I thought it was just his normal guy vibe without the shooting glasses. Pretty sure the hand in the pocket is common and I haven’t heard anything about a hilarious back story.

Work was supposed to be slow today. D’:

After reading I now appreciate David Gerard’s dedication.

I had those same socks.

I don’t think she’s the Disney in charge.

Trump is a legitimate threat to democracy.

So shouldn’t we send literally anybody else? Isn’t Biden’s approval rating sub 40%?

I agree with lesser evil voting and harm reductuon, but we’re not voting yet. They can maybe run somebody who might not throw the election.

Goodyear is a tire brand.

It is, but she’s turning 68.

The article above, that you didn’t read, talks about the speaker of the house and surveyed Americans.

There’s a section on his Wikipedia page about his political activism and work with politicians.

I don’t wash my butthole because it’s dirty. I don’t want to touch that thing.

It’s too late for me to start.

Edit: I do wash my butthole. Don’t worry about me too much.

I literally just threw up. I feel better now though.

It was a joke about entrapment. It wasn’t an endorsement of America’s police.

I’m not falling for that officer.

It was meant to be a self depreciating joke, but now I can’t help myself. I think this topic ends up having everybody involved make a bunch of assumptions about each other before it begins.

However, I have experienced people say that they, “don’t want to get political,” right after being confronted for saying something misinformed, hurtful, etc. It can be weaponized as an excuse to avoid self reflection.

I know that isn’t the case for everybody, but I have seen, “don’t make things political,” used as, “don’t bring in politics at odds with my own.” It’s often not even recognized by that person as being hypocritical. Sometimes our own politics can become the default in our mind and everybody else’s view is the “political” one.

Your apathy is part of the problem.

Yes, I am that friend/relative.

There’s a big difference between a bigger slice of the pie and taking all of the pies and making everybody share the crumbs. It’s an incomprehensible wealth disparity.

The Geneva Convention’s definition of genocide. “… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, such as: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

You seem to defend a and b as necessary costs of doing business. Isreal’s frequent attacks on civilians, journalists, medical personnel, and humanitarian groups seem to conflict this. Look into the killings of clearly marked journalists.

I’d argue that c is met by Isreal’s control of Gaza’s water and power along with the targeting of hospitals.

The Geneva Convention on collective penalties. “No protected person may be punished for any offense he or she gas not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.”

Gazans not having access to clean water and electricity at the hands of an oppressor is going to radicalize people against that oppressor.

I would like to reduce the casualties of Palestinian and Isreali citizens as much as possible. To come down harder on Palestinian civilians for the actions of Hamas is to send more people into the arms of Hamas.

Learn from the actions of the US post 9/11. The increase in terror attacks against US civilians was a consequence of US foreign policy. Isreal is not trying to have a humanitarian presence. Isreali people are hurt by the consequences of these oppressive policies.

Again, I am not justifying the actions of Hamas. Discussing the reasons for their actions is not an endorsement. If you want to stop systemic issuess you have to look at the root causes.

It’s a “fairy tale” to think that increasing the oppression that created extremists in the first place is going to suddenly stop radicalizing people.