"An Israeli life is worth 16 times that of an American life" is one of those things that not only every Israeli politician believes but also almost every single American politician believes
If a wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" referring to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
maybe it’s just me but Netanyahu threatening another terrorist pager attack against UN members seems far more important than him mentioning Hasan, which is cynical culture war nonsense
An estimated 4.5-4.7 million people were killed as a result of the various wars the United States started after 2,977 people were killed on September 11.
Brown University’s Costs of War project estimates 3.6–3.8 million of those deaths were indirect, caused by the destruction of economies, healthcare, infrastructure, and other effects of blockade and war.
The toll does not include post 2023 US-Israeli killings in Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank, Iran, Iraq, and Syria: roughly 90,000+ people as of September 17, 2026.
Looked up Ebert's take on the live action Scooby Doo and it's incredible - he spends one paragraph talking about how he's unfamiliar with Scooby Doo, then promptly moves on to his usual interests
"It was the promoter's decision and it was not mine." Sheeren is a big enough artist that he could easily tell the promoters to go fuck themselves if he wanted to. Lowlife coward whose music sounds exactly like he is.
This is why I find the discourse how AI might start killing us a bit puzzling. AI is already being used to kill people on a mass scale -- that's a problem that deserves the immediate response beyond any hypothetical threat
Every article from The Free Press is like “Hasan Piker Says He ‘Has Hopes’ For ‘Rape City’” and you read the article and it’s like “Hasan Piker recently said he hopes Israel will close Rape City, the area they’ve created where they somberly rape people for necessary reasons”
When people talk about "respecting" religion, they tend to be unclear about whether they mean "treating religious people like an equal human being" or "treating their religion as something sacred and beyond criticism", and this is very deliberate on their part