Jaytreeman

Voting is the minimum. The reason there’s no decent alternative is because people vote and think they did their part.

If you’re voting for the lesser of two evils and that lesser is actively supporting genocide, but you’re complaining about people that are saying ‘both sides bad’…

‘If you’re curious what you would do to stand up against genocide, you’re doing it now’ - a braver man than me

In Canada there are communities that have been under boil water advisories for years

One of the defining traits of the left is empathy.
One of the defining traits of humanity is empathy.
If you’re not left you’re less than. I said it. I stand by it.

I remember just hating the guy in the first couple episodes too. He’s the least likable protagonist I can think of

Probably.
When Jesse was going through a time Gus offered him time off to take care of himself. When he brought Jesse and Mike through a dangerous mission, he ensured they’d get the proper medical care… His whole reason for being in that business was to destroy a ruthless family.

Gus was likeable and cared for his employees. Gus, along with Jesse, were the heroes of that story.
I’d choose to have a beer with Gus over JP any day of the week

Lukashenko.
Segal has been cozying up pretty hard to the eastern Europe dictators. Like little spoon cozy. A belaspoo if you will

It’s an account with a lot of bad jokes with some gems dropped in.

Thanks. I liked it!

What’s it from. I’m always looking for a good story

Those territories are so small that a dmz might just be the entire area…

Yeah, should have said ‘noticed’ rather than ‘watched’

My entire life I’ve watched girls get breasts at a younger and younger age…

Coercive behavior doesn’t quite work though.
Yours is better than either of the ones posted, but I do think the physical force aspect is important to differentiate from other aspects.

I was going to attempt to make a point about how stopping terrorism that isn’t explicitly violent with violence isn’t the same thing.

Starving a population isn’t violence, but it is terrorism. Attempting to give that population food and being stopped by the state by legal means is terrorism.

The state is going to define things in specific ways to ensure that they’re considered correct.

I had written out a response to the person I replied to and then didn’t post after reading some of their other comments. They’re probably just a troll, or one of those people that’s legitimately kind of smart but hasn’t been around people that are incredibly smart, so hasn’t had a reason to adjust their opinions about things because they might be shallowly correct but are fundamentally wrong. Like Newton’s laws.

Violence is a key word in that definition.

Violence: Behavior or treatment in which physical force is exerted for the purpose of causing damage or injury.

So, starving a group of people isn’t terrorism because you’re not exerting physical force.

Not easily stopping a fire when you know it’s going to spread towards an occupied house isn’t violence because you’re not exerting physical force.

Poisoning drinking water isn’t violence because you’re not exerting physical force.

Real question: what do you call those things? It can’t be defined as terrorism. What is it?

The only thing that makes sense to me after reading your comment is genetics. Chest day and they feel sore, but awesome. Day or two after leg day and walking down stairs is scary.

Because rather than spending some of his money to change things, he spends it to punch people

I like the idea of a Batman story where it’s slowly revealed that he’s the villain. There’d be his most sympathetic villains revealed to be people that are fighting the morally correct fight, while Batman is just fighting to maintain the status quo.
The sequel would have the Joker trying to undermine the public trust in the systems that maintain the status quo

Joe:‘I’ll beat you to death with her leg.’
Steve:‘why are you going to dismember your wife?’

Yep. I want a nice echo chamber. I don’t want to hear stupid opinions about how my loved ones are less than.