HighElfMage @ HighElfMage @lemmy.world

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Is Japan uncivilized?

Speeding up executions means more innocent people will be wrongfully executed. How many innocent people are you willing to kill to make sure this this asshole fries?

SCOTUS, or at least Scalia, has also decided that innocence isn't a compelling reason to be spared execution.

We should never let these vermin get away with calling themselves "pro-life."

Somehow I think I'll find the strength to carry on without your brilliant wisdom to guide the way.

You want to give up, throw your vote away voting for some third party crank and somehow I'm the defeatist? I want some of whatever you're smoking because it sounds really strong.

If voting Democrat isn't going to change anything, voting third party is definitely not going to change anything. Might as well make the higher percentage play, which is voting Democrat.

Artillery isn't only indirect fires the category of direct fire artillery exists. Tanks only get eaten alive in urban environments when they're poorly supported. The US has used tanks in urban areas from Hue to Baghdad without problems.

Tanks' primary role is infantry support and for that job they have a big gun. You know what's useful when there's a bunch of guys holed up in a city building, firing at you? A really big gun you can point directly at them and give them hell.

The US has won against guerrillas before. They won in the Philippines and had mostly won in Iraq before the Iraqi government pissed off their Sunni minority and ISIS spilled over from Syria. The US also crushed the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive and most of the war after that was fought by regular North Vietnamese Army units not VC guerrillas.

Most insurgencies fail Max Boot wrote a book called Invisible Armies where he analyzed insurgencies throughout the 20th century and determined that only about a quarter of them succeeded and more than half failed outright. Not only that, many of the successful ones took place in the context of colonization and the Cold Warz where they had weak imperial opponents, super power backers, or both.

Do you think that the Chinese even bothered with the high tech spy gadgets? You could learn basically anything from him if you booked a dinner at his stupid golf club and told him his hands were bigly. Maybe throw in a badly shopped nude of his daughter if you want the real heavy stuff.

Yeah, this happened in Denver, which is a blue city in a blue state. No reason the Dems couldn't get her if they wanted. I still expect no charges, though.

I would say she did this to fundraise off of being a victim, but that would require a degree of foresight that I don't think she possesses.

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Well, there's your first problem. Musk doesn't give a shit about what women think. The man is an S tier misogynist. He probably zoned out listening to this woman and wondered how many horses it would cost to get a handy out of her.

My platform will be one high enough to push Vicki fascists off to their deaths.

Maybe with some spikes at the bottom for good measure. You can't be too careful.

Definitely. Expecting to live after calling off the coup was the stupid move here. He crossed the Rubicon when he seized Rostov. After that, it was win or die and he ruled out winning. It wasn't hard to figure out what would happen next.

Well part of the problem is that there isn't total agreement on what a republic is. By some definitions it's basically anything that isn't a monarchy. Some medieval republics didn't have elections and instead chose their officials by sortition, which is essentially a lottery. China and North Korea do have elections, but they're total shams (and North Korea is basically a monarchy is a thin coat of republican paint, since by law they can't have any leader that isn't descended from Kim Il Sung).

Technically, no. The Constitution says "the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government," but "republican" has historically been very loosely interpreted. Technically, China and North Korea are both republics.