Everything’s bigger in Texas…

It’s a pun, it’s not supposed to be laugh out loud funny. It takes you a second to get it and then you groan and tell the orator to fuck off.

I like it because it will live inside the head of car brains who actually care that much about make and model even though we’re all still on the same page and it literally doesn’t matter.

Maybe, but I appreciate the semi-alliteration between “ford-dod-ger” and “dodge-char-ger”. Don’t read it like a make/model but as a descriptive term (the syllabic stress changes a bit) and it makes a little more sense.

…and I’ve analyzed the joke to death now. You’re welcome!

I don’t think they did, the make and model is in the headline of one of their links and they take specific issue with this particular vehicle. And it’s true, the dodge brand attracts a lot of asshole drivers that weave through traffic. The misnaming is deliberate and tongue-in-cheek.

I didn’t get it at first either but it’s definitely a clever play on words referring to dodge chargers being driven by reckless drivers, i.e. used to “dodge” other vehicles including fords.

It will never not be funny that these people care so much about fake internet points, and think other people care about those internet points enough to ??? follow them around and downvote them?? Downvote lots of comments at once?? In a way that is somehow different from normal browsing behavior??

Like they’re not even tallied here like they are in the bad place, I genuinely don’t get it. Please drop the word bRiGaDiNg from your lexicon, I promise that absolutely nothing will change except you’ll be slightly less online and much better off for it. Sometimes you will get downvoted, and that’s okay. The world is not out to get you, even if it has a scary .ml next to its name and practices obscure forms of witchcraft like dialectical materialism.

They were actively redlined neighborhoods, often in sundown towns, and loans were given that excluded black people on the basis of their race (see also: the GI bill that excluded black veterans). Not to mention the black neighborhoods and economic centers within cities that were bulldozed and paved over with highways, especially highway interchanges, in order to facilitate this ‘white flight’ from the cities.

Sounds like trucks shouldn’t be so big and should prioritize visibility then

They were bombed to shit by the US whose military is still occupying them to this day…

of course the state that did that and wants to maintain any veneer of democracy would twist itself in knots to convince you that it was the right thing to do.

Could be fish sticks

Yes, I am proudly biased against groups that commit genocide before our eyes and deny it, dispossess indigenous peoples of their ancestral homes and turn them into refugees in foreign lands, along with fascist ideologies which call for the establishment and maintenance of an ethnostate and sheepishly justify Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing as a means to that end. Stay as mad at that as you like and have the day you deserve.

Your aljazeera source with hamas sourced numbers is the misinfo.

Hamas is not only its armed wing. It is the entire government in Gaza. Its numbers have historically been considered reliable by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and Human Rights Watch. In relation to the Gaza war, two letters published in The Lancet journal did not find evidence of inflation or fabrication of Palestinian casualty numbers. There is no reason to cast doubt on their estimates than to deny that Israel is committing a genocide.

Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

The Henry Jackson Society is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom. While describing itself as non- partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neoconservative.

This is your source?? A fucking British soldier that has made a living occupying Ireland and running around shooting at Arabs??? Writing at the behest of a right wing think tank???

The rest of this is racist Zionist slop that I shouldn’t even justify with a response, because even if it was a completely honest portrayal it would not justify genocide, but to start; Palestinians cannot be held responsible for actions that other arab nations took after 1948 (in response to the horrific acts committed during the nakba, but that nonetheless does not justify it) or the antisemitism that was in large part purposefully fomented in those nations by Israel to advance the Zionist mission. The intention of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine has been made clear since Zionism first emerged in the late 19th century. The mass transfer of Jews to historic palestine and the ensuing displacement of Palestinians started before even 1933, which is when the Haavara agreement was signed between Nazis and Zionist collaborators. It has never been about “self defense” and that is a fucking shameful way to justify the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their home land.

You have an agenda and no amount of logic will ever change it.

Back at you.

Get the fuck out of here you disgusting fucking Zionist.

So for Israel it’s just Netanyahu, but for the organized resistance against Israel, it’s the entire group? I don’t think you know what chauvinism really is, or why it’s bad. You also avoided my question:

Is there any organization that could take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

Forgive me if I don’t believe you’re really motivated by being against governments or tyranny. If you’re not in favor of resistance, then what your argument essentially boils down to is “everyone does it, therefore it can’t be helped when the government I don’t want to criticize is doing it 100-fold with the help of powerful allies for the purpose of genocide, because that’s just what governments do”. The only thing it serves is soothing your conscience and lack of curiosity.

You care to comment, but you don’t care to learn anything that goes too hard against the state narrative. So you end up with shallow analysis and platitudes that reinforce the status quo, and you arrogantly assume that you or someone like you would know better than the people in the region who have spent their entire lives learning and resisting. This is in stark conflict with your supposed aversion to tyranny.

It is your responsibility to investigate before you speak. If I may, I would suggest you start here

The Communist Party of Cuba

I wasn’t denouncing violence, I was denouncing bad men.

Violence is violence, and none of it is justified.

Yes you were???

Who is the “bad man” on the Hamas side that hasn’t already been martyred? If there is none, why do you denounce Gaza’s entire government but only one “bad man” when it comes to Israel? Is there any organization that would take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

Name one benevolent regime the US has supported.

Then your point is a bad one. See my edit.

You think a government is going to just give up power, that it won’t take mass organization to challenge hegemonic powers and a new form of governance to deprogram the racist settler colonial ideology that is embedded into the Israeli populace? That’s incredibly unrealistic. What’s your plan to get there, then, and how does it help Palestinians?

Dogmatically denouncing all violence, when violence is the main tactic employed to enforce hegemony, is reactionary and counter productive. It only serves the status quo, to keep us where we are. It’s chauvinism.

No, I will not agree that its okay for anyone to blame the victims in this situation for their own genocide, but you can run away if you’re so afraid of challenging your own western chauvinist notions.

Sorry, try again. The negotiations have been sabotaged by Netanyahu at every step. The American government; first at Biden’s direction and now Trump’s; has lied to the public to cover for him, blaming Hamas and twisting the word ‘ceasefire’ to not mean ceasefire at all.

Not to mention that Israel has assassinated the “hot heads” you’re referring to, who would be counterparts to Netanyahu. The leader of the Hamas organization, Yahya Al-Sinwar, was martyred in Gaza in October. Hamas’s lead negotiator, lsmail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran in July. Needless to say, they have stepped aside. Permanently.

I suggest reading a more comprehensive history of the negotiations themselves

When looking for the party who is being unreasonable in a negotiation, look to the one that has the least to lose by walking away. And while you’re at it, stop acting like you know better or have more urgency than the people who have experienced 77 years of dispossession, occupation, and genocide, on their own land. You call them “terrorists” as if that dismisses their humanity en masse and the inherent rationality granted by such, but you betray charitability to the Israeli government by speaking as if all of its evil is contained within one powerful man. Why do you do that?

Actually no, wait, you must be the cooler head that will prevail. Don’t you dare introspect before sharing your responses to the dilemmas pressed in that article I shared, lest you taint your answers with terrorist propaganda! Win a “ceasefire”, except Israel is explicitly allowed to break it once you’ve given up the only bargaining chip (A chip that additionally has a chance of getting it through to the Israeli populace, who are paying attention, that their government does not care about them beyond their ability to legitimize Israel’s occupation by existing on stolen land.) OR, continue pressing for an actual realistic end to your people’s suffering.

Yes, I’m sure if you were in Gaza you would want a “cooler” disinterested party who doesn’t care at all about you, your culture, or the land that has given both life, to be making that decision for you.