Complete and utter strawman, a position I've never held or even alluded to here. Israel is the actor that holds the cards and continue to further the current dysfunction in the region, pointing this out doesn't mean defending HAMAS's warcrimes. Find a better argument

Denying the agency of the Israeli peoples gleeful participation in the Gazan genocide doesn't help your point. This isn't a case like HAMAS where there hasn't been elections held in years, time and time again Kahanists have been reelected to further Palestinian oppression and Jewish supremacy.

Hadn't heard of that theory before but it's absolutely my head canon now

You’re against Alberta becoming the 51st state because of how stupid it is.

I’m against Alberta becoming the 51st because it would make the U.S. map look ugly as sin.

I'd split hairs and add that it's not a uniform conservative vote federally, with half or more of the seats going Liberal/NDP in a given cycle. Having more than half our population in a single city alongside a far less resource dominated economy makes it quite distinct from the rest of the prairies.

If on the other hand the point is that it's morally wicked for one person to hold dominion over another then you get a rather different set of results

One might suggest that it is important to be both consistent and clear as to what kind of society we ought to try to produce, but flexible as evidence changes towards the best way to produce it.

“Wanted money for braces and ended up having sex with powerful men for money, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz” whoever wrote this should kill themselves. I mean that genuinely.

When the genre's greatest cultural contribution is "Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Ruined a Whole Generation of Women" i don't think it's that surprising