We (including you, unless you’d care to share some credentials) are all laymen here. Therefore, the logical thing to do is to look to the opinions of experts. The experts and scholars generally agree that Israel is committing genocide. The article even admits that (in the sentence I quoted above). Are you, like the article’s author, suggesting that your expertise trumps these experts and scholars?

The prosecutor in The Hague and all the learned professors, from Omer Bartov on down, who talk about a genocide, are wrong.

This line made me think the author was being sarcastic. “It’s not genocide, because Israel hasn’t decided to commit genocide! All of these experts on the subject agree that it is, but clearly it isn’t!”, but no, they appear to actually genuinely hold this belief, which is just… I don’t even know what to say. The mental gymnastics required here is just wild.

They found a crazy loophole - this one neat trick that humanitarians hate! If you just keep saying “We’re not committing genocide!”, you aren’t! Wow!

Do you happen to have a link to a store with that tree structure, or know what it’s called? I would love to get my dragon something like that, and have been having a hard time finding good ones.

Looks like a jouch in the back, too!

I legitimately love this collection.

You could break the handle on one of the Engagement Mugs and have two perfectly usable mugs. Similarly, the Uncomfortable Mug works just fine as long as you just hold it like you would a cup.

The champagne glasses could technically be used if you only filled one side of it, and only enough that it didn’t tip over. Alternately, break the stems off and just don’t set them down.

The fork on the other hand doesn’t seem to have any practical use. I’d nix that.

There’s a lot of things blue states produce that red states need. When Trump causes shortages in blue states, do you think they’re going to ship what they have to the red states that want them?

California for example produces a massive percentage of the country’s produce.

Aww, man - I’d forgotten about Empire Earth, that game was absolutely the shit at the time. Wish it’d gotten more attention and credit.

It’s fucking embarrassing to be from the US at this point. I hope that if we eventually get our shit together and elect someone competent, that the rest of the world forgives us for this shit and lets us back into their good graces, but at this point, if you all tell us to go fuck ourselves, I won’t blame you at all.

I really hope you do. I hope everyone does, when Trump starts flexing at them. We (Americans) deserve every bit of hardship we get from this situation.

If oil imports are taxed, it could raise costs for businesses and consumers, potentially contradicting Trump’s pledge to reduce living expenses.

Does anyone honestly think Trump meant anything he said while he was campaigning? It was obviously all just saying what people wanted to hear. He basically said as much himself. Pretending otherwise is just legitimizing lies and propaganda.

I did computer repair for quite a few years after high school, then worked in IT at a game company, and currently work in the software testing industry, so… yes! Hah

Lan parties were basically the highlight of my highschool career. I learned how to set up and configure complex networks just so I could be ‘that guy’ that knew how to fix problems at lan parties. Sitting in someone’s garage all night with 12-16 sweaty, sleep deprived people playing Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament or Worms Armageddon was the absolute pinnacle of good times in a rural small town.

Gee, whyever would he think that? Could it be because he’s been breaking the law for years and years, and nobody’s done anything about it? Because he staged a fucking coup, and the DoJ rolled over? That he’s essentially been issuing open threats to anyone who opposes him, and everyone’s capitulating? That he’s openly accepting bribes and everyone’s just opening their wallets? No, couldn’t be any of those things.

I don’t know who the character is, but they sure are cute!

I’m not suggesting anyone just do it cold turkey. I am suggesting, though, that they start re-tooling their economies to not rely on the US in it in whatever ways they’re able; we’re an unreliable partner, clearly, and anyone whose economy is reliant on us at this point is just asking to get burned or bent over by Trump.

I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it’s just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it’d hurt them, but it’d hurt the US and specifically Trump’s influence a lot more in the long term.

Okay, Stalinwolf, you seem like an authority on this subject. I believe everything this person says.

I have so many questions.