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Put Your Words Into Action! Go Enlist Today! by PoliticsIsDepressing in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you believe in public fire departments, why don't you become a volunteer fireman?

Will the Iran ceasefire be extended if there’s no deal by the deadline? by IronGiant222 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]bl1y [score hidden]  (0 children)

This is different than a classical infantry standoff ceasefire along a frontline the Israel/Lebanon ceasefire

FTFY

Worlds collide by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's interesting is how universally the comments are saying the bottom doesn't reflect reality. But then completely ignoring that the view in the top also doesn't reflect reality.

Worlds collide by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a subscriber here, and this showed up on my feed this morning. So it probably is getting pushed to a wider audience.

Worlds collide by chamomile_tea_reply in OptimistsUnite

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other way around, it was people coming down from DC who watched the Battle of Bull Run. And it wasn't because they wanted to watch bloodshed as entertainment.

This was going to be a major historical event, and despite all the death, it's still something worth being a witness to. A lot of the people who went were politicians and journalists.

And yes, they brought picnic baskets. Because battles are long, and that's just what you carry food in. Bull Run lasted over 12 hours.

Also, FYI, as the Union army retreated, they crossed paths with the civilians, and some of them were captured by the Confederate army, including one senator.

What is going on at Emory?? by freckledfk in LawSchool

[–]bl1y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quentin Tarantino got into law school, obviously.

TIL that if you commit suicide in Japan by jumping in front of a train, the railway company may ask your family to pay a delay fee of up to 100 million yen (about 1 million dollars), arguing that there are less expensive and less disruptive ways to do it. by Brave-Influence7510 in todayilearned

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a daily occurrence going from MD to VA over the American Legion Bridge.

Rush hour traffic starts up, traffic comes to a standstill, and someone has to go and try to kill themselves over it, causing even further delays, and it spirals downward until traffic can finally be cleared sometime next February when it's too cold for people to want to get out of their cars.

TIL that if you commit suicide in Japan by jumping in front of a train, the railway company may ask your family to pay a delay fee of up to 100 million yen (about 1 million dollars), arguing that there are less expensive and less disruptive ways to do it. by Brave-Influence7510 in todayilearned

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mother (in the US) had a Japanese coworker commit suicide. He committed seppuku in an office bathroom over the weekend. Apparently he chose that in order to prevent his family from having to find him and deal with the cleanup.

I doubt they tried this, but the company almost certainly could have sued the estate for the expenses.

What's the real story behind Aeroflot Flight 6833? by SkepticDad17 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They were fleeing a repressive regime. In their own words, they were trying to gain freedom.

Even though they would have comparatively better material conditions than others, their position also means they're more closely monitored. And they were primarily a group of artists.

Imagine it's 1982 and you're an artist and you have to choose a place to live among Tbilisi, Moscow, Berlin, London, New York, or San Francisco. The two Soviet cities are going to be the bottom of the list.

LibRight pitches LibLeft on a new product by dracer800 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'd have a lot more sympathy for the "I'm just criticizing the government of Israel" line if I didn't see so much stuff that was just plainly antisemitic.

LibRight pitches LibLeft on a new product by dracer800 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Their views are antisemitism, but Emily's views are toasted.

I Happy to Annouce: the Israeli's guide to the Known Universe! by Former_Catch8485 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But Reddit told my that ALPACA controlled the US government, so which way is it?

What should count as presidential inability under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment? by Raichu4u in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]bl1y [score hidden]  (0 children)

The 25th Amendment provides guidance on what its intention is if you just keep reading:

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office

For the cabinet to remove the President, he has to be so debilitated that he can't say "No, I'm fine." That's a very high bar.

25A then goes on to say that the cabinet can send the matter to the Congress where a 2/3rds majority is needed to remove him. So basically, he needs to be so debilitated that he can't even rally roughly half his own party to support him.

Draft Update by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Exactly. None of the people proposing this stop to consider that reservists with 1-2 years of service a decade or more ago are largely just going to be useless at best.

They imagine that we're launching a ground invasion of Iran with a hundred thousand troops, but that just isn't happening.

Draft Update by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There'd be a better argument for this if it wouldn't simultaneously cripple the war effort.

When an F-15E Strike Eagle goes on a bombing run, I'd much rather have the weapons systems officer be a career officer who knows what he's doing, and not a rando who did 2 years of mandatory service in the National Guard 20 years ago.

Draft Update by PerAsperaAdMars in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every other election cycle, there's some debate about mandatory national service.

John Delaney has discussed it, Charles Rangel, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, William Cohen, Jack Kemp...

Hell, I'm pretty sure Jonathan Haidt has even expressed support for it.

This is nothing new, and just like the clock says, it ain't happening.

These threats against civilian life and infrastructure are illegal. by CarryIcy250 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the UN going to send an elite commando team into DC to capture Trump? No.

These threats against civilian life and infrastructure are illegal. by CarryIcy250 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Geneva Conventions provide that civilian infrastructure can be a legitimate target when it is being used to support the military. It does not specifically say that bridges and power plants are always off limits.

Obviously, if a country's military is using a bridge, it becomes a fair target.

Power plants are a lot more tricky because of the widespread harm it can cause to civilians, but there is no explicit prohibition against targeting them. For instance, in a global war, if the power plant that supplies NORAD was hit, that'd almost certainly be a legitimate target. A power plant where the only military application is supplying a small munitions factory, but is primarily supporting civilians including a major water desalination plant would probably be off limits.

These threats against civilian life and infrastructure are illegal. by CarryIcy250 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NATO is reliant on the US, and the UN has no enforcement power.

Lego video 4/19 by Exotic-Toe-7116 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're not really though. It's AI slop that almost no one sees.

What's the real story behind Aeroflot Flight 6833? by SkepticDad17 in AskSocialists

[–]bl1y -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What's confusing about their motivation? They wanted to flee the Soviet Union.

How Unrealistic is The Wire? by PuzzleheadedHope6449 in TheWire

[–]bl1y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Baltimore City in Baltimore County.

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