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Damning with faint praise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

The pyramids were built right around the time that it ended. (Great Pyramid of Giza built c. 2600 BCE; African Humid Period ended c. 2200 BCE)

There wouldn’t have been snow there, but there would’ve been grass and trees.

“Agree to disagree” is even worse, especially since often the thing you’re arguing about is an empirical goddamn fact and they are not entitled to “disagree” about it. That’s not having a difference of opinion; that’s just fucking being wrong!

I especially hate it here in the South, as it’s used as a sanctimonious “fuck you” while dishonestly claiming righteousness.

For example, the last time that was said to me was when some asshole crossed a double-yellow to pass me while I was doing 22 in a 25 mph school zone (which means he was doing at least 35 or 40). When I pulled up next to him at the red light and pointed that out, he bitched at me for taking the lane instead of riding in the bike lane (that didn’t exist! It was half a block of shoulder that ended!). He continued to argue that cyclists weren’t entitled to use the street, then as the light changed said “bless you” as if he fucking won and drove off.

It is the most condescending, assholish thing you can say to a person and it makes me want to punch you in your smarmy goddamn face every single time.

My account was “permanently suspended” for “mod abuse” because I reported misinformation in r/conservative.

Because the only ethical kind of company is a worker-owned co-op. It should not have been possible for employees to not own shares, but it was, and that’s bad.

And put it up in conservative areas (e.g. suburban freeway billboards), not the middle of city.

Don’t underestimate the sexism (particularly gamergate 4chan incels).

The entire population of Israel is under 10 million people. Even if every single one of them were Israeli-American (i.e. eligible to vote in US elections), they would still be dwarfed by the more than the 80 million evangelical Christians in the US who mostly support Israel (not Jews, just Israel) for the reason I described.

Most American zionists aren’t Jewish to begin with. They’re evangelical Christians who want to ship all the Jews back to the “Holy Land” to kick-start “Armageddon” so they themselves can get “Raptured.” They don’t give a shit about Jews; they just want them gone.

They have more than enough privilege to support Trump’s hate without any risk to themselves – actually, even that is an understatement: they’re at the very core of Trump’s base.