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Idiot voters? You mean these folks don’t have a good faith interest in democracy, legislation, governance and compromise?

Reading about the experiences other Middle Eastern countries have had with Palestinians over the last few decades is pretty eye opening. Really underscores the double standard held against Israel. There’s a reason Egypt’s border with Gaza looks like this

I’m convinced there’s very little Joe could do to sway any Uncommitted Dem Pro Pal voters. Any decision he makes on this regardless if it aligns with their “cause” won’t be up to their standards. Even if he did something they wanted, it assuredly wouldn’t be good enough. It’d be met with “He should’ve done X! He didn’t do Y sooner! Z would’ve been a better choice!” They don’t seem to have much nuance and aren’t moved by compromise or incremental progress. Their fantastic ignorance is perfectly summed up by their efforts to lay a 2 millennial struggle at his feet.

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/04/30/qatari-money-and-the-pro-palestinian-campus-takeovers/amp/ “As of 2017, California campuses including Stanford University, UCLA, UC Berkeley and USC were among the top 10 recipients of Qatari money” I’m sure this is just a total coincidence. I’m confident any day now UCLA students will begin protesting for their school to divest from Qatar, given their endearing concerns for human rights. Surely they wouldn’t want their university to take billions in donations from a country with unconscionable human rights violations.

If your “movement” or “cause” ranges from casual indifference to full throated enthusiasm for such heinously hateful imagery and messaging, it’s pretty difficult to take anything after that terribly seriously. It’s difficult to believe that these “protestors” are “sincere” or “have their heart in the right place.”

I don’t know if Netflix is still doing it, but for a year or two they had a new stand up comedy special coming out every week. To your point exactly, we have waaaay more options now, and we can watch a show whenever we want. The days of rushing home to watch the new episode of Friends are over, along with standing in line at a record store to get the new CD from an artist. Times change. Edit: and to your point about comedy being more brash. Remember when The Simpsons or South Park was the edgiest thing on TV? It’s barely a blip on the radar now.

Seinfeld co-creator Larry David has been doing just fine with Curb Your Enthusiasm for the last 20+ years. So what exactly is Jerry’s gripe? That people don’t watch 30 min network sitcoms anymore? I think that has far less to do with “the left” and waaaaay more to do with the countless streaming services and new original content that are available on demand now. People don’t consume media the same way they did in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. All in the Family, Cheers, etc were huge because they were the best of what was available at that time. If I have a choice between sitting down to watch Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Sopranos or a new sitcom with George Lopez or Tim Allen recycling the same schtick from the last 40 years… it’s a no brainer.

I never said it wasn’t stupid. I was just looking for a more informative source than a MAGA themed doll Twitter account presenting a wildly misleading summation.

When will the taxation be Kenough?! https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2024/04/29/president-biden-has-proposed-tax-increases-here-are-six-of-them/?sh=2cf92e04168c Per this article “If your taxable income is $47,025 or less, you pay zero tax on your long-term capital gain.” Couldn’t find exact numbers, but according do a Google search, about 58% of Americans make less than $50k/year. “Biden’s FY 2025 budget proposal? For high income taxpayers, the long-term capital gains tax could nearly double to 39.6%. That proposed capital gains rate increase would apply to investors who make at least $1 million a year. In fact, it is possible to go even higher, as high as 44.6%.” So per the article, the 44.6% capital gains tax rate would apply to people making $1million or more. Which according to a Google search is about .1% of the population. From the article “If passed, the billionaire tax would be a minimum of 25% for households with net worth exceeding $100 million.” Per a Google search, there’s about 10k Americans whose household has a net worth of $100m. Only thing regarding the repeal of section 1031 “Only real estate qualifies, and it must be of like-kind. It has to be business or investment property, not your personal residence.” So it wouldn’t apply to personal residence. Well frankly I’m stunned that “Insurrection Barbie” would seemingly try to mislead people.

Is there a more reliable source on this than “Insurrection Barbie”?

ONE bad man? Dude. C’mon.

In 8 years he went from C list celebrity/tv game show host to having his lawyers arguing in front of the Supreme Court that coups and assassinations should be legal. I’ll never fully understand it. Nor will I ever fully understand how the power brokers of the party haven’t stepped in yet to say “enough is enough.”

