The only thing they really want to conserve is privilege.

Conservatism is poison. It’s time humanity moved past it.

Making cycling more difficult and adding hugely expensive roads and tunnels to encourage more fossil fuel vehicles. As usual, Conservatives head in the opposite direction from where we need to go.

You get that, right?

I wonder how it feels to be talked to like this.

Turns out that giving them tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons doesn’t discourage them from using weapons.

$199 now. Still seems a bit overpriced.

Also why do we always hear about trans women athletes and never about trans men?

That’s a matter of the psychology of right-wing hate mongers, and how easy they find it to rile people up about a non-issue.

I put a bowl out once. The first kid that came emptied the whole lot into his bag and I had nothing left. So now I keep it inside and if they don’t knock it’s their loss and I get treats.

Just another instance of US politics leaking over to Canada a few months later.

“I can totally understand why people have a problem with Jews because of the behavior of some extremist right wing Jews.” You might want to take a step back and think about that.

You yourself admit that worldwide antisemitism is a problem. These people are not thinking subtly. I can understand why people do all kinds of horrible things, but it doesn’t mean I’m sympathetic or defending them.

Holding all Jews responsible for what happens in Israel, let alone what a particular Israeli government does, is antisemitic.

I’m saying that a particular group of extreme right wing Jews is encouraging people the world over to make that antisemitic conflation. They do so because in the short term it serves their interests, but in the bigger picture it causes damage.

And no, it’s not our fault. It’s the fault of the antisemites.

It’s the fault of antisemites and those that egg them on.

See the pattern here?

Of course. Vile antisemitism has a long history.

The upside to Israel’s actions over the past year is sending a clear message that the Jewish state isn’t going anywhere, and if you try to kill us you will suffer greatly.

In the process it sends a message to the world that Israel is brutal, racist and hateful. It may end up damaging Israel’s interests more than helping. Netanyahu does what’s best for Netanyahu, not for Israel or for Jews.

I always thought it was a distortion even to put the two on a level as right and left wings, as if they’re equally valid alternative views that balance each other. One starts with an understanding of the basic truth that we share this world and must support each other, and tries to work out, with intelligence and care, how to arrange things so that everyone can thrive. The other is a roiling mess of ignorance, hatred, narrow-mindedness, greed, and personality disorders. To frame it as if there’s an ongoing debate of left vs right is no more valid than to say there’s an ongoing debate between astrophysicists and flat-earthers, medical researchers and antivaxers, or climate scientists and climate change deniers. Funnily enough, all the absurdly ignorant, time-wasting positions on the right-hand side of those pairs are actually popular among the right wing. Conservatism is a personal limitation (even when it’s also a grift), not a real political philosophy.

The attempt by Netanyahu and his far-right allies to get us all to conflate a dislike of them and their actions with a dislike of Jews is one of the most antisemitic messages around. They are the ones who are trying to taint people’s understanding of Jewishness itself by associating it with being a belligerent, murderous asshole, and they do it with utter disrespect for Jewish identity, for Jews who disagree with them, and for the damage this could do to Jewish people’s lives and other people’s understanding of Jews. If you want to resist antisemitism, resist the cynical, self-serving and short-sighted messaging of Netanyahu and his friends.

If there’s one upside of Israel’s actions in the last year, it’s that this gap between attitudes to Israel and attitudes to Jewishness, and the distortion Israel’s government attempts by painting its critics as antisemites, have become much clearer to people around the world. They have been so heavy-handed about it that people are now less likely to conflate these things.

It’s true, the Democratic Party’s messages tend to resonate with well-off middle class liberals, who seem to be their usual target audience. It’s so frustratingly out of touch, though they don’t even seem to see this as a problem because they’re primarily serving wealthy interests, with a side helping of social justice rhetoric. Typical liberal stuff really. The USA could really use a proper left-wing workers’ party.

This isn’t just symptomatic treatment, according to the article:

The growth of the most aggressive and deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, was effectively suppressed in both ex vivo human tissue samples and in living mice by an FDA approved serotonin modulator currently used to treat major depression.

This medication doesn’t shrink the cancer, but it does slow down its growth.

This article is from 2018.

Many of our home customers’ feedback indicated a preference for the certainty provided by an annual plan. The annual plan offers assurance that you always have access to the latest version with innovations such as improvements we’ve made in compression speeds and algorithms. It also ensures you have access to critical updates and are protected against new threats and risks.

I think they made that up. I highly doubt their customers expressed any such preference.

Trudeau quipped, “We’re used to casual homophobic comments from the other side of the House.”

The House then erupted in shouted demands for the prime minister to be kicked out for unparliamentary language.

Typical right-wing stuff: provoke, provoke and provoke with offensive and insulting speech, then flip out about politeness and decorum when your opponent calls you out for it. It’s also how bullies work, and fascists.

Israel doesn’t care how many innocent civilians it kills. It is run by people who believe their neighbors are subhuman and their lives worth nothing.

A federal Conservative government is a bit scary though.

It does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but a majority of the 34,344 dead can be identified as civilians based on age and gender alone. It includes 11,355 children, 2,955 people aged 60 or older, and 6,297 women. There are also many civilian men of fighting age who have been killed.

Israel claims it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. It does not provide an estimate of civilians killed in Gaza.

There are only 13,107 of the dead who could be men of working age, so Israel’s claim of 17,000 militants killed is very unlikely to be true unless Hamas fighters include a lot of women, children and old people, or unless Israel is saying it knows it has killed very many more people than reported.