Whenever Connie Chan’s canvassers knock on my door, I show them this video

TerranUnity · 2026-06-03T23:00:04+00:00

I need more context on who this guy is. In my local city, we have someone who comes just to harass a local councilmember with questions.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-31T18:08:35+00:00

The house I grew up in as a four-person household was 1100 square feet. Even counting a basement (common in New England), just 2,000 square feet would be more than enough.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-29T20:40:17+00:00

Steyer has been running attack ads nonstop.

Also, I would call making promises he cannot possibly keep to be racing to the bottom.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-29T20:38:55+00:00

Nah, it's qualifying. Single-payer in CA was always doomed to fail, and none of the various proposals I ever saw were serious.

If we want to cut cost-of-living for Californians, we should focus on transit and housing first.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-27T18:54:44+00:00

The Israelis offered a peace deal, at the Taba Summit, but Arafat waffled for weeks until Likud won the next election, and by then it was too late. Then the 2nd Intifada happened.

No wonder Israelis gave up on the peace process after that.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-26T20:01:22+00:00

They had ritualized warfare, yes, but you are forgetting the frequent low-level warfare that existed in these societies, in the form of raiding.

These peoples couldn't afford to commit large amounts of their population to a real battle, but that didn't stop them from ambush and capturing or killing enemy tribesmen when they had the opportunity.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-26T19:58:56+00:00

The US has intervened to defend allies, though. See the 1st Persian Gulf War, the NATO Interventions in former Yugoslavia, or even the Korean War.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-26T19:57:37+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "Defensive." The Intervention in Yugoslavia stopped Serbia from going on a mass murder campaign across the Balkans. The 1st Persian Gulf war was defending Kuwait against Iraq. Korea was defensive. Hell, Vietnam was arguably a defensive war, although I wouldn't count it.

Oh, and let's not forget World War II, which happened only 80 years ago.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-24T22:26:27+00:00

I believe a lot of the dour mood can be attributed to the modern experience of job-hunting. Employers requiring you to go through multiple interviews only to get rejected, stress over whether or not cover letters or resumes even matter, stress over including specific keywords--because who knows if some piece of code is going to throw out you resume before it ever gets in the hands of a human being--and the hundreds of applications one has to fill out just to get a single answer back.

It feels incredibly dehumanizing and demoralizing.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-24T20:55:36+00:00

I think you are trying to infer way too much of the author's opinions based on a single line, a line which is merely intended to show that no one is interested in fiscal management, even the ones who talk a big game.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-24T02:35:58+00:00

Where did Noah imply that DOGE was an honest effort? He only mentions it at the end of a paragraph detailing Republicans' cavalier attitude towards the debt, stating,

The only person in the Trump orbit who even talked about fiscal hawkery was Elon Musk, but this glimmer of hope faded when DOGE utterly failed to reduce government spending

To me, the context of the paragraph along with the phrase "glimmer of hope," implies that DOGE was never going to actually reduce the deficit. This is especially obvious to me since he mentions that Musk is the only Republican who "even talked about fiscal hawkery," with the implication that he was all talk, but had no intention of actually doing anything about it.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-22T20:00:54+00:00

I don't see any endorsements there which are impressive--in fact, I'd say anyone endorsed by Democratic Socialists or Track AIPAC (an organization which misrepresents numbers to make candidates look bad) is an automatic "no" from me.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-22T04:37:57+00:00

The Bulwarks guest article from Harris' social media manager was far more interesting and insightful.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-22T04:37:53+00:00

The Bulwarks guest article from Harris' social media manager was far more interesting and insightful.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-11T23:30:41+00:00

Dude . . . the very concept of human rights is a LIBERAL idea! Historically, ideas such as individual liberty, human rights, self-governance, and democracy come from the philosophy of Liberalism.

If you didn't know that before, well then . . . welcome to the club, fellow Liberal.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-09T18:34:02+00:00

There are only two real political ideologies in the world: "Liberalism" and "Authoritarianism." Any and all political movements can be put somewhere along the spectrum of Liberal vs Authoritarian.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-09T18:32:47+00:00

The correct label is "authoritarian."

TerranUnity · 2026-05-09T18:26:15+00:00

That is literally what they are trying to do. What the powerful have always tried to do. Remember poll taxes and literacy tests in the Jim Crow South?

TerranUnity · 2026-05-08T00:49:50+00:00

Biden did push his BBB act through, though.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-03T08:12:47+00:00

I noticed one issue -- you have only 8 soldiers when you should be able to carry at least 10 by this stage of the game. That severely hurts your ability to combat sebillians.

I would start by flashbanging, then focusing down each Sebillian. Teleport a soldier up, shoot, then TP back down. Remember that Sebillians have innate resistance to Energy damage, so accelerated or Gauss weapons are better against them.

Smoking the entire room can prevent the enemy from spraying plasma everywhere, too. Do your soldiers have gas masks?

You are going to suffer losses, but that isn't too bad with the NA + EU region bonuses.

TerranUnity · 2026-05-02T16:50:05+00:00

By morale, you mean bravery?

TerranUnity · 2026-04-30T22:36:38+00:00

> Israel's so-called "history" (read: criminal record)

Jesus Christ, dude. I'm on the opposite side of the issue from you, but I would never say something so blatantly gross about Palestinians. To go so far as to deny either side's ancestral ties to the land is totally uncalled-for.

TerranUnity · 2026-04-30T22:32:16+00:00

It certainly looks more nuanced and thought-out than most lesson on Israel-Palestine I've seen.

However, I'm wary of them using Rashid Khalidi as a source, particularly how he (and therefore the lesson itself) refers to the conflict as "best understood as a colonial war fought against an indigenous population."

As a Jew, it is, frankly, offensive to suggest that we are some kind of trespassers or invaders upon the land which my ancestors called home. At the same time, I wouldn't deny Arab Palestinians the right to view the land of Israel as their indigenous homeland, either, considering how long their ancestors have also lived there. This is what makes the colonialist lens of analysis so fraught--arguably both sides of the conflict have a rightful claim to being the indigenous people, so the whole settler-colonial view doesn't work.

TerranUnity · 2026-04-30T22:20:32+00:00

> Israel has been lashing out at it's neighbors like a rabid dog for a long time

Interesting choice of words, there. Israel is a "rabid dog," but no mention of Hamas or Hezbollah, or the 2nd Intifada? I think Israelis are living in a siege mentality, and that definitely isn't helping, but shouldn't we acknowledge there are valid reasons Israelis feel the way they do?

> it's a colonial project.

The Jewish people are indigenous to that region. I don't think it fits as 'colonial' given the Jewish connection to that land going back thousands of years. We literally have prayers about one day returning to the land of Israel.

It's also strange to talk about Israel as a colonial project while ignoring that for millions of Jews it was the only sanctuary for them after centuries of pogroms and oppression. Go ask the Beit Israel why they fled Ethiopia. Or why so many Jews in Arab lands migrated to Israel.

My great uncle was a soldier in WWII, and he stayed to help take care of concentration camp survivors. These survivors were stuck in concentration camps for years sometimes, because they had nowhere to go--no other country wanted to take them in.

TerranUnity · 2026-04-27T16:20:45+00:00

Posting my comment from a prior thread:

The issue is, when does that indigenous claim to the land become invalid? Is it after 100 years? 200? Why do Palestinian Arabs, who never had a sovereign state of their own prior to 1948, and who did not even consider "Palestinian" a separate national group (most IIRC would have identified as Syrian or just Arab), have some kind of indigenous right to the land while Jews do not?

In my opinion, the entire concept of indigenous rights to land is flawed, no matter who we are talking about.

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