SaltSong @ SaltSong @startrek.website

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Trying to control the way other countries are run is fucking wild, the notion of which should never even be remotely entertained.

In happier times, we call the process "diplomacy," and mostly limit it to things that affect us, directly or indirectly.

But pressuring other countries to, for example, clean up their corruption so we can reliably do business with them is common. (Also hilariously hypocritical) Pressuring other countries to enact civil rights laws is fairly common, too.

I have to admit, seeing pressure to remove civil rights is unusual, at least from countries not named UAE.

been downgraded to pool membership.

I think a more interesting question would be "how."

This is the same as any major conflict. People want to try to work thing out without violence. The times that does happen are unremarkable. The times it doesn't happen, we can judge later weather it was the right thing to do.

Is this "surrender to avoid being defeated," or am I misunderstanding the case?

Give us a few days.

The physics of this irritates me.

I disagree. Data's reaction was logical. It was the only method available to stop him continuing to do evil shit. As soon as Data had the opportunity to handle it in a more legally structured way, he took it.

Viagra.

Hair plugs.

Steroids.

To be clear, I think this is a silly question, and I'm only entertaining it because I'm somewhere I don't want to be, doing something I don't want to be doing.

Because the bear is a danger to the woman, and is, at least rhetorically, preferable.

The tree is no danger to the man, unless it falls on him. To get a reasonable comparison, we need a comparable level of all but guaranteed danger.

I propose a megaphone in a crowded mall.

The word literally means "not from here." In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn't talking about men from Mars.

This is, functionally, the concentration camps.

It was too late on November 6th.

Might only be 40. Long enough for the current generation of leaders to die off.

If voting could stop fascists, then in 2020 when Joe Biden got more votes than Donald Trump, he would have been president. There would have been a democrat in office from 2021-2024. And your fantasy world sounds nice, but it’s not what happened here in the real world.

Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm? Because I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.

Even a Nazi clock is right sometimes, if only by accident.

Ageing with the conservatives means you should double check your ideas, but if you are right, you're right. Don't abandon a correct opinion just because the other guy agrees with it.

I can’t recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism.

Fascists mostly start by winning legitimate elections. Defeating fascism with votes would just look like Clinton winning the election instead of Trump.

You might as well say that you can't recall a single time when having a visible security presence stopped a robbery.

That's the thing that a lot of people keep misunderstanding. If the President of the US wants a person back from what I am going to describe as "A lesser country," only for this exact moment, and not for any other case at all, he can get that person back. Send a battle group over, and ask politely.

El Salvador does not have the ability to keep him, if we want him back.

If they die messily, how long will it be before the next courageous instinct shows up?

I like huge anime titties more than this guy, but I have the decency not to advertise the fact to my neighbors.