I bet it has a few vibrate modes

To be fair, Putin is also called President

But exploitation has worked flawlessly for hundreds of years! I can’t think of a single powerful group that doesn’t swear by it!

I can’t help but laugh. “If we don’t attack Iran, they’ll attack us,” has now turned into, “Now that we’ve attacked Iran they’re definitely going to attack us!” There are no limits to their justifications for warmongering.

A weird form of arrogant elitism

I always just mentally pronounced it neck-essary to remind myself to only use a single C. It never occurred (thanks, spell check) to me to relate it to a physical object.

Mine, of course, is “ocurr” and its iterations.

And why would we hope for that…?

Don’t forget the sinking of the Maine as pretense for the Spanish-American War.

Maybe I’m just not hearing about the Palestinian side of the armed conflict, but is that part still happening? This has felt very one sided for a long while.

Oh man, you hit upon why it makes me twitch. Because this has always been thoroughly hypothetical for me I somehow never considered the other half of the social equation!

Yes, that’s exactly it: if it’s used as a way to unduly elevate themselves over others. That was the part that I was stuck on but couldn’t articulate. Now I know what I would do if I ever ran into this situation (just call me mister, lol), so thanks for that.

What’s your view on calling people Doctor in general?

On the one hand it’s a title that you earn through a great deal of prolonged effort. On the other hand it’s just a title, a label, and I don’t feel like I should be under any obligation to refer to somebody by anything other than their name. But then what do you do if they introduce themselves as Doctor Smith or whatever?

In practice I just use the honorific because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do, but I’m grumpy about it. I say this because I’ve at least heard of people who insist on being called doctor and it feels so douchy I don’t want to give them the satisfaction.

It would be real fucking weird for any news outlet to post a picture of a dead body like that.

Thanks for fact checking

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon.

I have only heard a few things, but if the US and Israel don’t want it, I assume it’s something good for the world.

I don’t think that the semantic discrepancy is really the point.

I just meant that if you think that protesting there is important then you should organize something. I’m fine with what we’re already doing.

Go ahead

That’s hilarious, I learned about that not too long ago. Can you give me a good recipe, I want to try one.

“Besides, what if she were to claim that America wasn’t the land of the free, how would THAT look?”

I really hope they’re still teaching opportunity, capability, and intent as the deadly force “triangle” (i.e., all 3 must be present in order to use deadly force) in addition to the justifications for the use of force, none of which are “somebody told me to.”

I think it’s literally just a coincidence. I’ve never heard anything else at all about or from her.

I’m just learning this woman exists, so I assume she’s mad about her money.