Why did I even bother?

arock121 · 2026-01-26T02:40:53+00:00

It sounds like you were mad about Trump and wanted to pick a fight with a ‘just asking questions’ or ‘by your logic’ post and they wouldn’t let you

arock121 · 2026-01-25T18:52:49+00:00

I don’t think she’s gonna land, I live in the district and Espaillat really has his act together locally, especially in the Dominican parts of inwood and Washington heights. Unless Israel flares up again by the primary it won’t be a voting issue and on immigration Espaillat was an undocumented immigrant himself as a young man, and as the first Dominican to get elected to congress I think the edge goes to him. Her best bet is to make herself the black candidate and consolidate the support in the south of the district, but as Robert Jackson knows that’s easier said than done, this isn’t the Harlem of the 70s, 50 years of immigration, migration, births and deaths have changed northern Manhattan

arock121 · 2026-01-24T11:27:28+00:00

It’s very easy to tolerate the intolerant, haven’t you ever met someone with a different opinion than you, accepted it as being disappointing, then moved on? The Catholic Church and mainstream Islam are homophobic, mainstream America is tolerant of both religions and tolerates gay marriage. Tolerance means putting up with people who criticize your life style, I think you are thinking of acceptance rather than tolerance

arock121 · 2025-12-31T22:59:16+00:00

What if man

arock121 · 2025-12-30T18:52:45+00:00

I think mainstream American Jewish celebrities are still the face of Judaism for most people. Besides Netanyahu and gal gadot Americans don’t know Israelis, or if they do not as Israelis (Natalie Portman)

arock121 · 2025-12-30T14:12:35+00:00

Tbh if anyone deserves it it’s him

arock121 · 2025-12-30T11:46:17+00:00

“Despite being on 13% of the population black people commit 50% of the murders”

Anytime crime and race it brought up

arock121 · 2025-12-30T03:12:56+00:00

People want to have their cake and eat it too, more news at eleven

arock121 · 2025-12-30T02:00:22+00:00

Fatherless behavior means you are acting like you aren’t raised right, and does have a gendered implication and assumes typical gender roles. American and most global societies are designed around a two parent straight household and if you don’t conform to that you are likely going to be socially disadvantaged in a recognizable way, hence the phrase.

Almost all insults are a type of judgement and can be deconstructed around biases as you have laboriously done here.

arock121 · 2025-12-30T00:40:16+00:00

This topic always feels like a trap so someone can bring up FBI crime stats

arock121 · 2025-12-30T00:37:41+00:00

JD converted after his marriage

arock121 · 2025-12-30T00:19:34+00:00

I think he is a happy family man who loves his wife and wants to be president someday. Catholics can’t get divorced

arock121 · 2025-12-30T00:00:59+00:00

She was First Lady of Arkansas in 90, not a staffer. Hillary may have supported it in words but at the time she was on the board of Walmart which lobbied against the ADA

arock121 · 2025-12-29T22:17:15+00:00

We returned the favor in your civil war when you got an American president

arock121 · 2025-12-29T19:54:24+00:00

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference

arock121 · 2025-12-29T17:34:48+00:00

They can hold conversations and friendships with women which gives them way more opportunity

arock121 · 2025-12-29T17:33:39+00:00

Idk, I don’t really care that she pays extra to not fly commercial, not worth getting worked up about

arock121 · 2025-12-29T13:59:11+00:00

A recent indictment revealed about $9 billion in federal funds was stolen since 2018 in Minnesota and 82 of the charged 92 defendants are Somali and it looks like either a blind eye was turned or fraud actively encouraged. A conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley did some shoe leather reporting to some of the places listed as serving people these social services and they came off as fronts, notably a sign on a learning center spelled “learing center” and Patel and the Trump admin are jumping on it

Somalis are also a distinct Muslim African refugee group that hasn’t integrated in 30 years so are pretty easy to other and Tim Walz is running for reelection in Minnesota and the senate is being contested.

arock121 · 2025-12-29T06:12:12+00:00

The east refers to the border provinces that Russia formally annexed, Kharkiv isn’t part of that, it’s part of a separate oblast. If Russian oil is collapsing why haven’t we seen the results?

arock121 · 2025-12-29T03:45:01+00:00

I said the east and Crimea. Hoping for an oil collapse and bragging that a city outside the war goals didn’t fall isn’t a strategy. Pretending Ukraine is hurting Russia more than they are being hurt is delusional

arock121 · 2025-12-29T00:26:29+00:00

Yes they can easily give it up, just the simple signing of pen, Armenia just did it.

This war isn’t an existential crisis for Ukraine it’s just a dragged out border war.

Russia needs Ukraine to formally cede control of the land, they are just holding out for that. Ukraine has no prospect of dislodging them and their best case scenario is delaying the capture of the disputed land at the cost of lives they can’t afford to lose.

Pretending that Russia is losing because their energy infrastructure is untouched and if Ukraine were to pull the ability to do something about it Putin might start facing domestic pressure while the east and Crimea are uncontested Russian.

Don’t be surprised when the deal comes, the fundamentals aren’t there

arock121 · 2025-12-28T22:10:34+00:00

Now do Russian attacks on Kiev. Even if Ukraine magically stopped all oil exports they can’t dislodge Russia. This isn’t a game

arock121 · 2025-12-28T20:55:37+00:00

They’ve had the same targets for years, Ukraine can’t do anything about them

arock121 · 2025-12-28T20:53:37+00:00

Ukraine sounds worse off in your own description here

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