What an amazing display of privilege. It must be nice to live in a society where religious belief isn’t being injected into the public and our government.

Have you sought help for this problem? It’s not too late.

Koch’s reason.com. One of the most ironic site names in the history of the Internet.

Just because there are a few thousand people who still worship Norse gods doesn’t mean the religion is thriving.

Yes, they’re still making noise. If anything, they’re making more noise than ever. But public sentiment is against them by a wide majority. Even a majority of Republican voters favor gay rights along with female reproductive rights. What we’re seeing is the impact of a minority imposing its will on the majority, and it cannot last.

They’re the dog that caught the car, but they can’t keep it.

Who wants to voluntarily move into a slum?

I wish he had.

Good luck with that.

It’s not like new culture wars won’t be started and fought just the same. But there was a time when slavery was the topic of a fierce culture war in the US, and it wasn’t resolved until it broke out into a literal war. Now, nearly two hundred years later, it’s still unacceptable to suggest that people who look different are better off as property rather than people. Even Florida’s attempts to whitewash Southern slavery doesn’t go so far as to blame the slaves weren’t people.

They’ve lost this culture war, just as they lost the fight for slavery and later to keep the population segregated. They’ll try again in time, but for the moment, the question of abortion and homosexual rights is largely settled at a cultural level. The conservatives lost, and that’s why they’ve largely moved on to nitpicking the definition of gender and trying (unsuccessfully) to defend their legal victories on women’s reproductive rights.

This is a perfect example of how liberalism enables fascism

Today I learned that being inclusive and working toward the betterment of all people instead of a privileged elite is fascism.

As the article points out, they’re determined to bull through anyway. But the effort is doomed to failure. Even if they achieve victory conditions (effectively ending democracy) it won’t last. It’ll just make the next revolution that much more painful. But their sense of entitlement won’t allow them to stop.

So the staff of “Never Back Down” are backing down.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424263-trump-supporter-complains-shutdown-is-not-hurting-the-people-he/

Paul Ryan is mostly upset that Trump beat him to it.

In buildings. Heat pumps are amazingly efficient, and pumping hot air from inside to outside (or the other way around) is something we’ve been doing for generations.

That still doesn’t make this a black and white situation. Would Israel be able to get away with selling their atrocities to the Israeli people if Hamas weren’t dedicated to doing the same to Israel? If the Palestinian government had been willing to accept compromise forty to fifty years ago, would Israel have been able to do what they’ve done?

The answer, of course, is no. No one’s hands are clean. And there’s really no easy solution that doesn’t violate ethics because we’re on the outside looking to force solutions on them. Just like they’re doing to each other. If we abandon Israel, then they’ll suffer what they’ve done to the Palestinians, and the Israeli people don’t deserve that any more than the Palestinians. You can’t tell me you have a better solution because you don’t.

So you know exactly what details give you the moral probity to make these confident statements? I’m glad we have authorities like you to give us moral clarity. I had no idea you were in possession of state level secrets.

Genocide is bad. Both Hamas and the Israeli government are guilty. But the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are not their governments. We can’t abandon either of them and keep the moral high ground. So how do we accomplish all of those goals and get their governments to accept it.

You can’t force your black and white perspective on this no matter how satisfying you might find it.

Yup. UFOs are definitely a major concern. Certainly more important than fascists taking over our government.

It would be nice if the world was so easily divided into black and white, but it isn’t. Politics is complicated, and the actions of the Israeli government are not the actions or even the will of the Israeli people. Israel deserves to exist, and so does Palestine. Acknowledging the rights of both people doesn’t negate condemnation of what either government has done in violation of human rights.

Trying to walk that middle line between their right to exist and disavowing their actions is harder than you think. You think it ought to be easy, except for the people who think differently from you and insist that the opposite solution you want is the only acceptable path.

We don’t have the privilege of knowing everything about the situation. Trying to drive from the back seat isn’t helpful.

These aren’t his plans. These are the plans of smarter, more capable men. Organizations like the Heritage Foundation don’t go away easily.