I’d, in fact, bet it was cast precisely during the event the OP is talking about. This is revenge for that.

I mean, the third Punic war happened. Cartage was literally destroyed during it.

If you think the trolley problem has an obvious solution, you do not understand the trolley problem.

The Party cannot fail, it can only be failed.

The key to nonviolent protest is that they have to be an alternative to violence - in other words, both sides must be fully aware that either nonviolence works or violence follows.

“Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!”

I didn’t know KenM had a lemmy account!

That’s certainly a take on “family business”.

No need to imagine, it’s been on full display everywhere for the last 8 years.

No, I mean the OP. Theirs is a half-crossover.

OTOH, it’s possible he’s consciously splitting with the US in hopes of getting the EU with him. Long term, could be smart.

Yup. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, everyone called him a Russian puppet because of course America would never!

I was about to say - the outs go in, and the ins go out. The picture is wrong.

That, nukes, NATO… It may have been rank anglophobia, but man, did history prove him right…

it is the near-universal consensus among economic historians and economists that slavery was not "a system irrationally kept in existence by plantation owners who failed to perceive or were indifferent to their best economic interests

Well, I’ll be damned.

Killing himself, presumably.

…Especially since the alternative could be just charging him with treason or something.

I think your German name is backwards

I agree.

Except for the “this paper will be sad if you don’t read it” one, that one’s on point.

The angle is that the Overton window shifted so far right that the disagreement is now which foreigners (and secret, domestic foreigners) are to blame for the country’s decline.