u/null_dot

Haah.

Everyone with half a brain knew that after Brexit Britain would spend the next 50 years trying to cut down on red tape and trade restrictions, effectively re-joining without re-joining.

Partly, yes. But also partly because world leaders have realised that if you don't want the US to fuck you up the ass you need to say nice things to Trump, preferably combined with gifts.

Hol up. Didn't NATO guy wank all over daddy's boobs already?

Generally evidence is needed to arrest someone.

Super frustrating article to read.

A single person being stabbed isn't a "major incident" if you're the chief of police or whatever a prefect is.

If only there were some way that the people could kind of ha e their say and direct lawmakers th address some of these problems. The people need to choose some kind of representative that propose and pursue these changes. Imagine if you could just kind of "poll" the will of the people and add up everyone's choices to choose a representative.

That's i good point i guess.

There's no way to confirm so it's just a rumour.

I think there's a *huge* difference between serving in a military controlled by a healthy democracy, and serving in a military controlled by an authoritarian regime.

Several weeks ago you could forgive someone for not realising that Trump is the latter, but not really any more.

Yeah. It feels that way. What defines a world war anyway? Is it just when "most" countries become engaged in a major conflict?

Wouldn't this cause catastrophic domestic problems though. I think the US would tear itself apart trying to go to war with either of those three. Greenland perhaps less-so but still incredibly distasteful.

It's really counter-productive to play armchair air crash investigator.

I don't get what you mean by "and no one figured that out yet."

I mean there's many experts watching the same footage who are not making an assertion that the pilots got confused about the landing gear and the flaps.

I'm not an expert, but pretty much every plane crash expert on the planet is watching the same footage and saying they don't know what's happened.

It's absurd to suggest the pilots accidentally retracted the flaps and no one figured that out yet.

Sure. Ok mate. Please, by all means continue providing Greta all the positive reinforcement you like.

... but not for the innumerable other people doing more than Greta?

My intention is not to criticise Greta, but the army of fools who seem to think she's worthy of admiration. There are innumerable people more successful in addressing the issues Greta is vocal about, and more deserving of praise.

Sure Greta might be doing more than others her age, but we generally don't praise people on that basis.

Why would I *need* to believe that?

Honestly I think it's more remarkable that she has such a dedicated following despite not really being special.

Yesterday I watched an interview with an Australian doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières in a hospital in Gaza. She was talking about how they've run out supplies, simple things like crepe bandages, and how one of the most common injuries is infants and toddlers with missing limbs.

That's what a real actual hero looks like. Meanwhile Greta is on a boat posting to her socials.

Edit: by the way, and I don't mean this in a haughty "I'm cleverer than you" kind of way, you make quotes by starting a line with the right square-bracket:

`> like this.`

I didn't say that 20k people is most people.

I said pretty much everyone I'm Ukraine or gaza is braver than Greta.

When challenged, I provided the 20k people that I thought were the most salient examples to juxtaposition against Greta, which does not imply that the remaining population is not braver, just less analogous.

The chances that Greta would be injured are infinitesimal, far less than any man woman or child in Gaza.

You can do sound with your definition of "bravery" if you wish, but ultimately Greta is an entitled influencer.

I didn't say that ?

I did however provide 20,000 examples of women braver than Greta.