Executions used to be public because people love watching bad people die. You might not like it because of some Englightenment-era idea to the contrary, but it's an inescapably true facet of human nature. The only reason Britain and France stopped holding public executions is the crowds eventually started to get too rowdy and governments needed to move them indoors.

The moral-outrage excuse was invented afterwards.

If I were POTUS and this happened, the ICC would look like a smoldering crater just to remind the elites what real power is. The thing is, there's nothing Europe can do about it. Europe's economically between a rock and hard place, with no serious military to defend themselves. They've also decided to import foreigners with no allegiance to Europe instead of grow their native populations. This means Europeans can't form a defensive military without a very high risk of those soldiers turning their guns on the government.

Honest question, what makes you think the US, China, or Russia need to abide by legal agreements made 80 years ago by people who aren't around anymore? Those three countries have since agreed amongst themselves that the 'international rules-based order' was a mistake, and nobody else has a big enough stick to do anything about it.

It'll be a good test to separate those earnestly trying to advance human knowledge, from those wasting my tax dollars. The later group ought to be publicly shamed and ridiculed without mercy. We need a more invective word than 'pseudo-intellectual.'

- arms manufacturers

- guillotine manufacturers

- rope manufacturers

- glass container manufactures

- gasoline manufacturers

I'd encourage everyone here to propagate the idea their business model is selling publicly recorded video of children to pedophiles.

I think the red team is only now starting to come to similar terms, and will increasingly do so as the blue team continues to maximally exercises power against their opponents instead of revitalize the tarnished reputation of instituions.

Around 2030, the US will need to spend 100% of it's tax revenue to service the debt, and California will need to a federal bailout or risk either default or wiping out their state pensions. I believe the coming financial disaster will likely be the catalyst that quiets the 'nothing ever happens' crowd, and both teams will need to reset their politics to the new world, distinctly different than the post-WW2 open society liberal consensus.

A similar phenomenon is happening in Europe.

Letitia James campaigned on putting her political opponents in prison and then proceeded to try doing so.

This isn't difficult to understand.

If the government fails, then you briefly get anarchy and violence until people organize into groups and use more violence to quash the anarchists. This repeats until there is only one group remaining, and that group is the government going forward.

Because the question that belies all of this is whether still makes financial or economic sense in the age of LLMs for tax-payers to fund mathematics research.

Up until recently, they've had a true ivory-tower to dismiss such criticism, but as LLMs have demonstrated, that approach won't survive going forward, so pure mathematics are up in arms. They genuinely don't know how to justify their jobs.