stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
1d ago
stuckinbathroom
3d ago
in order to defend themselves both against direct attempts on their life, and in case their own government becomes tyrannical.
To steelman as much as I can, yes to the first point (defending one’s own life and limb) but not the second.
DADA was never portrayed as being about defending against the government; it was always about fighting off malicious magical creatures (earlier books) or dark magic performed by evil witches and wizards (later books). That the Ministry of Magic was at first subverted by a recalcitrant Fudge who wanted to cover up Voldemort’s return, and then co-opted by Voldemort himself, was never mentioned as a reason for studying DADA.
stuckinbathroom
4d ago
Hypothetically, if India were to blow its hot nuclear load on Pakistan—in which case, as you mentioned, it would likely suffer the worst disaster in history—would India then have the (nuclear or conventional) wherewithal to prevent, say, a Chinese invasion of the contested northeastern borderlands? Or other violations of its territorial integrity?
If not, this may be reason enough for India not to pursue escalation to nuclear war, even if a nuclear exchange with Pakistan would technically be survivable.
stuckinbathroom
7d ago
I dunno, I could imagine one of his legion of donors offering him a chance to defect, under cover of night, to a sympathetic foreign country (Russia? Venezuela? South Africa?) where he will spend the rest of his days eating from that government’s trough and parroting the lines they spoon-feed him about “white man bad” to throngs of starstruck admirers on TikTok
stuckinbathroom
7d ago
Make Electrical Engineering Solely for Americans?
stuckinbathroom
17d ago
He had me at “Radicalizing the Romanceless”
stuckinbathroom
24d ago
Well, there is 8chan/8kun, which was founded over a decade ago by a guy who thought 4chan was over-jannied
stuckinbathroom
28d ago
What’s the Chinese for “Is that a heat-seeking missile in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?”
Unfortunately, their Erdo’s number wasn’t sufficient
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