This is common sense and while I agree, in principle, I feel like 90% of noise complaints that get escalated have to do with two groups that don't follow common sense on the issue: power-hungry assholes who just want to control people and start shit, and genuinely disabled people whose noise tolerance is completely different than most people (hypersensitivity to sound, auditory hallucinations etc.).

My sister got harassed out of an apartment by an elderly lady downstairs (not sure which category she fit into) who would complain about literally any sound they made upstairs. Normal conversation, in the early evening, would prompt angry letters in their mailbox. She would write meticulous logs of all their "transgressions" (like, "1 AM, chair moved across floor") and threaten to send them to the police, talk shit to other neighbors trying to spark drama etc. I don't feel like there was really any way my sister could have fixed that situation by being "better", because she didn't do anything wrong. Life makes sounds sometimes, maybe even at inconvenient hours. Sometimes you gotta move a chair real quick at 1 AM. It is what it is. All she could have done was accept that her downstairs neighbor has extreme needs, and then work to live a completely silent life. She didn't, she moved out instead. Like most people would probably do.

I guess my point is that having simple "common sense" rules about this doesn't really work in a system where vulnerable/sensitive people live next door to neurotypical/non-sensitive people whose ordinary lives makes a baseline of noise. People like my sister's upstairs neighbor would probably need detached housing or a heavily insulated apartment, which I imagine a better society could probably provide to those who need it.

nor will we in fact, not defend Taiwan

Don't know if it's deliberate, but he's using a double negation

A Mexican taxi driver once told me that "gringo" came from "green go" as well, but his explanation was that once you get your green card, you go. He definitely joking, of course, but interesting that there are two versions of the "green go" etymology.

Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg

Those solar panels were installed right on top of peaceful demonstrators in Tinman Square

How would one theoretically do such a hypothetical thing?

Trots make me so confused. My local trot org (most successful left org where I'm from) have very good opinions on Gaza/genocide. They also hate China with a glowing passion. Really hard to make sense of people like that.

Wasn't he also accused of being behind the Lockerbie bombing?

"supporting and being complicit in genocide isn't sufficient to be Hitler. That Hitler requires a desire to be a dictator as well."

Such a chef's kiss of smug, willful ignorance. Like, this person knows Hitler is shorthand for 'terrible person', here, and not literal. So why suddenly be overly literal and pedantic about what characterizes a "Hitler"? Oh right, because Trump wants to be dictator! Meaning the entire point could have been expressed by typing "yes Biden genocide, but no because Trump"

The absolute adorable naivete of someone who thinks the US will only export fascism if the red guy wins

I was a big fan as a teenager (militant atheist debate pervert phase), and I have to say I think he was always like this. But I think "free thinker" "politically incorrect" assbags like him generally felt more welcome among the broader left/democratic party umbrella back then, and I think it rubbed off on the audience (or at least on me back then). Wasn't he always just kind of a Clinton-democrat? Neoliberal economics, yuppie suit, but also weed is totally cool, dude

But if we're being generous, his first (only?) big controversy was saying that the 9/11 hijackers were brave. Sure, I think he was just saying that shit to be a contrarian, but it was probably the most based thing he ever said.

I saw a thread on praising the Macklemore Gaza song, in which he explicitly says he won't vote for Biden. Someone wrote a comment like "yeah, I won't vote for Biden either. Genocide is a dealbreaker" or something like that, and the comment had like 50 downvotes and a bunch of nerds going "what, you prefer Trump who will do genocide but on steroids??". Honestly hilarious that they were seemingly fine with the song, but the moment a "normal" had the nerve to repeat the lyrics their lib attack dog mindset kicked in.