Maybe it’s been mentioned here before and I just missed it, but I’ve seen this mentioned a few times on Reddit. Seems middle eastern countries have a penchant for “donating” billions to US universities. https://www.thefp.com/p/campus-rage-middle-eastern-roots-qatar From 2015–2020, institutions that accepted money from Middle Eastern donors had, on average, 300 percent more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not. From 2015–2020, institutions that accepted undisclosed funds from authoritarian donors had, on average, 250 percent more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not. At least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undocumented contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian.

That tabloid rag seemed important to Trump. Known media bias? Like Fox News paying over $700m to settle a lawsuit because of their election lies? That kind of bias?

No I never made that comparison.

Is this an example of the “media bias” R’s are endlessly crying about?

Precisely. Doesn’t take much for the algorithm to kick in and put you in an endless echo chamber.

TikTok has proven to be a driving force for Gen Z’s Pro Pal stances. Who runs TikTok? Who would want to sow discord amongst Dems and prevent American youth from turning out for Biden? Who would benefit from global sentiment turning against Israel? It’s pretty easy to draw conclusions about how China, Iran and Russia can influence folks here. We can pretend it’s only Boomers and Facebook memes, but the reality is the reach is far easier and more impactful than we realize. Propaganda works.

Imagine thinking this is comparable to the 1960’s Civil Rights protests.

Take it fwiw, but I’ve seen in Reddit threads that the pamphlets he threw in the air were about some conspiracy where Trump and Biden were working together on a coup.

I’m sure some did. Google is a big company. I couldn’t find any info about them thinking it was serious enough for them to protest over it. All I could find was this. https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/google-workers-joke-that-incognito-mode-is-not-truly-private/

Their selective outrage is also pretty telling. Google has been up to plenty of nefarious things over the decades which they apparently didn’t seem to mind.

For bar scene, O St is generally a college aged crowd. It can be fun if that’s what you want, but I’d say stick to the Haymarket area. Leadbelly’s and Lazlo’s are probably my favorite restaurants down there. For Haymarket bars I’d recommend N Zone, Tavern on the Square, McKinney’s, Kinkaider Brewery and Bierhaus Maisschaler. The Railyard with Gate 25 and Longwell’s is a popular spot too. There’s also a cool vintage clothing store in the Haymarket called “Great Plains Vintage.” They have plenty of Husker stuff but have all kinds of other pro and college team stuff too. For tailgating there’s places all over. If you’re in the Haymarket area you can easily access a bunch in the parking lots behind Pinnacle Bank Arena and into the Baseball/Softball stadiums. Roam around and mix it up with locals. Let em know you’re from out of town and it’s your first Neb game. You’ll get plenty of folks offering food and drinks. For the Game, I’d say avoid South Stadium if you can. It’s not bad, I just think other parts of the stadium are more user friendly. I’m partial to sitting in North Stadium. Since it sounds like you just generally appreciate college football, I’d say get to your seats early enough to catch the pregame stuff with the band and so you can see the tunnel walk.

Sorry man, but there’s not. Simping for a terrorist organization that wants to eradicate all Jews and infidels from Earth isn’t the same as a lunch counter sit in from the 60’s. Shaping the conversation with slanted views and deliberately misleading social media propaganda isn’t terribly helpful. Of course politicians with no true skin in the game or consequences can make empty requests for a ceasefire. Has any of it worked? Is it a good faith effort or is it empty political posturing? Do they really think there’ll be one or are they just getting a sound bite on record? Did Hamas see San Francisco’s City Council resolution for a ceasefire and say to themselves “Guys, this is what we’ve been waiting for. After millenia of fighting and killing, some nameless faceless politicians from thousands of miles away says we should stop.” Hamas has repeatedly said they’ll never stop committing Oct 7th’s. How can anyone think a ceasefire is a reasonable request when that is one side of the bargaining table? It’s a lazy and unserious position. I disagree. If they don’t know the difference or need it painstakingly explained to them, then that tells me all I need to know about their position and that they aren’t serious people. Ultimately I think we can just agree to disagree on this.