https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4OMkbJKzno&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
Snowden Explains Terrifying Government Spying Powers
"It's about power. It's about control. Be terrified."
in the context of: if someone is threatening you, they're probably doing it because it would be more expensive for you to fight than to give them what they want
and in situations like that, if you can, I think there's a moral imperative to force them into a conflict & make them pay the price carry out that threat. because if they never have to, they can carry on threatening everyone indefinitely.
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I loved the West Wing, but uuuuuuuh, if you look past the quirky dialogue and the enjoyable bits of it, it was pretty fuckin' "benevolent imperialism" and way too quirky for the shit that was really going down at the time and we're really feeling today!
Post-Cold War liberal chauvinism knew no better ideological conduit than the hit NBC series The West Wing. Foreign policy was imperial, staffers were self-satisfied, and Serious Democrats fended off r