So owning indiscriminate killing devices isn’t a war crime until they’re actively used?

I need to reiterate. Two bombs killed anywhere from 150,000 to nearly a quarter million people. Who do you think those people were? These aren’t targeted devices, and they’ve only gotten more powerful since they were first dropped 80 years ago.

Yeah, we use them to protect ourselves now. We keep it, we don’t touch it, and it’s on standby to back us up.

However, Putin invading Ukraine was seen as “unthinkable”, regardless of what you think of the conflict there. Trump starting a war with Iran was far from a smart decision, and yet it happened anyway. We may have sanity from our leaders not to press the button now should we acquire a nuke, but what of when someone without sanity comes into power? We create the same cycle that caused us to procure those weapons to begin with, and the arms race continues until suddenly everybody is killing hundreds of thousands of people at the press of buttons.

That’s not enough justification. Why does the logic come down to “but my guy is better”?

I think it’s naive to think that nuclear weapons are justifiable just because someone else has nuclear weapons.

It starts an arms race and makes the overall situation worse. This type of mindset is literally how we got to this point to begin with. The U.S. built up a stockpile of nukes, to which Russia built one up, to which the U.S. built more in turn, so on, so forth.

So yes, I am of the stance still that no we should not have a nuke. Like I said previously, yes it’s bad we’re in a situation where the U.S. has nukes and we’re left in a position where they’re able to use them and we have nothing to dissuade them.

However, just because someone poisoned the punch doesn’t mean we should poison it more. Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in WWI started a chain of events nobody would have predicted lead to the sheer level of conflict it did. Now imagine that with nuclear weapons being exchanged by small and large countries alike.

Why should we partake in the very activity that got us to this situation to begin with? Just because we have trouble getting the big guys to get rid of them doesn’t mean we should throw our hands in the air, give up, and make more of these things.

I disagree with OP calling it fascism to ban it, but people here are forgetting Monero exists and the valid use cases a cryptocurrency like that can have.

Not every cryptocurrency is a scam or a means to manipulate markets. If I’m in a country where I’m doing something objectively good, but still against the law, then cryptocurrency works if it requires finances to operate. See Sci Hub.

Edit: Why was this top of my homepage, I’m just noticing this post is two months old lol.

I’m pre-HRT still, waiting until next month to start the readiness assessment when my doctor gets back from vacation, but I’ve stopped shaving my arms for a bit since the cat scratched me pretty good when we were playing not long ago, and I want to wait for those wounds to heal before starting again.

Seeing my hair grow back on my arms reminds me how much I hate body hair. I’m going to start waxing soon, and I’m really hoping that making a habit of that will help keep it away for longer.

Always hated looking at myself in the mirror, or in photos and videos either.

I know it’s supposed to be a dip, but I treat hummus like a condiment half the time.

Love it to the point I eat it straight.

Cool. So now we’re just making up imaginary scenarios as an excuse to subtly say slurs.

Moment I came out as trans, people in public chats I was in started thinking they had the right to just start talking about what was in my pants.

Just suddenly becoming some sort of sex object for people was annoying as hell. People rarely said that to me as a man, and yet suddenly it’s as casual for people to talk about it as it is for them to ask who’s on the other end of a phone call.

It’s absurdly common, and I hate that I’m just some fetish to men even when I’m not into them.

I don’t want to come off the wrong way, but growing up in an abusive household where sexual abuse was thankfully not around, I often felt, and still feel that people have that expectation of me not to say anything to prevent it from ruining the lives of everyone in the family.

I’ve had people with no relation to my family tell me things like “maybe your parents would have abused you less if you spent more time with them” or “maybe if they hit you more you’d show more respect”.

I’m trans, so different experience, but I wouldn’t be surprised if cis women also had to deal with comments like “well what did you do for him to do that to you?” in regards to domestic violence.

Good to know you’re actively screwed if your parents disowned you.

