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Its just a dance both sides are doing.

China claim the straight and, under maritime law, if that's accepted then it's theirs. So, British etc. ships sail through it saying "what a lovely straight of water. I'm going to sail through here, as no one owns it." If China doesn't react, they have relinquished their claim to the straight. So, they have to follow up with "hey you, get off my lawn!" Every so often, the dance is repeated.

Nothing to worry about.

Wow, they're gonna have a melt down when they hear about the people's democratic republic or Korea.

I feel like you missed step one there, mate.

I love how you've looked to dismiss the idea that cutting skin off of a babies genitals is damaging and inherently wrong, outside of medical emergencies, as an appeal to nature fallacy. Even if that was how it worked, it's an informal fallacy.

will aggressively reject any and all “appeals to nature” as to the health effects of someone being beheaded!

If my foreskin was pulled back over the head of my penis, due to the sensitivity of the head, that would be quite uncomfortable for me. If I wanted to walk, I would have to adjust myself or I would be in a lot of discomfort. Yet, that's how it is for someone who was circumcised without their consent.

The only conclusion is that there would have to be a significant desensitisation of that part of the penis. That desensitisation would also have to apply to the feeling during sex.

How is it that people in the 21st century still need to be told to leave babies genitals alone and not to cut bits off of them? Bonus points if you did it because yahweh like the smell of them rotting.

Not really. Libertarians are just socially embarrassed corporate statists.

Also, you say that as if not wanting money is a bad thing.

100% and I can't imagine the effect of basic training and what you learned there being forgotten until long afterwards.

In the British army, even regular non-guardsman, infantry will usually parade into towns. They love a bit on pomp and ceremony. For example, even now regiments like the black watch regiment would be bagpipes bearing, marching in perfect unison into some place and then roll off to war.

They didn't want to be there and their imo their COs didn't want to kick off at them in front of the cameras.

It's not even that they don’t care that they did it. Most of the time, they literally don’t think they've done anything wrong.

As another British person, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture and I came here specially to make the same comment you did.

In other news, my toaster absolutely wrecked my T.V. at making toast.

Just like the UK, it always has been. It really screws with the narrative of billionaires trying not to pay for the health, infrastructure and welfare that allows them to extract their wealth.

The first rule of colonisation is to make the colonised pay for their colonisation. It's just that we all, collectively, forget that our governments colonise at home too.

I know right? Who do these people think they are, shareholders?

A better question would be "when was there ever been a true democracy?"

For me, there hasn't been. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try. It means that we need to truly internalise that wealth and power will, if left unchecked, succeed in perverting it entirely. We need to be ever augmenting it, with that in mind, with a view to playing whack a mole with the interests of the 1% and keeping it working for the 99%.

I mean that won't work either. The rich and powerful will never allow us to simply vote away their ill beggoten wealth and power. However, at least people could say that they tried.