SaltSong @ SaltSong @startrek.website

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None of them apply to LEO.

I have the worst lawyer.

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.

"Critiques of their actual numbers."

He'll of a way to say "reality-based criticism." Or "we are objectively bad at our stated goals."

Courage is not the state of not being afraid. Courage is being afraid, and doing it anyway.

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

Give us a few days.

The physics of this irritates me.

A pleasing report.

What does it have to do with staying safe at demonstrations?

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.