BeijingPalmer

I mean, there's lots of good food in China too! it's just no more an automatic thing than anywhere else.

oh there's a lot of good food too. I've had amazing street food and great high-end restaurants. it's just more work than you'd think.

now this is something that has improved quite a lot in the last decade, as the cold storage chain scaled up considerably. previously a lot of stuff wasn't refrigerated or frozen, *especially* in transit.

god I've had so much bad food in China. one of the worst canteen cultures in the world, surprisingly! but also the banquet food is often shockingly bad, because it's left out for long periods of time.

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

when leftists treat the United States and Israel as the only global actors with agency they are going to get caught off guard when shit like this happens

yeah this is a real 'what the fuck' moment. she knows who he is! www.americanprogress.org/article/lead...

If you find yourself saying these things you are as low as the worst reactionary Zionist proclaiming that Palestinians are vermin. And you would have known this before you boiled your brains on atrocity footage and outrage and the need to fit in with your fellow travelers ever egging each other on.

"what about -"

No. I don't care what evil country you cite. No existing country on this earth is founded upon the core tenets of child murder and sexual assault. Countries do these things, because countries contain humans and some humans are evil.

No country is founded upon these things.

For the record, no country on the fucking planet has as its core tenets "sexual assault and child murder." If you believe otherwise, you are a bigot, and you are regurgitating the ethos of the Protocols.

Fix yourselves, or go join your natural fellow travelers.

If the gulf states actually get put in the middle of things for a extended period of time a lot of Dubai propaganda is going to unwind

it is unusual to think about it this way, but Israel did overtly support Donald Trump after he attempted a coup against our government. insofar as there is democracy in this country, Israel is opposed to it.

Senate Democrats Ask David Ellison To “Preserve Records” As They Threaten Investigation Of Paramount Contacts With Trump Over WB Bid Senators fired off a letter to Paramount CEO David Ellison, asking him to preserve records regarding attempts to acquire Warner Bros Discovery.

deadline.com/2026/02/sena...

Democratic lawmakers warn top law firms that deals with Donald Trump may be illegal Democratic legislators have warned top law firms that the deals they have struck with US President Donald Trump to avoid being targeted by punitive executive orders may violate federal and state laws.

they do this stuff all the time.

min.house.gov/media/in-the...

I mean there's multiple levels of stupid in the OP.

Senate Dem Threatens Companies Courting Trump’s Favor for Mergers: ‘We’re Going to Break’ You Up “We have to make it so painful that generations from now CEOs will flinch at the idea of business corruptly teaming up with government.”

took me ten seconds to find an example *from the last three days*

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

the sheer level of confidence it takes to come on and accuse a guy who was the target of death squads by a fascist foreign invader of being a fraud, and also short.

obviously the president of Ukraine could have no interest in Iran, now to take a big sip of coffee and look up what a Shahed drone is.

I can't decide if the youth are really bad drinkers or just terrible at maths.

from my very narrow pov at some point we switched from “it is not antisemitic to criticize israel” to “it is impossible to be antisemitic while criticizing israel” and things have gone very steeply downhill since then

Sunday is a holy day:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

you just have to recognize that some people are invincibly ignorant and stick to the ones who are at least *trying* to reason their way through the world.

look, I've heard people claim that Al Gore would have invaded Iraq and that Hilary Clinton would have put anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court. 'the imaginary version of the Democrats in my head' is always going to win for some people really committed to the 'both parties are the same' crap.

c) this kind of freakish guilt-by-association does nobody any good.

I think it's worth reminding people that Netanyahu––on whose watch 10/7 occurred––may also not exactly be a master strategist thinking twelve steps ahead

a) most of these way predate me ever saying anything about Newsom

b) that would be fucking stupid since everything I've ever said about Newsom is that his stance is bad but he's way better than any Republican and not representative of the Democrats as a whole.

will stancil tweeting about being a highly competent endurance predator should not surprise any of us

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored

(2/2) So he bought the English. It was the exact opposite: the translator actually made the thing make more sense in German than the original English.