volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@freemo nobody said you have to be tolerant!

But if you're going to be tolerant then, yes, you have to be tolerant to the point of absurdity if it comes to that, by definition.

And that's a great reason not to be absurdly tolerant!

@realcaseyrollins

@todayilearned Well more importantly it's a sign that the restrictions on renting out these apartments make them unavailable to people who need housing.

We should really rethink rent stabilization with examples like this.

When government restrictions make it costly to provide housing, we need to rethink those restrictions.

@paulschoe No because it is core to how the actual process works.

The distinction is key because it describes the process for congressional appropriations, and the president's role (or lack thereof) in the legislative branch.

@Free_Press

@Mikewashere

Given the political and legal realities around Netanyahu, and everything we know about the realities surrounding Biden, at this point even the issues of money and bombs aren't enough to guarantee that he would take the call.

And there has been reporting about supposed snubs showing exactly that between the two.

Keep in mind the state of the coalition government in Israel right now, and the time horizon of Netanyahu's tenure.

@accretionist@techhub.social what of him?

We should call out Biden for his screw ups on his own sake. He's really screwing stuff up. And we should hold him accountable for that and not let him scapegoat or distract or anything else.

Biden is screwing up, and that has nothing to do with Trump.

I will say, though, not that it matters, but Trump seemed so incompetent that he was unable to screw things up even if he wanted to. Again, not that it matters.

It has been actions of the Biden administration that have really reached into our workplaces and screwed things up, and he really needs to be held accountable for that. I've never seen it this bad before.

@Jayslacks

@freemo I'd say the key is to just be honest.

If a person doesn't want to tolerate something, great! They should own it. I'm going to be intolerant about my friends being jerks in my living room.

Intolerance is not necessarily bad.

And in fact a person can highlight just how bad they consider something to be by saying, that idea is so unacceptable that I will be intolerant about it.

So I always tell people to just be honest, own what they are doing, don't try to rewrite the language instead because that just gets silly and even undermines their causes.

@realcaseyrollins

@freemo @realcaseyrollins

2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of two

Tolerance is absolutely a virtue for sufficiently intolerant definitions of tolerant.

@dikleyt@deadinsi.de Gills can be hard to maintain outside of aquatic environments.

@impactology what in the world?

There are tremendous amounts of resources spent every day that speak to the opposite of this post, with armies of people working on making education more effective and approachable and accessible. There are entire fields of studies focused on that specific issue.

Have I ever met such a person? Yes! I meet hordes of them!

@Mikewashere what makes you think Netanyahu would even take the phone call?

Joe Biden has really squandered his influence on the international stage.

@eastgate sounds like faulty electronics inside the bulb to me.

@liamvhogan I mean, I don't think support of authoritarianism has been a leftist cause traditionally, but more importantly here, such attacks end up confirming the claims of far-right extremists, firing them up rather than being extraordinarily effective in shutting them down.

Even if you're going to be authoritarian, fine, but please don't feed the trolls.

@Jayslacks you might have a different opinion if you were personally being negatively impacted by actions of his administration.

I wish he was boring. Instead I've been facing years now of having him throwing workplaces into disarray, threatening people's jobs, calling to question future funding, and generally just sticking his nose into things and mucking them up.

And that's not even getting into the rather not boring state of conflicts around the world.

Oh I wish Biden was boring. Sadly he's not.

@SeaGoatGirl I mean, they are the best self-promoters who leave people thinking they aren't self-promoting...

Taylor Swift is a pro!

@Dan_Ramos have you asked them?

@mike805 My sense is that a whole lot of it comes down to rebels without a place to direct their rebellion.

They need a The Man to fight against, but given the state of the US government they don't see much to fight against there, so they start making up monsters.

@freemo

@freemo yep.

It's the old internet adage don't feed the trolls.

Trump was on his way out of the limelight and into history until Democrats started renewing the attention and supporting his rhetoric by the way they acted.

@Free_Press aid to Ukraine is not being blocked.

Biden is requesting it but he doesn't have the funding for his project. You can't block funding that doesn't exist.

@LiamOMaraIV Right which is absolutely not what you said in your original post.

I'm glad you have come around.