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We can’t accuse Obama of doing the normal thing that America has always done without examples, but we can exonerate him of doing so on the basis that he was thwarting unidentified terror plots? You don’t think your showing a little bias?

Has Obama even made claims that any such terror plots existed? It’s also kind of funny that, with all these terror plots getting foiled on a nearly daily basis, we were still willing to leave Afghanistan. And then, miraculously, no terror plots happened despite us not sending in drones to stop them.

It always comes back to natural resources, generally oil. That’s not necessarily the reason for specific strikes, but they are always in service to developing or maintaining “cooperative” local governments.

What might really blow your mind is how culturally liberal much of the middle east used to be. Then came the global oil rush and the decision that reactionary theocratic governments were easier to control. Western intelligence agencies are largely responsible for the level of religious extremism and violence we see today. In fact, it worked so well that they decided to try it at home in America. That’s the short version of how we got exactly where we are today.

I disagree. These aren’t Nazis, they are cosplay Nazis. Nazis actually believed in a cause and we’re willing to put their balls on the table in service to that cause. What we have now are grifters who have been made to back down repeatedly.

The time for violence might come but so far civil disobedience has been the smarter move. If elections start being cancelled, that’s a whole new situation though.

I feel like that is almost nobody. There may be certain actions that are inadvisable while the Republicans control everything, but that doesn’t prevent other actions from being so taken. People taking no action now won’t act any differently next year.

I feel like you watched way too much “24”. These strikes are not about thwarting immediate terror threats, they are about serving US (corporate) “interests”

Why not both?

Wait until you see what ecofascism really looks like as we wring the last bits of juice out of the planet.

Yeah, it’s the imperial states doing the vast majority of the extraction, but here is the thing, people in exploited states almost universally want to live more like people in wealthy nations, and people in wealthy nations don’t want to live like people in exploited states. I’ve never heard a solution to that problem that isn’t just another form of ecofascism.

A culture that non-coercively encourages people to have one less kid than they otherwise would is the only path I see that doesn’t ultimately depend on autocracy.

Oh, absolutely. Eugenicists absolutely exist. I wouldn’t argue otherwise. The point is that not everyone concerned about population is one. In fact, most eugenicists today are ringing the panic bell about population decline.

Ukraine is attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure because it is funding the Russian war machine. They are valid targets, despite being run by civilians. I wish them good hunting.

I’m saying that most people who want to reduce the population are not advocating for killing anyone. All it takes is people deciding to have one less child than they might otherwise have had. No call for volunteers necessary.

Anyone working on a military base during a war is a combatant. They are contributing directly to the war effort.

The virtue of stability is entirely dependent on the virtue of the system you are stabilizing.

The people most would advocate be removed from the population haven’t been born yet. I’m pretty sure they don’t object.

This is pretty close to being the new standard etiquette, and I’m all for it.

I found the muscle too. Then I picked up chronic sinus pain on top of ADHD and the mental energy to get there is just gone. I’m sure that for many it doesn’t take a sinus headache.

It’s a fine line to encourage people to do what they think they can’t without shaming those who really can’t get there.

It’s interesting that you know how it works for everyone.