Disagree. One of the main purposes of military training (in most, maybe all, cases) is to strip everyone of their individual autonomy.

If you’re not OK with what you’re ordered to do, you should not do it

The problem with this that soldiers are explicitly trained to not even consider their own judgement of their orders. They don’t stop, judge, then pull the trigger. They just pull the trigger. If they disobey an order, they’re court martialed. It’s the military’s justice system that then gets to decide if the order was unlawful. The system is designed to strip soldiers of their power.

If a 28yo enlists, they share some responsibility simply by knowingly joining an immoral organization. But most new recruits are in high school. They don’t know what the hell is going on.

All this to say: the leaders who have stripped young boys of their autonomy in order to have them commit horrific acts that will scar them for life in order to protect their own regime, they’re the real villains. I see the individual soldiers as victims.

Yours lasted longer than mine. Mine gave out after 2 years. I’m still using it though. I wish the screen were a bit brighter and the speakers a bit louder. Other than that it’s the perfect phone.

Damn at the end she pretty much nailed it. Its crazy she still doesn’t get it.

This sounds like it might work. I’ll play around with it. Hopefully being chess-specific doesn’t make it incompatible with a smash tournament.

Zelenskyy should offer to take the deal if Ukraine can get its nukes back from the violation of the last treaty.

That would violate the deal.

Kombucha? It will be very fizzy and tart. Some of them are sweet and some aren’t so pick one that isn’t as sweet.

give me an example of a modern uprising where the protesters used weapons to achieve their goals.

Uprising was maybe the wrong word. But off the top of my head, the Black Panthers and the IRA both used lots of weapons to achieve their goals. The Black Panthers were considered by the FBI to be the biggest threat to the US government in the 60s. They were eventually stopped with counter-intelligence, infiltration, criminalizing, and disarmament rather than military action.

You bring up good examples of uprisings that didn’t use weapons and times that uprisings were suppressed with military force. I guess I would slightly walk my original claim back. However, I still think that the people having guns is better than not. I can’t find an article, but during the 2020 BLM protests, there were plenty of armed counter protesters. The police were harassing the protesters and leaving the counter protesters alone. Lots of ink was spilled about how this showed which side the police were on. That’s probably true. But there was also some Texas BLM protests where the protesters showed up armed and the police didn’t fuck with them. They didn’t need enough firepower to win a battle. They just needed enough to deter aggression.

This argument never seemed true to me. A typical uprising isn’t suppressed with tanks and fighter jets. It’s suppressed with police. Your uprising doesn’t have bases and fortifications to bomb. An uprising isn’t attempting to control territory. The military and all it’s power isn’t really built to supress an uprising. The US lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan despite having the most powerful military in the world because asymmetric tactics work.

This is kind of a silly thing the argue about. No significant amount of soldiers are going to disobey orders on principle. Anybody that does will be publicly crucified.

We can imagine a spectrum of individual thought to systemic thought. The individual thinker says they aren’t racist because they’ve never treated a POC poorly. The systemic thinker calls them racist for chanting “all lives matter” and driving back to a gated neighborhood. Similarly, the individual thinker wants soldiers to disobey orders as a means of getting things done. The systemic thinker recognizes that a military is a purpose-built system to prevent individual autonomy. Soldiers disobeying orders will never be a lever of pressure against the powers that be.

I don’t think he was high. It said he took mushrooms days before. I don’t even know why it mentioned that. Shrooms don’t last days.

That sure is a big ass bike.

I’m calling bullshit. There’s no way your friend is riding barefoot in crocs during Canadian winters.

This is a very funny image

the words don’t gotta make sense in music, they’re not the whole thing. that’s part of the beauty of it.

Thanks for pointing this out. People act like lyrics have to be fit for dissection in English class to be good. If they were, none of the meaning would get to you while you actually listen to the song. The lyrics and the rest of the song need to work together to make you feel something. Extremely simple or even nonsense lyrics can bring you to feel something more strongly than if they were deep and brooding with big vocabulary and metaphors. If Tyler’s music doesn’t make you feel something? Then don’t listen.

I don’t think I’d call him a lyrical genius but this song is basically an interlude off of quite an old album. Flower Boy represented a big shift for his music tonally and maturity-wise. Maybe check his music after that to get a better idea of why is current fans feel the way they do.

One of the main themes of this album was summer camp. Some of the album literally feels campy and other parts feel angsty or edgy. It’s meant to put you in the mind of a teenage boy. IFHY or Answer would be a better representation of lyricism off this album.

When I owned a Miata, I almost put a yellow triangle flag on the radio antenna to make it look like an RC car.

Part 2 was not a disaster. Personally, I think both parts were really good. No idea where you’re getting such a negative opinion of part 2.

I interpreted this to mean that you need to learn a lot of math in order to have a career in astronomy. I don’t think OP thought it was possible to actually go to the star and math was the limiting factor.

I don’t drink at home. I’ll let loose when I’m out with friends but at home I don’t drink. I had a period of my life where I was very close to becoming an alcoholic. It wasn’t until a recovering alcoholic (using extremely broken English) suddenly seemed very concerned with me and told me I could talk to him any time that I realized where I was heading. A couple years later I messaged him to tell him how important that moment was to me. I don’t even know if he could read English well enough to get the point but I hope he understood.