Fun mead fact: The word “mead” descends from the Proto-Indo-European word for honey.

“I did it for a college degree” isn’t a good reason to bomb people on the other side of the world, so my point still stands.

I mean, with everybody else dropping the ball so hard it’s not like the military or a particular subgroup thereof is different here from the background noise of compliance. If anything the military is the last organization you should expect to get involved in a domestic political conflict. And besides, you don’t get into the US military by having a strong moral compass.

The problem is that the Commandments in the Bible are so absolute that they can be reductio ad absurdum’d really easily, forcing Christian theologists to come up with the caveats (which is to say make shit up).

Uh… wrong link?

Yes it has.

There’s nothing such as “establishment left” in most Western countries, and the countries whose political establishment does have a leftwing element (i.e. Spain) do tend to be tougher on Israel.

I mean, Iran definitely is right to defend itself against Israeli-American aggression. They’re wrong about a lot of other things, but giving America, Israel and their allies hell for blowing up their country is objectively the right thing to do.

I mean Osama bin Laden def had a point about American imperialism.

Fair enough.

It makes sense if opting out means you don’t get national insurance.

I find the idea that nuclear proliferation to theocratic despots could in any way be a positive development a little… difficult to believe.

It’d definitely restrain Israel and crew, and the Iranian regime isn’t dumb enough to actually use a nuke.

It’s bad enough with the nuclear states we have now - we don’t need another Israel in the region.

That’s basically reasoning from vibes so there’s really nothing for me to say here without a thought process I can respond to, but also for example the Soviets getting nukes was definitely an improvement over only America having them. Deterrence works.

True, if they get a nuclear weapon (which they 100% should do) they’ll probably aim it at Abu Dhabi and Riyadh and let the implications do their work.

Definitely some irony in there.

Weird manifestation of humility at the end there.

Y’all Nazis don’t get to monopolize eagles.

And America’s Jim Crow past explicitly inspired Hitler, so it’s really one incestuous cycle of fascism.

Hitler brought the German people out of the poverty, Trump is leading us into poverty.

Absolutely not. Hitler happened to be in power during Germany’s recovery from the Great Depression, but nothing he did meaningfully pushed that along.

Tell that to American conservatives. Can’t parody stupidity smartly.

Complete strawman. Good things should be done well, while doing evil shit well is—surprise—still evil.