OH "The next American civil war will be fought inside Fortnite, so it won't be that bad."
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If we avoid an actual civil war, it may well be because most military age US males can't run a mile and then shoot an AR accurately. Or have drug or criminal problems that bar them from service. Plus, there's a new Netflix special on. This is fine.https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365 …
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It's all great until the barbarian Huns show up. And then you've got to either pay them off, or find other barbarians to defend yourself with, and then it all falls apart when they realize there's nothing keeping them from just taking what they like.
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Also, what I think might be a bigger driver of pacifism in the West is an aging population. The young want to prove themselves, and the slightly older want to protect their young families. But the elderly? They just want a quiet life, and aren't going to risk that for anything.
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Put another way: pacifism as a social strategy is great....until you run into your first non-pacifist. The reality is that pacifism is a hypocritical philosophy: someone else always dies to defend it.
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That's the fundamental problem with libertarianism.
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Most libertarians I know own enough guns to arm an army platoon.
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Sure -- but when the barbarians Huns show up -- do the same libertarians come out in force like an actual army would?
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BTW "The reality is that pacifism is a hypocritical philosophy: someone else always dies to defend it." This is the crux of USA hegemony enabling European pacifism.
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Correct. When they're the ones keeping Putin out of the Baltics, dying to do so if necessary, I suspect conversations in the Kreuzberg beer bars will be rather different than the ones I had in 2015.
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Patrick Vlaskovits Retweeted Thorsten Benner
And just now this amazingly apropos tweet popped up over the transom.https://twitter.com/thorstenbenner/status/1054966582974337025 …
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Thorsten BennerVerified account @thorstenbennerGerman Green party leader demands * Germany signing Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty * Europe pulling out of NATO's nuclear sharing * withdrawal of all US nuclear weapons from Germany https://twitter.com/WELT_Politik/status/1054953904696410112 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Best of luck with that, Heinz! The problem is that either they'll be crushed, or they'll rise to the challenge, and it's another Hitler. The US can morph itself into an imposing military machine, and then go back to democracy. Somehow Europe can't do that without death camps.
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