Man... Years ago, I started doing a bit with my friends where I joked that having sex with women was super gay and the only way to protect your manhood was to get off by swordfighting other men. Now these lunatics have gone so far into the deep end that they're doing my bit unironically! I think someone needs to recalibrate the simulation because something is broken.
HighElfMage
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How is executing someone keeping us safer from them than just throwing them in prison? Prison escapes, especially of dangerous, death row level offenders are exceedingly rare, at least in the US. People will point to deterrence, but no scientific studies have been able to demonstrate any significant deterrence effect of capital punishment. You're just killing people out of anger.
I get it, many of these offenders are abhorrent. I won't lose any sleep over the supermarket shooter getting his. But the death penalty should be abolished.
Is Japan uncivilized?
Speeding up executions means more innocent people will be wrongfully executed. How many innocent people are you willing to kill to make sure this this asshole fries?
SCOTUS, or at least Scalia, has also decided that innocence isn't a compelling reason to be spared execution.
We should never let these vermin get away with calling themselves "pro-life."
Somehow I think I'll find the strength to carry on without your brilliant wisdom to guide the way.
You want to give up, throw your vote away voting for some third party crank and somehow I'm the defeatist? I want some of whatever you're smoking because it sounds really strong.
If voting Democrat isn't going to change anything, voting third party is definitely not going to change anything. Might as well make the higher percentage play, which is voting Democrat.
Artillery isn't only indirect fires the category of direct fire artillery exists. Tanks only get eaten alive in urban environments when they're poorly supported. The US has used tanks in urban areas from Hue to Baghdad without problems.
Tanks' primary role is infantry support and for that job they have a big gun. You know what's useful when there's a bunch of guys holed up in a city building, firing at you? A really big gun you can point directly at them and give them hell.
The US has won against guerrillas before. They won in the Philippines and had mostly won in Iraq before the Iraqi government pissed off their Sunni minority and ISIS spilled over from Syria. The US also crushed the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive and most of the war after that was fought by regular North Vietnamese Army units not VC guerrillas.
Most insurgencies fail Max Boot wrote a book called Invisible Armies where he analyzed insurgencies throughout the 20th century and determined that only about a quarter of them succeeded and more than half failed outright. Not only that, many of the successful ones took place in the context of colonization and the Cold Warz where they had weak imperial opponents, super power backers, or both.
Mansa Musa was just the king. It's like saying that everyone in America is rich because Jeff Bezos is rich.
Also, Mansa Musa's wealth has been exaggerated a lot and the crashing economies while on pilgrimage thing is probably bunk.
Hello, airplanes? It's blimps, you win!