lunar_solstice@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O'Neill Cylinders and stuff?English
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2 months agoCan you string together 2 sentences without culture war tropes?
Can you string together 2 sentences without culture war tropes?
the levels of 白左 on some hexbears, really… 100% moralising 0% thinking
What’s your definition of ‘pollute’? I don’t really get how the verb ‘pollute’ can apply to non-biological planets; to me the word means something like ‘putting matter in places where is disrupts ecosystems’. I think the book about Gaia has a definition like this too.
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He has Musk Derangement Syndrome 🤣🤣🤣
Too much time reading clickbait
Chicas to the front Ha ha go round
Winter has his charms as well.
say the line, bart
The mental model here is “violence and diplomacy are mutually exclusive”. In fact, they’re very closely connected, almost synonymous.
Agree here. I grew up in violence and lived through the peace process. It starts out violent, and you win concessions by showing strength, and then negotiate peace. That worked in Ireland in 1998 and almost worked in Palestine in 2000. Violence is the first part of the diplomacy.
You’re saying that the weak should go to the negotiating table empty-handed, but that won’t solve anything for them. They need to stop being weak and start being strong, then diplomacy can start to happen.
The solution to weakness is strength. How can the weak become strong without the Armalite?
The Catholics took up arms in 1968 and came to the negotiating table in 1998. We won some concessions because we showed strength for 31 years, not “empathy”. Yasser Arafat understood this: he knew when to use violence and when to negotiate. If you defang yourself as Step One, you make diplomacy impossible.
I admire your values, but you’re incorrectly equating “empathy and diplomacy”. Diplomacy is more a military matter; empathy has no place in realpolitik.