I would, and I would. Also I would.

Why not both?

Everyone needs to start standing up to trump. Make him look as stupid as he is. He’s probably get so enraged he’d just bury his own grave deeper and deeper.

Like, imagine if they just hung up on the president. Trump would order them left behind in space, or arrested when they get back. All NASA funding cut. It’d be gloriously satisfying to witness.

“cheese”

Has anyone proven that subway tomatoes, lettuce, etc. are actually nutritionally worse than supermarket equivalents?

Anyway, Subway and Domino’s both have a distinct smell/taste to everything that puts me off from consuming either more than maybe once a year by choice. Domino’s it’s their pizza/bbq sauces, subway it’s something in the bread. Also Domino’s “mozzarella” I swear is made from a powder or something.

Woah

Depends who “you” are of course.

I mean for “America” but yes. Obviously the weapons companies are having a field day.

This is a bit different. There’s no profit to be had getting high on your own supply.

Depends. Are you sexy and depressed?

Wood?

And what do you think will take its place, and how?

That is the most disingenuous interpretation of my comment I can imagine.

You’re finding enemies in your own trenches my friend. The genocide in Gaza is absolutely horrific, and I am not making any excuses for it.

I’m just saying we live in a better world now as a whole than years past, recent years notwithstanding. Think mid-Obama as maybe the most hopeful time in recent memory as far as advancement toward the Global Goals was concerned, and yeah I know Obama was still bombing foreign countries in the name of anti-terror and killing innocents to get at Obama Bin Laden.

Do you find any optimism in the world or are you pure nihilism?

Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

Yeah, it’s shit. But if we let bad be the enemy of better, we’ll never get anywhere.

Do you think a world without the institutions o mentioned would do any better for Palestinians?

As t least there’s still widespread support and sentiment among the populations of the western world, and Israel is very much a pariah state in many nations’ eyes. It’s just not within most nations’ power to intervene.

Even then intervention is tricky. We don’t people to do what Trump did in Venezuela, because history has shown it doesn’t lead to better long term outcomes.

Of course not, you can’t see very far below the surface.

Institutions like NATO and the ICC, global trade agreements, security guarantees, economic interdependencies, multiculturalism, air travel, the infrastructure of the internet. The fact a bridge collapse or building fire might make international headlines. Movies and culture from around the world being mainstream.

What makes you not think so?

Indeed. But the general direction of world order has been moving against that sort of thing, and increasingly, many serving US politicians and citizens. Trump is undermining both US and global progress away from the worst traits of human hegemonic History and putting them back on full display.

Sure, it’s better than the alternative. But it still makes this move functionally meaningless aside from the reasons I mentioned.

Problem is, Maduro is a figurehead. He’s not a mastermind. The regime will carry on without him. Nothing has been achieved by this kidnapping except a threat to Venezuela, and a message to China and Russia that this is how the world works now.

Edit: Also a lot of innocent or mostly innocent people have been murdered. Trump is a literal murderer.