oh the city where all the streets are numbered according to distance from the Morman temple?
nah….
i reckon the salt lowers the freezing point of the lake so it can get colder, eh?

All these false talking points and lies smell of right wing am radio trash.

you’re just like maga. not everyone who disagrees with you or asks questions is Rush Limbaugh, and these aren’t “talking points” that i’m getting from a list handed out to right wing newscasters, this just me, a human, talking about thoughts and my inner conflict regarding greta.
do you even know what “talking points” means? or is that just some way that you can discount a person’s perspective entirely.
i’m engaging in a discussion, not making proclamations.
….
you clearly missed it but i DO respect her, her values and what she’s doing… just not like, completely worshipping her as some green deity like you.

that’s fine… they’re not doing the whole city… they are trying it out

west michigan IS that special. you either clear the roads, or you don’t use them.
and there are a lot of roads and a limited amount of plows… downtown in a larger city like GR, it makes perfect sense.
for the record, Lake Michigan generates it’s own clouds and snow, and the wind is constantly blowing west to east… it snows a lot more than you think… and very suddenly

the dude started attacking her in a full on hate crime…
if anyone starts attacking me in a sandwich shop, i am going for maximum damage… i’m not going to just hope they’ll stop attacking me, i will do my best to make it not possible for them to attack (although leaving is the first choice… if i can’t, i’m hurting them).
she has zero remorse, but i don’t imagine it’s the first time she’s been attacked for being trans.

Killing Greta would be the kind of media storm that Israel would not want to deal with

Israel shot the ship last time they tried to go across… I don’t think they care.
I don’t understand why people would think, “they surely won’t kill me, it would be too immoral!” while protesting a literal genocide.

In March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolence activist, placed herself in the path of a Caterpillar D9R armored bulldozer in Rafah, in an attempt to impede house demolitions, and was run over by the bulldozer and murdered. I strongly discourage you from finding it, but there is video of her death. They definitely saw her, surely heard her screaming, and they did not hesitate… On March 16, every year since including this year, Israeli soldiers (and others) eat waffles in celebration of killing her.

Imagine trying to bring a humanitarian aid vessel to one of the Jewish ghettos in Nazi germany pre-wwii… Do you think the Nazis would be afraid of “the kind of media storm” they’d get? Or would they just kill them and continue the genocide?

I wouldn’t say it’s pointless, or that it’s not brave… but it’s naive to think that a genocidal regime, who is very public about their genocide, will suddenly have a crisis of conscience because they don’t want to kill white people.

also, for the record, she did not attempt to do this before. She acted like she was going to attempt to, but then didn’t get on the boat. I don’t think she should get on it, either… that’s not her skillset and the only point of her being on it is, “oh but they wouldn’t dare to kill greta!”… and they surely would kill her, and not apologize, and probably celebrate her death.

written by someone who has never been to michigan.
fyi, Michigan is a peninsula surrounded by the great lakes… it has it’s own special snow….
(see also, lake effect snow).

no, it’s apparently not worth talking to you… please block me and stop talking to me.

the article skips why, but it is actually extremely relevant…

Cruz’s attorney claimed his client, a transgender woman, lashed out against Hodges because the 36-year-old postal worker had made a slur “about her gender identity.”
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Cruz claimed that Hodges had ridiculed her with homophobic remarks and struck her several times before she pulled a knife and fatally stabbed him.
She showed no remorse for her actions when interviewed by detectives at the 28th Precinct in Harlem.

“I hope he’s maggot food,” Cruz told detectives, according to court documents. “I killed him laughing. Oh, well. I’ll piss on his grave.”.
Hodges had struck Cruz at least three times during the deli fight before she stabbed him, she claimed.

“I told him, ‘You come to me and I’ll kill you,’” Cruz told investigators. “No motherf—ers are going to put their hands on me no more.

“He tried to mess with me because I’m trans, and I poked him up,” Cruz said.

well that’s just completely divorced from reality

a: i’m not part of any “you guys”.
b: like i said, part of me is jaded, part of me is impressed…
i don’t know, because she already almost did this once and then didn’t get on the boat. That isn’t walking the walk…
you greta fanboys are nuts.
i don’t like her because she convinces her followers to drop out of school, when an education would give them a lot of power to actually change things.
protests are great and all, but we DO need more environmental scientists. just because she dropped out doesn’t mean it’s not worthwhile to understand environmentalism from a scientific point of view.
i don’t see her so much as walking the walk as much as a very very privileged white girl, who wrote some okay essays and is doing more harm than good.

you have no idea what gatekeeping means… liberal

she already “almost” did this a couple months ago, but then didn’t get on the boat.
let’s see if she’s on the boat this time.

however, you’re clinically insane if you can’t possibly understand the extremely simple concept i’m writing down.

you need to tolerate thought. As i said in my post, that was one thought i had, balanced by a different competing thought. And i have reserved judgement for now….
this isn’t a cult, we’re allowed scrutinize and to ask questions… to reserve judgement until evidence… this isn’t just green maga….

this is the second time she’s been about to board a ship to break the blockade… part of me is jaded and saying she’s just attaching herself to the latest cause célèbre… the other part says it’s good she’s doing something, even if only attaching her celebrity to an important issue….

it’s not “pro palestine”, it’s not “anti israel”,
it’s anti genocide of palestinians by israelis…
they try to keep framing it as that, as some nationalist thing….

“Israel has the right to defend itself” is a slogan and a trap.
if you disagree, well you’re saying they should just let themselves be murdered?
if you agree then people will act like you’re excusing anything they do while claiming self defense.
if you, like sanders, take that sentence and qualify it, like they have a right to defend themselves but starving children isn’t self defense… well people won’t let you get past the first sentence….

that’s not what gatekeeping is….
you don’t “gatekeep” qualifications and skills.
“you’re not really an artist because you were born rich” would be an example of gatekeeping.
“you’re not really a doctor because you didn’t graduate from medical school” is just the definition of a doctor.

being a megalomaniac narcissistic greedy moron is why he’s taking K and keeping himself in a manic, delusional state without being able to tell why everyone is so mad at him.

a narcissist really can’t understand that they did wrong, they’re able to bend every other belief except that one.

priority seating for obese people with upset stomachs

i know it’s unstoppable now, but isn’t a bad idea to goad a nuclear armed psychopath/narcissist into not chickening out?
as far as i can tell he’s always going to far and when he does occasionally back down and “chicken out”, that’s for the better…