in the afterlife.

If you’re not a bot or getting paid, you should be. It might be worse if you’re supporting genocide pro-bono.

Hasbara bot.

So that’s how Vance is going to try to distance himself from the sinking ship.

Same, but in reverse 🤝

Lol.