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It probably depends on what is meant by malice. I believe the broad-strokes accusation is that Israel did everything it could to delegitimize and cripple peaceful opposition, even unto the point of aiding violent opposition. So (if you grant the accusation) malice is involved, but not...

"We won't agree to a ceasefire now that you've attacked our soldiers!" Was there supposed to be a ceasefire in place during the negotiations for a ceasefire? Did Israel kill no Hamas during these negotiations?

Untouched by social upheaval, protected from confrontation or violence by their courtiers ... doesn't seem like it fits the guy being manhandled by some janitor before being cuffed none too gently by the police. But I don't want it to seem like I'm defending this guy; it's just that I always...

If this guy has a 20 year criminal record of being involved in violent protests, I question the NY Post's definition of "limousine liberal".

Disproportionate membership and influence in the halls of power? Sure, I'm convinced of that. Disproportionate to the point that it amounts to a controlling interest? That's a horse of another color. (And even that is a generous interpretation of what mrttao said.) Part of the success of AIPAC...

... what?

You don't seem to be considering that the current level of pushback isn't the maximum level. For example, the new proposed sale of F-35s has yet to be canceled, whereas if Israel openly admitted to following a mass starvation strategy they'd be dust in the wind and the conversation would be...

As a spectator after the fact, I could tell from early on that you'd misread him to include Muslims in those who would potentially be killed as idolaters when he had clearly excluded them. When you play that kind of rhetorical game you gotta make sure your details are right. Otherwise you spend...

While Hamas committed atrocities with relish on that day, many of the most outrageous ones have been shown to be fabrications by Israeli propagandists, including the forty beheaded babies, babies in ovens, babies purposely cut out of mothers, and the NYT story (says the video).

Imagine if being a Nazi was as popular as being a tankie. Fat chance of that, to be honest. The horror of nuclear weapons was cultivated over time, and also MacArthur would probably have gotten his way if the consequence of abstention was "lose all of Europe" and not "stalemate in East Asia"

At least it wasn't naquadah.

This isn't about how much of our manufacturing is local vs. outsourced; it isn't even about issues with directly shipping stuff to or from the US. It's about how them fucking with random ships transiting the Red Sea drives up the costs for everyone participating in global trade. The US loves to...

I think it would be very possible to cover up the state of the bodies if their state irrefutably proves something the US doesn't want known. I think that would be less effort than the effort wasted on (hypothetically) 9 or 10 days of unnecessary SAR. In other words, that piece of evidence...

My bet is this translates to "we're going to bomb them like we're Clinton and they're the Balkans"

True but maybe he calls them atomic weapons, 1950s style.

Yeah but it's the difference between being a coward and being an idiot.

No matter how good the super-rich get at evading taxes, they can't beat the flat exemption of LOL NOPE that I expect to get. I do dislike that the billionaire class might pay less than the upper class, but that doesn't help your chest-beating about "a poor family" being destroyed by estate...

Please, do educate me. If those facts are wrong I might change my mind about the estate tax. While you're at it, please tell me about the estate you're imagining that you'd lose "most" of to the estate taxes (or estate and inheritance taxes).

You do know that the estate taxes are all progressive, right? The federal one doesn't kick in on estates smaller than about $14 million. And this is the tax that's supposed to be kicking struggling poor folks in the nuts? Talk about shit takes. To lose more than half, you'd have to have lived in...

If one accepts that taxes must be collected, then replacing one tax with a different tax should be revenue neutral. Changing the rate of the tax is (or should be) a different issue from changing the form of the tax. If you want to facilitate legal tax dodging that would mean significant tax...