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if that's how you wanna put it, then yes. Women should have the same rights to choose which machine's buttons they push.
They don't get to choose though. Single income households are no longer viable for most people because surprise surprise supply and demand works for wages just as much as for everything else.
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Yeah specifically with that hyphen nose. I have like three friends who all do that and they all meet that description it's hilarious
Don‘t discriminate against the hyphen nose. (Said in a sharp German accent) :-)
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What part of woman's biology is tailored for changing diapers, reading books, playing around, walking them to school. Have woman nostrils evolved to not smell baby shit?
Just admit you want to live in the Handmaiden's Tale, or Taliban Afghanistan, or 1950's America. You want a live-in prostitute cum maid cum babysitter.
Why coat political thoughts in fake scientific thought? Man up and admit opressing women is the goal.
The reason given is to root out pro-North Korean elements. How is red scare stuff still a thing?
> How is red scare stuff still a thing? You can't compare McCarthyism to Korean politics because Canada wasn't the USSR.
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But that covers only the case where the accused obeyed an unlawful order. It does NOT cover the case where the accused REFUSED an unlawful order.
Refusing an ambiguously-lawful order would, under that source, trigger a prosecution or nonjudicial punishment under UCMJ Article 92 - Failure to obey a lawful order or general order. And it would need to be determined at trial and/or on appeal whether the order was lawful, because Article 92 requires the Government to plead/prove four things: - That a member of the armed forces issued a certain lawful order; - That…
Democracy in Korea at a Crossroad On December 3, 2024, at 10:27 PM, President Yoon Seokyeol declared martial law. This declaration is illegal and constitutes a criminal act, directly violating the Constitution and other laws. It is essentially a coup d'état. The current political and social situation does not meet the criteria of "a time when it is necessary to respond to military needs or maintain public order in wa…
How is this a coup? It doesn't seem to fall under Wikipedia or any other definition I can find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#:~:text=A%2... . Do you consider Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act in Canada to have been a coup?
Korean law specifically prohibits presidential interference with the legislative branch even under martial law, a clause written in blood. The first thing Yoon did was try to lock down the legislature and arrest party leaders. This is a blatantly unconstitutional self coup attempt.
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Sounds like over philosophizing, could it just be that corruption (i.e, are Biden/Harris the most qualified people in the USA to run the country? If not that is a form of corruption.) is at an all time high, and inequality is growing. If you look at US elections you see the educated elite in NY and CA verses the rest of the country.
It's hard to imagine that corruption is a rational, or even irrational, reason to vote in Trump. And the easiest way to reduce inequality is to raise taxes on the rich, which voters also apparently don't support if they're voting Republican.
Raising taxes on the rich doesn't work because they don't have income in the same way ordinary people do. They take out loans against their assets, use shell companies, use company credit cards etc
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I am unsure of the ethics of conquering a state that is in the state of North Korea and then forcing the people (who are brothers and sisters of the South) to continue to live like that for a generation while their conquerers live (relatively speaking) like kings across the road.
They wouldn't be "forced to continue living like that." They'd be free to seek opportunity anywhere in the world. (Unlike today, where North Koreans are literally the only people in the world who are not allowed to leave their country.) Remember that much of the reason North Korea is the way it is currently, is due to active suppression of many types of economic activity that would otherwise be happening naturally. T…
North Korea failing is a terrible prospect for South Korea.
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> I thought there was some legal provision in the US for the military to disobey unconstitutional orders It's less a legal provision than a consequence of humans being the interface of the law. So while there is, in theory, a duty to disobey, there is also a presumption of lawfulness of orders [1][2]. [1] https://ucmjdefense.com/resources/military-offenses/the-lawf... [2] https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/when-can-a-…
Rule 916(d) in the Manual for Courts-Martial, quoted in your second source, is really the pull quote here: > It is a defense to any offense that the accused was acting pursuant to orders unless the accused knew the orders to be unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known the orders to be unlawful. So for those non-military reading, while it's almost always a bad idea to try to sea-lawyer…
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> You can persuade or pay people to things that you can't threaten or force them into. Any examples? Beyond immaterial things like respect/love/etc?
Sure. One example is when you have inferior force. You cant force someone to do something with threats, but you can pay them to do something. Another example is when the cost of violence is high. If have two people with guns, or MAD scenarios, violence isnt an effective way to get what you want, so payment can be better. The last example and simplest is if you need a service and the other party simply chooses destruc…
Guns and MAD are exactly the kind of violence society is founded upon. Ultimately you can't just stop paying tax or start driving illegal vehicles, because the state (usually) has a bigger gun than you. (In the case where it doesn't, you end up with something like Somalia or the mafia). MAD is the ultimate gun, not the absence of gun.
A doctor might be willing to die, but every man has a price he is not willing to pay - whether that's his child or a random child you pick off the street and make violent threats towards.
Payment is just a disguise and a convenience - the underlying order is still based on violence.