Its just a dance both sides are doing.
China claim the straight and, under maritime law, if that's accepted then it's theirs. So, British etc. ships sail through it saying "what a lovely straight of water. I'm going to sail through here, as no one owns it." If China doesn't react, they have relinquished their claim to the straight. So, they have to follow up with "hey you, get off my lawn!" Every so often, the dance is repeated.
Nothing to worry about.
I love how you've looked to dismiss the idea that cutting skin off of a babies genitals is damaging and inherently wrong, outside of medical emergencies, as an appeal to nature fallacy. Even if that was how it worked, it's an informal fallacy.
will aggressively reject any and all “appeals to nature” as to the health effects of someone being beheaded!
If my foreskin was pulled back over the head of my penis, due to the sensitivity of the head, that would be quite uncomfortable for me. If I wanted to walk, I would have to adjust myself or I would be in a lot of discomfort. Yet, that's how it is for someone who was circumcised without their consent.
The only conclusion is that there would have to be a significant desensitisation of that part of the penis. That desensitisation would also have to apply to the feeling during sex.
How is it that people in the 21st century still need to be told to leave babies genitals alone and not to cut bits off of them? Bonus points if you did it because yahweh like the smell of them rotting.
Not really. Libertarians are just socially embarrassed corporate statists.
Also, you say that as if not wanting money is a bad thing.
100% and I can't imagine the effect of basic training and what you learned there being forgotten until long afterwards.
In the British army, even regular non-guardsman, infantry will usually parade into towns. They love a bit on pomp and ceremony. For example, even now regiments like the black watch regiment would be bagpipes bearing, marching in perfect unison into some place and then roll off to war.
They didn't want to be there and their imo their COs didn't want to kick off at them in front of the cameras.
It's not even that they don’t care that they did it. Most of the time, they literally don’t think they've done anything wrong.
As another British person, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture and I came here specially to make the same comment you did.
In other news, my toaster absolutely wrecked my T.V. at making toast.
Vile, I guess the thinking is "what's the point in turning people's countries into, effectively, debtors prisons if they can just leave?"
Just like the UK, it always has been. It really screws with the narrative of billionaires trying not to pay for the health, infrastructure and welfare that allows them to extract their wealth.
The first rule of colonisation is to make the colonised pay for their colonisation. It's just that we all, collectively, forget that our governments colonise at home too.
A better question would be "when was there ever been a true democracy?"
For me, there hasn't been. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try. It means that we need to truly internalise that wealth and power will, if left unchecked, succeed in perverting it entirely. We need to be ever augmenting it, with that in mind, with a view to playing whack a mole with the interests of the 1% and keeping it working for the 99%.
I mean that won't work either. The rich and powerful will never allow us to simply vote away their ill beggoten wealth and power. However, at least people could say that they tried.
Thats crazy because rich people keep telling me low tax on them funds growth and helps everyone.
I mean, why would rich people lie?
Nice one, what you did there was remove the idea of death from a future abstraction that could happen at any second and moved it into the present moment which made you aware of the lack of imminent present danger, calming your anxiety.
It's kind of a rough and ready but, respectable go at unguided Zen. Mindfulness is just the parts of Zen that are backed by imperial evidence, repackaged for a western audience.
We don't have the right word for it in English. It's not a religion and it's not really a philosophy either, in the way we mean it here. It's not a modle to understand the world or a moral framework to be put to the test etc. It's by far the closest word though.
It's kind of a way of trying to experience the life, be more present and more spontaneous. The Spiritual stuff isn't meant to be taken even slightly literally but, as representations of things.
I think you might find even more peace adding in some of that.
Nice one. You got to really hit them in the cronyism to win. Like, don't boycott or put tarrifs on blue state stuff (no idea what) but, put all the tarrifs on, say, florida oranges in the run up to the governors election or kentucky bourbon and the like.
It's exactly that kind of targeting that the EU used to force armerica to back down on tariffs under W Bush. They've hated the EU since.
The old internet was like the wild west. Who'd have thought it would meet a similar fate to it too?
For sure, the future of war is drone directed artillery.
More so, they wouldn't even need to all that. Just surround them, turn of the water supply and wait for them the surrender when they get thirsty enough.
I'd say we already are under authoritarian regimes. It's just that we, collectively, don't resist it. So, they dont need to be that way. Fascism is just capitalism when you try to say no to capitalism.
Sales tax as well as VAT are also, by design, regressive taxes.
We turned the planet into a human labour farm.
That's the same thing though.