the idea that it would hurt small business is a smoke screen.

Yeah, the ultra wealthy are always claiming that if they have to pay their fair share then all of society will suffer. 🙄 118 honestly sounds fine to me, but the array of groups I trust that were against it gave me pause. I voted no, hoping to avoid another case of doing the right thing the wrong way.

or he's going to go to prison

Someone's an optimist!

Even the hostages are only as much leverage as their families can apply - netanyahu has shown time and again that he'll let them all die if it gives him another day in power.

Everybody please go vote! That said, I just don't think it is nihilism.

Some of it is accelerationism - the idea that the worse the ruling class treat people they closer society gets to a revolution that will improve things drastically more than voting for dems would. I think that's flawed, but it's not nihilism.

A lot of it is propaganda. Oligarchs on both sides of the bering straight have been ploughing cash into amplifying any messaging that will depress left turnout. This isn't nihilism, it works because people believe things - we are social primates and conforming with a group is essential for our survival.

And a small amount is people who have legitimate emotional reasons, like relatives killed in israel's genocide. Not voting doesn't help that situation, but that emotional reality is not nihilism.

When asked about the aid levels, Miller acknowledged Israel has “failed” to meet US requests so far but said there was still time until the 30-day deadline and that the US wouldn’t give a “grade” to Israel just yet. “It’s not the end of the semester. You don’t give out – you don’t hand out grades in the middle,” he said while laughing.

Calling that a joke seems... generous.

Is it equivalent to burning the cross? The Swedish flag?

No, it's definitely not. You have to look at the social context of the act, not just the act itself.

To use the most obvious examples, burning an american flag in protest of the vietnam war is clearly an expression of political speech, whereas burning a cross on the lawn of an african-american family's house is an incitement to violence.

A fascist burning the koran is clearly an incitement to violence and hatred, and not legitimate political speech worth protecting.

Stinky tofu is usually fermented directly in rotting vegetable matter, I believe. But that sounds like the flavor, yeah.

Have you tried deep frying it? The crispy outside and soft inside is delightful. It's often served with a little cooked cabbage.

For all the fun-ruiners saying this is not uplifting news because his assets will live on, zombie-like, animating his feckless children as they continue to inflict their monstrous will on our country - shush!

Just let us have this ok? A few moments to celebrate the death of a parasitic aristocrat doesn't seem like too much to ask.

Stinky tofu is much milder in flavor than aroma. At least the stuff I ate in both Yunnan and Taiwan was, Hunan may have a different kind.

I found it incredibly tasty, like a mild gorgonzola. Fried or boiled in soup are both amazing.

In Taiwan it's super convenient because as soon as you get punched in the nose by the aroma of hot, unwashed crotch you can follow that scent and you'll almost always reach an amazing night market with a range of delicious food and other vendors.

We should've clapped. Now we'll know the wrath of jeb exclamation point.

I didn't discover frasier until ~5 years ago, but I just love it.

The character frasier is definitely misogynist. But isn't that the point? Laughing at a pompous and deeply flawed individual was the whole idea, I thought.

"people standing next to musk who don't punch him are traitors to humanity" is just obviously not a serious call to violence.

Your comments are much more offensive than anything you reacted to - you overreacted to the comment and then overreacted to the ban by posting this.