Honestly it would be an open and shut case here in the US.

My neighbor throws grenades into my window, me running into their house with my friends and shooting everyone there who looks like they might have had a grenade is not self-defense…

So about as useful as us here as far as getting anything to actually happen :(

Speaking out against Isreal is antisemitic…

But also: ThErE aRe ArAbS iN IsRaEl So ThEy ArEnT rACiSt!

Ok… So if Isreal isn’t entirely a Jewish state then being critical of Isreal is NOT equal to being critical of Jews right? Right?

Oh of course it is! Logic doesn’t apply here!

I hate this world…

So why does this only show Republican states as actually banning it? Yeah I’m with you on Democrats slow walking this issue, but Republicans are actively banning it. Until that changes we’re stuck with only those two options. Corpo Dems or corpo-fascist Republicans…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

We’re in such a wonderful position: Kamala does nothing about Israel like she’s paid to do and Palestinians die.

Trump wins and not only does nothing about Palestine, but encourages Bibi to go harder, more Palestinians die annnnd we get to enjoy the beginning of a fascist dictatorship!

Notice how Stein isn’t even mentioned in the above? You can claim it’s about putting pressure on Kamala all you like, but this is the literal election. When she loses because of this “pressure” (that isn’t pressure, it’s literally not voting for her at all) what’s the outcome? It sure as hell has nothing to do with Stein being anywhere.

We’ve been having this argument about the green party for fucking decades and what progress/policies have they “forced” the Democrats to adopt?

I think aside from the obvious genocide, what really fucking pisses me off about Democrats and this topic is that “we” can sooooo easily say “handguns for self defense ok! Shotguns for self defense ok! Rifles for self defense ok (depends on magazine size and rate of fire) bombs? No! Tanks? God no!” But when it comes to Isreal they suddenly completely lose the capacity for nuance… Bombs = self defense? Are you fucking joking?

How so? The color trope of “guy in black is the bad guy?”

YoU sHoUlDn’T LiVe AlOnE tHeN! GeT FiFtY rOoMmAtEs AnD sToP bLaMiNg ThE pEoPlE rEsPoNsIbLe FoR tHiS sHiT!

Just want to back this one up: as someone rapidly approaching 40 who never loved himself, if anything absolutely loathes himself, repeating to yourself how absolutely horrible of a failure you are and how completely and utterly undeserving of anyone’s love you are daily will cement itself in your head as absolute fact.

I can no longer actually comprehend that I can do anything well. I’m either a complete failure, or if I did it literally anyone with 2 braincells can. I actually do not believe anyone who says otherwise, it has become an objective truth in my brain backed up by decades of “evidence.”

My asshole body: yeah I know you peed before bed but it’s 2 hours before you need to be awake so you need to pee now. Oh the time you went to bed changed and the time you need to be up changed? Doesn’t matter, 2 hours before you need to be up I’ll wake you up to pee. Good luck getting back to sleep!

Banksssss! Rob banks! Then use that money to buy snacks forever!

That’s almost exactly why our brainwashing elementary schooling is spent indoctrinating teaching us about how we’re The Best, Most Free, Country In The World™©® and that all “3rd world” countries are war torn shitholes with nothing but cartels and warlords.

Can’t let the peons learn it’s actually much better elsewhere…

5 weeks is… pretty minimal

15 days is the limit at my job that you only get after 7 years working here. Seeing comments like this make me sad… Happy for you for sure, but sad for me cuz Murica’…

I only just this month “unlocked” my final week PTO after 7 years… 15 days PTO is the limit at my job :/

I would think that would be “too much” because all the potatoes don’t matter at that point, it’s one entity. There are no more individual potatoes, we are Borg mashed potatoes!

One of only a handful of actually accurate answers here. 10 years isn’t that long to be honest. Just look back 10 years and see how similar it all is.

It became really difficult after billionaires bought up much of the smaller/stagnant media companies and turned them into “cut research and investigation departments, copy the NYT, and push entertainment opinion articles”

My rule of thumb unfortunately has become: is it a large corporation? Then it can go fuck itself. As others have said AP is good too

Literally what I’m doing now lol partially to save money, but also because I learned how to make too many delicious bready/fried things… Sometimes even fried bready things…

Mmmm fried pizza… (Not kidding lol)

I’m Foedus Galber Humilis the Imbecillis, first of his name!

(and hopefully last.)

I managed to “preheat” my oven for 2 1/2 hours… That’s kind of interesting.

“Ah yes the ribs should be done by now!” quickly turned into “why do I have decayed dog shit where my brain should be?”

So I guess a close second interesting thing I accomplished is surviving not having a functioning brain lol