Was krushchev. But he’s dead too, same principle applies.

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Two things here:

1. If this is true, and we cave and let them take this, why on earth would they not demand more? It seems like they would have to, especially considering they have to make up for all they spent so far on Ukraine. We open the door to infinite nuclear blackmail, which we didn’t touch even in the worst of the cold War, and modern Russia is nowhere near as powerful as the ussr was. North Korea, otoh, will demand Seoul surrender tomorrow.

2. If they’re really concerned, they are always free to leave. Nobody is keeping them in Ukraine at gunpoint.

Doesn’t matter, they don’t care, to them this was caused because we let gays serve in the military or some shit.

God wouldn’t have struck them with a flood unless other people less devout than them hadn’t done evil things, clearly this was a flood incited by Trans-culture.

That was the original sin that destroyed America.

We should have treated them like Germany, they even hung many of the surviving nazis after the war.

Instead we kept them out of power for a decade than turned our backs and let them slime right back in.

It’s odd how all of Putin’s short-term strategies have failed, but his long term ones like brexit and supporting the far right throughout Europe are working a treat.

He has at least a few competent people in his rogues gallery.

By far the best outcome for the GOP is for Trump to get got.

They can win elections on this forever, and walk in any solid corpo-fascist they want under a Maga hat, for instance jd Vance.

This is just their way of saying ‘don’t blame us, haven’t we been through enough?’

Because everything I was born with, country, language, system of measurements, was obviously the best, as evidenced by the fact that I was born with it.

So, personally I do not believe Southern states should be allowed any authority over criminal justice, and I suggest withdrawing their authority over civil matters as well.

It’s like gun rights, I think some people are capable of handing the responsibility properly, I would trust most New Hampshire residents with low-yield fuel-air bombs.

I wouldn’t trust southerners with pointy sticks, their entire history is of slavery, genocide, torture, and a complete lack of any form of civilized humanity.

We do not give guns to animals, we should not give legal authority to southern states period.

And this isn’t republican vs democrat, they were equally evil as dixiecrats enforcing Jim Crow, the Democrats were brilliant in following Civil Rights policies helping purge the dixiecrats from their ranks.

I think one could make an argument that socioeconomic variables abound complicated correlation.

More to the point I propose capital punishment has a great deterrent effect in smaller societies where one can point to the clear example of someone known by society, not merely an industrial level of deterrence and retribution such that we have now, where they simply become meat for the machine.

I don’t either.

I just object to a categorical judgement that capital punishment is never an option.

It could theoretically be an option in the right circumstances, which we absolutely do not have anywhere near.

It is an option, and this isn’t the government murdering people (well, ideally), it’s society gathering to decide a person has crossed a final threshold and we must all send a clear message.

I don’t think it’s practical, I think we can’t do it now, and probably might not be able to do it again, but I do not consider it categorically unacceptable, merely unacceptable at the current time with our current political structure, and less viable as society advances.

I have to agree, if only because the Southern states just use it as a legal way to kill black people.

If we could actually do it fairly it would be a possible option, but the way things are, it’s just lynching with more steps.

It’s a thing they do, bit mafia-esque, they sail a mostly un-seaworthy hulk full of oil, minerals, heavy metals, in this case fertilizer, off the coast of a picturesque port of yours, and say “here’s your order, you better pay to pick it up!”.

Either you wait for the ship to go aground and destroy the local environment, or you buy the stuff, offload it, and pay them to tow the ship “outside of the environment”.

It’s their way of forcing sales and trying to break their way back into markets in a fairly threatening way.

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Tbf, it was easier since the nazis run the power grid…

This is not news, Texas is a failed state, nobody is running a headline “innocents killed by warlords in Somalia”.

One thing “Texans” seem to never understand: It’s not your state, they let you live there because they needed you to run their ranches and pump their oil, but the state belongs to the rural rich and always will.

Think you’re underestimating how weak the US looked in the aftermath of Vietnam.

The 70s were considered a low-point for a reason, and while I disagree with the opinion it’s also why Reagan is seen as a revival of American power.

Something similar happened in 2021, after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which encouraged Putin in his invasion of Ukraine, as both Russia and China felt the west was in collapse and a strong push would assert a new era of Eastern dominance.

That second bit went comically wrong, but if Zelensky had taken that ride we might have a less pleasant timeline.