When they say "environmental racism" which you don't hear much any more. It means stuff like this, where the people who suffer the most are poor and minorities.

Updated Apr 04, 2025 at 12:47 PM EDT
By Andrew Stanton
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would hold a lead over Senator Chuck Schumer if she challenged him ahead of his next election, according to a poll released Friday.

"But if Israel really wants long-term peace for its country, is there a different approach?"

I think the problem with your question is the framing. The "If."

Israel didn't get here by "a different approach."

Israel is the Ubersoldat love child of British Imperialism and European Jewish Colonialism (the Z Word).

She was born by winning a war and she's won every war since with ease.

I don't think Israel sees any particular reason to alter her modus operandi.

So I don't see how long term peace could possibly be on her horizon, in time or territory.

"What is Israel's destination?"

In the short term, meaning the next few generations, Eretz Yisrael.

That's Netanyahu's destination, anyway.

I can't say what Israel's next metastasis is, or if there will be one, once they fulfil their manifest destiny and establish Eretz Yisrael.

But I can say they don't have any delusions about getting there peacefully. Were coming up on the 80th anniversary of the King David Hotel Bombing. Is that a national holiday in Israel yet?

The Senator from Indiana was sucking up so hard. He said it was genius how President Trump came up with a layered defense that has missiles on the ground but we're also going up into space.

So, the militarization of space is officially the policy of the human race, led there by the United States.

And some people think that's a good thing!

"Has Israel elaborated upon their end-game in this war?"

They just want to be Secure. I think that means the death of all Muslims, judging by the way they have been going about securing themselves since 1948.

"Canada will pay its "fair share," he added. "We'll work with them on pricing.""

Wow. Treating diplomacy like a sales opportunity. International cooperation that is pursued not for mutual security and common defense, but because Trump can get something favorable on "pricing."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde

In the right thread this time:

I heard a bit of a Trump press conference today.
The Senator from Indiana was saying how great the tariffs are for the Indiana economy.
Trump named some states that will benefit bigly from his Golden Dome, they were all Red states.
Trump thinks he can win a nuclear war with his Golden Orange Dome. Republicans seem to think so too.

I heard a bit of a Trump press conference today.
The Senator from Indiana was saying how great the tariffs are for the Indiana economy.
Trump named some states that will benefit bigly from his Golden Dome, they were all Red states.
Trump thinks he can win a nuclear war with his Golden Orange Dome. Republicans seem to think so too.

Help me out with one thing, visitor_.
Why work in health care, if you do not like people or agree with helping people?
If you're not a people person, maybe don't get into a business that literally everyone needs... Or is it so you can torture them.

Visitor meant a 200% chance, not a 200% increased chance for a total of a 300% chance.

Just like Visitor meant we don't do routine scanning mammograms on men, not we don't ever do mammograms on men.

Percents are just awful. If a process has a two percent yield per ton and you double the yield, you might say hooray, I'm twice as efficient. Meanwhile, you also have 96 tons of waste instead of 98 tons of waste. Which isn't much of a difference. Unless you just dump it in the ocean like Capitalism says it's okay to do since there's no external cost other than putting it on a boat.

"He said the illegal Israeli settlements were spreading across the West Bank "with the explicit support of this Israeli government."

From the river to the sea
Israel will be free of Untermensch.

"all she needed to do was touch the officers, and it would be assault."

Officers are such precious snowflakes.

"did not espouse to eliminate the funding mechanism, but to eliminate the excess profit tacked on to the transactions"

Well, the funding mechanism is insurance.

That's the only funding mechanism that makes sense. Because most people don't need open heart surgery, but most people who do need it can't afford it without insurance. Without financial help from all those who don't need it.

What you are asking for is non-profit insurance.

The United States is no longer the leader of the Free World.

This is what Republicans wanted.

Take a victory lap, Republicans!

I picked up some meds the other day.
Retail cost $680, my cost with insurance $45.

I looked into an alternative med.
Retail cost $880, my cost with insurance $600.

I'll stick with the first line defense until it fails, at those prices.

Risk of death from covid is going down and so are vacination rates. Only 30% of healthcare workers are following CDC guidlines. Covid is over.
#94 | Posted by visitor_

When you start by citing CDC, it looks bad when you go off the Res and contradict CDC.
Rt for COVID is currently just over 1, meaning it's ever so slightly growing.

"I do agree that the current mutations of the COVID virus have shown a less severe death result from infection."

True, but still not a good reason to not get vaccinated.

Fun fact, it was predicted at the outset that mutations would decrease the lethality of COVID. For reasons that relate to molecular evolution and natural selection.

"remove the insurance companies from the process of providing healthcare"

Get rid of the funding mechanism...

Well, that would certainly reduce the cost...

Because practically nobody will be coming out of pocket to pay retail for that CT Sinus when their kid has allergies.

Or that biannual mammogram.

Or that Glipizide.

"You got a five point restraint harness and rollbar in your Subaru?"
I would if I was gonna drive it in conditions where that's appropriate.

"Risk of death from covid is going down"

The risk goes down more when you're vaccinated.
Why can't you acknowledge that?
What's the problem?

Tennessee is a Republican state.
Republicans don't believe in pollution.

"Noem botches habeas corpus questions"

Did she botch it as bad as her Plastic Surgery?

Also, you claimed "just aren't that harmful" but your only measured endpoint seems to be "death." So there's a lot of harm you're simply ignoring. Harm that matters a lot to people who don't die from COVID, which is most people.

You 2.46 number is based on current Covid variants?
#88 | Posted by visitor_

The issue here is what's your number?
You said COVID variants "just aren't that harmful."
But what's your number?

You. Don't. Have. One.