The Times of Israel said Iran fired two ballistic missiles and that both were intercepted.

Does this make almost no sense to anyone else? If you’re going to violate the ceasefire, why would you only fire two missiles? Considering Israel’s success rate with shooting down missiles, these were almost guaranteed to be intercepted. Were they hoping Israel would just forget about their missile defense system? Even if that was the case, again, why only two? It’s like the entire goal was just to technically violate the ceasefire with no other gain.

It’s so simple a child could understand it; yet, it’s somehow impossible to many adults.

Misleading titles all around and we wonder why media literacy is through the fucking ground.

I keep meaning to make a browser extension that automatically adds some version of “AND WELCOME TO THE JAM” anytime the word slam is used.

This man will die old and surrounded by family without any regrets related to this. You need to break this infantile view of the world where you think bad people will see consequences for their actions. That is fairy tale nonsense. In the real world, the villains usually win. Karma is bullshit used to make people think that justice is some universal constant. The universe does not care.

You know that Israel MAKES munitions right? They have a pretty sizable weapons industry. Not to mention with Trump in office, there is little slowing down how much they can purchase from the US.

I would take any report of Israel running out of arms with a massive, heaping spoonful of salt.

Only one flaw with your logic… Most of the neighboring countries hate Palestine almost as much as the Israeli’s do. That’s why they haven’t been accepting any refugees and haven’t been putting a lot of pressure on Israel for their actions, Yemen being one of the few exceptions.

A plant, should be illegal? A plant? A thing that will grow out of the ground if you scatter a few seeds? Why would you want to make a plant illegal?

many just don’t want their communities taken over by religious nuts who time and time again have shown they have no interest in integration, and instead just want to force their beliefs on everyone around them.

Yes, this applies to all extremist religions.

Muslim is not a race. It’s a backwards ass religion that has been taken hostage by extremists for about 70 years. And while there are small-minded folk who just use Muslim to mean “middle eastern brown people”, many just don’t want their communities taken over by religious nuts who time and time again have shown they have no interest in integration, and instead just want to force their beliefs on everyone around them.

Her main protagonist is a rich jock who grows up to be a cop. What did you expect?

I think you’re the one looking at things on way too short of time scale.

You’re looking at the current protests as if they are the start of the movement.

But protests have been going on against the rise of fascism and Trump since his first term. Almost a full decade of protests. Less and less people turning out each time as they realize it changes nothing. This isn’t the beginning, it’s the end.

Yes, any major city. You think people only fill the streets in Philly? Look at literally any city after they have a major football or baseball win. Streets are packed. There’s not always violence, but good luck trying to drive through downtown that evening. And guess what? The people filling the streets AREN’T just from the stadium. People pour out of their homes, bars, EVERYWHERE. Using your Philly example, look at this crowd. You think those are all just people from the stadium? That was a Sunday night. It was cold out, those people had jobs they had to be at the next day, but it didn’t matter because they felt it was “important” to be out there. And that’s just the spur of the moment post-game celebration. The scheduled parade that Friday had over a million people show up. Over a million.

Now look at any picture or video from the recent “protests” and tell me it’s not pathetic in comparison. And what happened in Philly is not the exception. Similar turnouts happen in any major US city following a Super Bowl win, most cities following a World Series win, and some cities following a Stanley Cup win. Its so expected, cops will pre-section off areas of the cities because they know people are going to be out on the streets not giving a fuck.

So yes, when the protests can’t even muster up even 1% of the crowds that naturally occur after a fucking ball game, it can be safely called a depressingly low turnout.

Buddy, I am American. This shit is pathetic. I’m tired of pretending that less than 1000 people standing on a street corner is a good protest. The turnout has been embarrassingly bad, and the internet’s take that it’s because working Americans don’t want to risk their jobs completely discounts the feeling of utter defeat many are feeling. There is just no motivation to protest anymore, it’s been shown to be as ineffective as calling or writing to your senator. You know they aren’t going to see it, and if you receive anything back, it will be a canned, generic response that doesn’t even acknowledge your message.

I’m not upset with people for not turning out. I fully understand why they don’t. I just wish we’d stop pretending these protests are the start of some new movement, when all signs point to them being the last gasps of a dying resistance. Think that’s too doom and gloom? Well, unfortunately, that is our reality.

And yet, look at any major city after a sports team win. The harsh truth is the protest turnout here in the states is pathetic. It’s low to the point of being embarrassing. It’s so low, that right wingers can use it as evidence of support for Trump; because clearly, if people were actually upset, there would be more than just a handful of people showing up and peacefully standing around.

Again, look at the streets after a sports team wins a game. Don’t tell me people can’t show up. Don’t tell me people can’t do more than hold signs. They do it all the fucking time because their group of guys moved a ball better than another group of guys.

The fact is, Americans don’t protest because we’ve mostly become disillusioned and have given up. There hasn’t been a single protest that accomplished anything since the Occupy Wall Street movement, and all that accomplished was getting media companies to circle the wagons and ensure they never, ever talk about class war again.