Nukes deter a foreign invasion but in theory guns have revolutionary potential because your own state may not nuke itself. But it's not the guns missing from a potential revolution, it's the spirit.
You can't always be sure of a guilty verdict but it's probably somewhat more reliable than a confession. Although you have to judge each case on its merits to ascertain how likely a false confession is, a false confession or a show trial. Think of the post office masters how the state treated them. Rather than blame the software or the system that was guilty they'd rather believe, against every shred of common sense, intelligence, honour and integrity - that an entire generation of post office managers had spontaneously become thieves. They sent one innocent person after another to prison so as to protect the new software they'd just updated the system with. Every one of them knew they were sending innocent people to jail but they're psychopaths running the justice system - that's not an opinion, it's a scientific fact.
As for punishment being a deterrent it doesn't really work that well. Catching those who are actually guilty is the deterrent, doing your best to limit the numbers of psychopaths who so naturally want to become a police officer or a judge is the deterrent.
That's a sentiment these days though isn't it? Not really going to protect yourself from the government I think it's more likely, perhaps because of the government, that you shoot yourself.
Even though things are random online, more random than ever, this inherent uncertainty will only increase mob certainty. Even though we know it's random there'll be less chance of accepting that it was an accident. People are crazy and if there wasn't any concrete certainty it would be necessary for them to fake one. Not even though but especially because they're living in a mess.
I don't know about any magical powers but I can see the average guy burned as a witch. The internet is like civilisation starting all over again in a humanity that has never understood the world it lives in less than it does today. But it won't stop them judging what is a completely alien landscape a total mystery, so get your pitchfork ready. Witches will burn for a system that has literally no common sense, random people will be tortured for random things in this ignorant mess of estranged niches.
And it gets worse the more professional it is. If more of the judiciary came from bad homes there would be a little bit more needs must. But when it's comprised of those who've never known a situation of difficulty, and only a context of plenty, then the law will be completely out of this world.
That's where the state/law does. Annihilates the context in an abstract universe where the way things ought to be defeats the way things really are. It's one dimensional and cannot deal with knock-on effects cannot comprehend the bigger picture nothing has any real context when they're waving a pen around.
That's the state for you, the law. I'm assuming it is the law to provide for anybody under the care of the state even if it means taking powdered milk from a baby. More will be allowed to die so long as no deaths can be directly blamed on the authorities.
I'd take the free pork but say something about the piglet. It would never have been alive to begin with unless someone was prepared to eat it which doesn't mean kill the animal in unnecessary pain.
Throwing Ukraine under the bus will lower inflation but I don't think the average man wants that. Not here anyway. Long-term it's probably best that more of the earth don't fall to Russian mismanagement, they have all this surplus yet no one wants to live there.
Love to ignore race in relationships but it makes such a massive difference to what you look like. What you look like and your temperament more often than not.. not that it needs to a bad thing. The exotic can be very alluring particularly when there's nothing to do around here.
If the point of life was to avoid pain then we wouldn't be born into this world kicking and screaming. Even if you lose your love you haven't lost anything because you come from nothing. You came from nothing and go back to nothing, so what have you lost? Nothing. Anything in the middle is a bonus but you've got to give it back.
Elite women are the worst. For every working class woman holding the family together because father is a deadbeat there is a woman from the elite destroying the fabric of society - and getting praised for it.
Liberals in Russia are like that 10% of the prison population that comes out kinder than it went in for some reason maybe to do with Jesus or another mental gymnastic where 2 add 2 make 5 not 4. The exceptional person where what goes in does not amount to what comes out.
But Ukraine is not in Africa it's in Europe and we would have hoped that a more civilised society could take hold. Not like the fall of apartheid amounted to the different coloured monsters of the ANC, better than that.
And it's a refreshing contrast to style over substance. Almost no one thinks like Musk anymore, to win simply because you make better cars? Old school.
I say all this with the utmost respect. The thinking man's autism simply won't pay too much attention to what you should or shouldn't say and there are certainly instances in life where this is a positive.
Proof that Asperger's isn't always a disability so much as a bullish obsession often with the truth. A bullish obsession with the facts over and above the lies that normal people need to tell themselves every day so as to get out of bed in the morning.
Or the war in Iraq. Technically we won and so that seemed to galvanise western people around neoliberalism and the unipolar world. But for how long? Not very long is the answer to that.
A bit like Vietnam. That was at least partly done to thin out the ranks of beatniks and hippies although I don't think it actually worked to weaken the new politic as designed.
It's Eric Zemmour that becomes unelectable when the west rallies to defend the present order of things.
But for how long? World war 1 was supposed to thin out the ranks of potential communists not build the Soviet Union. That's the law of unintended consequences for you.
And by defeat communism I mean the old communism of the blue collar slob that had not been proven a failure and was the rebellious challenge to the mainstream of society at that time. Obviously today's equivalent of last century's communist is not today's communist, it's the popular right. In this century the popular right is the one and only challenge to the forces of convention. They're the alternative to what will happen by default.
World war 2 certainly was not triggered by a lesser aggression. Impossible to imagine world war 2 happening without world war 1.
World war 1 was caused by a decadent and obsolete system run by victorian old fogeys who thought that sending youth to die like cattle would help alleviate overpopulation and defeat communism. Angsty victorians making a mess through a sense that I need to make life terrible for my kids because life has been too good to me. All of these anxious people surrounded by new technology must surely result in blowing something up. It's karma.
Well I'd have the body of an adonis but the gaps between my toes keeps me up at night. Wide feet that were like duck feet as a child, not that I'm the dwelling type. That's the last thing I am.
Aliens are something that exists but we'll never see one or meet one. However dolphins are said to be quite intelligent and I'm sure they've been flying around in a giant fish tank seen by no one.
Why do you want to be well-versed in NBA? It sounds like an education you neither want nor need.
Why don't you learn a trade and only work mornings by cutting out unnecessary subscriptions? You know that Keynes was right about the 15 hour working week so long as you do the right job and don't buy too many worthless things.
That should be obvious. When Ukraine wants to be in NATO its so that they are free to behave like they don't live next door to a mafia man. But what's in it for NATO? Human rights are very nice an all but I don't see what NATO gains from Ukraine. In the real world you have to compromise ideals because of reality. Ukraine will have to settle for being somewhere between a NATO member and a puppet state like Belarus. Ukraine is in no position to completely ignore Russian foreign policy.
RE: If the dress don't fit
Is that the Marilyn Monroe dress?