It doesn't necessarily require it, sure. But people are frequently presented with issues which have a materialist solution that conflicts with directly with their religious idealism. It happens all the time and when that's combined with the threat of eternal punishment for doing the "wrong" thing, the idealism usually wins to the detriment of everyone.

This is not how general relativity works at all. If your coordinates are set to a spot on Earth (or some spot relative to Earth), you will appear at that same point. Spacetime exhibits something called diffeomorphism covariance which is a fancy way of saying you'd have to go out of your way in the dumbest way possible to get this outcome.

Yeah, I agree Canada shouldn't support the US but what does that have to do with China?

"The reality is that voting Democrat was the correct choice to minimize damage"

"Direct action is the only thing that works."

Your worldview is incoherent. You don't even have the self-awareness to see how your own thoughts and opinions are contradictory.

The right to vote doesn't mean anything if the choices are all awful. This last election was literally "Vote for genocide" or "Vote for (maybe) slightly less genocide".

It seems that liberals will defend any atrocity their leaders commit more than they'll defend people simply not supporting atrocities.

You would have to be lying or a complete idiot to not realize we haven't had a remotely fair primary in almost 20 years.

Majority of people who voted. That is not the same as the majority of eligible voters nor is it anywhere near same as the majority of Americans.

Also, if it were a Dem Pres, we'd have more or less the same outcome just less crass and with more political theater/obfuscation.

Sounds like you're describing 'labor aristocracy'

Anyone who thinks a secure messaging app is all they need to keep their communications private from government snooping is a fool. All of the end-to-end encryption in the world won't really accomplish anything when there are any number of other ways to read your screen, log keys, etc. The app just encrypts messages, what happens after that on the user's device is outside of the app's design.

Never assume any digital device is safe. Never.

Do you mind noting when/where bombs were dropped by the Chinese during the Chinese-Vietnam war, or any of the engagements you've listed? I'm having trouble finding any information about that.

I didn't drink cow milk at all becsuse I find it gross but it definitely does but taste the same

One nuke is not MAD. Even a few nukes, should Ukraine get them, would not be MAD. They are a deterrence, sure. But MAD means something very specific and unless Ukraine is getting dozens of nukes along with rapid, reliable deployment methods it is, by definition, NOT MAD.

The M and A in MAD stand for "mutually assured", where is the confusion?

This is, by definition, not MAD

The article does mention it. The Pt was already on immunosuppressants due to organ transpant. A significant portion of the article is spent addressing this.

Please demonstrate where this toxicity is. Please give examples of the "hatred in your tone" in this thread. Otherwise, you are poisoning the well and hiding it under pseudo-respectability garbage.

The number of Palestinians killed has not been updated in months because the means by which to reliably count the dead (i.e. hospitals) has been destroyed. The number is likely much higher than that.

Why not Zoidberg?

I feel like this is the actual purpose for most CIA funded activities, they were just too obvious about it