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Is "arrant" a more commonly used word in England than the U.S.? I confess that I had to look it up.
I dont think he did any genocide. as for tyranny, as kids in my day used to say, dont hate the player hate the game. I dont think Stalin was any more tyrannical than the Tsars, or the Trump, or Putin.
Is "arrant" a more commonly used word in England than the U.S.? I confess that I had to look it up.
Not really. I just know it from the famous Churchill response to an editor correcting his putting a preposition at the end of a sentence - "this is arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put".
I dont think he did any genocide. as for tyranny, as kids in my day used to say, dont hate the player hate the game. I dont think Stalin was any more tyrannical than the Tsars, or the Trump, or Putin.
A condom could have prevented this.
stay mad that Stalin took your slaves away and then beat your savior Hitler
MAGA in a nutshell
18 years @ a generous 10% ends up with 5600$. Not bad, but thats not exactly going to be life changing unless they are completely destitute
I guarantee at one point in some meeting a very rich person said "These idiots will think they are just like us"
I can right longer sentances if you wont
Your 'superiority' thingy earlier made me think of the Douglas Adams joke which I shall paraphrase
D2 thinks he is is superior to chezlaw because of his accurate use of spelling and grammar. Chezlaw on the other think he is superior to D2. And for exactly the same reason.
May have been Voltaire who said this:
"The optimist says 'this is the best of all possible worlds', and the pessimist agrees with him."
I'm almost certain Voltiare did say:
"This is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
I wouldn't care about us wasting a million dollars on this but they did the whole DOGE nonsense so it feels only fair to hold them to a significantly higher standard
FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime to redact Epstein files, documents show
I believe this is called damning with faint praise.
I dont think he did any genocide. as for tyranny, as kids in my day used to say, dont hate the player hate the game. I dont think Stalin was any more tyrannical than the Tsars, or the Trump, or Putin.
We haven't seen Putin's final chapters so he has the potential - same with trump.
Stalin was clearly paranoid his entire life. He killed his closest friends, doctors, literally a killing rampage on the entire world as a result because he saw ghosts everywhere.
He was the perfect old school DC comic book villain because he had the full autocracy and the reason to go after literally everyone and had the means to do it.
We've learned well lately, especially lately, that humans are ****ing dumb. And its why tyranny is bad and is why I tell people like Nut Nut that you arent man you think you are.
The world has changed more in the past four years than in the previous 30. Our news feeds brim with strife and tragedy. Russia bombards Ukraine, the Middle East seethes, and wars rage in Africa. As conflicts are on the rise, democracies, it seems, are in demise. The post–Cold War era is over. Despite the hopes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the globe did not unite in embracing democracy and market capitalism. Indeed, the forces that were supposed to bring the world together—trade, energy, technology, and information—are now pulling it apart. We live in a new world of disorder. The liberal, rules-based order that arose after the end of World War II is now dying. Multilateral cooperation is giving way to multipolar competition. Opportunistic transactions seem to matter more than defending international rules. Great-power competition is back, as the rivalry between China and the United States sets the frame of geopolitics. But it is not the only force shaping global order. Emerging middle powers, including Brazil, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey, have become game-changers. Together, they have the economic means and geopolitical heft to tilt the global order toward stability or greater turmoil. They also have a reason to demand change: the post–World War II multilateral system did not adapt to adequately reflect their position in the world and afford them the role that they deserve. A triangular contest among what I call the global West, the global East, and the global South is taking shape. In choosing either to strengthen the multilateral system or seek multipolarity, the global South will decide whether geopolitics in the next era leans toward cooperation, fragmentation, or domination. The next five to ten years will likely determine the world order for decades to come. Once an order settles in, it tends to stick for a while. After World War I, a new order lasted two decades. The next order, after World War II, lasted for four decades. Now, 30 years after the end of the Cold War, something new is again emerging. This is the last chance for Western countries to convince the rest of the world that they are capable of dialogue rather than monologue, consistency rather than double standards, and cooperation rather than domination. If countries eschew cooperation for competition, a world of even greater conflict looms. Every state has agency, even small ones such as mine, Finland. The key is to try to maximize influence and, with the tools available, push for solutions. For me, this means doing everything I can to preserve the liberal world order, even if that system is not in vogue right now. International institutions and norms provide the framework for global cooperation. They need to be updated and reformed to better reflect the growing economic and political power of the global South and the global East. Western leaders have long talked about the urgency of fixing multilateral institutions such as the United Nations. Now, we must get it done, starting with rebalancing the power within the UN and other international bodies such as the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. Without such changes, the multilateral system as it exists will crumble. That system is not perfect; it has inherent flaws and can never exactly reflect the world around it. But the alternatives are much worse: spheres of influence, chaos, and disorder.
Russia bombards Ukraine, Victor furiously masturbates and gets angry about mass murderers he doesn't want to marry.
If democracy continues to whither and die then I wonder if we will prefer authorsuanism that 'self identifies' as democratic, facist or communist
Marxist-Leninist countries have always maintained the illusion of democracy, the rulers merely makes sure to be the ones to decide who you can vote for and that anyone who call them out on their BS are disappeared. It has always been important for Marxists-Leninist countries to be able to portray themselves as more inclusive and democratic than actual democracies.
Fascism / Nazism used to be openly opposed to democratic institutions, but that was a long time ago. Modern fascists and Nazis pay lip service to democratic institutions. If they got the power to do so, they would ban opposition to the state, which would handily enough only be represented by their party. They would maintain citizen rights on paper, it would just be illegal to point out that you don't have them anymore.
Newsmax legal analyst says Hegseth should be prosecuted for war crimes
All this “Dept of War” “Lethality not Legality” “Warrior Ethos”
bullshit he’s always spewing-he’s been saying it out loud the whole time:
They plan to KILL THEM ALL. Anyone they want. Minions will all get pardons-
Pentagon Inspector General’s report on the Signal scandal...
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, refused interview request
How many times are we going to watch a couple million in yearly salary ripping US Citizens out of their cars and manhandling them in the middle of the street for literally no reason other than to be a fascist presence?
Who can actually defend this? Any Republicans care to take a stab?
Marxist-Leninist countries have always maintained the illusion of democracy, the rulers merely makes sure to be the ones to decide who you can vote for and that anyone who call them out on their BS are disappeared. It has always been important for Marxists-Leninist countries to be able to portray themselves as more inclusive and democratic than actual democracies. Fascism / N
and if democracy dies which side will we fight on?
Maybe there's new forms of authoritarianism on the way. We could have a constitutional democracy like the UK's current constitutional monarchy where we get to vote for a 'government' but they have no real power.
