It has reached a point where any discussion is almost pointless - you can't entertain even hypothetical considerations of the points of view of EITHER side without being shouted down. As I said earlier, the status-quo is unsustainable, but I don't know what replaces it.

I realize that I am safely a continent away BUT: At some point Ukrainians need to separate the Putin-cult from Russians. Eventually Ukrainian & Russia will live in a Post-Putin world and SHOULD be friends and neighbors. Few Russian people know the truth, so hating them for JUST being Russian.?

Oh! If we had known he was doing that we might have PAID you to let it go. Think of it: they build a bunker. We fake world crisis. The billionaires lock themselves in their bunker. We let them believe the world has ended. They stay locked up safely until they all die of old age.

This has really gotten under my skin! I can't stop looking and shaking my head! Who believes a strategy to win support is telling people they are not allowed to criticize you and will be severely punished if they dare? Are they nuts? Like they're writing "How to lose friends and piss off people"

I don't favor seeing anyone in Israel/Palestine hurt or killed - BUT this current status-quo is unsustainable. Israel (it seems to me) has descended into the same type of exterminate the vermin politics whose horrors gave birth to Israel. Tragic if that ultimately causes their undoing.

Interesting, and I thank you. I took note of the date, and although the laws mentioned have been passed in all RED states, it is not lost on me that 2/20/2020 Pres. Biden was POTUS. All the more reason to support ONLY true Progressive candidates. More Bernie and AOC and no GOP-lite Democrats.

love that "people born on third base think they hit a triple" Perfect.

Peter Thiel and Musk are one entity effectively: A cabal of foreign-born billionaires who have identified a weakness in the American democracy "algorithm" and are exploiting it for profit. They don't "care" about anything really, so its hard to attack the agenda- its just profit, not principle.

In a MERITOCRACY why are black and female leadership being destroyed with this unqualified, inexperienced WHITE drunken neo-fascist wife beating adulterous uneducated mouthpiece rises to the top spot in our military? In what universe is this meritocracy?

Another reminder that virtually every moral, ethical, humane advance in American democracy has come from the courage and determination of our black citizens. Jefferson may have written "all men are created equal" but a lot of blood has been spilled to make it real. Still a work in progress.

Whether you agree or disagree with the Palestinians or the Israeli perspective is immaterial. Americans don't arrest and deport people for saying disagreeable things. But this is standard playbook for fascist cults: use intimidation to silence all voices not echoing the cult doctrine.

Veterans shouldn't be REQUIRED to "figure out" how to make the VA system work. The VA should be caring for veterans, not lecturing them.
Bottom line: Trump hates veterans. Period. VETS by their very existence, remind Trump that he is a coward who faked "bone spurs" and refused military service.

Probably. When Putin is overthrown or dies (he will, and probably soon) the revolution that will erupt in Russia will sweep the oligarchs aside. Then all the documentation of Trump/MAGA treason will be published.
We WILL survive Trump. Fascist cults has a short shelf life.