Let me be clear about intolerance against intolerance. The rule is that People (say Salafis) whose platform is EXPLICITLY denying democracy (or free… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Something shoddy: citizenship of convenience, holding the passport of a country for ease of travel/tax without committing to its community.

We tend to define "rude" less by the words used (what is said) than by the status of the recipient (to whom it is addressed).

Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of the earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking the gift horse in the mouth — remember that you are a Black Swan.