Ah yes, if someone’s punching you in the face and I decide to stab you in the back after telling the other guy that we’re cool and we’ll divide up everything you own, that’s not collaboration. We just happen to have the same goals and decide to do the same thing that helps each other and ourselves after agreeing to do so.

I’m sure the Polish will be glad to hear that the Nazis didn’t collaborate with the Soviet Union while being invaded on both fronts.

what, you mean that capitalist companies trading with Nazis is different from the state itself actively collaborating with those same Nazis? crazy idea. Almost like there’s a difference between the actions of individuals and the actions of a country.

Personally I think it’d be funny to see the Archbishop of Canterbury drop a diss track on everyone who’s against women or LGBT folks being allowed to be priests

that or the Flying Spaghetti Monster could be good

The Pope (well, the last one) has an album, the Dalai Lama has an album, who’s next?

We need 13 judges and term limits yesterday.

It’s so stupid that this is what democracy in the United States has devolved into. But also it’s not like the Democrats can stop gerrymandering if the Republicans keep starting this shit without a national ban or something.

I mean, while there’s certainly a bias towards the victor, there’s definitely some histories that have slipped through from people who were very much not the victors. Josephus comes to mind, even if he did so by surrendering to the victors; Thucydides and Athens lost the Peloponnesian War; for a more recent example, the American South’s narrative on the Civil War.

I mean sure, but also placebo effect is a real measured psychological effect

So even assuming there’s no supernatural stuff, placebo would exist for people who genuinely believed in religion

I mean, placebo, I suppose

What, making yourself an international pariah and also actively being hostile towards anyone who even just looks foreign who’s in your borders is not good for tourism? Who could’ve guessed? I’m sure that spiking oil prices will fix it right

Both sides did significants amount of ethnic cleansing in the first war to the magnitude of hundreds of thousands of people, and it was horrible from both sides. But two wrongs do not make a right. Azerbaijan “wanting the territory back” as just reparation of the first war would have a lot more credence if it didn’t consistently deny Armenia’s nationhood and call it “Western Azerbaijan”, and if it didn’t basically lay siege to an entire region for 9 months.

Iirc it went down after their internet went down during the protest movement though? Could be misremembering.

Ain’t it just funny how the world’s internet attacks tend to decrease whenever one of Russia, China, Israel, or Iran are occupied? Makes you think, eh?

Tbf, that could be anyone in east Asia.

Maybe if they stopped Azerbaijan committing genocide against Artsakh after letting it casually violate a ceasefire that Russia supposedly was peacekeeping Armenia wouldn’t have had to find other allies eh

Let me ask you one simple question: what country is Honda from

believe me, I am all for public space. The problem is Congress fucking sucks. And also NASA can’t afford as much as said private corporations

That being said, the accomplishments by CNSA are great. Wolf Amendment needs to be removed yesterday. And Tiangong is going to be a staple for years to come.

I just hope that my colonisers aren’t the next country to make it onto the lunar surface cuz fuck the XiCP

I hope so! But also it’s going to need testing and that might take ages. Also New Glenn is competing with Starship / Falcon Heavy iirc so different class