There is a love / hate relationship with gravity. Sure, it helps keep me grounded. But I sure hate it when near everything I drop falls down and breaks, or breaks something else, or injures me.
But then it takes several hundred feet of rocket, that is almost all highly explosive fuel, to launch a capsule the size of a large couch into orbit. Must be more of that relativity stuff…
^^And there’s the zero-sum-game comment. Of course, some of both sides is wrong, and it’s just as true that some of both sides is right. Talking peoples here, not their governments. Hamas is terrible, but it’s unfair to tar all Palestinians with that brush. It’s certainly unfair the shoot through the innocent to kill the terrorists behind them. Unfortunately, the only time the world pays any attention to them is when something blows up. The rest of the time they remain in refugee camps and overpopulated and cities, for decades, and Israel, the government not the people, squeezes them even more. Until something blows up, again, and we repeat the cycle… Millenia of bloodshed over a scrap of land rooted in different ways of believing in the same god. Insanity defined.
I’m always surprised, after fending off yet another scam or fraud or phishing attack or etc, at how people who are obviously smart and tech savvy choose such demeaning and criminal ways to make a buck. Is it all just a lack of legal opportunities where they are, or is there more to it?
Perhaps, instead of seeing it as a chasm to be stepped into, they (we) should see it as a mountain to be climbed. The first is suicide, the second difficult, but rewarding.
I agree that progressives are “better” than that. What I find disturbing, however, is how far from the “old” common decency of polite discourse they / we have drifted. I learned, long ago, that someone who needed to use anger, insults, obfuscation, lies, a raised voice, name calling or force of any kind to make their argument, either had no valid argument to make or was the wrong person to be making the argument. While I fully understand the desire to, and humor in, use insulting terms to diminish the other side, I can’t help but think it lowers the standard of the conversation. Offered with all due respect.
Funny thing is, despite all of the hate verbalized above, I haven’t seen anyone, not one, write in support of Hamas. Wanting the killing to stop is not supporting Hamas, it’s supporting peace.
Spoken by a gooper.