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What I find interesting about this is that everybody knew exactly what would happen, and then it happened. It's a perfect counterexample to the logic of "this system isn't perfect, but it's the best thing we have." It's just the rich and powerful using leveraging their wealth and power to become even more so, and under the current rules nobody can stop them.

I don't actually think so. There are democratic elements but the president isn't elected by popular vote. There's universal suffrage but in practice a large percentage of the population is disenfranchised. There's no power of recall in most instances of public office. Then there are the practicalities of running for office which only allows for a small elite... at what point do you still get to call this a democracy given all of its republican and oligarchic features?

No, those 907 people absolutely had to die so that Britain could keep its frozen rock halfway around the world.

It's only legitimate out of context. The two countries were trying to negotiate a transfer before the war broke out. Argentina was ruled by a military Junta and used the invasion to bolster its internal politics. Thatcher did the same thing by using overwhelming force over a territory that Britain was trying to get rid of. An Argentine cruiser was sunk outside of the exclusion zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_ARA_General_Belgrano

Afterwards Britain fortified the island to feed its military industrial complex and drum up more support for its decaying empire. Everything about this war was totally pointless except from a domestic political standpoint.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/07/british-sovereignty-falklands-absurd-imperial-hangover-argentina

Just for perspective, I learned in American public school in the 1990s that the US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. This is correct, even though these rectal tumors are weaponizing it.

The victims of this conflict are the casualties of a completely pointless war, on either side. Neither side fought for legitimate reasons and both used it to drum up nationalism.

But that's never been the way it works. Your payment finances the government budget, one of whose functions is to pay out social security money to current retirees. If you set up the income tax in such a regressive way, there will not be enough money to pay social security, which is of course what Republicans want so that they can have another excuse to cut the program entirely.

This is called a regressive tax. The Republican party should embrace the word regression. Their followers are too stupid to understand its meaning anyway.

Look to Hungary for advice. We're trying to systematically clean out every trace of the old regime. It's not easy and probably won't be perfect but people are being arrested.

That doesn't mean these numbers make any sense.

So if each planet has 10 billion people that's 40 million senators. That room was big but I'm not sure it was that big. And also that's one Jedi for every 40 trillion people? What good would that do even in the best case scenario?