Weird how the "peace deals" are always "we get to have a government and weapons we use on your children, and you don't"

Sorry but the USA has been using its nuclear arsenal and UN veto to flout international law for as long as international law has existed. The good news is the USA is making itself an economic pariah & will feel that soon

I just wish I knew what it will take for people to view action through the lens of the reality that exists, instead of becoming ever more reactionary & delusional in desperation to keep the blissful ignorance going

Obviously you're joking but this actually happened to me. Super weird!

The "other political party" is calmly implementing unconstitutional orders, while a sizeable minority vote in favour of fascist legislation

The law will be applied with maximum violence to ordinary people, just not to conservatives or their king

As it turns out, the freedom to entrench absolute permanent advantage for one class, ends up being no freedom at all

Just to clarify, I think the printing press helped us move past feudalism and was a net positive! But disruption is really dangerous, and unfortunately we let ourselves fall into a level of capitalism that demands it constantly.

The printing press empowered bible translation efforts, which threatened the Catholic monopoly on theological interpretation. The reformation that followed came with *many* wars and massacres. I've never thought about silicon valley's "move fast and break things" the same way again.

Take as long as you need. You're already quite kind and you're gonna be fine

They already did, that's how it exists. Almost all of Musk's wealth was built on space & renewables grants & public/private partnerships

Specifically the version of the internet that was obviously superior to the AOL and MSN we made fun of

Oh yeah it's been disastrous. Western politicians supercharged denialism & I'll always be mad. It does seem like any kind of nuance becomes an opportunity for a denialist to exploit

I find it almost impossible to eat or do intense cardio through a mask, but congrats on managing that

Every COVID mitigation is far from perfect so why would you assume we're not combining them? And masks are not appropriate for every situation