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What percentage of your genocide victims are literal children?

As a European, there is no doubt that Europe is genuinely descending into fascism. Every country puts in new, worse laws every year, the internet gets censored even heavier, more forms of protest get outlawed and control of media (TV/News/Social) is in ever fewer hands. We are quite literally at the point of punishing anybody who dares to suggest improving society somewhat

Heck yeah, Troika rocks my socks

You see, I give myself my own money to make weapons for a stupid proxy war on the other side of the globe. And that's how the money helps me! My salary is infinite!

On a serious note, I think it's just because the only benefit of that would be to gloat about your victory. The outcome is definitively decided once checkmate happens, so the rest is theatre, rather than game.

My complaint is why 'stalemate' is a thing. If I'm clearly winning and your king can't go anywhere without facing certain death, how the frick is that a draw?!

If the pawns just all turned around, they could win the game instantly!

I'll take this moment to complain about how Tangled (a Disney Rapunzel film, basically) just assumes that pillaging native lands is the moral thing to do.

An old woman is using a magical flower out in the wilderness to retain her youth and health. It's quite literally the only thing keeping her alive. When the Queen of the kingdom falls ill, soldiers of the kingdom go out and just rip up the flower. The old woman, deprived of her only means to stay alive, rushes to the castle, only to find that the flower's properties are now stuck inside the Queen's baby. Reasonably assuming that the selfish-ass King and Queen who just gave her a death sentence were obviously never going to let her use those powers, she takes the baby and raises it in a loving (if very sheltered) environment, using her hair to live instead, again, this is the only way the woman can stay alive.

Somehow, the woman is the bad guy, and the King and Queen who raided the native lands for their own selfish-ass purposes are the good guys. It was perfectly moral to take the flower because old woman didn't enclose her land or have a fucking deed to say "THIS FLOWER BELONGS TO ME". The old woman's native knowledge of the land meant it could keep her (and who knows how many others) alive and healthy on an indefinite basis, while the monarchy just grab it, destroy it, and get a one-time use out of it because the lives of the royal family are more important than everyone else's!!!! Babysnatching isn't moral, but what choice did the woman have?

Yeah I may be overthinking a kid's fairy tale in movie form. But FUCK EM. I genuinely think it teaches children that there's no need to respect the environment or other cultures' understanding of ownership, nor the concept of public sharing.

??? It is not rude to look at people in Japan. Anymore so than it is elsewhere in the world.

I never treated them as equivalent? Just that the argument of "if it offends you just don't look" is the same reasoning bigots often use and should not be relied upon.

Working as a pharmacist used to (in the past ~30 years) include making and mixing a lot of medications manually. Now it's mostly just dealing with sealed containers. But I'd be surprised if some decent chemistry experience wasn't still required during study.

You could also make this argument for a racist transphobic chud. To have a nice fun community you gotta moderate your users.

Egypt has started suffering quite significantly due to the amount of shipping traffic now avoiding the Suez Canal due to Houthi attacks. It's kind of in Egypt's best interest to put as much pressure as they can on Israel to stop the war.