walruz
1mo ago
Just like the current pope's dislike of genocide is due to him being a product of his time, past pope's hypothetical willingness to condone genocide is due to them being products of their time.
walruz
1mo ago
If you’re the next Crown Prince of Liechtenstein, a devoutly (and officially) Catholic country ruled by a Catholic monarch, you can’t really abandon Catholicism
Like how the rulers of devoutly catholic England, Sweden, Denmark, etc, couldn't? Rulers have abandoned the faith of their subjects since the time of the second oldest religion.
walruz
1mo ago
I see it every time my gf does little baby talk with her cat. Men just don’t have that silliness where they can actually have fun doing dumb kid stuff for hours every day.
Jfc your life must be boring.
walruz
1mo ago
If you hadn't stopped reading after the first sentence, you'd find that he did no such thing.
walruz
1mo ago
I mean that's Nazi talk
"Hegseth, Trump" isn't a demographic category lol. Individual people can be (and are, case in point) aptly described as degenerate swine regardless of the political ideology of the person doing the describing.
walruz
1mo ago
Of course the correct recourse would be to slap them with a hefty fine and force them to pay back the stolen money, but since the act itself doesn't seem to have been illegal, just immoral, you're limited to either defamation or some level of personal violence. I think a better outcome for all involved is afroman making fun of them on tape, although he would of course have been completely morally justified in breaking into their homes, vandalising their property and stealing back his cash.
walruz
1mo ago
Even if it was true "our flagship policy didn't completely fuck us" isn't really something worth bragging about.
walruz
1mo ago
Seeing as how the process of enriching uranium - the hard part of building nuclear weapons - is altering the density of U-235 in the sample, the "only" is doing some very heavy lifting there.
walruz
2mo ago
Yeah, probably, but I will always jump on the opportunity to point out to Americans that other countries do, in fact, exist.
walruz
2mo ago
There aren't "countries" in Europe that do any spending on the "federal" level because there is only one country in Europe with a federal level at all (unless you count Russia as European).
walruz
2mo ago
Trump has done a real bang up job of rallying American allies over the last couple of months, so China is very likely to "face a de facto united West". It's not as if he's threatened to annex a bunch of NATO allies' territory and in general tried his very best to piss away every last piece of soft power the US wields.
The "real American century" is being ushered in by a fat retard in end stage dementia dismantling all US alliances and the final boss will be the one country it probably can't beat in a conventional war, gg.
walruz
2mo ago
On the four year anniversary of their three day special military operation, it is all coming together according to keikaku.
walruz
2mo ago
"Trump isn't actually serious about annexing Greenland and Canada, he's just dismantling the entire web of alliances the US has spent the better part of a century for shits and giggles" isn't a very impressive take. It doesn't really matter if he's "trolling" or not, he's still being retarded.
walruz
2mo ago
Nudging even though Nudging has been debunked
Nudging in the economics sense has been debunked? At least in the form presented in Nudge (by Thaler and Sunstein), I highly doubt that.
walruz
3mo ago
People fail to collapse like a sack of potatoes in response to getting shot all the time, especially with handguns. The variance of how much damage pretty much anything does is huge - people have survived falling 10+km without a parachute and people have died from falling 2m. People have survived being shot with handguns, rifles, machineguns - it wouldn't surprise me if someone has survived a hit from an autocannon at some point.
If the guy clocked his assailant before the first shot went off, this goes double - hitting someone who doesn't want to be hit is hard. It's not as if cops have handguns with 15+ rounds in the mag because they need to be able to drop 15 suspects before reloading.
walruz
3mo ago
No, he insulted my pedigree by insinuating I don't have one. If you look up the definition of pedigree, it's an insult to blood. I'm sure he meant school but that's almost as bad, especially by repurposing that word.
This whole class of "whining about word choice because the etymology allows me to claim it is racist despite any sane reading makes it 100% clear that it isn't about race in the slightest"-style argument belongs on 2014 Tumblr, if that. Do better.
walruz
3mo ago
Killing military commanders of a country that is actively invading you isn't "the most appalling horrors" lol, what the fuck are you even on about.
walruz
3mo ago
- And this, like most war crimes, wasn't terrorism.
- I really don't care. Killing Russians is based as fuck. (I'd argue that the defending side in a war isn't morally beholden to respect the laws of war if it helps them win) (especially against an opponent that routinely commits more and worse war crimes)
walruz
3mo ago
I couldn't really care less about a random politician in whatever country you think I'm from getting killed. However, to the extent that I would favour retaliation, I would do so because it is an act of war, not because everything I don't like is magically "terrorism".
However, if my country had invaded Iran and Iran responded by killing a high-ranking military officer, who is, let's be clear, not a member of the cabinet, not a civilian, and obviously a completely legit military target, then I obviously would be off my rocker if I wanted them nuked in response.
You don't want your military personnel to get killed? Don't invade other countries lol.
walruz
3mo ago
The problem with such a loose definition is that for example completely legal executions (which seek to deter crimes by tapping into would-be criminals fear of getting fried) fit the definition equally well.
If I said "the racist notion that black people are of higher risk of sickle cell anemia", I am technically correct, but I am also at the same time quite obviously full of shit.
walruz
3mo ago
Killing a high ranking military official isn't terrorism. Either he was killed by the Ukranians, in which case he's a completely legitimate military target, or he was killed by the Russians, in which case it's just their ordinary procedure for replacing high level functionaries.
walruz
3mo ago
If a large part of your identity was about promoting the right to carry a knife and someone stabbed you, yes, that'd be equally funny, even if it would surely upset people in your own circle of acquaintance. Just like how, while I'm sure it was a tragic event for himself and his family, the inventor of the Segway dying because he accidentally drove his Segway off of a cliff is objectively a hilarious way to go.
The Republicans (or Democrats, if the table were reversed) and the leading clique of Iran are different in that Iran is completely incapable of causing significant and lasting harm upon the US.
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