They have literally zero reason to make any effort at diplomacy. The rest of the would will gladly trade with them. If your business is full of happy customers why would you need to worry about a bratty Veruca Salt making demands?

They want to be crackers. They'll let someone else own the plantation, but they need an underclass to whip and abuse.

I guess this is a dumb request, but since everyone else is airing their grievances I'd like to profess mine. Way back during the rail worker strike I had a couple comments deleted for being reactionary by the mod team. I thought that was unfair and would like those comments undeleted or any strike against me removed or whatever. I expressed my experiences as a tradesmen in a union and my assessment that workers in the West can sometimes consider themselves labor aristocrats. I know it's the stupidest little thing, but yeah mods and admins can be morons sometimes.

I want to go to a cool bar that's apparently having an election party.

I'm expecting WI, AZ and GA to rig their elections to give Trump the W regardless. Really don't think it matters how any of us vote and most of us here understand that we're a deeply undemocratic nation.

He sent Abdul a picture of his house.

I've had this discussion multiple times in my twenties with older boomers about young conservatives. Like yeah the older generations have nice homes, businesses, or better salaries and are generally gonna vote for the GOP. Young men on the other hand have none of that capital and really only vote GOP because they're wretched little monsters who make lists of people they hate.

The first thing that crossed my mind when I read this story. Lady, your daughter is suggesting that a very cool thing happen to your partner.

Would be hilarious to see CNN and MSNBC do everything they can to promote Dean Phillips as the younger Biden.

Americans were never really anti-nazi, there are photos of marches in support of Germany before Pearl Harbor. Even worse, we still live amongst millions of people sympathetic to fascist movements. Why would fascists cancel Kanye?

As I've gotten older I've seen so many shitty people do wretched stuff and get away with it. It really makes me seethe at the obnoxious atheist crowd. If the afterlife is just some end of consciousness like a TV powering off I'll be pissed. I hope there is a hell and that these folks are burning for eternity; just a white hot searing pain unimaginable to humanity.

Just had this discussion around a campfire in the Adirondacks. Nearly everyone agreed Wolves and Mountain Lions are in upstate NY except for the one person who said, "Well the DEC hasn't said so, therefore they're actually Coyotes and Bobcats".