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probably hot

deliberately topical use of syzygy? we just had a lunar eclipse

and also it was starting to feel a little too parasocial

I wanted to do a thing with roon as vader tossing sama as sparking palpatine down the reactor shaft caption "There is still good in him"

It just doesn't really read with roon's pfp obscuring vader's iconic mask, and the angles of the shots in the movie aren't really great for it,

We should bring back chowderhead. If only I'd had chowder so I could grasp the precise connotations being weaponised

The awkward bit comes when you maybe need to toss out and restructure entire units because then people's jobs are in the line

Yeah, fair

I disagree. I think he exhibits an extremely normal and human tendency to think that he and people he knows, likes, and trusts are fundamentally well-intentioned

but I understand reasonable people can disagree with my objectively correct aesthetic preferences

I'm a pre-280 char twitter denizen. To me longposts are a perversion of the purpose of a microblogging site. You're supposed to have to squeeze your vast thoughts into an itty bitty space! (or just thread) Essays are what macroblogging is for

I think this makes a lot of sense. Let me make a concession of at least that if you're going to decapitate, you should probably declare war and not use scheduled negotiations as a misdirect

Isn't this one more of a pragmatic "let's not all die in nuclear fire" than a moral stance?

it's a matter of upholding a global norm that you don't do crimes against humanity and get away with it.

I think you probably want a lot more multilateral consensus than Trump+Bibi

to me it's broader than "does the next government in this particular country happen to turn out for good or ill"
Maube aspiring dictators everywhere see that maybe it's not such a good idea, and maybe we get less than we might otherwise

idk man, it feels intuitive to me that if you slaughter your civilians and get blown up, the next guy is going to be a little leery about the slaughtering

I can probably get behind that they ought to declare war

genuine or sarcastic reductio?

but seriously, where's your line? are you pro-hitler-assasination?

yeah I had that thought as well. Well, maybe he should be next. idk

seriously, while israel's behaviour is evil, they have the extenuating circumstance of being surrounded by people firing rockets at them constantly and who want all jews to die and use human shields. tough to deal with humanely

chrome has a translate highlighted in right click menu, and firefox has extensions (I use linguist)

idc about longposts, but I miss polls
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You can tell my reply is more important than all the others because it appears above them when you're signed into my account

It seems to me like the line ought to be short of both. No? Just let it play out?

(deliberately ignoring that the quoted post is phrased as a practical consideration, rather than a condemnation)

To take an extreme case, most people consider military force against Hitler, presumably including decapitation strikes, justifiable. If you think targeting the ayatollah isn't, it seems like your implicit line is somewhere between democide of tens of thousands, and genocide of millions.

I guess my question for people who disapprove of killing Khamenei is: where is the line? It really seems like there ought to be some level of mass murder where the rest of the world is justified in responding with force.

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It's one thing to fire on US or Israeli military bases, but they've also fired on civilian targets in countries that aren't attacking them, but only hosting US bases.

whoa

I'm the person who wrote the tweet above.

I wrote four blog posts condemning Elon killing the children, argued about it on Twitter extensively, and donated $50,000 (partly my own money, partly contributed by other EAs who read my blog) to help the African clinics effected.

You're either talking out of your arse or deliberately lying, but you're a dickhead either way