Larry of the Lawn

Who packs their phone? It's a fucking prosthesis at this point.

Well good thing I didn't do that then, huh? You're the one that said "inevitable" scolding me for "the language of inevitability" and likening protests to a "natural disaster" (which I didn't do, by the way!) I guess I missed the part where I said "pick whatever you think is the worst, most toxic part about protesting, and let it be known to all the land, that's the part I fucking support!".

Sure, some protests are strategic and have planning. My "pragmatic" comment was directed at people who seem to think that there is some electoral or specific public policy that's going to change immediately. I doubt most protestors think that's going to happen. My commentary was directed at people who seem baffled or confused as to why people would be out there protesting. I am amused that people are confused by this. I stand by my statement that protests are likely to happen when conventional or pragmatic solutions fail or are ignored. For what it's worth I've spent quite a bit of time on the pavement. I went to college in DC immediately after 9/11 and was out in front of the Whitehouse at least once a week for a couple hours for a couple years.

Yeah let's not like protests to natural disasters or libraries or cupcakes or sea monsters, I am 100% on board with that.

I tired this 20 years ago and now there's just a lousy, moldy, rat-bitten painting of me in the attic and I'm turning gray and wrinkly lol.

I'm not sure the majority of Jewish students feel intimidated but I suppose it's possible. Protests aren't about being a pragmatic solution. They are what happens when pragmatic solutions fail or are ignored. It's like putting a pot of water in a lit stove. Eventually it's gonna boil over and make a mess. It's a predictable consequence of doing nothing to address an injustice that many people are very aware of.

Ok? That's non responsive, counselor. The argument wasn't that there are US administrations who would be worse on this issue than Biden, the argument I responding to was your nuanced claim that giving money and weapons to Israel somehow gives the US more influence to prevent Israel from using them. That is a very different argument from "Trump would have been worse." Yes, it could be much worse. Could you please explain how giving Israel more $ and weapons is going to reduce violence in Gaza? I don't disagree with any of this, really.

Who knows? They US doesn't appear to have much influence right now. It's not illogical to think that cutting of military aid to Israel is a more direct and sensible option. But the US government has been supporting Israel for a long time. Maybe it's illogical to protestors to think that the US would suddenly rein in Israel by providing them with more weapons. If protestors felt they had better ways of influencing the US government I doubt they'd be out there right now.

So? Wouldn't you rather your government not be involved in something if you think that something is horrible? Wouldn't you rather see that money spent on something other than military support for a violent action you disagree with?

I don't think I've ever used the hot water function in a washing machine.

Fucking Dems won't let my 8 year old niece have the crippling factory job she's always dreamed of

Dude is going to be prescreening all of Baron's graduation cards to pocket the cash.

He doesn't, I was just going for the alliteration and figured that with our pan-anglosphere board at least some would assume the raunchier meaning rather than the quaint American one.

I bet Doors of Stone is a total fuckfest. Like, after living with the sex ninjas and and the Felurian side quest, he's loses all interest in things school and revenge related. He just dives fully into his sexuality and fucks his way across (whatever the name of the land in this story is). My theory is that the book has been completed for years, Rothfuss wasn't lying, he's just been at a stand-off with the publisher, who refuses to print it as it is. Way too many fae fannies and sorcerous schlongs flying around.

So if a country has attacked a diplomatic target in the past it's just open season on their own consulates and embassies for ever after? This is a very weird position to take-- what's the logic here? The Buenos Aires bombing you mentioned was over 30 years ago. Even if it was conducted by the Iranian government instead of a Lebanese group with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I don't see any logic in saying that some how we can't expect a country to retaliate to a consulate bombing because they bombed an embassy 30 years ago.

After Oct 7 we heard that Israel was showing restraint in their response in Gaza. If they hadn't, Gaza wouldn't exist anymore. Similarly, you know very well that Iran showed restraint this weekend. This missile and drone attack wasn't "because their stated goal is to do so until it's destroyed". It was undeniably a response to the Damascus attack. And wtf now we're picking on spelling from posters whose first language isn't even English?

Ok. Try plugging in 'Israel' and 'Hamas' into HoI's post that I quoted and see how it sounds: Can you see why that kind of framing is kinda lazy and fucked?

It's less "targeting Iran" than escalating with Iran by killing 50 people in the embassy attack.

Let me rephrase. You said : You've already established that "that world" is the 8 'rational' nations with nuclear weapons. But I'm asking you is why has that been proven "viable"? What does viable mean in this context? Does it mean that this is what has happened so far? Do you simply mean that nuclear weapons haven't been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

"viable" doing a lot of work here. What does viable mean in this context?

I'd be absolutely fine never hearing another Florida man / Florida joke for the rest of my life, because this thread specifically has ruined my ability to appreciate it by oversaturation and the need to shoehorn any tangential reference to Florida into lazy and unoriginal jokes. It'd be one thing if the jokes were good, but they're not even funny. Eta: C'mon board, you can all do better. Wait for the right opportunity or for some real inspiration. One good joke is better than 500 shitty ones.

do you have a citation that supports the idea that felons voted for Trump at a higher rate than your average Floridian?

Gas stoves and ovens can also leak benzene, which can cause leukemia. Houses today are not necessarily better ventilated than they were 25 or 40 years ago. Often modern construction is so airtight due to spray in insulation that houses don't "breathe" at all. A good portion of my job involves dealing with pressure issues in new construction homes. Electricity is cleaner than burning gas on site. Because it's not all generated from hydrocarbons. There may be local exceptions if you live near a coal plant. There is plenty of food out there. Some people think any regulation to keep poisons out of it or the water used to grow it are onerous. Solar and wind need to be coupled with fission or fossil fuels to reduce emissions. We should have dumped a ton of money into fission 50 years ago. We should have done it yesterday. But being pro-fission on its own doesn't mean that your some tree hugger. Show me some conservative gneerated legislation to stop pollution or deforestation or stop the privatizing of publicly owned resources. Show me any real legislation from the right to protect our natural resources. The right has been gutting the EPA and complaining about business not being able to pollute since the EPA was created. The American right doesn't give a fuck about the environment. Dems corporate donors aren't about to let them make major changes to help either, but at least they aren't marching gungho towards an apocalyptic wasteland where the only animals are in zoos and every river and lake is owned by some corporation, or where there is no guarantee your water isnt polluted with industrial waste. You talk about nutrition while the GOP creates school lunch debt and wants to keep food stamps from being used on fresh produce: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/31/politics/wic-benefits-cut-culture-war

I guess you could say she used your porn theater counting method, eh?

That 200 number is almost certainly wrong, possibly by an order of magnitude. No one is sure exactly how many illegal dispensaries are operating, but if you count smoke shops selling THC products the high end estimates are 8000. https://council.nyc.gov/press/2023/08/14/2454/ Even if it's half that you're still wrong. Eta: some quick googling will tell you that there are illegal shops on almost every block in Hell's Kitchen, for example. It's easy, just use Google Maps.