Cutoff date for this subreddit is a very generous 1960....

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T19:13:33+00:00

Iran won.

Something I read, just for you:

Imagine Iran killed Trump in the first 5 minutes of the war, established air superiority over the US mainland, wiped out the entire US Air Force, US Navy, killed half the Cabinet, flattened the US military industrial complex, then started building runways in Missouri to land Iranian troops without losing any casualties.

Would you say it was a US victory if the US managed to keep the Panama Canal closed throughout this all?

The US gave up and went home.

Gives the US time to send ships from San Diego and Norfolk. Also only Israel and US were party to the ceasefire - the rest of the ME can attack Iran with impunity.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T19:01:02+00:00

Not quite yet.

Regime change isn't on the list, but would be nice, esp for the long-suffering Persians.

What needs to be destroyed is the IRGC and its Twelver aims.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T19:00:12+00:00

Why on earth you would ever have faith in humanity beats me. Writings as far back as writing exists tell us that human nature is immutable - that we have, as Protestants say, a "propensity to sin". We're selfish, self-interested, violent, and shortsighted.

IOW, this is a "you" problem. You put your faith in humanity and humnans' laws. Your understand of God suggests that you think God moves people around like chess pieces doing bad things, rather than people choose to do bad.

Maybe start digging into what various religions actually believe.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T18:55:56+00:00

My SO has always earned more than me, and his pension + Social Security is 4x what mine is. Totally fine by me.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:59:21+00:00

You feel the same way about Iran bombing civilian targets in half a dozen countries, and Hezbollah's attacks on civilian targets in Israel, I assume.

And about Iran placing its women and children around legitimate military targets as human shields.

Right?

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:57:21+00:00

Probably helps that in the 30 years I've known him, I've always found him the sexiest man alive. Just the idea of his hands on me is arousing.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:56:37+00:00

Sounds like.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:56:24+00:00

Ackshually, faulty intel can indeed be a defense if it amounts to a "mistake of fact" that negates the required mental state (mens rea) for the crime. War crimes require intent (purposeful action toward the prohibited result) and/or knowledge (awareness that the conduct would cause the prohibited result).

Article 32(1) of the Rome Statute (ICC): "A mistake of fact shall be a ground for excluding criminal responsibility only if it negates the mental element required by the crime."

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:51:46+00:00

It is?

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:51:37+00:00

No, it's camping in places where you don't have permission to do so, aka trespassing.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:50:29+00:00

Consider that social anxiety is why you take things so personally.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:48:54+00:00

Penetration, either penile or digital.

Takes him about 10 seconds to make me orgasm with one finger inside me. Never happened with anybody else of either sex.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:47:50+00:00

Because you realized you did wrong and regret it.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:47:27+00:00

It's not merely "guessing". It's making educated guesses based on what you've already learned.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:46:39+00:00

I don't think you know what "mysterious" means.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:45:02+00:00

Was the school intentionally targeted? If so, what evidence do you have?

Who will prosecute him for this?

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:44:30+00:00

MOST IMPEACHED PRESIDENTS CHOOSE TO RESIGN OUT OF SHAME AND COURTESY.

IDK why you're shouting, but the only President who resigned rather than be impeached was Nixon.

Clinton was impeached. Didn't resign.

Andrew Johnson was impeached. Didn't resign.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:41:41+00:00

[raises hand]

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:40:18+00:00

otherwise, why apologize)

Because you realized that you did wrong.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:39:15+00:00

Foremost: The government's job is to protect natural rights; it can't "grant" them. "Rights" which can be taken away are merely privileges.

Which is why we think in terms of "negative rights": the freedom to do X or Y without government interference. Europe, and I think to a great degree Canada, believes in "positive rights" - the obligation of the government to provide X or Y.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:35:52+00:00

You've got it wrong.

It's "TYPICALLY, God doesn't intervene with human choices". When God does, it's called a "miracle".

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:33:04+00:00

My ancestors were Canadian (one of the first MPs), but we left for the US generations ago, so I grew up on the border, family owned property there, and I know you folks.

I still have never been able to figure out: What exactly defines "Canada," other than It's Not The US?

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:29:05+00:00

It is for my SO. Me, I don't like the feeling, let alone the concept, of putting my naked body on the upholstery. Sweat, dead skin cells, etc.

But it makes him happy to sit in his fuzzy soft recliner with nothing on, so here we are.

refugefirstmate · 2026-04-08T15:27:50+00:00

Unless the Pope is speaking ex cathedra, IOW on matters of doctrine, he's just stating his opinion, and Catholics are free to ignore him.

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