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Cake day: May 17th, 2025

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  • Israel dropped 10 missiles in Doha, Qatar in September 2025, targeting the senior political leadership of Hamas who were there to negotiate an end to the war in Gaza.

    If I were speculating, the U.S. probably wanted the Swiss to host the Iranian negotiations (w/ Vance taking part) because they wanted reduce the likelihood that the Israelis would attempt to literally kill the negotiators–like they’ve done in basically every conflict in which they’ve been involved.


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    I don’t know why you felt it necessary to put Taiwanese in quotes, nor do I understand why you find it so important to post–over and over again–that Taiwanese isn’t an ethnicity.

    I never said that it was. I said that a country does not have to have a distinct ethnic identity to merit independence or self-determination.

    I think you’re talking past me, here.


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    Rolling up on July 4th (on an English speaking forum) to make vague posts to suggest another country’s ethnic identity isn’t distinct enough to merit national independence kind of makes you sound like an asshole.

    That’s why you’re being downvoted.

    Not wrong, just an asshole.



  • We haven’t had politicians who actually deliver positive life altering changes for a very long time.

    I think this is only partially true. Say what you will about Obama, but he did meaningfully improve a huge number of people’s lives just by raising the age restriction for kids on their parents’ insurance plans and a few other programs for the expansion of medical care coverage.

    He’s still a shithead who authorized the bombing of hospitals abroad and failed to deliver universal healthcare, but it was nice—even for me—to get just a crumb of progress for the first time at a point in my life where it made the biggest impact.

    Same thing with Trump-- I think the stimulus checks were both objectively and subjectively a good thing.

    The problem is, we can do so much better than crumbs.