Not really tonight, but yesterday I finished the language puzzle game Chants of Sennaar. Highly recommend!
Timwi
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I don't expect him to come up with anything new. He'll just repeat the same old things. Biden is on a witch hunt against him and the court system is corrupt and all that. He's found his favorite tune I think
That is a great analogy. We always assume gravity is the same for everyone, but when you're as tiny as an aerosol droplet, air currents are a lot more relevant.
Yeah, unfortunately. But let's think positive! How many such events in history can we think of that went relatively violence-free? I can think of two off the top of my head:
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The end of apartheid in South Africa. All they did was to force them to free Nelson Mandela, who then promptly got elected. No major government overthrow.
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East Germany. After the fateful press conference that caused everyone to storm the border crossings, the government basically accepted that their economy could no longer hold up, and they disbanded without a fight.
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Honorable mention: The disbanding of the Soviet Union within Russia. There have certainly been violent revolutions in the other socialist republics, but Russia didn't need one because Yeltsin could just declare Russia independent from the Soviet Union.
Are there others I missed?
Great Scott!
Thank you!!
This is broadly true, but it's not completely unheard-of for systems to change despite this.
The sad truth is that none of us, Jon Stewart included, get to choose. The established elite preselects candidates before the people get to pick them, and they would simply not allow Jon Stewart to run.
The way you equate capitalism with democracy, and then tacitly imply that Che Guevara must therefore have stood against democracy, is American propaganda.
This particular quote doesn't even stand out. He really does sound like this. This is quite typical.
I don't think anyone's saying that you're to blame. It's just that you might be persuaded to help clean up this mess.
The jurors are heros. Let's make sure nothing happens to them.