There is no legal basis for this fight. Do you pollen to start shooting tax collectors?
SaltSong
joined 6 months ago
Trying to control the way other countries are run is fucking wild, the notion of which should never even be remotely entertained.
In happier times, we call the process "diplomacy," and mostly limit it to things that affect us, directly or indirectly.
But pressuring other countries to, for example, clean up their corruption so we can reliably do business with them is common. (Also hilariously hypocritical) Pressuring other countries to enact civil rights laws is fairly common, too.
I have to admit, seeing pressure to remove civil rights is unusual, at least from countries not named UAE.
I think a more interesting question would be "how."
This is the same as any major conflict. People want to try to work thing out without violence. The times that does happen are unremarkable. The times it doesn't happen, we can judge later weather it was the right thing to do.
Is this "surrender to avoid being defeated," or am I misunderstanding the case?
Give us a few days.
The physics of this irritates me.
The word literally means "not from here." In the bible, Jesus tells us to be kind to the alien among us, and he wasn't talking about men from Mars.
This is, functionally, the concentration camps.
If voting could stop fascists, then in 2020 when Joe Biden got more votes than Donald Trump, he would have been president. There would have been a democrat in office from 2021-2024. And your fantasy world sounds nice, but it’s not what happened here in the real world.
Is this some kind of advanced sarcasm? Because I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.
I can’t recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism.
Fascists mostly start by winning legitimate elections. Defeating fascism with votes would just look like Clinton winning the election instead of Trump.
You might as well say that you can't recall a single time when having a visible security presence stopped a robbery.
I'm not saying I approve of what he's doing. Quite the contrary.
But it's what he's asking, and how he's asking, not that he's asking.