We have to nuke something

Or send nukes from the Moon to silence the Internet, it was a mistake

Being a continuation of England more or less, you’ve got more. Especially since those democratic traditions were pretty English in the beginning.

Some appreciation for the Hezbollah please, they know that and they don’t care

The issue is that we believe we have a free democracy when the only power we have is to put an X in a box every few years.

Right.

WDYM, Hitler was pretty friendly with German oligarchy. No suiciding them or something, their relationships were pretty chill, having fun together, going to countryside, going to each other with families, having coffee.

They are elite. Not in quotes. The fact that they remain an elite and will remain an elite under Trump shows us that they are not losers and they don’t lose.

They didn’t lose control over DNC, that’s what they care about, perpetual real power over half the politics in one big country, not temporary and limited power over all of it.

In this case they have also shown Trump and anybody else that they are a very convenient opposition, that should remain as it is. It’s a win.

But you’re the guys who flew to the Moon, invented nukes and the Internet. You’ll think of something.

Age caps are good.

A rating voting system would be good too.

But I don’t think there won’t be younger people with the same kind of hubris.

Disney stuff doesn’t count for me.

The “Death Star” novel does.

It would make sense even without the Force, because yes, we’ve seen that the targeting computer doesn’t work.

This is what’s good with Star Wars too, the Force can be replaced with something like stoic philosophy without the rest of the story imploding.

Like I said, balance of power and internal consistency.

I was thinking of the Bothan pilot in Wraith Squadron books (SW again, the less consistent part of it). 12 X-Wings drop out of hyperspace approaching a planet. One of the pilots is able to spend no more than 5 minutes to find out some pretty specific shit from governmental archives of that planet, listen to encrypted communications of the Imperials, whatever.

It’s worse than the Elder Wand in HP.

In one episode they find some kid’s password protected laptop. The super hacker goes “oh no, I can’t hack that. It’s running Anti-Hack OS! We need the password”. The password ends up being plain text password that a brute force dictionary attack could break in seconds.

Well, that’s right. Thinking to install Anti-Hack OS is something only that kid can do. The govt is too stoopid.

3 things should match for this to happen like in the movies:

occasion, ability and need.

Two of these can happen at the same time, all three - I dunno.

I don’t remember much. When I watched it, the movie seemed stupid. That’s all I remember.

Maybe I’ll re-watch it

Hacker shit. Some lone genius passing through systems intended to be secure for militaries and governments. It’s not about details being stupid, that’s to be expected. It’s about the very fact of power imbalance.

Random characters challenging militaries and governments and just “quickly finding” some qualified assistance in doing that. And winning. You don’t. You are an amateur and they are professionals. And if you want to do that, you are likely already under personalized surveillance.

That last thing is a trope from a free society where some people on the top are bad. And fighting them you can find help and learn, because in some sense you are protected, and guaranteed privacy and safety. There are no such free societies on our planet right now. The closest you can get is probably to join Hezbollah or some mafia, that is, well-established powerful organizations.

On the contrary, Luke Skywalker taking a lucky shot at a vulnerability that a team of engineers and military men, all of which were high-level Imperial defectors, with support from many planets of what is the Star Wars alternative of Western Europe and North America, had found by analyzing space station’s stolen blueprints, using computers and what not, is realistic. Similarly to the Empire (at that moment with kinda democratic Senate and all) being fine with anyone on the way being murdered trying to contain such high-value corpus of information.

Again, I love Star Wars so much. A lot of the materials written in AotC and RotS time describe very well, in my modest opinion, how the real world oppression really works and how you can’t really escape evil or defeat it. The best you can do is survive till that evil dies on its own, but the realistic best is planting the seeds for that time.

In general everything showing fighting your enemy as something easy, impressing upon audience that if it didn’t work out in a month, then you just give up and do something more pleasant, deceiving yourself.

At the same time the sheer extent to which personal brilliance and hard work and persistence can change the world is often downplayed in movies. Drastic changes made by characters are attributed to magic or being in some unlikely situation. But the whole reason for previously described power imbalance is that professionals perpetuate their knowledge and understanding every day, and if one’s persistent, one can beat them.

Yes, I like fiction about justice and fighting evil.

If you insert yourself as a side of a war and also imply that people doing this should be on the front lines, then apparently you are?

And I don’t.

What a bullshit argument. Oh yes, untrusted software from random sites in any other top-level domain is safe.

… for the very reason that Fortran you can grasp in an evening.

I guess if you feel enough trauma and humiliation and indignation from what happens there, you might be able to go.

But ultimately, I suppose, it’s just taking full responsibility for yourself, including possible suffering and death. In some sense being afraid is obeying the fear.

As they say, death is unfinished business. When you are not allowing yourself to drop everything and go, you won’t be able to consciously risk your life.

Why I want to talk about this - because someone should fight wars on the weaker side, where it is always harder. Otherwise our world will keep becoming more hellish.

Stealing is not allowed so you can’t do that. You dont own the whole world.

The problem is that everything is allowed, so they just do that.

Those who don’t want to fight in some war - terrorize your population sufficiently and they’ll obey, or you can keep them under propaganda pressure and they’ll agree.

I would be a coward and flee to a better place.

What if someone wants to take your land, demolish thousand years old churches and fortresses and graveyards, kill all your countrymen they can, all that purely out of hate\envy and because they can?

Would you not want to kill some of those people? Would you not want to prevent such things happening.