As much as I’d love to believe this, ‘Gaza disarmed’ sounds a lot to me like “We’ll try this exact same thing again next year”.

Hamas attacks against IDF targets often hit and injure civilians as well. Unlike targeted attacks against civilians, such collateral damage is part and parcel of warfare.

“America is not just an idea,” he said solemnly. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”

It’s funny. The people most likely to be ‘American exceptionalists’ take the one thing that is arguably at least somewhat unusual about America (that we are very much not a nation in the traditional sense) and utterly fucking deny it.

I mean, Hamas rocket attacks against IDF targets are fair game.

Explanation: When the Americans learned of the Soviet Mig-25 ‘Foxbat’, the US was certain that the high-speed jet shown by the Soviets was, due to its design and the classified nature of its technical details, an ultra-maneuverable ultra-fast fighter jet, and in response, poured money into the F-15 ‘Eagle’ to make it a weapon that could compare to its Soviet counterpart!

Some ten years later a defector landed with a Mig-25 and handed it over to Western intelligence. Turns out, it wasn’t maneuverable at all, or a fighter, for that matter. It was an interceptor made for catching nuclear bombers, and had all the maneuverability of stiff cardboard. Very fast, though! C’est la vie!

Then where is the peasant-paste beneath their hooves?!

If I was stuck protecting some dumbass blueblood’s head from getting bashed in, I’d probably be screaming too tbf

Even as an only child, I’ve never understood the fascination with sibling incest. I’m pretty sure everyone with siblings I’ve ever known would have been more likely to kill them than screw them.

Cats are racist confirmed???

How much you wanna bet this costs more money than it saves in the end?

Not sure why they’re leaning like that, though.

Shit’s heavy, I believe.

Me buying women’s vitamins because they’re the only ones with iron at the local dollar store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan#Pre-Meiji_Japan

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

Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus used the epithet in the edicts he issued during his joint consulship with Caesar.[1] A man named Octavius, at a public assembly, addressed Pompey as “king” and Caesar as “queen” in their presence.[3] At a debate in the Senate, when Caesar recalled some benefits Rome had received from Nicomedes, Cicero interrupted him with “we all know what he gave you and what you gave him in return”.[3] Consul Gaius Scribonius Curio called Caesar “every man’s wife and every woman’s husband”.[4] Caesar’s own soldiers upon victorious return from the Gallic Wars sang in parade that “Caesar got on top of the Gauls, Nicomedes got on top of Caesar”.[3]

I resent that!

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

Kids didn’t start preschool until 6?

That’s, uh, interesting.

Look, I’m not saying crashing public transportation should be allowed…

… but as the protagonists of a 1980s school comedy, I feel like this can’t end too harshly for them or else it’ll just be bleak and unwatchable.

“Catch!” was very common! You can find some uh, really specific examples too though. Nothing quite like a bored soldier with a basic level of literacy!

In the case of Perusia, the news was a bit more sophisticated: “You’re done for, Lucius Antonius, you baldy”, “I seek Octavian’s ass”, “I seek Fulvia’s clitoris”.

“I WAS going to vote against fascism, but now you’ve FORCED me to vote for fascism!”

Americans are pretty ideologically incoherent anyway.

Fuckin’ mood. You can’t have an IRL conversation about political policy with people because it’s all fucking feels to them. My personal ‘favorite’ is people saying they’re against gun control, and voting accordingly, but if you ask them what their policy preferences are they’re more pro-gun-control than many people who claim to be pro-gun control.