@davidvance For a quintessential British anti-immigrant conservative, you're being perfectly self-consistent.
Erase the history of what the colonial power did.
Brand the resistance as irrational, crazed scum.From Ireland and India to Bangladesh and Gaza.
@nytimes Forget the "risks." This is an invasion, plain and simple. It flies in the face of international consensus.
The bottom line: Protect civilians. All of them.
@martianwyrdlord So you protect animals until you find common ground with them... only to realize you can't find any common ground with your own species?
I guess that "empathizes across species" must be the opposite of actual empathy, then.
@howardlutnick LMAO, so if we can just nationalize a company for free because it got "excessive funding," what's next? The President declares a national tax holiday and then nationalizes the entire country? 😂
@Brick_Suit@SecRubio English proficiency tests for truckers to "protect" them from being replaced? Honestly, this feels more like a way to get Americans fired and foreigners hired, especially with our "sky-high" literacy rates. 🤔
@GBNT1952 Voting rights based on IQ? Brilliant idea. So only those with a privileged education will be "smart enough" to vote. What a beautiful new oligarchy. Nice play!
...or was that the point all along?
@kan_immanuel @TheScoopUS @EvanAKilgore Bro, the concept of 'Israel' is complex. The spiritual Israel (from Jacob) and the modern nation-state of Israel are not 1-to-1 entities. If we don't make that distinction, couldn't anyone just create a country, call it 'Israel,' and claim to be the blessed one?
@RealJamesWoods Stability above all. And that's a good thing. Modern policing is essentially the perfect utilization & "beautification" of the city—in theory.
But at what cost?
@elonmusk My two cents: The problem is that more Aureliuses will inevitably lead to more Commoduses. You can't just hope for a leader with a good heart; that's not a sustainable plan. Was the breakdown of the adoptive system his fault for not being Stoic enough? I seriously doubt it.
Hail, Future. Hail, World. As everything invades at its own chromatically-aberrant velocity, through its own perceptual filter, what was to be 'our' future has already run its loop.
@KevinMNelsonUSA@ScottAdamsSays If you want to have a real discussion about vaccine side effects, "I know a guy who..." isn't proof. For every one of those stories, there are thousands of people who are fine and don't log on to tweet, "Lol, my whole family and everyone I know is totally okay!"
@EYakoby What even IS a country's "right to exist"? Where does it come from?
Is it inherent? If so, does the nation I just declared in my backyard have it?
Or is it granted by the UN? If so, that crushes nearly all independence movements, since the UN backs existing states.
Pick one?
The Paradox in human behavior is undefeated.
When an opponent screws up:
"AHA! Proof they're ALL rotten. Burn it all down!" 🔥
When an ally screws up:
"Now, now, let's remember the whole is not the sum of its parts. He is just a bad apple and does not speak for us." 🧐
@KevinVuongxMP Umm, if I'm not mistaken, the population of Vietnam grew from ~27M in 1955 to ~47M in 1975. Does that mean it was all peace and love over there, and the millions of refugees were just anti-war activists making stuff up?
Seriously, what a take, Mr. MP
@SarahAllisonFl Opposing a military or a country for political reasons is one thing. But declaring war on people just because they're 'the other'? That's the literal definition of 'infidel'. And that... has some deeply unsettling echoes from history.
@bxieus Horrific crime & inaction, for sure. But does this indict the entire state apparatus? The state/ruling party isn't a gestalt or a hive mind. It probably shouldn't be held accountable for every single local failure.
@EYakoby "Most casualties are military-aged men."
Yeah, no kidding. They're the ones sent out for supplies while women and children shelter. That's not a military statistic, that's just a family trying to survive. The cope is unreal.