Did you enjoy it? I thought it was great.

I use Fire & Smoke Mr. Schnitzel and HEB center cut pork loins wafer cut.

I’m gonna design an “Immigration is good, actually” shirt now.

This answer came to me from living in China. “Is it true that in China X?”

I learned to say, “it’s likely that anything you learned about China is true…somewhere in China. But it’s not necessarily indicative of the whole.”

See Nicholas Stargardt’s The German War for how even those opposed to Nazism ultimately became tied to and collaborators with the regime.

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If we allow ourselves to accept this. To take part in small ways. To even hope for American victory we collaborate. And in doing so we make ourselves guilty. And they will use this guilt to leverage further collaboration.

One of my biggest frustrations with Dems of the first 20 years of this century was that those who voted for Iraq then tried to position Dems (and themselves) as against the Iraq war.

John Edward’s other issues aside, I appreciated his willingness to just say he was wrong.

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I, for one, would love some choice history droppings from you.

No one can know every nuance. We must seek to know when we can and be humble to learn what we haven’t yet.

Thanks for the reminder.

Couldn’t you differentiate that the solution to air travel misery in:

Neoliberalism is to work harder to spend more to step up in seat price (try harder)

Fascism is to imagine a better air travel (be respectable).

I see them as a spectrum.

Palestinians—or anyone else—aren’t served by you remaining uneducated. And that’s the sad thing.

You could have learned something from people. Instead you choose this. It’s sad. I hope you are able to see past anger.

I considered typing out an educated reply based on my expertise—as a historian—and my experience—as a former conservative evangelical. But this comment makes clear that you aren’t just ignorant, but you are intentionally ignorant. And smug.

This means that you aren’t situated to learn. So…bye.

If what really works to reduce the murder rate,

That has been shown to work, in city after city,

And validated by decades of peer-reviewed research,

Is less expensive, less cruel, and less racist?

Then why do we insist on doing the more cruel, more racist option that costs hundreds of billions?