It’s genuinely just business.

Legalise all drugs and this all goes away.

There’s no Al Pacino’s shooting up the streets since the prohibition was lifted. Weirdly alcohol companies which can rely on the law don’t find a need to take a Thompson to their business opposite’s offices.

Whereas the Sinaloa cartrel does. They can’t just let shit go. You’ve seen drug shows. (There’s genuinely so many it’s annoying.)

Pretty much this exact thing happened to me.

Being taken without due process can be somewhat traumatising.

I hate the situations in which I have to say “I fucking told you so”, but I do love saying “I fucking told you so.”

Petty, I know.

It’s really a very small consolation that one can now actually go “fucking told you so.”

Cowardly tactics

Fuck Russia

So hiding the fact they use Palantir, not hiding their work by using it?

(The title is ambiguous)

Very much along the lines I was thinking of, yeah.

I think it’s gonna be functionally the same, but it’s gonna take a different form, is my point.

I don’t think that’s really the style in the US, but I agree with the sentiment

they aren’t concerned since they’re citizens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

“Blitzkrieg” is literally “lightning war”, and just refers to the style of offense the Germans used against other European countries in WWII, which was largely responsible for their early military success.

Armies at that time relied on stationary positions and slow logistics, horse-drawn carriages for a large portion. The Germans just blitzed into France, through the Maginot line.

Which makes me wonder whether the current idea of MAD holding off war isn’t as deluded as relying on the Maginot line. I sure hope it isn’t.

Anyway this is more just fascism in general. A fast rise in authoritarianism. Not “war” in the classical sense, although it certainly is basically war.

I mean he says that, but surely he doesn’t mean me…?

That is a sharp fucking rise for three months.

Thus suffers from the same problem “Adolescence” did; the writing and role is believable enough and the actor looks like they could be as despicable… but then you somehow don’t believe the actor to be that big of a cunt.

Joffrey doesn’t suffer from that, Jack Gleeson is such a brilliant actor I never doubted he could be such a massive cunt. But I know he isn’t. But he made me believe it.

Like Eddie and the kid in Adolescence both have too much humanity showing through.

Now that you mention, yeah, he does.

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying,"

Now who here thinks this sentence sounds like law enforcement in action in real life and not an excerpt from a badly written gangbanger movie?

The kid having leukemia makes this very much a cruel an unusual decision. Can’t say “punishment” since they’d argue it’s not a punishment, just bureaucracy. But them not being able to known where they’re gonna even have to go looking for healthcare is just horrific.

Oh I never knew that had a name.

I love doing that to pathological narcissists, whenever safe.

At some point even he has to realize that he’s a joke right?

Like even his syphillitic brain can’t not see what’s right in front of him forever, can it?

Is he really this fucking stupid?

To disregard their existence is to pretend they don’t matter at all, which is incredibly naive.

There’s no perfect compliance, no, but if they weren’t respected at all and had no effect, the situations would be different.

For instance yeah, Russia has apparently brought out WWI style choking agents and used them. But there’s no widespread use at least, and no mustard gas. Which would be more effective for Russia to do. But they don’t, as they want to keep plausible deniability so that Europe doesn’t gain an actual reason to mount an offensive.

So yeah, while you are right in that psychotic asshats don’t care about them, they are affected by them nonetheless.

Basically ROE says that medics shouldn’t be shot, but my brother trained as a medic and one of the first things they’ve we’re unofficially taught was to hide their crosses on the battlefield, as Russians would literally aim at medics. (Finnish army.)