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Civil: /sĭv′əl/

adjective Of, relating to, or befitting a citizen or citizens. "civil duties." Of or relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state. "government agencies concerned with civil affairs." Of ordinary citizens or ordinary community life as distinguished from the military or the ecclesiastical. "married in a civil ceremony at city hall." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik

Military OR CIVIL service. Reading isn't for everyone.

Texans do "love" their cattle.

Tiddies bad, but fascism good?

Eat shit Texas. I choose tiddies.

Let's not confuse attackers and defenders. Recall my previous point of the difference between real governments amd militaries vs despots, gangsters, brigands and raiders. They are not the same.

Isn't the loint of Thorium reactors that they are small and modular, thus highly scalable by multiplying units. Your comment about scaling a single reactor is a cheap rhetorical device to miss the point entirely.

Why did we bother inventing anything? We could exterminate the species with rocks bashed on heads, yet here we are. There are better ways that are not doomed to primitivity.

Not interested. Unless you make us.

No. Perfectly and absolutely serious.

Sure. There is a scale where my example was an extreme for illustration. Your point a very reasonable one as well. If I was running a a cafe I would offer it but I am Canadian. If I were french and you asked for a baguette olive loaf you would find yourself in a guillotine. Context matters and traditions matter more than commerce in many cultures.

A very reasonable position. I for one supoort this wholeheartedly. Sensible civilian firearms laws support in a symbiotic way the Canadian military. A wider body of markmens who maintain profficiency after service. It also supports a domestic small arms industry that can switch to military small arms when needed and pivot back. Canadian jobs, serving Canadian defense, using Canadian materials. It's also an export market.

I love the idea of 2 years mandatory military or civil service. Around the end of high school. Engagement, development and readiness of a much wider spectrum of society in common service to each other. There are very very few downsides.

Edit: I'm also a strong proponent of nukes. Nothing outrageous. Just a minimum viable second strike capability like the UK. Just enough to tell hungry eyes to fuck off and look elsewhere.

A curious example. Militaries fight enemies of the state. When the people are the enemy of the state, you are not dealing with a military or a government. It's warlords, despots, gangsters, brigands and bandits.

They can dress themselves up in the language and carefully curated selection of traditions, but its still a primitive system. Might makes right is suitable for lower primates. Civilized nations can do better when you don't let the lower apes in power

A military that turns on its own people is not a military.

Bullseye!

Close. This is why I mastubate frantically infront of the cameras. It satifies they kink for surveilance and my kink in exhibitionism.

I adore CBC. I can't and won't live without them.

In the morning I awake to CBC radio and continue throughout my commute.

I then listen to The Current as I press into my day.

I listen to the news on my way home. I'll pickup Front Burner, the National and Marketplace.

I edify my mind and soul with CBC ideas in the evening. Nahlah Ayed is my celebrity crush.

I entertain myself with the debaters, hockey night in Canada, quirks and quarks.

I get my Music from CBC Radio 3 mostly, but Marvin's room and Afterdark are there too.

I can think of no other institution more important to myself and the country than the CBC.

(Delete) I was beaten to it.

It's only a failure if they wanted to do that kind of business. If I open an Italian restaurant and someone orders Thai, did I fail?

The Dems are not one party, but factions. There are legit opposition members, but the party is controlled by the captured opposition faction. Their job was to give the illusion of choice and legitimate democracy while playing stupid as the fascists eroded all your rights. They never undid the harm republicans brought in even when they could.

Legitimate dems were only permitted to give an aire of legitimacy to the whole dog and pony show. Yes voting matters, but the real battle was lost in the candidate selection within the DNC, where only the captured opposition are allowed to dominate.