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Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

  • Without that, they wouldn’t constantly be attacking other countries.

    I don't know that I agree. At this point, I think between the instability of their neighbors and the built-up siege-state of Israel itself, it would continue acting like a rogue state even if the US cut off funding.

    Which is not to say that we shouldn't cut off funding - we absolutely should. And extend that 'umbrella' of protection to Israel's neighbors, not Israel, which might at least reduce blatant incursions.

    But I suspect that the response of Israel to reduced or eliminated US support would be to become even more militarized, not less.

  • We can’t. At least while the USA is a thing.

    Even if the US wasn't a thing, punishing Zionists wouldn't be possible without subduing Israel through a literal war. Something which is not often attempted.

    At best, we'd have the half-ass 'punishment' levied on states like Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Djibouti, and North Korea, wherein the primary punishment is "It's slightly harder and more expensive for the elite to get their precious foreign luxuries."

    Don't get me wrong, that's better than nothing. It's just...

    Prevention is generally a more fruitful avenue than punishment, when it comes to international polities and ideologies even with just regional majorities.

    The chance of seeing genocidal cunts swing, or even acknowledge their wrongdoing, are generally small. Even the worst genocide of modernity, the Holocaust, had only a relatively small number of Nazis punished, despite literally every major extant power agreeing on how horrific their behavior was, and quite literally destroying all military capacity for the Nazis to resist and occupying every inch of their territory.

    At most, you might get a handful of them in international courts by internal politiking, like Slobodan Milošević, but even then we're unlikely to see the fully 'cathartic' end we want. "My dad is a war criminal" will still be sung proudly.

  • Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon.

    Me and my friends are picky about anime, but they all swear by it. I haven't gotten around to it myself, but it seems like it's quality.

  • Around age 12. Graduation from High School is at 12th grade in the USA.

  • Not mine, I just found it online. But yes, it is disgustingly accurate XD

  • What's that in metric units?

  • I think the stupidity of the electorate is being vastly underestimated here.

  • The guy was dancing around like a crazy person to Ave Maria at his last rally and yelling about people eating cats and dogs on the debate. There’s no way anyone saw that and wanted that running the country save the maybe 8% of the population that are Trump Simps.

    You overestimate this country.

  • Yep. God help us.

  • President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is saddened

  • Oh yes, I strongly agree with all that. Just felt the need to nitpick that the contribution of Nazi scientists was relatively narrow.

  • Using former Nazis wasn't because there was a shortage of educated people in general in the US after WW2. The vast majority of Nazi scientists who made major contributions to US progress (or Soviet progress, for that matter), were in rocketry, which the Nazis put disproportionate effort and funding into.

  • People want easy solutions, like "Have more people be born smart" instead of hard, complex, realistic ones like "Put time, effort, and resources into robust education of the population in stable familial and social environments to develop higher averages of generally recognized metrics of intelligence in the general population"

  • God, no. Even tabloids are generally written at an 8th grade+ level.

  • I remember in the very early days not getting the full 'hype' of "MUSK IS SO SMART", but I enjoyed him as a "This is what happens when some ordinary dweeb becomes incredibly wealthy - he wants to throw money at space and technology. That's neat."

    His PR guys must've done a good job at keeping the worst of his tendencies behind closed doors - or at least further than most casual observers would look. Around the time of the 'pedo guy' incident it began to unravel for me. Curious that a social media addiction undid all the work of his PR team.

  • All was OK when he served blue MAGA.

    what

  • One of several reasons why the 'heavy man' variant of the dilemma is rarely used in comparison to the switch.

  • It's a combination of two common 'trolley problem' moral dilemmas.

    Do you pull the switch to kill fewer people, even though that would actively involve you in the decision to kill people?

    AND

    There is a trolley coming - you are with a heavy man on a bridge. Do you push the man off the bridge, knowing his body is substantial enough to gum up the trolley and stop it - to save a greater number of people?

    In this scenario, by combining the two, pulling the lever will make the moral dilemma harder - because the fellow on the bridge must decide the life of 1 person vs. the life of 2. On the other hand, refusing to pull the lever will make the decision easier, if still not clear cut - as the fellow on the bridge must decide the life of 1 person vs. the life of 5.

  • "Trump is actually playing 4D Chess!"

    Press X to doubt.

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    Good thing there isn't any of that in MY good Elder Scrolls games!

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    I didn't ask for this

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    Passion

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    Passion

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    "Hello? Is this thing on?"

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    Just guys bein' pals (ArchonOfFlesh)

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    Mosaic life

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    Flavortown is dead 😔

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    Furry Vulpes (ArchonOfFlesh)

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    They don't make Vertibirds the way they used to

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    GIVE US THE CHILD

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    This better not start a new trend

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    Some people have a type (ArchonOfFlesh)

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    #42 Worst rat

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    Memes are usually about humor, but sometimes about hope

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    Power armor lubricant

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    Just cool it

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    First day, let's go!

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    ur hat weird

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    How many roads can a Courier walk down?