BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. Jesus Christ

every single time they talk about anti-genocide protesters, at the moment, they’re calling all of us “pro Palestinian”. just like how the Nazis called anybody who defended non-Aryans “jew lovers”, the same reason that slavers called abolitionists “n*gger lovers”. as if the only reason you could possibly feel empathy for that particular group of people is because… well I’m not sure exactly what they’re implying.

we are not “pro palestinian”. if the Palestinians were committing a similar genocide against Jewish folk, we would be just as upset in the other direction.

I was talking about what they’re calling me, dipshit. and if you’re not an anti-genocide protester, then thanks for waving your red flag this early in the conversation

you guys invent a new word for “anti-genocide protester” every time you have to talk about somebody who signs your paycheck.

it’s how I crate trained my dog. I adopted him when he was two and he was terrified of the crate. I would put him in the same room as the crate, put high value food in it, shredded cheese, deli meats, and then leave the room. slowly I would feed him more and more normal things as I got closer and closer while he was in the crate. pretty quickly I was feeding him all of his meals in there, but he would always watch till I left the room before going in.

anytime he earned a treat, for sitting, or laying down or whatever, he had to go into the crate to get the treat. at the beginning I would have to toss it into the back of the crate and then leave the room for him to go get it, eventually he was running into the crate waiting for the treat.

within about 2 months he was sleeping in the crate with the door open

every once in awhile you should pull the bags out, pack them, and then just unpack them and put everything away so they don’t get anxious every time

like sometimes I just pull out my cat carriers, and throw treats in the back of them. once they’ve eaten all the treats, the carriers go away

yeah it’s wild to me that petroleum jelly and kerosene come from the same thing

yeah from what people are telling me, we have the capability of processing lower quality crude oil so it makes more sense to export our high quality stuff, then buy the cheap stuff since we can already refine it.

dude. we are not talking about the gasoline. we are talking about the oil being used to make the gasoline. what percentage of the crude oil being refined into American gasoline is American produced crude oil?

yes but how much of that gasoline was made from American crude oil? America has plenty of refineries, just none of them designed for American oil

the government should at least subsidize a couple so in the event of an apocalypse we can make our own gasoline.

correct me if I’m wrong, but the United States doesn’t even have oil refineries that are capable of making gasoline out of American oil? like we need the type of oil that the middle East has, so we’re constantly trading oil back and forth even though we have plenty of it

I think I’ve heard this is true. something about politicians wanting to look environmentalist and therefore preventing the building of any more refineries

is there an easy way for us to abuse this system to get ourselves paid a bunch of money?

my browser always asks if I want the simplified view which always bypasses the paywall

make sure to remind him that Republican leadership has done nothing to stop him, and has facilitated his shitty policy changes every step of the way. just in case he thinks Trump is the only problem and plans on going back once he’s gone

it’s the least efficient method we currently have of storing electricity. and it’s only zero emission if you use a fuel cell

it’s a modified R7 ICBM.

why don’t they just copy-paste the soyuz?

can I have the leaf, or is she just showing it to me?

dude. I was at a Christian rehab center several years ago. this one kid came as a resident, his parents having been missionaries in Western Africa.

he kept having “seizures”, except he was completely conscious during them, he would just have fits where he would collapse to the ground and have uncontrollable muscle spasms. I’m pretty sure it was a form of panic attack, but some Christian hypnotherapist had hypnotized him, and “uncovered” a “suppressed memory” of some random African dragging him into the woods and putting a curse on him at knifepoint. when he was having a fit, one staff member would hold his head in a pillow to keep him from hurting himself, and somebody else would read the bible over him.

somehow, this curse was strong enough to overpower the word of god, but not a handful of xanax.