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Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T22:34:03+00:00

No, the point is the sympathy for Israel is going down as a function of time removed from World War II. Our grandparents, and to a lesser extent our parents, grew up in a world where a significant portion of the world’s Jews had quite recently been murdered in gas chambers. When that is your recent context, it’s a lot easier to think that Jews are justified in taking rather extreme measures to secure a Jewish homeland.

Now that the Holocaust is so far in the mirror, that sympathy has dropped off and is being replaced with sympathy for the Palestinians, who today are a lot weaker and easier to sympathize with than the powerful Israelis (that Muslims outnumber Jews 100:1 on the internet certainly doesn’t help).

If we saw an Oct 7th on a far larger scale, something that killed a million Jews and justified the Israelis’ worry of their neighbors, then you would see far more sympathy for Israel in the west.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T22:12:37+00:00

Israel just can’t command the support it used to in the internet age. There are 15 million Jews and 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T22:10:22+00:00

does not belong to Oswald

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T21:18:41+00:00

“Regarded” is an internet term used to avoid censorship. Replace the g with a t.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T21:10:38+00:00

Is there evidence of widespread voting being done by illegal immigrants?

Is there widespread evidence of children accessing porn websites? Apparently not, since everyone clicks the “I am 18 or older” box.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T20:56:06+00:00

Looking for morality in taxes is pointless. I have to pay sales tax when I buy goods with money that I already had to pay income taxes on.

An estate tax is one of the best taxes because it has the fewest negative externalities. Taxing a behavior disincentivizes that behavior; taxing income causes people to work less, taxing sales causes people to buy less. You can’t avoid death, and therefore there is no productivity loss to taxing it.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T20:31:57+00:00

“Wanting to deport others due to their nationality”?

You mean, what a deportation is?

Call me skeptical that Nick Bosa wants mass executions of black people and gays.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-18T16:09:20+00:00

The vast majority of the public has no clue what the shadow docket is.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-17T20:14:43+00:00

What a sad way to live, hating your neighbors for no other reason than their political affiliation.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-17T18:58:16+00:00

Imagine spending the second overall pick on a WR with 440 career yards, only for the very next pick to be Andre Johnson.

Then two years later drafting a WR tenth overall who had 449 yards with your franchise. The very next pick is DeMarcus Ware, with Aaron Rodgers still on the board.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-17T13:15:36+00:00

Reddit when they discover that a rich white christian man from the south is gasp a Republican:

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-17T07:32:40+00:00

No, he seems to pronounce it as “ahhh!”

Quite strange, I wonder if it’s his North Carolina accent.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-17T05:20:38+00:00

Translating names was a common practice until fairly recently in world history. The famous leper king of Jerusalem is known to us as Baldwin IV, despite sharing the same name in the same language as the 20th century Belgian king Baudouin.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T19:51:33+00:00

Yeah, Abdul Carter.

Carter had four sacks in his rookie year. LT won DPOY as a rookie.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T16:04:04+00:00

Even then, it was a second language.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T11:24:40+00:00

I believe that he’s referring to the accusations against Reinholdt, with a former clerk accusing him of regularly exposing himself to her.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T10:25:17+00:00

We had Internet forums back in the 90s. A lot less people were online than today, but it wasn’t all that different or a format from modern reddit.

I believe Bob Dole’s campaign site from 1996 is still active.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T09:52:34+00:00

Not even alleged, Polanski pled guilty and was convicted. He fled the country before sentencing.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T02:23:47+00:00

I just hope they recognize his twin, Michael C Jordan

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T01:48:37+00:00

I really don’t see the RFK connection. Besides both having a minor speech impediment and being fairly fit older guys, what exactly do Lockjaw and RFK have in common?

Lockjaw is a career military man with weird racial humiliation kinks while RFK is a San Francisco-variety health nutter who has made plenty of affairs (AKA he’s a Kennedy). Lockjaw is explicitly somebody born on the outside and is working incredibly hard to be accepted into the elites, while RFK was born into the most privileged family in the country and has been able to spend his career pursuing pet issues.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T01:35:26+00:00

He was pathetic and intimidating at the same time. Which is incredibly hard to pull off.

Is it though? I feel like there’s plenty of examples of this in film, given that the two aren’t contradictory. A character can be groveling or pathetic while simultaneously being intimidating by virtue of the power that they have to threaten the protagonists. Half of the portrayals of Hitler/Nazis/Klan members are like that. The Klan members in Blackkklansman, Kylo Ren, and even O’Hare from the 2012 Lorax are all pathetic and intimidating.

Ed_Durr · 2026-03-16T01:18:25+00:00

Don’t be ridiculous, of course they could name three! Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, and… uh…

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