If your society is so fucked up as to "need guns for ppl to defend themselves," I sincerely feel sorry for what a fucked-up, inefficient, uncontrolled and idiotic disaster of shithole you living in.
Today in South Korea, we had our first murder by gunfire in 9 years. The media calls it "the Incheon Songdo Apartments shooting incident," and a grand total of 1 person got killed.
The "gun" was home-made, using metal balls as bullets.
"Oh no!! Gun control doesn't work!"
(ps) No, you morons, of course it works. And of course, the answer to "why do mass shootings happen?" is simply "because civilians have easy access to guns."
"Netanyahu says working with US on finding countries that will 'give Palestinians a better future.'" (Reuters)
- And the circle is complete. The abused become the abuser, and those who suffered the diaspora under an empire, now become the empire that forces a diaspora.
@HereticalsChris@GeoStreber@SteveMcRae_ In that sense, the two situations are functionally the same. One side engages in large-scale military acts of hostility without declaration of war.
If you can't accept one as "justified," probably shouldn't accept the other, too.
@HereticalsChris@GeoStreber@SteveMcRae_ "Time" in this case is only relevant as a means to justify the concept of "pre-emptive strikes" as being "normal."
Which, I specifically remember, never was, until March 3, 2003. At least not to this extent in the last two decades.
No. Not surprised at all, that an unplanned, haphazard strike decided upon one man's whim, who lies constantly, probably would not have good results.
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Is this what passes off as America as being "great again"?
So can we finally be honest in the semantics, that "great" from Trump supporters simply means unadulterated, unlimted exercise of brute force to bully and intimidate others?
The sort of "great" the Nazis wanted?
So let me get this straight. You go attack someone who wasn't attacking you. You bomb their facilities, you kill their people, you humiliate them.
And then, you tell them "We're willing to talk" and tell them "don't do anything 'destabilizing'"
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Zero plan. Zero stategy. Everything decided on whimsy, upon one man's ego.
The absolute, embarrassing mess of US grand strategy -- or rather, lackthereof.
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@GeoStreber@SteveMcRae_@HereticalsChris Like the "surgical strike" on Pearl Harbor, eh. Too bad the Japanese at least had the courtesy to deliver a formal declaration of war back in '41.
See, they had class back then.
"Iran says 'main target' of attack that hit Israel hospital was military site"
Heinous attacks on civilians must be condemned. But at the same time, oh dear lord the irony is not lost: The exact same thing the IDF did to Gaza.
That's how it feels.
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Nice to see the US fall further into a censorship, as non-citizens can be randomly stripped of their basic rights (which, the Constitution protects) upon whims of executive power, without probable cause, without due process.
N. Korea is so proud.
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@darkprof I mean, one can always argue
"The shit you see with your eyes is nothing more than a composite of light reflections that your brain interprets -- there's no guarantee it's 'real.'"
@darkprof@darwintojesus Oops, that’s a composite image constructed on an interpretation of data based on a particular cosmological model. You lost at your own game.