Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
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Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
12hr ago
I meant if everyone applies your proposed course of action, including the lower-albedo populations. We are no longer living in the age of "We have the Maxim Gun, and they don't."
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
20hr ago
That has a vague shred of plausibility because the Totenkopf did not originate with the SS, at least according to Wikipedia, they adopted it as lineage from Prussian and imperial military
"Evil cannot make; it can only mock."
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
20hr ago
My more pagan impulses say you punish the rival tribe when they misbehave and harm your tribe.
So when a foreigner in your homeland stabs to death someone in your tribe you torture them for a month. Then you post their mutilated body on your city gates for a year as a sign of what happens to someone who kills a UK citizen.
Now try to consider what happens if that maxim is made a general rule. I highly doubt that it would make for a more peaceful or prosperous world.
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
20hr ago
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity,
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
("You like Kipling?" "Dunno, I've never kippled!")
Celestial-body-NOS
Liberalism has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
20hr ago
· Edited 12hr ago
If you're referring to Amy Coney Barrett and Merriam-Webster's usage note in the entry for 'sexual preference', please note that at least that particular lexicographic outfit considers their vocation to be describing how words are used, rather than prescribing how they ought to be used; thus they were not, like Willy the Word Decider, decreeing the term to be doubleplusungoodspeakful, but noting that many other people had taken offence at its use. (This is the same reason that certain four-letter words for below-the-waist bodily functions are listed as more taboo than four-letter words referring to the loss of eternal salvation: the man on the Clapham Omnibus will take more umbrage at "Fuck $NAME1" than he would at "God damn $NAME1".
Dark humour is like an un-vaccinated child: it never gets old.
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