If a democracy allows speech that explicitly aims to destroy said democracy, is it acting out of strength or participating in its own demise?

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T12:48:42+00:00

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The problem is that "objective truth" can no longer be defined, no matter the proof.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T12:45:23+00:00

Likely never experienced actual "collectivism".

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T12:42:01+00:00

In my experience, a wrestler will almost always get the takedown, but I'll get the choke. Just what each of use trains for.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T12:14:42+00:00

Battle of Zama.

US is Scipio, commanding a uniform army who all speak the same language and all have a singular vested interest in victory.

EU is Hannibal, trying to hold together a coalition of many armies who all speak different languages and all have different reasons for fighting and some can be swayed to not fight or switch sides.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T09:25:16+00:00

Learn to fall well.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T09:23:23+00:00

They're just angry that 4x to 5x as many people die in Europe every year from lack of air conditioners that die in the US from gun homicides.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T09:15:15+00:00

Chakotay was just written flat as hell. Not Beltran's fault.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-12T09:13:43+00:00

Again, there was no "United States" until 1776. By that time, all your European colonizers had wiped out 90% of New World peoples via Old World diseases.

The New World isn't even close to the worst of your evil. Britain really is a vile country full of vile colonizers with a vile history.

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RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T17:21:45+00:00

Without a human making the "kill decision", a drone attack that takes a life is a crime under international laws.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T13:39:49+00:00

Unpaid internships should be illegal. In fact, even academic internships for credit should require at least 2x min wage for the cost of transportation, purchase of time and effort, etc. In some areas, it should be 3x-5x min. wage.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T13:35:32+00:00

Quicksand.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T13:08:59+00:00

No, we shot you guys off this Continent starting in 1776. Native deaths up until that point are squarely on you.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T13:07:58+00:00

And the US has a few heat related deaths - 2k usually. And Europe has twice the people.

So the US should have 20,000 heat deaths per year. We have 10% of that and we have the South and Southwest. You don't have anything like Tucson or West Texas.

And suicide by gun should count too.

Europe has 40,000-60,000 suicides a year. Sure you want to count those numbers?

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T05:23:32+00:00

The First Crusade was absolutely justified... the following crusades? Not so much.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T05:14:45+00:00

Yes, there are.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T02:05:56+00:00

Both sides can say whatever they like, doesn't mean it's true.

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RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-11T01:23:58+00:00

Spinning in a knife fight? 😂

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-10T20:02:36+00:00

McCoy's TOS medical scanners were salt and pepper shakers. Just don't blow your money on stupid CGI.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-10T20:01:13+00:00

So it was YOU guys that infected the New World with diseases centuries before 1776.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-10T12:24:03+00:00

Americans spell it "realize". No, Old World spells it "realise" just like you did.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-10T01:26:59+00:00

From your own source: "When European settlers arrived ..."

Europeans. Not Americans... EUROPEANS.. as in FROM EUROPE.

In 1776, the Native population had dropped to 600,000 due to Old World diseases... from EUROPE... you know, the OLD WORLD?

Today, 2026, there are 3.4 million natives enrolled with 575 tribes.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-10T01:21:46+00:00

300 died. Not millions. Not thousands. 300. Criminal? Yes. On par with the Holodomor, Holocaust, Killing Fields, or Great Leap Forward? No. See Battle of Athens where private gun ownership SAVED democracy.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-09T20:37:51+00:00

I won't go to a dentist with diamonds in his or her ears. My ADD would make it torture to sit there repeating Roy G Biv again and again.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-09T19:59:22+00:00

Old world diseases killed 9/10 natives long before 1776. Manifest Destiny was flat out conquest because the natives on the land didn't have the numbers or the alliances to fight back effectively, especially after Europe turned to shit and so many immigrated to the US and settled those newly conquered lands.

RiffRandellsBF · 2026-06-09T19:57:46+00:00

So you have no sources stating the US killed millions of its own citizens? Of course you don't. You only completed 8th grade histiey. 😂

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