Well considering they’ve never struck American soil and we bombed them thousands of times I as an average American I’m still completely sure they’re the terrorists aggressors.

Dividing people with racism has been a staple tactic over the super rich since pre history.

Zuck isn’t not use it during his reign just cause he’s a super hip non robotic acting techie millennial bro.

The military industrial complex partially just exist to enrich corporations by doing their work abroad, so when the corporations scam the military-industrial complex it’s not like it’s negating it, it’s just another way to enrich themselves which is one of the main purposes all along.

Also aren’t scams and corruption evil? Didn’t the tax paying mom need that money for her and her kids, like the scams aren’t morally neutral either.

"Language, too, forces the air from the lungs. Beyond the high walls and barbed wire and checkpoints that pen this place, there is the empire. And the empire as well is cocooned inside its own fortress of language. A language through the prism of which buildings are never destroyed but rather spontaneously combust in which blasts come and go like Chinooks over the mountain, and people are killed as though to be killed is the only natural and rightful ordering of their existence as though living was an aberration.

And this language might protect the empire’s most bloodthirsty fringe, but the fringe has no use for linguistic malpractice. It is instead the middle, the liberal, well-meaning, easily upset middle that desperately needs the protection this kind of language provides.

Because it is the middle of the empire that must look upon this and say, yes, this is tragic, but necessary, because the alternative is barbarism, the alternative of the countless killed and maimed and orphaned and left without home; without school, without hospital, and the screaming from under the rubble and the corpses disposed of by vultures and dogs and days old babies left to scream and starve is barbarism."

— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Um say what? Lichens are a complex composite life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium. Scabs on a rock! The disrespect!

Oh yeah it’s not necessarily a listen to your elders post. Often they actually are full of it. Just sometimes when you think “this old bat is crazy” you’ll grow up to realize they were 100% right. It’s very difficult or impossible to tell which is which at the time.

Iran is such a beautiful country. I’ve watched people motorcycle and bicycle through it on YouTube and the people are so kind and warm. It’s really upsetting the way America wields it’s might.

Authority is bad. When dems are in office. Debt is bad. When dems are in office. Federal overreach is bad. When dems are in office. War is bad. When dems are in office.

I’m sure there’s a bunch more. Republicans aren’t a real party. They are just an antiparty. Republicans only exist just as the Democrats farther right antagonist.

Americans can boycott too.

Work less.
Spend less.
Barter and trade.
Buy used.
Cancel subscriptions.
Buy from foreign companies when possible
Grow your own food.
Make gifts.

Every dollar you don’t make or spend is taxes that Ice and Israel don’t get.

I dunno why you have so many down votes. It’s like all the Americans who think Trump is the issue, yeah he’s the worst but it’s a whole system.

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle”

If you said he was skilled soldier, loved his wife, went to church, good father. The right would say ah yes perfect.

You saying he was caring, a good nurse, kind, went on walks with his dog. They have a fit. Why?

I think it’s because they’re fine with somebody being painted as a good person, as long as a good person means good citizen, a loyal citizen. They don’t like hearing how someone was actually a good person. They don’t like someone’s moral character being brought into it, probably due to a complete lack of their own.

It’s possible many of that 17% are ‘not sure’ because they failed to understand the question and couldn’t be bothered to read it twice. They are Americans.