From Texas. Me too.

I’m not sure why you deleted your comment. It was very well stated and put a great perspective on why Israel will likely get away with this for at least a couple more years before anyone actually does anything about it.

Awww… Stupid man…

- Eddie Izzard

I wonder if this is the kind of stuff that my family living in opposite sides of the Texas/Mexico said this kind of stuff during the Holocaust, or if they were completely in the dark.

I can’t even fathom what these people are going through. After the first month or two of Israel continually punishing Palestinian civilians for an attack to which they had no association, I told my wife that it was unlikely we’d ever visit my Israeli family because I couldn’t imagine how I’d ever forgive the country. Now, I’m not sure I could ever forgive my family.

How does a boy who used to interview and care for Holocaust survivors end up surrounded by Nazis?

I’m gonna wait until 11:59 to order my PS5 and then list it tomorrow as a “limited edition pre-increase model” for $150 more. Then Sony will hire me as their CEO.

As is putting words in someone’s mouth so you can feign outrage at something that you made up.

Decent argument

Unfriending someone because they try to explain why that could be and their explanation isn’t what you want to hear is childish.

But now you’re putting words in my mouth. I’m no longer friends with him because he wouldn’t stop driving drunk. His dad died driving drunk and I wasn’t gonna wait around to see the same thing happen with him, nor did I find his story about ‘realizing that he actually hit a deer and not a person after checking the next day’ anywhere near as funny as he and his family did. His entire family were alcoholics and his dad was the outlier to have died from it. There was no amount of debating, reasoning, or begging that ever got him to reconsider getting drunk after work and then driving home. So, after a decade, I finally gave up.

Unfriending someone because they try to explain why that could be and their explanation isn’t what you want to hear is childish.

Another assumption. I absolutely listened to him try explaining why drinking till drunkenness and driving every night was okay. Including the fact that he’d been pulled over but the cops knew his family and let him go, so it must not be that big of a deal.

Treating any issue like your viewpoint is the only acceptable one and anyone who believes anything different is wrong and evil is such an ignorant, simplistic way to view the world.

Having grown up in Texas, I was taught to be proud of our confederate heritage and how ridiculous the north was to have attacked us. I’d gone to civil war reenactments where they handed out confederate flags, one of which I kept pinned to my wall for nearly a decade. It wasn’t until high school that I learned how upsetting it was for my black friends to know that I was willing to minimize the true meaning of the civil war and emancipation.

How does all this come together? It takes a special sort of stubborn to continue flying a Confederate flag after learning how shameful it is. The kind of stubborn that convinces someone to drive home drunk every single night.

But, back to you explaining to me how childish it is to unfriend someone for because they tried to explain something that I was done listening to. Since my viewpoint is that flying the Confederate flag is wrong and that driving drunk is a bad idea, please edify me with your mature arguments for why it’s ignorant and simplistic to view the world in a way where drunk driving and flying the Confederate flag are wrong.

Please, tell me the context in which it’s totally cool to fly the Confederate flag in your front lawn

I went to Flower Mound once. That was the most Confederate flags I’ve seen flying in my entire life. I never went back. I had a friend who told me Flower Mound is not that bad and most people fly the flag ironically and that it’s part of our history in the south. I no longer have that friend.

Especially when things are biased in their favor. The longer their reach, the bigger the invisible dragon they have to fight.

Mark Cuban: Interesting pitch, I’m not positive I support your business model… But I’m willing to offer $50 for 75% of a handjob if Mr. Wonderful is willing to match my investment and offer your dad a rusty trombone.

The only thing that stops a bad ship at the bottom of the ocean is a good ship at the bottom of the ocean.

Also, all the ocean above it…

I’m excited to see our solid gold battleships plummet like a rock to the bottom of launch bay