I wish their children and grandchildren etc the best of luck in finding comfort in the hellscape we’re building for them. I have a feeling they won’t find it in the knowledge that their grandpappy owned a boat or some shit, but I’m sure they’ll be able to science-miracle their way out of all the problems the generations before them allowed to bottle up to a breaking point.

My own children will be happily non-existing, cuz I love them far too much to cast them into this dumpsterfire, especially as pawns against a horde of morons doing their damnedest to strip everyone’s rights.

Same page as catloaf - I already did my time and got my honorable discharge. If WW3 breaks out, pretty sure I’ll be getting recalled. So, yes.

Then again, the alternative is wait for shit to destabilize until we get there anyway - again this shit won’t end with Ukraine.

Call Russia’s bluff. If we’re wrong, it’s not like we aren’t fucked anyway. Might as well go down fighting evil, vs going down with evil’s dick in our throat.

*looks at recent presidential election*

…oh yeah. Reality. Pass the lube, my throat is sore as fuck.

Intelligence pruning itself out of a malicious environment isn’t really a great showcase of evolution.

It’s not technically incorrect - we are changing, but a species actively taking steps backwards by inflating itself with idiots doesn’t quite hit that stronger/faster/smarter progression that the concept of evolution implies.

These are darwinism’s death throes.

Give em full air support. If it causes world war 3, it causes world war 3. Fuck it. Avoiding that isn’t worth letting Russia just consume its neighbors on a whim - that shit certainly won’t stop with Ukraine.

If we’re pitching microtransactions as extremist content, I’m on board.

Guys I got this pet face-eating-leopard and it keeps trying to eat my face. :(

Mobile dumpsters with a new trash incinerator feature!

…probably just relocating them to the department so they can change back into their cop uniforms.

What happens next?

HUGE sigh of relief from the entire planet.

…really not even new. Just the same shitty normal as always.

Biden could always have him [official business]ed.

Engineering points for opposing teeth orientation - forward grip on the back wheel for accelerating, backwards on the front wheel for breaking. I like it.

Speaking only for myself, but I’d wager this is pretty common: registered independent, but my voting pattern is consistently solid blue. Historically I mostly just don’t want to give the poll worker any reason treat me less-than-ethically due to not aligning with their party of choice. Now-a-days, I don’t want a D next to my name when the Nazis we just elected start making their lists of undesirables.

Jalin

…there’s some nominative determinism for ya.

They did a fairly extensive study in the 1940s on how to deal with Nazis.

Findings were that punching, while not necessarily a bad thing to do to them, was quite a bit less effective than other forms of engagement due to the Nazi having a tendency to get back up after a punch alone.

Never let the law stop you from doing what’s right.

That was clear pretty early on. The options are vigilante justice or no justice; the law is a joke.

We’re getting to the point where laws don’t mean shit. You have the right to defend yourself, whether or not it’s a legal right.

Thought provoking question of the day: Leading up to the holocost, would the average German citizen have been justified in taking up arms against their own government in order to prevent it? If yes, what line was crossed that gave them the moral obligation to do so? And finally, what’s the modern equivalent of that line?

That’s true - I guess we’ll see if and when it happens. But the training on that topic is pretty clear and heavily emphasized relative to other training. It’s also both a politically charged order and one that will elicit defensiveness even if it was made legal.

It’ll also cause a lot of infighting and heavily weaken our military, which would invite attacks from one (or more) of the nations we’ve pissed off with our shitty foreign policy… So there may well be troops taking to our streets shortly after that kind of order, but most likely not our troops.

What a fun alternative!