Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

It can be true that US involvement in world politics has blowback effects without it also being true that all modern terrorism is a product of western meddling.

I'm not saying that everything the US does is appropriate, but I am saying it is a fatal naivete to imagine that the rest of the world just reacts to western aggression and has no regional or global ambitions of their own and that those ambitions are interested in promoting individual rights as understood by you or me.

The fact of the matter is that any large enough society is going to come into conflict with other large societies and not for anything more than it's people just trying to live their lives. This is an unavoidable aspect of human existence. The US could remove it's military presence from the world, it could stop all foreign aid, and it would *still* come into some form of global conflict.

Is this the point where people in the US are allowed to morally say "fuck you" to the one's complaining about our behavior? Seriously, at which point are we allowed to say "No, I'm doing this thing I want to do because I'm allowed to, and if you try to stop me, I'm going to defend myself and my friends"?

Because if, in your mind, such a situation can possibly exist, then you're ultimately talking about the US signing bomb shipments.

This is all to say nothing of the fact that some people are, in fact, bad. Bad people deserve rejection and frustration of their goals, which are bad. I am comfortable saying this because I am not a moral relativist.

We could be like Panama (although, we do use the threat of our bombs to protect their canal), but there are likely real consequences that involve eventual large-scale violence if the USA just abandons the world stage.

Would it have been inappropriate for the Allies to booby trap Nazi radios during the Battle of the Bulge?

Except for basically everything that Hamas and Hezbollah have been doing for decades.

Just add captchas to each post?

Then you realize that they weren't that wrong after all.

In my opinion, the most important feature of Monero is that it prevents blacklisting your coins.

Bitcoin maxis tend to think that the state is just going to accept defeat when Bitcoin use becomes ubiquitous. In reality, the government is going to do forensics on the chain to determine who owns which coins which they will then blacklist for whatever reason they want.

If you guys all think "de-banking" is bad, just wait until the literal unit of money you're trying to use has been deemed illegal by the government.

Unless someone can figure out how to anapnymize the blockchain, then I think the more likely scenario is not that Bitcoin frees us all from government overreach, but becomes the noose with which it strangles us.

What?

It's actually between unmarried, childless white women and everyone else.

Oh wow, flex on blind people, jeeze.