Cethin

Congress hasn’t declared war in a very long time. The president was supposed to have limited power to conduct military operations, but that power has been expanded over the past century to essentially remove the need for congress to declare war.

Again, not saying this is good. I’m just saying it’s probably legal.

Yeah, I don’t know that this will cause a world War, but it does give a pretty nice opening for China to do things it wouldn’t be able to do under normal circumstances. They can attack a, supposedly, belligerent neighbor and say it’s the same thing the US did to Iran, and the US will be tied up with this conflict for an unknown amount of time. World wars don’t start from a single thing. They start from rising tensions across the board. The war with Ukraine and Iran are pieces of a larger conflict.

What did Trump say recently? Something like: “I have no need for international law. The only thing that can stop me is my own morality.” (Obviously, the wrong words, because he doesn’t speak that well, but the same meaning.) We all know what his morality is like. He’s OK with fucking little girls, and, possibly, killing them. The only morals he has is doing things to benefit himself.

As the other comment says, these aren’t illegal orders. Wrong? Obviously. I don’t think there’s anything that could possibly make this illegal though. The only potential argument is that only congress can declare war, but that’s been pretty much fucked since the end of WWII. It’s illegal for them to tell you to target civilians. It’s legal for them to tell you to invade some foreign nation, for any reason.

But quantity has a quality of its own.

That’s not exactly the same as not asking for permission. They could have asked, but not told him when or how. I would assume they didn’t, based on the wording, but there is some room where they could have still.

It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.

You’re absolutely right, and, as an American, I encourage it. These people don’t stand for us, and they need to face consequences. One thing I’ll always disagree with though is treating all the people as the same entity. No matter where it is, this is a class war. We need to work with people in every nation to fight against rising fascism, wherever it is. We’re in this together, against them. We need allies to fight it though.

Useful for them.

Do you think thievery isn’t useful to the thief? Usually the phrase “legality is not morality” is required, but I guess this time it’s “legality is not utility.” It being legal has no bearing on it being useful or not.

That’s where you’re wrong. They taught them a lot of useful things (for them). They just didn’t teach them what’s legal or not. In fact, they explicitly taught them to do many illegal things.

Yes dude, I can say Hannibal Directive, say Israel is committing a genocide, and still call you a fucking idiot. Not everyone who is annoyed with your bullshit is some secret agent out to get you, if you actually believe that.

I think instead you’re using that as a way to dismiss criticism. It lets you ignore what anyone says about you until they play your silly game. Even after they do, you’ll probably come up with some other reason to dismiss it, because it’s harder to accept criticism than to just pretend like the critic must be a shill, spy, crazy, or whatever other reason you come up with.

In this particular comment thread, I don’t see anyone calling you anything before then. They said you might be trying to bait them into something, but that’s it.

Also, who gives a fuck who started it? That’s a game babies play. You can be the better person if you actually want to do good.

Hey man, you think you’re smarter than you are. You think you can be the only one who’s right. In the comment above you said they’re either an idiot or a agent. Do you really think they’re going to play your game if you’re being an asshole? Best case for you, for the way you’re behaving, people ignore you. Worst case, you push them away from you. Maybe you’re the agent?

My browser (Summit) auto-folds comments below some limit. I don’t know what that limit is, but it’s probably modifiable in the settings somewhere.

PTSD can be caused by much more than just shooting someone. For example, witnessing the horror is probably enough. Most soldiers, in any military, never fire their rifle in combat. Many still have PTSD.

Sure, there are probably some examples where it’s not true, which is why I didn’t say it was 100% the case. Even Tiananman Square wasn’t the absolute end though. There were some other protests following it. Even today it’s still a rallying point for dissidents even with all the suppression. That’s why they’re suppressing it. If it didn’t work to turn others against them, and only worked to keep them from rising up, they’d want everyone to know about it. They’ve done everything they can to prevent this though, so the knowledge must be seen as dangerous to them.

That doesn’t really work. If you know history, that is usually the beginning of the end for them. It only breeds hatred and resentment. If they start shooting people then people will actually stand up. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case where the authorities shoot a fairly large number of people and the people don’t rise up and fight back. They may not win, but it pretty much always leads to a fight, not just rolling over.

That, and by class I’m sure there’s disparities too. It’s also likely higher in families that already have members.

That said even at the present numbers it means every third family or so has a party member.

This is assuming an even distrubution. I have seen no reason to believe this. Certain segments of society are likely far more represented, which means the others are far less represented.

This is notably not soviet Russia.