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lol, uh huh...Not sure I've ever seen someone be so convinced of their intellectual superiority with so little reason to be. Intelligent people use their extended vocabulary when necessary to make cohesive and logically sound arguments. You've used uncommon words out of trying too hard to bedazzle shallow arguments that are logically and/or morally inferior.

If a solid argument were a fine jacket, your style is more like gluing rhinestones onto a denim one; flashy but not exactly impressive. But hey, you got some attention so I'll give you a nice pat on the head for that. Pat pat. Now, grow up and finish your education.

We will now manufacture cars where the turn signal causes the horn to blow at the same time, but it sounds like a boat horn and fire comes out the exhaust.

ROFL, how do you take yourself seriously?

It's all about who's impacted by the protest. These people could funnel the same energy towards a targeted protest against some company profiting the war, or at politicians they disagree with, or protesting at a government building, at a college stifling speech, or at some high profile event or any other legitimate target. You can do something that isn't targeted at everyday people, traps them in the protest, and carries the chance of stopping the delivery of critical services. "Sorry the paramedics couldn't get to gram gram fast enough, but people needed to block traffic for Gaza today" is a bs possibility to allow.

The same society you are hoping to change...I don't think you realize how immature your thought process is here.

Nah, the message is getting lost in the delivery. I support BLM too but had the same issue with their freeway-blocking tactics. Nobody is going to swing to your side of the argument because you blocked their route home...nobody. People have emergencies, parents and kids need to get places...people have important jobs and need to be able to get to work such as doctors, first responders, air traffic controllers etc etc.. Yes, Gaza and BLM are both worthy causes but there are many other worthy causes as well. You can't block traffic for every worthy cause...block people from living their lives to put what you personally feel is the most important social issue at the top of their world by forcing it on them through essentially trapping them. It's just plain wrong and nothing is going to change that. Yes what's going on in Gaza is more wrong, and yet it's still illogical af and morally wrong to pretend that this provides justification to trap people on freeways.

You don't even have to leave WW2 to find another genocide in China.

It wasn't even the only genocide in WW2.

It's not even unique to WW2. The Japanese killed somewhere between 3 and 10 million Chinese civilians, burning some of them alive. If that range sounds insane, it's because it is. Some estimates put the number of civiians killed by the Japanese as high as 20 million. Wikipedia.

If you're looking for a good stick, there are some pretty thorny plants out in the Sonoran desert.

True, but what if the toppings were mustard instead of tomato sauce, yogurt instead of cheese, and Skittles and banana chips and fortune cookies for toppings. Is it still a pizza?

On some level my acceptance of the pizza does depend on thematically appropriate toppings which I take for granted. There's room for a weird topping or two but if you subvert all expectations, one risks not being pizza at all.

But it's 2024 y'all, the pizza's orientation shouldn't matter ;D

My dog would probably be thrilled with the entire chain of events honestly. There's zero chance her share of the pizza doesn't increase from this upside down world.

Probably depends on the toppings at some level too.

As a dedicated researcher with over 20 years experience, there's no such thing as too high to understand pizza. It remains the one thing we do understand even while stoned out of our gourds.

I have a core belief that people are essentially good but prone to circumstances that make them conform to do awful things, including upbringing and mental disorders, trauma, bad teaching, bad role models etc.

But this guy is really testing my faith in that belief here.

Joycabulary.

It's journalistic malpractice to write an entire piece on expanding the court quoting Bill Barr without even once mentioning the corruption that got us here.

The rare combo of "this is neither something you should call back about, nor will I call again...but it is urgent."

Good point, I did not expect the Guardians of the Galaxy series to be a funny sitcom at its core but here we are.

REI