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by SllX 1y ago
Unless you grew up in a place that taught a six-continent model instead of a seven-continent model and it was NA/SA consolidated instead of Europe and Asia into Eurasia. Also: continents are bullshit. Also also: America is the United S
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by SllX 1y ago
The places with the nicest climates to build in also don’t want more building to happen and do everything in their power to prevent it, so people are migrating to those places, but people are also getting priced out of those places and movi
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by SllX 1y ago
UK Voters or no one, depending on which half of the glass you focus on. Sovereign power is scary af, but in theory also kept in check by voters. The problem is that no matter what form of government you have, it is still downstream from cul
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by SllX 1y ago
I mean that might be part of it, but also because the internet developed out of the ARPAnet which was a United States Department of Defense project, at a time when the United States was one of two superpowers (right as the other superpower
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by SllX 1y ago
You didn't miss anything, the author of the piece was just wrong. They either screwed up the math or didn't read their own link correctly, or both. Moreover, it is trivial to search for the US Dept of Education's budget for 2
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by SllX 1y ago
For as long as there is financial gain to be had from it, business and investment news will continue to be a profitable niche. Sports also seems to do just fine, I don’t personally understand Sports very well, but even from an outsider pers
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by SllX 1y ago
As long as you’ve got humans in the mix, it’ll also be political. What you’re describing is a political organization and wishcasting that it’ll be as neutral as you envision according your values of neutrality. It’ll also be the most powerf
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by SllX 1y ago
What you are proposing is not a change, it's still might makes right. You're just changing the letterhead.
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Yeah what I was talking about doesn't exclude diplomacy, but at one point or another you've got to be clear that under no circumstances will the development of nukes by $country be tolerated either if you're going to keep the
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by SllX 1y ago
Or more realistically: both war and diplomacy. I don’t know why it’s being framed as one or the other, but the fact is when diplomacy fails, and it is a must-achieve goal, war is an option.
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by SllX 1y ago
> As challenging as it sounds, we need to develop a strong impartial international institution whose the only mission would be maintaining peace and preventing wars on the planet. The scenario you concocted here is Disneyland. It’s not j
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by SllX 1y ago
There is no justice nor glory to be had in nuclear weapons, but they exist, and need to be contained to as few entities that can use them as possible. Like seriously, the ideal number of nuclear warheads in the world is 0, but that is not t
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by SllX 1y ago
I get this a lot from a guy I do trust, and his old man is an Iranian immigrant, but I also recognize my sources are very biased against the regime. Is there any good reporting out there or sentiment analysis that can show this? Or is it al
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by SllX 1y ago
Supposedly we dropped six, but I'm interested in any information that comes out about the final damage to see if this was sufficient. Ideally this would be the beginning and end of our direct engagements in this conflict. EDIT: I kind
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by SllX 1y ago
> my bad, he never made that trip to Poland in the end, but the Polish government passed a resolution to enable it, which made me figure it was a done deal. Fair enough, even the bit about the Polish resolution is still good intel. >
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by SllX 1y ago
https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/ACMPRS/cases/docket-case-list Anything that violates the Uniform Code of Military Justice can land a soldier in the Army on that list up to and including killing random civilians abroa
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by SllX 1y ago
Let me get this correction out at the top: I conceded that some IDF service members are probably guilty of some war crimes. I said absolutely nothing about crimes against humanity, which in reviewing the list of what the ICC considers a cri
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by SllX 1y ago
Small-dollar donors had an outsized impact outside of just Sanders and others on the left, and helped, just as two examples on the right: Donald J. Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The massive infusion of cash from small-dollar donors and
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by SllX 1y ago
> I love an America that asks "What is right?" before asking "What are you going to do about it?" Agreed, but I’ll put forth that the context for the first question also matters. The context within this particular sub
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by SllX 1y ago
The ICC is only truly relevant today as a means of imposing justice on smaller countries without the rule of law or the power to protect themselves from larger nations. Not quite irrelevant, but certainly not a powerhouse in real political
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by SllX 1y ago
At what point did I say I would be satisfied with that? I much prefer the moral victories, but one country’s morality is not another’s, but we do not carry out justice under foreign principles. My point was that even without the moral victo
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by SllX 1y ago
> You seem to be under the misapprehension that I am talking about your Orange Guy. I’m not. (EDIT: just edited this in, though I thought I’d already written this part earlier when I quoted you. My bad.) > You are the one who said we
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by SllX 1y ago
If you’re talking about drone operators within the military, they are part of the President’s chain of command. Accountability resides there.
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by SllX 1y ago
> you don't elect the leaders in america. We do. > Two major party leaderships nominate their candidates, backed by hundreds of millions of corporate and special interest funding. Other Americans. You’re also discounting the impa
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by SllX 1y ago
Let’s say for the sake of argument, that’s true just to shortcut this: the PRC is also not party to the Rome Statute. Neither is Russia if you’re wondering. The largest military of a country party to the Rome Statute and the largest financi
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by SllX 1y ago
> But I do think that having an outside court publicly try the guilt or innocence of somebody within the U.S. is much more palatable than having some non-court within the U.S. decide on whether non-U.S. citizens living outside the U.S. s
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by SllX 1y ago
I’ll admit I overlooked you also included “or former”, but I did address you and say you should consider it practically the same down to the rank of at least General, which includes the Vice President and Cabinet Secretaries.
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by SllX 1y ago
If the alternative was to leave Germany to the Soviet wolves, allow France to colonize it, or disregard the events of the Holocaust and not thoroughly document what occurred, how, and under whose orders, then it was necessary. If you don’t
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by SllX 1y ago
Like it or not, the elected President does lead on defending American interests, including which ones to prioritize, and they get to do that because they won the election.
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by SllX 1y ago
That’s also not going to happen. Even taking a former President is effectively an Act of War, especially with all the classified intel they were privy to during and still privy to after. Honestly you should consider it the same way all the

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