I agree with this take completely. The parent comment just seemed to encourage senseless retribution without nuance, which is what I tried to voice my opposition to.

Is it? I’m not saying it’s likely, but for the sake of argument let’s say Netanyahu is voted out and a new Israeli government takes power that says, “We are tired of endless violence. We will remove all settlements, checkpoints, etc, and respect a two state solution with Palestinian sovereignty over the agreed upon Palestinian land.” Would that not be the goal, the ideal? Or would you throw that away by trying to get back at Netanyahu and all the horrible people who have committed these crimes. Maybe I’m naïve, but you can’t say that at least the aspiration should be peace. Whether that’s possible without something happening to the perpetrators of violence is another question, but the retribution shouldn’t be the end goal and aspiration, peace should be.

There can be no sustainable peace with constant retribution, I think that’s the core thing going through this conflict this last century. For example, Israel wanted “justice” for the October 7th attacks. Did that lead to a better outcome for humanity and people living in the area? No, only more war and suffering. More war, bloodshed, and retribution is not the answer, we need to break the cycle of violence.

No, let us hope peace comes to the region and the endless cycle of bloodshed ends. That may include justice for the people responsible, but our main aspiration should be peace and prosperity, not retribution.

Is it okay to bomb economic infrastructure of a sovereign nation because it doesn’t treat its women with respect? Because that’s a little ironic coming from an American.

Ok, there are two apartheid genocidal regimes, but what else have the Romans ever done for us?

She’s the person who managed to be so racist that MTG called her out publically for it, which is honestly quite impressive.

Well, 9.1% less money, but yes ;)

Unless you’re German or several hundred years old, no, nouns are not capitalized. If you wanna use grammar as part of a political debate, which doesn’t make a lot of sense to begin with, at least make sure to know what you’re talking about.

In an unchecked anarcho-capitalist market, the economically disadvantaged are even more fucked. No social safety nets, no regulation on companies price fixing, monopolizing, etc. So using taxes as some scary Boogeyman just doesn’t make any sense. A strong welfare state is so much better for the little guy.

Good on her for turning out to be what seems like a very reasonable human being, must be hard coming from someone like him, but I presume he had no part in raising her so maybe it makes sense.

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Thanks, I’ll give it a try

How did you get an invite key? I would love to get one to try it out.

Well no, it’s the opposite. It’s constantly getting ahead until it’s eventually back where it started.

Definitely, my hope is that if that doesn’t happen this time, the momentum will carry forward to the next election as well and the electorate will see that the Dems can actually make life better for people. But it’s a dream, I know that.

Yes, that’s why it needs to be a landslide, we need enough political power to actually enact change.

I really hope this is gonna be a landslide election and it’s possible for the Dems to take a page out of Waltz’ book and pass a whole bunch of meaningful legislation, which will help carry on support for the Dems next election as well. But oh well, I might be too optimistic.

Foot-pound is not a unit of pressure, ignoring the fact that it’s a stupid non-metric unit.

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