Endymion_Mallorn

So, is Israel going to stop bombing Lebanon?

Finally doing what they should have done day one.

When we had leaders who understood and valued soft power, sure. But that isn’t the way the USA is operating at this moment. Those other nations aren’t in the condition they’re in because of their nukes, it’s because it’s more profitable to keep things as they are.

And the moment they have a nuke and show it off, all hell will break loose. So unless they pull back from Hormuz and cede it either to a US-led coalition or somehow draw the USA into a land war, it will happen again and it will happen again soon.

No, ternary exists. We could have built computers with triodes.

So it’ll be a soft takeover.

Well, they want a permanent end to the war. Can’t have a war with no one alive on one side of it.

Oh good. Are we going to go back in? Or are we just going to choke them economically?

LLAP.

Good! Please boycott all games in NJ!

If you are forced to pick between being feared and being loved, always pick being feared. it’s more reliable.

Your console has tabs if it’s a modern console.

Just use Lynx/Links in your console?

And he doesn’t even know how to apply that properly. If you’re going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.

I’m insulted by the Italians, tbh.

They do. That’s why they employ police, private security, press representation, and only show up when they know they’re covered.

Look at the response to the crime that Luigi Mangione was falsely accused of committing.

So will it be tariffs, embargo, or just bombs that Spain gets in return for this?

Most Bigfoot guys I know are antigovernment anyway, but yeah, at least it’s just that they go hang out in the woods.

There is historical precedent for the USA interfering with Spanish naval trade, so…

I suggest that there’s no meaningful benefit to be gained by looking backward rather than forward. If you want to move to a different paradigm, that’s fine, but condemnation of the past is performative compared to putting forward laws and resolutions to benefit others. The Bill of Human Rights was forward-looking, this condemnation is backward-looking. Emphasize where we want to go and why we want to be there, rather than where we were and the mistakes we made as a society.

Slavery was evil, so was the destruction of indigenous peoples across the world. But we can’t yet change the past. We should reinforce that we will work to eliminate slavery (chattel and indenture), human trafficking, and the abuses related to it. Focus on what we can improve today and how we can improve things.