Why are you asking me?

Jordan Petersonesque comment. I think he was just sea lioning.

"What do you mean 'do'? What do you mean 'you'? What do you mean 'believe'? And what do you mean 'God'?"

It thinks I really, really like Japanese curry.

And it's goddamn right.

That response seems to be functionally identical to the one I responded to already. Am I missing something?

It kinda does, doesn't it? It was a military dentist though, and I wasn't going to be able to refuse whatever they were going to give me, so I believe they told me the truth.

I did threaten to bite them if I was awake enough to remember to do so though, so maybe the IV bag got an extra squeeze!

Right. Team red managed to realign under a set of shared values. Those values are fucking awful, but they did it. No reason we can't too, with hopefully better values - though it would be hard to do worse.

I had that happen with morphine once. Watched the needle for the drip go in, looked away for a second, looked back and it was already being removed because my procedure was done.

What's the alternative? Voting for the next version of Trump directly? I'm all for changing our system, but as it stands the only real viable options are team Trump, and Team Mightnotdoenough. I am not thrilled with the latter either, but it seems less than ideal to let the perfect be the enemy of the less bad.

That feels like a bit of a goalpost shift. The comment I replied to was already comparing the sadism of Israelis and Nazis. To be clear, I wasn’t defending Israel, and I wasn’t even saying that what the Nazis did was worse. I specifically said I’m not sure. I didn't take your initial point to imply certainty either. My point was just that the Nazis were hardly slouching in the sadism department themselves.

I’m not aware of Nazis shooting children in that particular way, you're right. But I'm also unaware of an Israeli equivalent of Mengele. So I’m not really sure where we actually disagree here.

I'm not sure about that. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/children-during-the-holocaust

And while he was just one guy, look up Mengele as well - what he did to twins in particular.

I assume he meant that they cost more for manufacturers to produce.

When I mentioned this to my dad, he complained that his social security might be reduced in the next few years

Oh, that thing we probably aren't even going to get? Sounds rough.

I assume the joke is she liked the idea of carrying fruit on her head and flipped her hat upside down to use as a container.