You need war score of 100% to enforce those demands

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When she grabs the pot of boiling water, one deputy steps back “away from your hot steaming water,” he says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she says in response.

“Huh?” the deputy says.

“I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” she repeats.

“You better fking not or I swear to God I’ll fking shoot you in the f**king face,” Grayson says to her.

Does it? Is a rebuking a threat with a weapon? Why doesn’t the militaries just have shoot if you’re scared rules but USA police do?

maybe he had a Keith Richards family member who wanted to get drunk on their remains.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/04/drugsandalcohol.musicnews#:~:text=In a wide-ranging interview,%2C" he told NME magazine.

yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don’t know of any real solution.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

• Julius Nyerere

I don’t know – It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don’t see that happening at all.

There’s also the 250 year empire rule which we’re at now against stability with the current system.

I honestly have no answer other than a “vote or die” but we all know that doesn’t work.

end citizens united – corporations aren’t people

end lobbying so shell oil doesn’t have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

???

profit

isn’t that the point? The corruption has tricked us to believing they can regulate themselves or are even not amoral about social issues. Companies make profit – that is their singular goal. The laws and regulations control their behavior, not ‘good will’ or whatever we pretend motivates individuals

Will pour out some dogecoin for my boy – RIP Kabosu

Is that why Fernando has to race at Aston?

Why can’t anyone detect obvious sarcasm anymore?

Why ban bombs if you can just make them with cleaning supplies?

That’s how they always do it though and it didn’t stop them in the past (to be fair, from invasion though which is a lot different)

There’s a great fake commercial in the new Reno 911 where Reineisha is selling a Kyle Rittenhouse costume for black people because ‘you’ll be safer dressed like this than with black skin’

… In Scotland?

The only military-like police I’ve ever interacted with are all the ones in the USA.

I literally looked up Nehru jackets the other day for the first time – Thanks Modi

Time to book an AirBnb in the far away country for 29 days

We’re in the lend and lease phase right now

I don’t think you can call My Lai ‘sanctioned’ or official even though it was done by a commissioned officer who was court martialed (but got off). Even then they gave the heli pilot that landed between US troops and a group of civilians about to get murdered a silver star – https://www.britannica.com/event/My-Lai-Massacre

Japan wwII definitely tactical and sanctioned but that one is weird because all of the military operated so independently.

I don’t know enough about your other examples. It makes sense though and I like the word you use ‘retaliation’

A good modern war planner isn’t going to waste energy on retaliation but when you get onto the ground and have a bunch of killers that don’t think of the enemy as all the way human (so you can convince them to do so much killing) retaliation would come up often. Also if you have some crazy strong man dictator, he may need retaliation to keep the image or drive his paranoia.

That is more or less “war”. You raid one of my towns, I’ll raid two of yours. Ends when one side has been beaten into submission.

Actively attacking third party civilians is not.

I don’t think I agree – This is an awesome blog post you should totally read if you’re interested in history. https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-they-do-it-part-ii-foraging/

I’d say anything post train you’re going to try to capture infrastructure to make war, so saying we’re sieging cities sounds more ancient to me.

If you read that post, you’ll see ‘foraging’ really meant robbing and brutalizing local populaces for their food since anything but the smallest sized army can’t feed itself for more than a few weeks. Not to mention once we are sieging a city and starving all the people out.

What are some modern examples of ‘letting your army run wild on the populace’? I know that happens quite a bit but I can’t think of any sanctioned ones unless we go to wwii Japan maybe? and that was more than a little wild. Seems like most of the time a platoon or w/e just goes berserker.