SwingingTheLamp

As an American, I believe that we need to come together ASAP and form a police task force to remove the regime by legitimate, democratic means. It's called its shots: The regime has said that it intends to eliminate 100 million Americans.

By deportation for now. Let's not wait for its final solution.

I see that I am not mistaken, as you have just proved by lashing out based on clearly faulty assumptions about me. I am telling you how your words may appear to others. (At least one other reader took it that way.) If you don't want feedback in order to reach an audience with your political goals, then I'll say instead: Wow. Very edge. Much brave.

Did you see the rhetoric about deporting over a quarter of the population of the United States? I think they won't mind exterminating us, instead. (It's just that MAGA cultists are so brainwashed that they think it won't include them personally.)

If it's a warning, and you're actually trying to rally people, it doesn't help to be snotty.

No, but Canada should take those annexation threats far more seriously now.

So, what's the point here? Whatever the evils of the US in the past, this is nonetheless a dangerous and frightening escalation, smashing a fragile world order. This message of, "oh, this is nothing new, the US has always been evil" comes across as a resounding call to complacency, and is a rhetorical technique widely used by the fascists.

As 19th century journalist Donn Piatt said, "A man's greatness can be measured by his enemies."

As I haven't tired of pointing out, rising anti-Semitism around the world serves Israel's interests by encouraging Jewish people to move there to escape it. I'm pretty sure that stoking anti-Semitism is intentional on Likud's part.

If it makes you feel better to believe that, go ahead. For my part, I think it's a pretty obvious truth that when the government makes an open-access highway for everybody to use, everybody is going to use it, even in ways you may not like. Especially when it makes driving the fastest and most convenient way to get around. (Making driving on the highway faster than public transit requires lots of infrastructure, and was a deliberate policy choice.)

For 15 years I lived in an apartment with the bathroom shelves directly above the toilet. It's a corollary of Murphy's Law that anything dropped in the bathroom somehow will land in the toilet bowl. Hence, the lid stays closed.

You might think, but a couple of weeks ago, uhh, a friend was sitting on the toilet at work when m..., I mean his equipment retracted and shot a stream of urine over the rim, which fortunately(?) was contained by his pants and underwear. Reportedly, he had to drape them over the vents in his urine-smelling office until they were dry enough so that he could go home and change clothes.

Reminds me of that time I felt old when the local historical society had a display of a 1990's living room.