Sure would be a shame if all Google services stopped working in Russia and russosympathetic nations, and people's accounts that got accessed from primarily Russian locations get banned.
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People seem to think that the UN is a military force that is supposed to go in and secure democracy around the planet...
It's basically a chat room for all the countries to talk for everyone to hear. That's 99% of its job. And it does it quite well.
The problems occur when individual members decide "nah we don't give a shit about the UN right now" and usually it's the big ones that ignore it. Russia, US, UK, etc
Honestly there isn't a legitimate reason.
Tldr "tradition" and insecurity, probably.
There was once a issue with Cuba a long time ago, but that got resolved and the US just decided to keep punishing Cuba as, in my opinion, a warning to other neighbors who would dare oppose it. "help out our opponents and get smothered"
The only reason it's continuing is because of weak administrations thinking that admitting people who ran the country in the past were wrong somehow makes them or the country look weak.
Honestly the only thing that seems weak to me is continuing to kick someone who's been down for decades but still manages to find areas to flourish and be better than the "superpower" that's kicking it.
It's a simple case of "if we hold this, the opposition will have no issue ordering their soldiers to blow it to shit and causing a major disaster that will affect countless people for generations to come" vs "Eh. You go ahead and 'hold' it for us. We will be back when you run away trying to catch up to your retreating front line
republicunts torching ballot boxes
Media: lol funni fire nothing wrong here move along
one non-citizenry tries, unsuccessfully, to vote, and it's caught immediately and prompts further investigations
Media: Here's 147 people all telling you how the democrats are rigging the election, and 27 of their closest relatives get on the phone to say they heard from their cousins step-sisters aunt's coworker's college roommate that there's TONS of fraud all over the place. Stay tuned. This is all we will be covering for the next week.
I have a WILD idea on how to reduce the growth of that statistic to 0.
What if, and bear with me here....
What IF.... We stopped sending Israel weapons and armor.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard
You make valid points. I know I've heard enough people who start off with "the nazis sure were bad, BUT..." and proceed to fangirl over every technological achievement made by Germany, even those that came after the allies.
There's certainly a line where it goes from "fantasy parody of real life" to "someone wrote a fan fiction about the fourth Reich and clearly has a crush on Hitler whether they want to admit it or not"
Literally the only way they would have conquered the world is through the wonders of "Sci Fi Magic Bullshit" ™️
In my 30s, and while I've heard "let's 86 the _____" numerous times, I honestly wouldn't have connected that to "86 cherries" on an order.
I've worked in food, fast and fancy, and nobody would say "86 cherries" instead of "no cherries". Clarity is conducive to a smoothly flowing kitchen.
Wasn't trying to call you out for being wrong or only partially correct, just think it's neat all the stuff they considered when designing and testing it.
Indeed, they made plenty of mistakes, otherwise they would have won the war.
But it's less about whether they could have sustained their empire afterward and more people trying to say that portraying them as such is "glorifying" them or propping them up in some sort of idealistic way.
The Abrams can run on just about anything liquid and flammable. It's not gonna be happy about it, but it'll go.
I think it was designed by pakleds...
I encourage people to steal non-physical things all day every day.
Sail those high seas!