I just loved this:

Jay,
A lefty Bay Area friend of mine just told me about a protest that was held to coincide with the arrival of an Israeli container ship. The protesters hoped to block the workers from getting in and unloading the ship. The protesters arrived at the wrong time and instead briefly prevented a Chinese ship from being unloaded. To me, it is a poetically humorous result.
She said they claimed victory anyways, which is no big surprise.

Nope, no big surprise. But listen, who cares about protesting the PRC — which is merely a one-party dictatorship with a gulag — when you can protest and harass Israel, that nasty Jewish state whose inhabitants (Jewish inhabitants — the Arab ones are cool) can go back to you-know-where! (Of course, when the Jews were in Europe, in great numbers, they were told to go back . . . to Israel, ancient and eternal land of the Jews.)

By the way, I love the very American word “anyways” — one of our national treasures, linguistically.