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I’m torn between not wanting to make political violence normal and wanting these terrible people to destroy themselves with in fighting.

Does it have a squeeker inside that sounds like a train horn? Asking for a friend…

Or, hear me out, spend the money to make your country less shit.

Good point about Desert Storm. Because North America has been so insulated from war/ major conflicts we have grown to be more tolerable of waging it. Every 20ish years we have to be reminded that it is something to be avoided.

Also, I hadn’t even thought about how much medicine had changed and that allowed more people to survive but with injuries.

Another thing to point out is that Canada and the USA have only seen imperialist/ asymmetric warfare in my lifetime and this colors how we view the seriousness of it. How many d-bag Seals have podcasts or books glorifying themselves and how their rugged manliness got them through war? In reality they just had better equipment, logistics, and training on their side. But again it feeds into the propaganda machine pushing these societies to go to war.

This is exactly why WWI is so interesting to me. All over the world (mostly Europe) we had these notions about honor and glory in war. Then after a bunch of people got fed to machine gun fire the collective consciousness of humanity shifts. Obviously there were folks ahead of the curve and already knew this.

But in general for western civilization WWI is the inflection point.

Where do you live? I want to take your home.

I will claim (incorrectly) that it is mine historically, but idiots on the internet will simp for me.

I am against ‘The West’ so everything I do is justifiable or the reporting on it is propaganda or you just don’t understand as a brainwashed westoid.

DM me the address and I will come take your home from you. Any resistance is just you drawing it out and making the situation worse.

But Iran just demonstrated how important it is to the world. The USA just demonstrated that it is a paper tiger unable to achieve its stated goal.

Countries are selfish and will act in their own interest. Right now, that means making a deal with Iran.

The usual suspects.

You can say pedophile on the internet.

It is isn’t it. Go on big boy, get your ass to Minneapolis and start killing ICE for them. Hurry up! Everyone is waiting for you.

Sure, if we ignore the fact that those engineers had all of their work checked by people we called calculators.

Those are evil… It’s just that the USA is also evil.

From the Public Health Agency website: “Each province and territory decides which vaccines it will provide free of charge to the public.”

So it depends ¯\(ツ)/¯