Eetan
6d ago
Who decided who is "nation" deserving of self determination?
In practice, your ability to find great power generous uncle who supports your cause diplomatically/militarily decides the issue.
There is no supreme commission of linguistic experts that examines dialects spoken in Trashcanistan/Carbombistan border zone and scientifically chooses where the true border should be.
Eetan
6d ago
Americans have to swallow their pride and learn from most successful prison abolition movement of our time. It can be done.
Yea, the Wagner solution is the solution America needs. American prisoners yearn to get out of cage, American army yearns for patriotic volunteers, Iran yearns for freedom and democracy. Everyone can win.
Eetan
6d ago
Obvious divine plan in action. God hates America, wants to destroy it utterly and The Orange Man is His chosen tool of chastisement.
Eetan
6d ago
Yea, sacrificing your life to change history by *redacting * an irreplaceable person is the steelman argument for individual (or small group) action.
(Boron nitride cutting tool answer to this steelman is: If your enemy cause relies on life of single person, then it is historically doomed anyway. Every great man is mortal and if without him his forces disperse, it is going to happen sooner or later. Just eat popcorn, watch and wait.)
Anyway, truely irreplaceable people are very rare. In the heyday of the propaganda of the deed many royals, presidents and ministers fell with no noticeable effect.
(Was Charles Kirk really one of the rare persons? Too early to say.)
Eetan
6d ago
That shit was so cinematic I am in the pre-I Want To Believe phase
Yes, every fan of Donald Trump wants to believe that there was no shoot and no shooter, only body of patsy deposited on the roof and ear scratched by razor shard hidden under orange finger nail. Patriots are in control, all goes according to genius 666D plan, nothing could be derailed by random lone gunman.
BTW, this is one of leading Israeli conspiracy theories regarding death of Yitzhak Rabin.
It was inside job organized by Rabin himself, nothing like failed assassination attempt to prop up your falling poll numbers. Yigal Amir was recruited as patsy and given gun with blank ammo, but outsmarted his handlers and swapped them for real bullets. Oopsie.
Sure, nothing wrong with "might makes right" world order ... as you are 100% certain that you have the might, that you really wield the biggest club.
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