73485 pts · March 24, 2013
Master Guns, it's a pineapple.
Don't forget your iodine tablets!
Violence is as much a force-multiplier in politics as the weapons of its application. One might not be able to win a fight against the full might of a world-class military (without the backing of another such military power), but fighting alone can win the political war.
Can't let black people patrol their own communities with guns. The police might actually behave themselves.
I'm still hoping Steam OS becomes a viable alternative
As I tell people, the military runs on crack deals.
That spat with the admiral during the COVID cruise proves the lower enlisted won't rebel. That would have to come from the officers in-between leading them. And that... wouldn't be ideal for anyone. Also, you don't have to get rid of the rest of the general staff if you make an example of the top ones. No Saddam purge necessary.
The army is a horde, the Marines is a cult.
Afghanistan.
I fucking love this
Those not yet outraged deserve to regret it.
This is the very counter to many racist arguments about groups having a "different culture"; how do different cultures form within the same locality? Exclusion.
This is literally the argument I've been making. Also, can I use this for a presentation?
It's not even a coverup, it's just brazen disregard for accountability.
How I feel when my snipers in X-COM miss every shot in one turn.
Appropriate? Not at all. Will it happen? Definitely.
You can see the gradual festering of the disease if you look back; Gingrich's revolution, McCain's having to double back on his old positions, Romney's contradictory double-speak in the same sentence—the source is the cancer we've ignored since reconstruction. Each time they went for someone crazier until getting to trump. Sure, this feels like the fever's peak, but to say they can't find someone worse is either optimistic or ignorant.
To really motivate people requires a human competitor. A concept, animal, or even nature just seems to register as something to be endured or survived, but another human can be defeated. Use a small enough group as the symbol of whatever they're upset about and tell them you will protect them from it and BAM: votes/donations/support/obedience/etc.
More to rally the religious and neophobic with outrage they can convert into votes. Just like they did with abortion.
It's mighty wishful to think that removing the biggest tumor will cure the disease.
I still don't understand buoyancy
So you don't have to go get them yourselves?
Arguable hypocrisy aside, I think there's validity to this stance. Ideally, the State (being the collective will of the people) would have a monopoly on violence. However, there needs to be a backup plan for if the State neglects or abuses that monopoly. And while groups can be isolated and defeated by the State, violence is a force-multiplier in politics (not unlike the weapons of its application). Rebels may lose the physical battle but win the political war. (Just my $0.02)
You should link the article as well. If we normalize only using a screenshot of a couple paragraphs from it, we risk making it easier for forgeries to slip though.
It's not that profound; same thing has been going on with men turning their thinking over to other men. Only now there's a masque.
With digital fingerprinting (or whatever it's called), they know from your usage behavior if it's you—regardless of the device/IP/gateway you're on. This way they can still collect data on you when you try to disguise your connection.
You have to consider that the chicken hawk networks supporting this war are pandering to an audience that doesn't care about kids in the middle east, so holding up a child's corpse as proof of Iran's evil isn't exactly a winning gambit.
A prisoner can be content in an empty cell, but that is not a standard society can advance with.
True; I haven't seen any single mass-casualty events reported that match the abhorrence of those school strikes, which does indicate there hasn't been one. But OP's claim would be a major stretch even by that logic.
I'm not gonna defend the US hits on the school, but I'm gonna need a citation for the claim that no Iranian attack has injured a child.
I read some of the OG ones recently and man, they did not age well. So they're in keeping with who he really was.
Don't forget your iodine tablets!
Violence is as much a force-multiplier in politics as the weapons of its application. One might not be able to win a fight against the full might of a world-class military (without the backing of another such military power), but fighting alone can win the political war.
Can't let black people patrol their own communities with guns. The police might actually behave themselves.
I'm still hoping Steam OS becomes a viable alternative
As I tell people, the military runs on crack deals.
That spat with the admiral during the COVID cruise proves the lower enlisted won't rebel. That would have to come from the officers in-between leading them. And that... wouldn't be ideal for anyone.
Also, you don't have to get rid of the rest of the general staff if you make an example of the top ones. No Saddam purge necessary.
The army is a horde, the Marines is a cult.
Afghanistan.
I fucking love this
Those not yet outraged deserve to regret it.
This is the very counter to many racist arguments about groups having a "different culture"; how do different cultures form within the same locality? Exclusion.
This is literally the argument I've been making. Also, can I use this for a presentation?
It's not even a coverup, it's just brazen disregard for accountability.
How I feel when my snipers in X-COM miss every shot in one turn.
Appropriate? Not at all. Will it happen? Definitely.
You can see the gradual festering of the disease if you look back; Gingrich's revolution, McCain's having to double back on his old positions, Romney's contradictory double-speak in the same sentence—the source is the cancer we've ignored since reconstruction. Each time they went for someone crazier until getting to trump. Sure, this feels like the fever's peak, but to say they can't find someone worse is either optimistic or ignorant.
To really motivate people requires a human competitor. A concept, animal, or even nature just seems to register as something to be endured or survived, but another human can be defeated. Use a small enough group as the symbol of whatever they're upset about and tell them you will protect them from it and BAM: votes/donations/support/obedience/etc.
More to rally the religious and neophobic with outrage they can convert into votes. Just like they did with abortion.
It's mighty wishful to think that removing the biggest tumor will cure the disease.
I still don't understand buoyancy
So you don't have to go get them yourselves?
Arguable hypocrisy aside, I think there's validity to this stance. Ideally, the State (being the collective will of the people) would have a monopoly on violence. However, there needs to be a backup plan for if the State neglects or abuses that monopoly. And while groups can be isolated and defeated by the State, violence is a force-multiplier in politics (not unlike the weapons of its application). Rebels may lose the physical battle but win the political war. (Just my $0.02)
You should link the article as well. If we normalize only using a screenshot of a couple paragraphs from it, we risk making it easier for forgeries to slip though.
It's not that profound; same thing has been going on with men turning their thinking over to other men. Only now there's a masque.
With digital fingerprinting (or whatever it's called), they know from your usage behavior if it's you—regardless of the device/IP/gateway you're on. This way they can still collect data on you when you try to disguise your connection.
You have to consider that the chicken hawk networks supporting this war are pandering to an audience that doesn't care about kids in the middle east, so holding up a child's corpse as proof of Iran's evil isn't exactly a winning gambit.
A prisoner can be content in an empty cell, but that is not a standard society can advance with.
True; I haven't seen any single mass-casualty events reported that match the abhorrence of those school strikes, which does indicate there hasn't been one. But OP's claim would be a major stretch even by that logic.
I'm not gonna defend the US hits on the school, but I'm gonna need a citation for the claim that no Iranian attack has injured a child.
I read some of the OG ones recently and man, they did not age well. So they're in keeping with who he really was.