StJohnMcCrae

Depends how you phrase the question. If you ask people "do you think the nation of Israel has a right to exist" (are you a Zionist) it probably would be closer to 60%.

Plenty of "Zionists" (in the non-slur sense) are sympathetic to both parties. It's just that internet discourse on the subject has become so radicalized and binary that it gets lost in the conversation.

Written English should widely adopt accented letters. Our spelling would make a lot more sense if words were written the way they actually sounded. Half the words I'm talking about are rooted in Old Norse anyway.

Just more evidence that trump doesn't understand his own plan and doesn't have what it takes to effect it. His desire to have foreign dignitaries come and kiss the ring outweighs his political conviction that tariffs are the correct way forward.

The only possible way that tariffs work is if investors are confident that the trade barriers will stay in place - not just for the 4 years of this administration, but for the time that you would need to generate a return-on-investment from the factory that they're being incentivized to re-shore in the USA.

By signaling that the tariffs are open to negotiation, he disincentivized those investors from investing in American manufacturing when overseas manufacturing could become re-advantaged depending on the mood and disposition of a tyrant.

For example, nobody is going to build and staff an entire textile mill in Arkansas if it's cheaper (both long and short term) to just buy the product from overseas.

Even if tariffs were sound economic policy (they are not), they require a steady and predictable hand at the wheel to give confidence to the market, which is something that this president (and country seemingly) is incapable of.

If my city had maintained (or possibly even upgraded?!) the electric streetcar system we had in place over 100 years ago, there would be around 1 million less cars on the road today, and another couple million less going through the scrap yards.

Anyone who's ever taken Trimet: Look at this map and see what was stolen from you.

I know it's not trendy to say, but I'm gonna say it anyway: Bill Clinton is a bad person, but he was a good president.

Try not defending Stalin?

"I dont believe AI will ever be more than essentially a parlar trick that fools you into thinking it's intelligent."

So in other words, it will achieve human-level intellect.

I will never, ever, apologize for liking Billy Strings, Michael Cleveland, or Doc Watson.

Ok. Godspeed 🫡

You're tripping dawg. Your argument is weak, which is why you're trying so hard to twist people's words into something they're not.

Culture is a set of norms, attitudes and behaviors. It's not racist to predict behavior based on whether said people self-identity themselves as members of those cultures. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, so stop intentionally misinterpreting what people are saying. What you're doing at this point is trolling, and you know it.

Race/ethnicity is an immutable physical characteristic. Culture is a set of norms and attitudes that people choose to (or not) adhere to. Nobody would fly off the handle if you said new yorkers are stand-offish. It's generally true - even if it doesn't necessarily apply to the whole.

"Judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Basically all names have meaning if you trace the etymological roots back far enough - even American's. In most cases, those meanings are just unknown to the people passing them down.