The Golden Girls

Had a classmate in elementary school who had a crush on me that I tried to reciprocate. She was Hindu, and she was extremely kind and honestly just a blast being around.

I hung out with her at her place after she invited me over since we lived in the same apartment complex, we spent some time with her family, and we started sharing lunch together.

We stopped since she transferred schools, and she eventually moved after the fact.

I like the thought of telepathy being both a blessing and a curse admittedly.

I’d be able to know what people are truly thinking, how they think, and what they think of their own thoughts.

It’s weird. Yes you’d learn things you’d probably be better off not knowing or learn some deep secrets about people that might be intrusive or deeply personal, but on the other hand, you could almost be manipulative in a good way with that knowledge.

Always knowing the right thing to say, always knowing what people struggle with, knowing what they need and how to convince them to access the help they require, and even perhaps pulling at strings to get them access to resources they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Wow, Putin invading Canada.

Totally real threat that will totally happen in the real world.

People are going to find it hard to care about defending the country if you don’t provide them with the basics to live, just saying.

What a surprise, another self-proclaimed “libertarian” that coincidentally doesn’t believe in personal sovereignty.

Again, I reiterate.

Who is irrationally increasing the cost of living across the globe, specifically with gas prices?

Who else is committing human rights violations, domestically and abroad, and is actively backing those abuses in other countries?

Also that’s specifically for pea starch, whole peas and other pea products are still good to go, that’s far from going back completely on their word, which a certain other country has done countless times.

Pea sales to China strong despite new starch tariff

If I’m taking anybody’s word, it’s the president of Pulse Canada.

“Yeah, the person I’m married to threatens me, punishes me, insults me, and doesn’t value my consent, but it’s better than what the other person could be”

Literal battered woman syndrome. Look, I don’t like China or want more trade with them either, but can we please stop pretending doing business with them will be worse than doing business with the U.S.? One keeps their issues much more domestic than the other? I don’t see China raising world oil prices by bombing Iran, raising my cost of living with absurd tariffs, or going back on their word.

We struck a deal with them, and they removed duties for our canola, crab, peas, and lobster for us letting in their EVs, which opens us up for job creation should they bring manufacturing operations here. In turn, we were made exempt from visa requirements to travel to China. I can see the benefits of that deal because they up the income of our farmers and fishers, open up job potential, and make travelling across the world easier for us.

That is how you strike a deal. They are reliable, the U.S. is not, plain and simple. If this guy’s opinion is that China wants less democracy in the world, then I’d like to point to the amount of dictators America backs and has instated. Let’s stop pretending that only one pulls that crap when they both do.

Leave it to an American to come here, express sorrow to us, and then expect grace from us when all they do is type a sentence in a community that isn’t targeted for them.

I’m sick of Americans coming into other communities, getting on their soap box, and then saying the bare minimum to expect praise. People have stereotypes about us saying sorry all the time, but online all it ever seems to be is self-deprecating Americans coming into communities of other countries saying “sorry we’re like this…” and “I’m sorry for being American”

If you truly cared you wouldn’t be here begging for internet points in a performative confessional, get out and do something, showcase it, and then maybe you get a pass because ten years of this crap in varying degrees has gotten extremely tiring.

Cool, instead of wasting money on American weaponry, we instead waste money on European weaponry.

All while our social safety nets are being cut, all while Carney and the Liberals do nothing to defend public healthcare with the Canada Health Act, and all in the midst of both an opioid and affordability crisis.

Glad to know we have our priorities straight…

Then just call him a pedophile and don’t minimise the effects of the crime by making it lighthearted enough for Joe Schmoe to joke about at a dinner table thinking they’re funny.

Like tell me how repeatedly saying “grab 'er by the pussy” worked out as a joke. It did jack. People seem to be thinking this is some big protest movement when all it is is keyboard warrior stuff that doesn’t get anything done, and I honestly I hate saying that because I ideologically agree with anybody who says that.

At a point it just feels like there’s a reversal of the initial intent where it unintentionally starts normalising jokes about sexual assault.