You need to stop thinking laws are inviolable writ handed down from God. We’re all playing a game of shared make believe where the rules are only strong as the collective will to enforce them. That will doesn’t appear to be sufficient so he can likely do what he wants.

Whenever a movie starts with a Part One in it’s title, I get a hesitation. And Dune’s only covering one half of the FIRST book. This was going to be slow, this was going to have a lot of filler, this was going to have information and scenes that are not at any point integral to the main story and it won’t be very pretty because they would save most of the budget for the second film.

The thing about that is that there was a very good chance Dune part 2 never got made if the first didn’t do well enough, so there was a lot of motivation to make it as good as it could be. Dune was kind of a redemption attempt after Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (unfairly, imo) flopped.

I suspect it has to do with being a sort of household appliance. Similar to the fridge, the TV, the bathtub, etc. People think about it in that sense most frequently and it becomes the common parlance.

Not everyone fell for the lies. It’s a re-writing of history to suggest that everyone was all aboard with the war in Iraq. That war was preceded by the largest protests ever to occur up until that point. I personally recall Hans Blix, the UN official responsible for weapons inspections in Iraq at that time, repeatedly telling us that there was no evidence of such weapons programs. The New York Times should presumably be at least as questioning as my, at the time, 18 year old self. Particularly since I turned out to be right.

“Federal official” in this case being an engineer for the US Army Corp of Engineers.

Great. Now that we see an investigation into wrongdoing is all that’s required to pull support, we will be ceasing support of Israel as well? Right?

No. Maybe you should mind your business.

Not the dictionary definition of lobby, but the colloquial sense where it’s a synonym for bribery.

This is marketing. If they really wanted this they would lobby for it, the same way they get all their other interests looked after.

Not every virus is human compatible. I wonder what the actual chances one of these ancient viruses thaws out, encounters a human before the elements degrade it, and then manages to actually infect said human is.

Isn’t Germany in Afroeurasia?

There are more Jews in the USA than Israel. Who made Netanyahu pope of the Jews?

They can present themselves however they like, representing all Judaism is out of their jurisdiction. But I agree, an apartheid state claiming to represent an entire ethno-religious group could potentially inspire hate against that group in people who don’t fully consider the situation.

Israelis. Israel doesn’t speak for or act on behalf of all Jews.

Sorry, are you referring to the defense against Nazi Germany as a genocide?

You are not a serious person. And you should investigate what it is within yourself that allows you to decide an entire ethnicity needs to be eliminated. Because it’s psychotic.

“We have to genocide the Palestinians to stop them from committing a genocide,“ is not a serious take.

I honestly can’t grok the degree to which one must dehumanize a group to hold this position.

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2023/10/us-unions-call-ceasefire-gaza

The key to creating significant change is not electing this or that individual ‘hero’ to office hoping they will bring down the system from the inside or something. Over and over again we see that people have to compromise with the superstructure of power that exists around the party they are member of in order to maintain the support of that party and thus keep their position. Instead, we must create a unified and sustained labour movement that no politician can say no to and keep their job. That’s why Shawn Fain’s appeal to every union to unify their next contract negotiation with UAW on May Day is so important. We don’t hope for change, we make it happen.

Hasbro is a terribly run company which is currently in the process of butchering the couple golden geese it has.

That’s meaty. Thanks for all your hard work.