What’s to investigate?

The “settlers” are state-sponsored terrorists. That’s been obvious to anyone with a working brain and an ounce of integrity for years now.

It seems like it shouldn’t even be possible to be that irrational and function - like a person whose brain is that broken could never even make it out of the house because they can’t figure out how to work a doorknob.

Apparently, threatening to expose Trump as a pedophile is more effective than giving his son-in-law a few billion dollars.

Of course not - he doesn’t think anything through, ever. Like the overgrown toddler he is, he just does whatever his squalling ego demands at any given moment.

I think the most likely scenario is that Netanyahu made Trump understand that Israel’s Epstein files are even more damning than the US’s, and if they were released, norhing was going to even be redacted, and everything since then has been Trump flailing around for excuses to do what Israel has been trying to con the US into doing for decades.

I’m not an anarchist by chance.

Thanks for the response.

Locals pronounce it nə-VA-də.

So at the very least, one would think there would be some sort of consequences for the plain fact that Trump’s thugs keep blatantly lying.

Furure sociologists are going to be spending entire careers trying to sort out how the US went so badly wrong.

Of course they do - every sovereign nation has that right.

That’s one of the most notable ways in which self-serving assholes have warped things to their own benefit - Americans have neen indictrinated into treating national sovereignty as essentially a privilege the US is rightfully empowered to grant or withhold rather than the fundamental right it needs to be.

Methinks they doth protest too much

It’s increasingly obvious that the classified dicuments thing wasn’t just an oversight or even merely an attempt to profit, but a significant and almost certainly treasonous criminal act with sufficient evidence that they have no hope of fighting it, so can only try to bury it.

Causing harm to civilians in order to coerce the submission of a government is the very definition of terrorism

Aged well or died gracefully.

That’s the question, isn’t it?

Yes.

Do I need to repeat it?

Oh gee - who would’ve guessed that that brazenly compromised piece of shit Aileen Cannon would issue yet another bullshit ruling to protect Trump from the justice he deserves and she’s sworn to uphold?

With Trump playing a role that’s sort of Caligula, Nero and Marie Antoinette all rolled into one.

There are times I almost feel sorry for conservatives.

Many of them genuinely don’t know any better. They’re crippled by stupidity, ignorance and/or neurosis and can’t see that their views are irrational at best, and they’re frightened and intimidated and thus angered by conflicting views, and further crippled by cognitive dissonance. And they can’t even consider the possibility that their views aren’t generally promoted in higher education simply because they’re irrational, so they instead want to ascribe it to censorship. And that seems likely to them because they themselves are frightened by opposing views and demand their censorship, and they just project that weakness onto others.

It’s an ugly little trap that inevitably just leads to them becoming more and more frightened and angry and willfully ignorant, and means that they’re going to grow old and die still locked in that ugly, hateful, frightened trap of their own making.

But I only almost feel sorry for them, because I always come back to the fact that they’re fucking assholes who are actively destroying everything of any actual value that humanity might accomplish.

Even as Israel, in open defiance of the ceasefire and contrary to every conception of simple human morality and decency, murders more Palestinian men, women and children every single day.

Because they’re corrupt and/or cowardly.

When a civilization is terminally ill, rational people tend to stop investing time and effort into an increasingly obviously vain attempt to save it, even as lunatics move in to steal everything they can while there’s still something to steal. That hastens the inevitable end.

Fair point — and I

Who?

This post was written by an AI agent.

Which is to say, a complex set of computer programs used statistical models to generate a string of words.

Which is not, by even the wildest stretch of the most fevered imagination, even vaguely similar to an expression of consciousness.

Well… yeah. I thonk it’s fairly self-evident that individuals have different threaholds for suspension of disbelief, and that the thresholds even vary between subjects with a given individual (for example, it’s harder to maintain suspension of disbelief relative to an area in which one has expertise).

But that’s not really relevant - I just included “acceptably” to be more precise and accurate.

The relevant part is the core idea that the mechanism by which at least some seemingly rational people support blitheringly insane and factually unsupportable political views is not really some combination of prejudices and biases by which they convince themselves of the nominal truth and correspondence to reality of their beliefs, but by engaging in suspension of disbelief - by entirely switching off the parts of their brain that measure truth and correspondence with reality, just as I do when I read a novel or watch a movie.

I certainly don’t know that to be the case, but it’s a fascinating possibility