See, this is the shit. Who are the occupiers? Palestine is a remnant of the Ottoman empire. Before that it was the Byzantines or the Romans and just about every other empire in the area in human history. Before Rome , it was the Jews. Then they lost the war and were banished from the region and scattered. It’s the major reason there is NO one right answer. People going to a concert don’t deserve to be brutally raped and murdered JUST as much as people trying to survive in an open air prison don’t deserve to be indiscriminately bombed. That shit has been a dumpster fire for 3000 years, now all in the pursuit of power and clout. We can give a damn about people not in power, AKA the civilians on both sides.

No, it likely has more to do with an assassination attempt on US soil.

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Yeah, but he did maintain a positive outlook all the way through.

Unfortunately, this isn’t true anymore. At least in PA.

34 Pa. Code 231.114. Service charges.

§ 231.114 b

The notice required by subsection (a) must state that the administrative charge is for administration of the banquet, special function or package deal and does not include a tip to be distributed to the employees who provided service to the guests.

https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/034/chapter231/s231.114.html&d=reduce

Yeah, I worked at an Irish bar for a while and we had a couple guys from Donegal that would go in on drunk college kids about it. Really the only anecdotes I have on the situation, though.

Now people unironically ask Irish bartenders for car bombs and don’t see the issue.

I don’t know if it’s explicit support, but I DO remember a few years ago when both the DNC and RNC were compromised and the only kompromat released was against dems

Often, but not daily. Maybe not even weekly. Certainly monthly and it’s because THEY FUCKED UP THE CALENDAR. SEPT IS 7 NOT 9 ALL THE WAY UP TO DEC YOU BASTARDS. Seriously though, fuck Julius and Augustus.

Voltaire would roll in his grave over those gymnastics. They both want to take your rights? Man a statement that loaded absolutely deserves explanation. But you say “continue to vote against them” so it’s plain to see that you’ve never been much of an agent of change, just whining so I’ll let this pass.

It’s absolutely yours. I think you’re just frustrated that the people around you won’t let you play pretend. If you’re vote actively harms the views you claim to stand for, your views are flimsy and people see right through you.

Just so everyone is aware, the FBI has an anonymous tip line…

Just a thought here. Matt Damon is 5’10", not 5’2" so of course every Jewish dick is small if you’re automatically knocking 8 inches off of your measurements.

He is, but also because of age. Judges and juries are very lenient on the elderly when it comes to sentencing due to prison survivability. That said, a deal is guaranteed and leniency isn’t, especially when we’re likely talking about white collar prison

That’s a great argument for how out of touch the indicators they use are. Does it mean that we’re in a better position geopolitically? Almost definitely. Did these indicators at one point mean good things for the working class? Probably. But now, they feel more like gaslighting that temperature taking.

Our day will come

Maybe. The upvotes outweighed them, though. There’s also a chance it comes from the punk community. And I’m betting they’re more likely to be here than Nazis at this point.

There’s a big thing right now that has that community on the defensive trying to erase the connotation between punks and Nazis. I’m sympathetic to the community, actually. You can’t control who tries to co-opt your aesthetic so there was a movement in the 80s and 90s aptly named “Nazi punks fuck off”. About a month ago, a few videos went viral calling out the fact that they still had swastika patches even if there was a cross over top of them. From my perspective it was a misinformed, but well meaning argument and it’s had much of the community on edge, since.

It’s a story with a good message

A guy was sitting at a bar one night. One of those dive bars where you make love to your booze and shut up. A guy in some punk clothes walks in and sits down, before he gets to say a word the bartender turns to him and says “No. Get out.” The punk argues that he isn’t doing anything, he’s a paying customer. Bartender reaches for something under the counter and repeats himself “Out, now” and the punk leaves.

First guy turns to the bartender and asks what that was about. Bartender explains that he had Nazi shit all over his vest, iron crosses and other shit. Says you start to recognize them. It starts out nice enough, one guy comes in, he’s polite and nice, so you serve him because you don’t want to cause a scene, then he comes back with a friend or two, and they’re fine, too. But then they bring their friends and it stops being cool all of a sudden and you realize “oh shit, this is a Nazi bar, now” when they take over. It’s too late to try and kick them out at that point because they will make it a problem if you try. So you have to nip it early with the first guy no matter how reasonable he seems because the end goal of that guy and his friends is to make it a Nazi bar for him and his cohort of Nazis.

I don’t disagree with that being a better solution, but it wasn’t an option. Unironically, this was the train car moral dilemma. I think you’re undermining your own argument, though. That while rapidly declining workforce due to the sick day issue and the issues that arise from that may very well be a reason the Biden admin is trying to right that wrong. I still argue that instead of changing who the government forces to agree, the rail system should be nationalized. We’ve seen that the companies in charge of them clearly can’t manage them not just for their playing chicken with the economy forcing the government to bail them out of that disaster, but also the several toxic derailments since.

Alright, I’ll bite. Name me any other labor movement where a single union’s negotiations have the power to evaporate up to 4% of the nation’s GDP in its first month?

I ask you that to illustrate that the rail situation was absolutely dire with a projection on 90+billion in losses for the country each day after the first day and a projection of 700,000 lost jobs after the first month. It’s the only reason the government even has a seat at that bargaining table and it’s a damn good one. I wouldn’t dare give that power carte blanche, but I’m not faulting the government for taking the steps it took in that situation. Instead, I’ll choose to reward the further efforts to get the unions what they deserve even after being forced to play their hand.

The progressive move forward would be to dissolve and nationalize the rails after that shit show, but that’s a completely different conversation. We don’t have a system built on progressive values, we have one that’s been shattered and glued together several times and these are the late stage knells that we can expect at this point. But the path to actually building those progressive systems isn’t to throw away progress due to imperfection. The Biden admin getting those wins is progress worth preserving and building upon is my point.