My mother socialized me too damn well, people IRL think I'm friendly and kind when in reality I hate every last one of those fucks from behind my eyes.
The purpose of a legal system is to provide consistent and coherent methods of conflict resolution that are superior for the functioning of general society than means outside of a system of centralized coercion for certain, sufficiently disruptive acts.
By this extremely broad definition, the legal system in my country, the USA, fulfills its purpose. But so would the legal system of fucking Napoleonic France.
More narrowly, a legal system should be oriented towards a standardized means of punishment and reform of those who disrupt the basic functioning of civil society.
By this narrower definition, my country only succeeds on 'standardized means of punishment', and even there arguably only partially. It largely fails at reform, and the punishments are both visited on those who do not disrupt the basic functioning of civil society (minor drug offenses, immigration crackdowns, anti-homeless legislation), and failed to be visited on many of those who do disrupt the basic functioning of civil society (gestures broadly at corporate America and the current coterie of fascists in power in government).
Pretty consistently it's been reported that Iran has been increasing its capabilities to quickly create a nuclear weapon should they need to, rather than simply embarking immediately on constructing nukes.
And honestly, at this point, they'd be stupid not to, since the main negotiator (the US) of their opposing coalition has proven to be utterly unwilling to maintain any agreements regarding denuclearization for more than 4 years at a time.
I had the misfortune of hearing the opinions of some conservative family on the matter on Father's Day.
It was the best thing since sliced bread, apparently, and Trump "deserved" it because "it's his birthday", while "no one" showed up for the No Kings protests.
Don't ever be fooled into thinking that a lackluster performance will disappoint his fans.
In absolute numbers, maybe, but in proportional terms, I'd caution against thinking like that. The vast majority of Republicans remain in lockstep behind their Dear Leader.
Do you think internal disorder is unlikely? There’s broad disinterest in helping the Palestinians in any way, but Israeli society disagrees about nearly everything else.
I think disagreements in Israeli society are relatively weak insofar as they all adhere to a common vision of Israel as a Jewish apartheid state. As long as there's that to unite them - and make no mistake, at BEST 37/120 Knesset seats are held by non-Zionist parties, and more realistically, 14/120 - any crisis will bring together Israeli society in defense of that core existential concern.
Political disputes will continue, to very strong degrees. But there isn't going to be some mass defection from the core existential idea of Israel or Israeli sovereignty, including over its hypermilitarized state.
My point isn't that they'd glass the Middle East, my point is that the threat of even small-scale nuclear warfare is enough to ensure that Israel might be pushed back from imperialist projects, but never existentially threatened without massive internal disorder.
I would argue that the Levant is the least likely region of the Middle East to change with the coming decline in oil.
We might not fully invade enemies often, but the Arabs definitely have.
The days of massive Pan-Arab socialist coalitions are over, and even back when they were still a threat, Israel beat them off pretty handily without significant US support.
Threats to Israel at this point are largely not existential, and if they were changed to existential threats, further radicalization seems more likely than redress and reconciliation. Especially considering Israel's nuclear program.
The original 97 Berserk anime (though the first episode is very weak), Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Black Lagoon (though it has definite... weak arcs which get too animesque), Girls Last Tour, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Space Dandy, and Pop-Team Epic, (roughly sorted from most serious to least) are all excellent series.
Ghost in the Shell, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, and Princess Mononoke (really, anything by Miyazaki) are all fantastic anime movies.
I can add, as guilty or semi-guilty pleasures, Canaan and Tsukikage Ran.
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My mother socialized me too damn well, people IRL think I'm friendly and kind when in reality I hate every last one of those fucks from behind my eyes.