imperious_melange

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[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 0 points 27 minutes ago

So X isn't bad because Y is worse? Hey we know we enslaved you but we didn't kill you so it's fine, the other dude would have killed you so now we're kinda like the good guys only enslaving you.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 0 points 59 minutes ago (2 children)

You're welcome to come and see the "investment".

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure that is really the thing holding everyone back. Like gays aren't being brutally murdered or women being raped, or public funds embezzled because America empire. People are actually just kinda bad unto themselves. If America disappeared today I think our issues would still be there with corruption and poverty.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

But no potatoes ಥ⁠╭⁠╮⁠ಥ

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Or just the end to needless and avoidable suffering and wellbeing for all minds anywhere in existence.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Just the end of needless and avoidable violence.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Sidebar, would love to do an electric swap on that blazer. Then it could shut off for a whole new reason.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

The cases that I've seen are very positive. One patient described it as living life in black and white and someone turned on the color aka there was a new depth to their experience of life. Generally it's not like a lobotomy. Also useful for drug resistant depression in some cases.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

There are really only four scenarios. They stop fighting and forge a lasting peace, one wipes out the other, they continue to fight till the end of time, or both get wiped out.

[–] imperious_melange@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

That was never my argument. Even after WWII there were the Nuremberg trials. Justice should always be there for anyone who committed a war crime regardless of which side of the war they were on and regardless of which country.

 

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