It doesn’t matter. Children dying from decapitation is equally bad as children dying from airstrikes.

puts the burden of action on the individual

If the “problem” is that you are unhappy when a shitty new product appears, then the problem is you. Because you’ve embraced consumerism so deeply that you don’t know what to do with shitty new products.

Here’s an idea: don’t buy them. Not in order to send someone a message, “vote” for a better product, or otherwise take on the burden of product development. Don’t buy them because you don’t need an endless stream of new products, especially shitty new products. You don’t even need to buy great new products to be happy.

Just to take one example, I open Word docs on Office 2010. Not because I have been trying to send a message to Microsoft for over a decade. Maybe their newest version of Office is great. I wouldn’t know. But Word 2010 still works fine, so I don’t need another one. Diablo 3 still works fine too. I don’t want or need to convince a company to build a new improved version. They need to convince me to buy it.

No, “trash” is used appropriately.

trash (v): to subject to criticism or invective especially : to disparage strongly

I don’t know, but they certainly have concessions left.

The end game is when Republicans realize they cannot elect a Speaker without Democratic votes and offer something meaningful to Democrats in exchange for those votes.

Republicans already worked with Democrats, when 126 Republicans joined nearly all Democrats to avert a government shutdown.

Note that the bill passed by a wide margin, so any Republican could have voted the other way if they thought their vote would hurt them in a primary. At this point, I think a lot of Republicans are more worried about the general than the primary.

“I’m relying on someone else to do something that I won’t do” is not a very compelling statement of personal ethics.

Right there with “My personal ethics is to keep moving, because someone else will stop to help that stranger in need.”

According to the article, Biden said:

“This was act of pure evil… Terrorists purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war — the law of war. It matters. There’s a difference."

All of these statements are very easy to defend.

None, which is why Democrats aren’t helping them.

Republicans will need to offer concessions that they can’t later wiggle out of. Kind of like the concessions McCarthy offered to Gaetz.

State and Defense are on the same page, you just need to read between the lines.

They want a targeted strike against Hamas leadership (i.e. not “de-escalation” or a “ceasefire” or an “end to bloodshed”) but they don’t want unnecessary civilian casualties. In other words less “Shock and Awe”, more “Seal Team Six”.