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  • This isn’t difficult to grasp. Israel has the right to go to war against its enemies, and children die in war.

    Really? Does every country have this “right”? Or just Israel? Cause it sounds to me like you granted all of Israel’s enemies the right to go to war against Israel.

    But the responsibility for those deaths lies with the people who started the war - especially since they started it knowing full well that large numbers of Palestinians would die in the process. They want those deaths.

    The responsibility of the consequences of a bullet being fired or a bomb being dropped rests with the person who pulls the trigger. This is true even when those actions are justified. Israel still has agency, and therefore moral responsibility. Nothing you said even brings to refute this.

    Honestly, you’re just incredibly naive about this. It’s frightening that so many people are so blinded by their hate that they have come to see barbaric terrorists and radical Islamists as the good guys.

    I have not said or implied this. You’re setting up a strawman because you have no real argument.

    Your moral compass is just so messed up.

    Says the guy trying so hard to justify the murder of children lol. Just a few thousand more bruh, that’ll make Israel safe.

    Oh, and don’t lecture me on what Zionism is. It’s our movement. We defined it.

    Your movement is defined not by your words by the actions taken in its name. The moral bankruptcy of those actions speaks for itself .


  • You:

    The inflation calculators you use are wrong

    Also you:

    Except that I’m not focusing on “inflation.”

    Look at the 1960 figures. That meant that a high school graduate with no particular skills could live a pretty good life and support a family working 40 hours a week. Today it’s common to require two incomes to keep a family going.

    Cool, but it’s helpful to state your premises up front. That situation was viable well into the 70s, after which Reagan-era policies completely decoupled real income from productivity, and started to fall apart. By the mid 90s it was all but gone.




  • It’s dated, and ancient compared to the shit we spew, but it soo pure and clear (when you get the ear for it).

    I am not a scholar, I can’t analyse prose or poetry, but his writing is cleansing and lights up the brain - especially if you have a fetish for reasonableness.

    I know exactly what you mean and I’ve never quite had the words to describe this type of writing. It’s definitely old fashioned to our eyes, but it’s so dense with meaning. I felt the same reading some of the landmark SCOTUS decisions of the Warren court during the civil rights era.



  • So, you believe everything the government tells you?

    Lazy argument is lazy. If you have an issue with how inflation is calculated, why are you keeping us in the dark? Tell us what it is.

    The statistic I like to cite [because it’s pretty simple to remember] is that the minimum wage in 1960 was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average home was $11,000.00

    The reason this doesn’t constitute inflation is that most people don’t work for minimum wage, and they buy more than just homes. So trying to work out inflation (the relative value of money over time) requires a slightly broader lens.