Well, he’s down in the polls again so why not do what works

How did Ukraine start “ww3”?

Because the fascists are the ones who will tell you which truths are “disinformation.”

You don’t get “rejected”, they just hire someone who isn’t you.

You really do need to call someone for this, if this is a thermostat valve on a radiator you’re going to burn yourself

"Capitalism is when stores aren't hotels"

They don't, though. Check. They can't. No independent body can operate freely in Gaza, it's under Hamas control. They know that Hamas can rescind whatever meager access they have, and so they figure that humanitarian purpose is better satisfied by preserving access by not angering Hamas.

But they don't have access to strike sites, they don't have access to morgues. Islam requires the dead be buried by nightfall, so there's simply no opportunity for independent observers to actually verify body counts. They're just demographically "verified" - "oh, we know about that many people lived in the apartment block, so X is a plausible figure for deaths." But that's not confirmation.

You're not going to like it, but the way you get over and past something like this is forgiveness. You have to forgive the pretentious twat who had the temerity to speak to you that way; you forgive him because that's how you eliminate his power over you. You forgive him because that's how you pull out the hooks. You forgive him because the alternative is, what? Carry this around in you forever? Find him and beat the shit out of him?

Just forgive him. Ultimately, he didn't have your gifts - the gift of grace, the gift of the expansive generosity of spirit that leads a person not to construe literally every social encounter as "which one of us is coming out on top? It better be me." The gift of not reflexively being a shithead to people, maybe. Whatever. You almost pity him. Almost.

Forgiveness is how you get past it. People don't like to hear it, but it is.

Once a week is fine. You're clean when you get out of the shower, and the towel air-dries as you're not using it. Even where I live - 65% humidity year-round - we only wash the towels once a week.

I mean, I was going through college when GW Bush was elected, and here's what I remember:

1. Everyone lying about GW Bush being the "first Spanish-speaking President" (he spoke no Spanish at all), the first of many lies meant to cover up his manifest incompetence and intellectual incapability

2. Republicans shutting the government down for weeks at a time

3. A maniac, entirely fictitious scandal invented solely to hamper Al Gore's election prospects (the White House phones scandal)

What was different about that day's Republican Party than today's? We knew less about it, was all.

I think if you want to understand racism, you can't understand it as the failure to have certain pieces of knowledge. Racists generally aren't unaware that people experience suffering when they're held down or held back from their appropriate station in life.

What racists generally believe, if you're trying to be maximally charitable to the views of racists (ugh), is that human suffering also comes from pushing people into societal roles that are above their station. The individual so pushed suffers, and society suffers for having "the wrong people" in important roles. For instance, that's the view that held that slavery for Black Americans was good for them.

I think a racist in that strain would play the Detroit game and not be convinced, since the game likely doesn't address that position at all.