Would that one island they and the Danes argue over count?

More like a formed plastic sheet with contact pads glued on the underside. The whole keyboard was just a PCB, plastic casing, and a button sheet.

I’d, in fact, bet it was cast precisely during the event the OP is talking about. This is revenge for that.

The key to nonviolent protest is that they have to be an alternative to violence - in other words, both sides must be fully aware that either nonviolence works or violence follows.

I didn’t know KenM had a lemmy account!

That’s certainly a take on “family business”.

No, I mean the OP. Theirs is a half-crossover.

OTOH, it’s possible he’s consciously splitting with the US in hopes of getting the EU with him. Long term, could be smart.

Yup. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, everyone called him a Russian puppet because of course America would never!

I was about to say - the outs go in, and the ins go out. The picture is wrong.

That, nukes, NATO… It may have been rank anglophobia, but man, did history prove him right…

it is the near-universal consensus among economic historians and economists that slavery was not "a system irrationally kept in existence by plantation owners who failed to perceive or were indifferent to their best economic interests

Well, I’ll be damned.

Killing himself, presumably.

…Especially since the alternative could be just charging him with treason or something.

I think your German name is backwards

The angle is that the Overton window shifted so far right that the disagreement is now which foreigners (and secret, domestic foreigners) are to blame for the country’s decline.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Frankly, it’skind of the opposite: the slavery part of the argument is obvious, simply because IIRC the model of chattel slavery the US south operated on was only viable through the constant flow of new people to feed into the meatgrinder. The “better off” part is kinda dubious.

Nah, the template is more “Master Foo’s Unix koans”.