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>But if you get caught stealing bread, and your response is "My life's screwed", you couldn't afford the risk either. >If you are in the unfortunate position of not being able to a…

>That crowd only seems to care if they can actively oppose Israel or the current administration Can you think of any motivating reasons for the crowd to focus on Israel specificall…

That's because most left wing Americans don't support the Iranian regime. People that ask "where are all the students on campus that were protesting Gaza" do so because taking acti…

We (the US) just bombed Iran last summer. We are moving the largest buildup in decades of armament and materiel to Iran's doorstep RIGHT NOW, and it seems extremely likely we are a…

>We accept the risks with humans because those humans accept risk. It seems very strange to defend a system that is drastically less safe because when an accident happens, at least…

It's hard to imagine how any driver could have reacted better in this situation. The argument that questions "would a human be driving 17mph in a school zone" feels absurd to the p…

>Well you could rally in support of more action, or protest outside an Iranian embassy for example You're describing methods of protest, but not demands. What specific action do yo…

It's a fair point to say that the counterfactual is hard to draw up. I will point out the main reason it's hard to come up with, is the fact that American aid, weapons sales, and d…

Do you sincerely believe that financial sponsorship is the primary impetus causing Americans to voice dissatisfaction in US support for Israel? That is a fascinating perspective.

I appreciate your understanding here. Another way to put it: the point of protesting generally isn't solely to express being upset with an injustice. It's to get some actor/stakeho…

I don’t know if you are American, but I am. Sure, I don’t support Iran giving Hamas weapons. The issue is that Iran isn’t my government and they certainly don’t give a fuck about m…

“it's a fair criticism though because of the general vitriol about Hamas and Gaza.” Ok, you’ve convinced me. I now firmly support reducing billions in American aid to Iran, curtail…

Do you understand what happened in the opioid crisis, and why people are mad at the Sacklers? They weren’t hapless naive actors that didn’t fully understand “the implications” of t…

I don’t care a nit about Sanbergs personal life either, but I certainly DO care that she can apparently silence news stories from phone calls. I feel like the content of the story …

So what? George W. Bush's approval rate was even higher after 9/11, is each American personally responsible for his legacy? 10% of the Chinese populace is still over a hundred mill…

You're missing the point. 70% of Americans voted for the president in the last U.S. election. Regardless of whether or not my candidate won out, I don't view criticism of my govern…

This is the thing. I'm not claiming to have an "ideal" version of China, or claiming that I have an understanding of what all Chinese people "really want". It's a country with over…

You absolutely can separate the two, and it has nothing to do with colonialism. The reason you can is because in a society where freedom of expression is curtailed, there is (and a…

I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is …

Strangely enough, my introduction to this brilliant poem came from Dennis Hopper’s coke fueled rendition of an excerpt in Apocalypse Now. I wonder why Coppola chose If.

Don’t you see that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind? Hey you know what, at least we can both criticize the West’s atrocities and not fear being disappeared by an autho…

Yeah bro, there were kings and feudal lords and chieftains and emperors (like Rome) all over the rest of the world for thousands of years too. To say that the Chinese are incapable…

To clarify, do you live in a city? Respectfully: you bought your house — not the neighborhood around your house, and everything in it. It's true that it's OK to have mixed densitie…

To comment on psychedelics in such a way betrays your lack of knowledge about how they work both chemically and practically.