dov.bsky.social
nothing will open eyes like steel in my hand
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I love how Britain just has this class of people who aren't actual historians but just say they are and people pay them for it.
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"an ancient and noble house"
wojciech I need a scythemen's brigade at my house like now
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WHY WOULD YOU BE HAPPY ABOUT THAT
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You can't read.
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the dead of the war are genuinely a minor problem at best compared to the great justice of ending slavery
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the thing that gets me about this theory is that this is a completely pointless counterfactual. the civil war was not a disaster! it /ended/ the worst disaster of North American history!
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Let alone a bombing.
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Forget Israel. When are people going to propose sanctions on /both/ Pakistan and India?
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What's that? You're telling me that we actually enforce no sanctions against any of the other ones except North Korea?
Oh, okay.
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Iran /could have/ a nuclear weapon and all I would say is "okay, that's illegal. i assume we are going to apply all appropriate enforcement actions that are applied to all illegal nuclear weapon states"
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You'll notice this is an unproven theory relying on an unproven theory relying on an unproven theory
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Yes
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"The analysis everyone seems to have missed" yes, I have missed it, because that's insane and stupid
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"If the SNP don't do what I specifically think they should do, voters will think what I have hallucinated they might be thinking, no matter how contrived"
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the national
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Honestly I don't like it! I plainly just don't think a democratic society should be dictating to its grown adult members how to use their time outside of crisis
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It's actually really upsetting to think about how for 99% of human history it was broadly unquestioned that the definition of "human" as used in the phrase "human rights" does not necessarily include all humans, and even now we have only /started/ questioning it
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It is fucking gross. I kinda do worry by how if you bring it up people act like you're some kind of dreamy-eyed idealist, even though, plainly, prison work is slavery.
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I don't think we should have either but I do think people should reflect on why that doesn't anger them and while I know you, good lefty reading this, /are/ angered by it, a lot of people really aren't.
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I'm content to say actual war meets that standard, but the generalised prospect of its existence, not so much.
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The actual clear-ass moral case against conscription is entirely uncomplicated and does not require huge speeches: it is forced labour, and the bar for justified forced labour by a society has to be existentially high.
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I disagree with peacetime conscription, by the way. I do not believe it is actually desirable enough to overcome the moral reprehensiveness of it. I also however do not particularly care for the idea that if my country is attacked by Russia I should focus on resenting the Lithuanian rich.
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Most people in Glasgow would fail my integration test, which is to ask them to create a conlang while standing on your head. I think this is a tragedy, and a sign of the atomised nature of our times.
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i would love to see ireland in nato and that's incidentally why i respect their choice not to join. not that i think alon relates because based on this thread the idea they have of it as a place in their head is just not my idea, and if i am frank, reads like a list of xenophobic stereotypes
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i also think that frankly "it's because you're all putinists" is a psychotic approach to a friendly country that has unequivocally condemned the invasion and participates in sanctions saying a polite "thank you no" to "would you like to join this club"
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The only person who understands this is actually Susan Aitken but you all turn into yoons when you start talking about her because god forbid a woman in power be angry sometimes.
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But if you point out the basic reality that outside the party's membership, normal people care about bins before they do about nationhood, suddenly everyone is up in arms and acting like you suggested giving up on it. I'm not. I'm pointing out that good governance builds confidence in nationhood.
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For some reason, SNP members, and eventually SNP politicians under pressure from SNP members, seem to be convinced that the problem is that we don't talk about independence enough. We talk about it too goddamn much. We should be talking about fucking bins and sewers.
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You know how we get to independence? By persuading people that they can run this country themselves because things in it work well. They'll vote for you, and it, if their bins are being collected on time. That's literally it. Sewer nationalism.
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not to bring internal criticisms out into the public sphere but the basic reality is that contra to the opinion of the SNP membership, SNP /voters/ don't want to hear about independence more. they want to hear about how long it's gonna be until there is an A&E that actually sees everyone there
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(But also I mean who knows. Maybe they're right and I'm just a coldhearted cynic. God knows I sometimes wish I could just bonk an MSP over the head with YOU LITERALLY PROMISED THIS.)
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(This is something I both consider very honourable and so inflexible that there is no way this rule would have survived a longer stint as a government party.)
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There are no exceptions. Not even by accident
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I'm sorry but the reality is that an easy heuristic for any claim as to whether Trump has done something that vaguely acknowledges the humanity of a brown person is "that's bullshit"
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Jeet Heer is easy stuff. the fucking FT reported it as if it was fact