wonderingwanderer

Okay, but whether Minneapolis arrests him or he escapes, they should still kick the rest of those goons out.

Why not both?

Hopefully he follows this up with some meaningful action such as actually making them leave.

Maybe we can hire people with oppositional defiant disorder so that we can virtue signal about our leniency while accomplishing nothing?

That’s fine, we don’t have to disagree in order to have a conversation

Even one is enough to kill a lot of people. A laser that can destroy them in orbit is an ideal solution.

And the WMDs were a lie, but that doesn’t change the reality for Europe today, which is that russia is still a threat at least until their economy collapses and their federation dissolves.

While true, I don’t think we should base our entire defense strategy on hoping that the russians are so incompetent that they can’t even deploy their most destructive munitions…

Someone queue up “Swan Lake”

Just because their economy is on the verge of collapse doesn’t mean they won’t keep sending millions of “undesirables” into the meat grinder.

They might be lacking in heavy equipment and expertise in maneuver warfare, but a million invaders still takes about a million rounds of ammo to pacify.

We can hope the russian economy collapses and the empire balkanizes, effectively making it impossible for them to keep up their war of attrition. The sooner it ends, the sooner we can stop producing munitions and the sooner people stop dying.

I think I read somewhere that the UK is developing a new lazer that can take down hypersonic ballistic missiles for approximately the cost of the electricity it consumes. Pretty sweet if true.

And if it did it would just get the national guard deployed in your city. And the city government wouldn’t be able to do anything to help, because their office burnt down…

Have you heard of a primary? Cause it basically invalidates everything you just said.

Also, the more the left refuses to vote Democrat, the more Democrats pander to the right. They’re trying to win the “moderate/centrist” vote because apparently they won’t get the leftist vote no matter what they do. They’ll never pass the purity test.

People with your logic are the ones shooting themselves in the foot at every election. Your logic got trump elected, and no amount of armchair philosophizing will be enough to squirm around that fact.

You might as well say that into a mirror, because you’re obviously projecting.

No, you said whoever came up with the idea was a moron of epic proportions. And your explanation as to why was directly due to the arbitrariness of the prime meridian.

In geospatial terms, anything to the west of the prime meridian has a longitudinal coordinate of n°W, where 0°<n<180°. Anything east of the prime meridian is likewise n°E. Hence, eastern and western hemispheres.

Yes, the western hemisphere is to the east of Fiji. No, that doesn’t change anything.

I shouldn’t have to break it down into such basic terms for such a smartypants as you, so hopefully this doesn’t come as an insult to your intelligence.

You can leave it all behind, and sail to Lahaina just like the missionaries did so many years ago…

They even brought a neon sign, “Jesus is coming.” They brought the white man’s burden down, they brought the white man’s reign…

And you can see them there, on Sunday morning, stand up and sing about, what it’s like up there. They call it Paradise, I don’t know why! Call some place paradise, kiss it good-byyyyyeee…

It just means west of Greenwich, chill out.

Yes it’s arbitrary, the reasons are more historiographical rather than geographical, but back when the sun never set on the British empire, it seemed as good a line as any to the people making the rules at the time.

There’s also no geometric reason why we divide days into 24 hours, but the ancient Egyptians did it so we still do. Why is a week 7 days? Why are there 12 months in a year? Why is a centimeter or a kilogram precisely what it is?

It’s all arbitrary, but that doesn’t make it any less useful as a standardized concept.

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Exactly, and that’s what the journalism should focus on. It detracts from the message when they give it a misleading spin. It’s already bad enough without the distortion of facts. That’s the point I’m trying to make.