I often get the feeling those people see everyone who voices dissent as one big amorphous blob. It’s as if every conversation on a topic is part of one long argument, and you get assigned every claim that anyone ever made. Almost like they watched that “moops” alt-right playbook video and drew the exact wrong conclusion.

I was under the impression it was the “Hillary warned us” and “Putin is behind everything” crowd, since it mirrors the MAGA saviour and conspiracy fantasies.

It even kinda makes sense. If a company C-levels can get away with what’s essentially several thousand counts of manslaughter because it wasn’t any one person, it’s this fictional legal entity that doesn’t really exist and the government just gives it millions whenever it’s in trouble - why don’t we all do it?

Steam?

I mean, yes, but I fail to see how that’s relevant.

…Sounds like you’re looking for “Thousands of Beavers”. Great movie.

Reminds me of Reagan, actually. That was more or less the response he and Bush gave back when a US ship shot down an Iranian airliner.

Nah, draconian punishments are usually a sign of high-crime, low-enforcemwnt, so you’re overdoing punishment to drive the point home for the few thieves you manage to catch.

If it did, the heater wouldn’t look like this.

Nah, blinking when done. It’s a call to action of sorts.

How about we just kill everyone you, personally, find annoying, would that work?

You know, all things aside, it’s kinda sad people don’t even remember anymore that the Nazis weren’t just after Jews.

Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren’t.

This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com

Funny thing, I made the same question in reverse once, and the crowd on here descended on me for “whataboutism”.

I get the distinct impression that some people are simply unable to concieve of a perspective different from their own. For lack of a better comparison, it’s like those Christian movies where everyone, including the atheist, openly believes God exists, but the atheist chooses to be an atheist out of spite or malice or whatever. So for some, disagreement is at best you being a troll or shill or bot, and at worst a frontal attack at their entire conception of the world.

I kinda wanna see Israel start weapons development with China. Just to see people lose their shit.

Initially, at least.

Good/Bad isn’t the point. The point is if you do something that shouldn’t even be on the table and get away with it, it’s now on the table for everyone.

Honestly, kind of impressive.

This isn’t a new idea, it’s been around sinde Reagan, and the consensus is that it’s just non-viable.