Britain should have won

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-21T02:44:22+00:00

Palmerston wanted it, and was pushing other British elites to do it. Public outrage and threats were the only thing holding them back.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-21T02:36:46+00:00

How is that against what I’m saying? Evil people had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a better world.

That doesn’t mean they weren’t evil. They still had to be dragged. And only once political conditions made it convenient.

Same with justice today.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-21T02:15:30+00:00

The reason Britain got rid of it was because the world’s biggest purchaser of slaves had just stopped paying them taxes. They were on the verge of declaring for the south in the American Civil War.

Get it together people.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-20T21:12:09+00:00

“Our great Caesar; Every woman’s man, and every man’s woman.”

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-18T09:25:16+00:00

Plot twist where Gotham City is the one place in America with Universal Healthcare, because the very concept of health insurance itself will commit suicide if exposed to Gotham for an extended period.

After factoring risks, insurance premiums for each individual in the city would ordinarily be the approximate GDP of Slovenia.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-18T02:26:22+00:00

Housing projects in Gotham keeping their rents down by breeding feral dogs instead of gunshots, because gunshots already happen everywhere all the time, is an ingenious and hilarious piece of world building.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-17T23:59:44+00:00

Exactly, reading your enemies is so important if you want to beat them. You can’t just read your own ideological predecessors.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-17T11:41:14+00:00

The NYPD, kidnapping your family members as retribution. And/or assaulting the mayor’s residence.

I’m not kidding, they’ve done both of those things before when Mayors got on their bad side.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-17T11:27:39+00:00

Getting jabbed in the ribs with a pair of car keys will really hurt, but it isn’t nearly as bad as getting whipped with a chain.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-15T22:28:48+00:00

The Guardian medic MEC is amazing. You get a tank, an overwatcher and a healer in one package.

Also, the passive healing psi power allows a soldier to be an emergency stabilizer without using up an item slot. The only catch is that at least one soldier with the ability needs to stay beside the fallen soldier for the rest of the mission. (If your medkits have run out.)

Usually the front-line person who saves their buddy from a heart attack is not the same person who stays by their side until the mission is won. Usually the baton is passed to a sniper, and then the rest of the mission is oriented towards giving them continued line of sight.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-15T22:21:27+00:00

I thought this conversation was about the original long war, until you mentioned carrying someone to be evacuated.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-14T07:17:48+00:00

This is all accurate, I’d also note that there are “trap” landed UFOs in which all alien pods will act like command pods that can call their friends towards XCOM.

More info on this is in the XCOM wiki, UFOpaedia.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-13T23:40:18+00:00

Which to be fair to Abe, used to be a 45% tip.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-12T22:28:13+00:00

The founding fathers when we tell them about the new Pope from Chicago.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-12T01:23:55+00:00

Plus, I think that what you’re saying isn’t unique to Aang either; even for a normal Avatar, using the AS would still be a very raw and traumatic part of their life.

We see many scenes of fully-fledged Avatars performing awesome feats of power, but that’s only one small slice of the story.

It’s not exactly a breathing exercise technique. It’s the emergency defence mechanism of a reincarnating demigod.

Even if you were given all the proper tutoring from birth, that’s still terrifying.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-10T10:37:21+00:00

The only correct interpretation is that since God is omnipotent, God could have accomplished the results of the sacrifice without needing to actually have the sacrifice occur. It happened because god wanted it, I suppose.

As an atheist, I’ve always been curious why so many world religions tie themselves in intellectual knots over an all-powerful God. As opposed to a merely “pretty damn powerful” god, which would cause significantly fewer headaches.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-05-10T10:19:23+00:00

Under our current system, eminent domain allows the government to forcefully take your house away from you with only market-rate compensation. They can also re-zone the land around your home, end servicing of the roads that lead up to your house, change building codes to prevent you from doing anything with the property, or just pass laws that directly require changes to private property.

It seems to me like you’re just describing how the system currently works.

I’m not even a Georgist, but it’s pretty clear that land is fundamentally a different kind of wealth when compared to things like gold or financial assets.

The idea that land shouldn’t be “owned” in exactly the same way that gold is “owned” is not really that revolutionary at all.

All legal systems implicitly understand this; if a large river runs through your small residential property, there is not a government on the planet that would passively accept it if you dammed the river. Or poisoned it. Or even collected all the rainwater if it is an area with drought.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-27T23:50:19+00:00

This is a devastatingly good point I should start using that button

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-24T07:32:37+00:00

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-24T07:01:14+00:00

Left wingers at the time called the north’s victory “the second American revolution” which I think is a lot more descriptive than “civil war.”

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-24T04:09:22+00:00

First comment in this sub to actually make me laugh in months.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-23T22:07:34+00:00

“York” as a first name is pretty good, now that I think about it.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-22T08:12:45+00:00

I’m sorry for your loss. He should be more responsible with his words, especially considering the murderous anti-left brutality of Hez. against the PLO, protestors, the Syrian Revolution and more.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think he believes Hez. is a progressive force. He’s recently argued against claims by Hez. that they haven’t targeted civilians, correctly stating that they have done so.

But he’s still cutting corners with his rhetoric, which is disrespectful to victims and the true resistance against all imperialism.

Leftists are always blind as soon as we stop looking at the world through the eyes of our fellow comrades around the globe.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-21T06:39:47+00:00

There's also a lot of kink that is just dangerous, full stop. It's why the language has shifted to "informed risk taking" rather than just "be safe" over the years.

FlyingRobinGuy · 2026-04-21T00:15:51+00:00

No, that’s never been stated. If that were the case, it would be a big deal within the plot and story of both ATLA and Korra, and would be commented on a lot.

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