That’s nice. But I feel this is just absurd. “We killed lots of people and took these people as hostages for years, but we’re really nice about it”. I mean, I don’t approve of mistreating prisoners, but taking them, and the way it was done in the first place kinda outweighs letting them have a holiday 🙄 And if you’re about to start “but Israel…” save your time, I think they’re monstrous fascists.
Uhura walked so Burnham could cry and wail and sob.
I’m on the side of the Vietnamese
Shit, you just reminded me my passport is expired
And I will better the instruction. -Shylock.
Stop it, Valve! I can only get so erect!
Historically occupations tend to be troublesome affairs. The west spent 20 years in Afghanistan and got nowhere. I agree that the mafia state must be dealt with, but going by the west’s ability to run an occupation that doesn’t turn the inhabitants against them, is practically nil.
More likely a datachip with your credit card and ID on it…
Revelations, if taken for what they’re said to be, a revelation of the last days, have a few items that are worth mentioning relevant to current events. -There will be a mark on people’s hands or foreheads, without which one can’t buy food. -A swarm like locusts will rise up and destroy stuff. -All nations will declare war on Israel.
That’s just a few excerpts from memory, that could very easily be understood to fit with modern context. Aside from Israel no countries are mentioned by name iirc. Note that Israel did not exist at the time it was written, it was the Roman province Judea.
My point was to sort the good from the bad. To support those who are against evil and fight against those who perpetrate it. Shooting unarmed prisoners of war is nazi like, and while as you say, such things are done by all militaries, it is a thing of evil and should be hindered, in the same way that we should hinder the nazis from shooting people.
It is my belief that high inequality leads to many societal problems. It is the job of government in our current system to alleviate both the problems it causes, but also the inequality itself. Losing these people is an acceptable cost.
The (claimed) problem is that the wealth tax unfairly punishes Norwegian owners, which means that foreign owners will outcompete and take over ownership of Norwegian businesses. Perhaps the logical solution would be a tax on foreign ownership as well.
It is kinda funny that these wealthy people who have earned their fortunes in Norway, find it impossible to live there because of the wealth tax. They then move in protest, to Switzerland, one of the the two other countries in Europe that has wealth tax.
I think for some people the scale of God simply doesn’t compute, which is why old man with big beard image persists. Look at the size of our galaxy, and the size of the universe as a whole. If any being was the creator of such a vast and complex universe as ours, that being would be to us like we are to a “Hello world” script.
The analogy is flawed, but that is what we are saying if we believe in a being capable of creating our universe, defining its laws and bending them to create us. We could not truly begin to comprehend such a being, and largely we are left to our own. However, if you believe, then this being does care about us in some way. And it has shown us this through inspiring humans to share its path for our improvement.
That is the reason I believe in the teachings of the Christ. The path of loving your enemies, of caring for everyone as one would your own family, forgiveness, that is the path to a better world, revealed to us through a man and his story. I am unable to fully live up to such ideals, but like Data says, the struggle yields its own rewards. Those who take such ideas to heart are worthy in the eyes of the creator, because if all people were such, there would be little suffering in our world. We have the means to reduce our suffering, but we choose not to. God could, remove it for us, but then we will not become the free and good beings we are meant to be.
You don’t need God to have such ideals as the Christ demonstrated, but I find such ideas so much better than any of the alternatives, that I suspect they have divine origin. And even if they don’t, if I follow them, then I will contribute to making the world better regardless. God could take away my struggle and suffering, but that would leave me still flawed and unable to improve, and so it would be for all humanity as well.
Funny, cause here (Norway) half of political parties and discourse are going ape over this. Otoh, which is my perspective, wave as they leave, if they’re too poor to live here they can F off.
Is it 3% of the population in the streets that lead to change?
Nice Germans who who are respectful and tolerant are welcome. Nazi Germans get shot at. That’s what your granddad would probably say. Listen to granddad.
Based on her position and annoyance I think you misspelled ‘shait’.
It’s really simple, either all the people benefit or the people become divided. The conflict that comes from that is usually a path to destruction.
Only a Russian would misspell ‘bed’ as ‘bad’. Nice try kaputchnik.
I have the ungrateful job of teaching English. I have two types of students. Screenies and non-screenies. The former are like this meme, they pick up a lot from popular culture, games, etc, and are often bored with classes. Then you have the latter group, they have very little exposure to English and usually very little interest as well. A third group exists, and they’re the kids that are in between and do the work in class.
Now one would think that getting everyone into the first group would make my job easy, however, those kids are usually a special subset of kids who will learn independently just from their interests. The other two groups could do hour for hour exactly the same as the Screenies, but they would never reach that proficiency level without other instruction. On the other hand, a lot of screenies do poorly at formal English, like grammar, spelling and word choice, because much of their learning is casual.
So long story short, to the meme, yeah, I know.
Occasionally I fire up Civilization. The first one. I’ve also enjoyed Imperialism 2. Star Wars Rebellion, X-com (the original). Jagged Alliance 2.
All of those are from the 90s.