Even if it was a mistake, which it was not, “Oops,” isn’t a valid excuse for military action. Incompetency is not expected behavior for most other governments.

Meanwhile, headline writers are stoked it’s different enough to be considered “unprecedented” and “once in a lifetime.”

Oh, I think they paint their hatred with a very wide brush

He’s the type of person to make me wish for the existence of hell

I’m getting desensitized to racism and bigotry, but the idiocy of this statement took me aback - “I would probably feel more comfortable there [in a whites-only country] because I’m white and that’s the way this country was when my ancestors came there.”

Is the “Mission Accomplished” banner from Bush’s tenure still available?

It’s not like he’s going to begin acting like an irrational idiot soon. Why would this change anything?

If they are “the same in this particular sense” then use that language instead. In no other context do people use the phrase “these are the same” meaning “these have something in common.” I wouldn’t defend the phrase “Galas and Fijis are the same” because of their similarities any more or less than if I were to compare apples and oranges. I’d say they’re both apples or they’re both fruit or any number of specific descriptors that they actually share.

It seems to me that if people are using this language as you suggest then they should communicate more clearly, or, more likely, this isn’t what they mean.

I can’t really tell what’s real anymore