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On the other hand, we also often run into the usual issue of the right-wing only caring about gun control when minorities start arming up to protect themselves from being lynched.

That's kinda one of the main moral conundrums here, nevermind the practical issue that disarming a population this big would be a giant pain in the ass: some form of sanity-checking NEEDS to be put in place, but it's hard to build a system where one's definition of a qualified and competent user can't also be warped for political purposes.

If someone takes "nazis are bad and should be fought" as a personal attack, that says a lot about them doesn't it. 

Well easy answer there: the sort of people calling to lynch people are going to be murderous assholes regardless...unless one does more than punch them. :V

The Russian constitution also grants freedom of assembly, so saying that Russian law forbids anything is functionally meaningless. :V

I can't tell at this point who's arguing in favor of the corporate scumbags or not now. XD

Perhaps Random Dragon was wrong after all. Can't say I'm happy to hear that news though. The Ukraine war got more press than all the other wars, but at the end of the day it seems like the West is content to just let Russia grind away at Ukraine until it is dust.

Oh if only I could say I was wrong. The continued extent of how fuck-all good what we're doing has done to actually stop Putin's Small Penis Misadventure means we've blown right past ending 1 (functionally the only one that qualifies as a Good End).

So far we're at the stage of hoping for Putin to commit suicide by multiple gunshots to the back of the head so we can unlock ending 2 (maybe good but a lot of fuckery is in our future).

But if this shit keeps grinding Ukraine down and the world doesn't get Article 5'd in the process, by the time we're falling ass-first into Ending 7 (the one that makes us end up wishing nuclear war will just fucking end it already by the time it finally comes) we won't have time to really recognize that we're officially in the new era of imperialism and militarism, and the eventual prospect of nuclear proliferation, until it's well and solidly too little, too late.

I'd say the fact that various other countries have decided now is the ideal time to begin starting shit is a bad sign that implies we might be getting ready to fast-track that Bad End. We've already had some of the ex-Soviet countries decide that this is a fine time for a slap fight, Sudan is doing fucked if I even know kinda drugs and is in a slap-fight with itself, Israel and Palestine have decided to have a slap fight over whether Gaza would prefer its terrorism kosher or halal...

I never saw that post before but... it looks completely nutty. Just totally outside reality.

That's fucking rich coming from an alt-right troll.

As a Texan, all I can say is: Imagine all the problems we could've prevented if we'd forced Sherman (emphasis on forced, he famously had no interest in getting into a political career) to be in charge of the reconstruction.