ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
16hr ago
Sure, but there were alternatives to Apartheid other than giving the black population full rights immediately. Rhodesia had educational and other requirements for voting rights, but no racial limitations, and didn't create special representatives in parliament for the black population until Britain pressured them into doing so as a precondition for independence.
ChickenOverlord
16hr ago
The original proposal for Apartheid in South Africa involved giving black populations their own countries (on admittedly shitty land) and allowing them to come to South Africa on worker's permits/visas with limited rights. The first part of the program was never implemented, only the second half, making black South Africans effectively second class citizens in their own country.
Given that Gazans and West Bankers have their own countries (issues with international recognition, Jewish settlers, and Israeli military occupation aside) the comparison between the status of Palestinians and the status of black South Africans has always struck me as extremely disingenuous. Especially when you consider the large amount of Arab Israelis that have full rights under the law in Israel.
ChickenOverlord
16hr ago
Taiwan and mainland China are the closest comparison I can think of, and they aren't a close comparison at all.
Edit: This wasn't intended to be an offer to DM it to everyone who asks.
DM me please too
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
That's what I get for not looking crap up, yeah
For a counterpoint: in WW2 once the Germans started losing roughly 2 u-boats a month they began drastically drawing back the campaign against Atlantic shipping. This effectively ceded the supply war to the Americans, even though Germany still had over 1,000 u-boats. Extreme risk aversion has been a thing in the past too.
Edit: Am retarded, disregard
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Covid lockdowns actually enabled my dream career, letting me pretend to work from home instead of having to commute to pretend to work at the office. It definitely put unnecessary strain on my marriage though (which we fortunately worked through) and destroyed my faith in humanity and institutions.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
How many streets are named after disgraced Catholic priests?
Technically a ton, since MLK was named after Martin Luther.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Since 2014 the defining fault line in the Culture War has been race, not sex
And even then, any oxygen in the room for issues about sex has been sucked up by the trans issue.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
What's the worst three things they have done in the past 15 years?
Just off the top of my head:
Threatening global shipping lanes by funding and supplying the Houthis (one of their proxies) which caused major disruption to ship traffic in the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal.
Attacking Saudi oil infrastructure (again via their proxy, the Houthis).
Supplying IEDs and shaped charges to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill American troops.
As I have heard, Iran actually cooperated with the U.S. in fighting ISIS.
Yeah, no surprise there. ISIS was an overwhelmingly Sunni group, that often explicitly targeted Shiite Muslims. Iran is majority Shiite.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
and also get them out of their occupied land, which is a precondition for normalization among the Arab nations
Is it though? Israel has had decent relations with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab nations for decades now.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
I'd think it was a good idea, if we were going to secure access to Iranian oil and cut off Chinese access. My view is that we might be (but aren't definitely) heading towards a major global conflict along the lines of WW3 and securing resources and regions ahead of time is one of our smartest options. But I don't think that's what we're doing here.
I've gone through that same process, repeatedly. In fact I moved last year, and was unable to vote in my local primaries because I didn't get my paperwork taken care of fast enough, I didn't feel like my rights were being infringed on as a result though.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Like 20% or so? With a number as low as 9%, that sounds to me like the overwhelming majority of people that want proof of citizenship are able to get it without issue, and as a result it seems likely to me that that 9% could get it with relative ease if it became required for voting and they actually wanted to vote.
Though I would also have zero issue adding a law requiring ids to be completely free (i.e. taxpayer funded) if we made them mandatory for voting.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Even this leftwing think tank admits that only 9% of voting age American citizens don't have proof of citizenship "readily available". Note the weasel wording with readily available. This is also assuming that the self-reporting of citizenship in the survey was accurate and not a bunch of illegals lying:
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
And with robots doing sll of the work via remote control so that there is a literal zero percent risk of escape.
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
The grammar is too correct in that AI McCarthy snippet. Intentionally abusing grammar and punctuation is basically McCarthy's most identifying trait. In fact it's how I could tell that the snippet in the NYT quiz was from him even though I still haven't gotten around to reading Blood Meridian.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Ditto that when People magazine called Bill Clinton the sexiest man alive back in the day, though I'm a straight dude so that probably has a lot to do with it.
ChickenOverlord
15d ago
The bombing of Dresden in WW2 killed about 25k civilians, and the firebombing of Tokyo killed about 100k. And those are just the two most famous ones (outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
I will concede that on the ground, I don't know how regime change will happen without ground forces. Unless there's some internal militia that can force IRGC out, someone is gunna have to go in.
The most viable options that don't involve American boots on the ground are either Artesh (the Iranian army, distinct from the Republican Guard) staging a coup and/or the Kurds invading.
ChickenOverlord
18d ago
Or even better, save it until marriage. Unfortunately, outside of religious communities, that doesn't seem to be the preference of either men nor women.
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
Hlynka talked about Hobbes a lot (that wasn't why he was banned though).
ChickenOverlord
19d ago
The purpose of requiring a congressional declaration of war is to make sure that you avoid this problem by having democratic backing for your war effort.
I agree, but given that the last time the US declared war on anyone prior to starting hostilities was WW2, at this point that ship has not only sailed, but wrecked and sank to the ocean floor.
ChickenOverlord
21d ago
China imports about 70% of its oil. About 13% of that imported oil is from Iran. That means about 9-10% of China's oil supply is being cut off here.
I'm very much a member of group 4, and have stated my views in this regard multiple times here. If Israel decided to turn Gaza into a parking lot tomorrow, my feelings on the matter wiuld be something to the effect of "It's too bad they couldn't work it out peacefully. Oh well, not my problem." I'm even fine with selling Israel the weapons to do the parking lot making with, I'm just tired of them getting them for free with my tax money.
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