They already got it back from Belarus, probably without a refund. Lukashenko is a joke.

The first? Was there a sequel? c:

Most people reading this won't realize that the magnitude system is literally orders of magnitudes in power. So a 4.0 is 10x as strong as a 3.0. A 3.8 is weak as fuck. But when you live in brick houses I guess it could still be dangerous.

They are very aware, the same thing happened in Japans most prominent politician murder which happened live on TV, Yamaguchi Otoya is worshipped by the far right for killing a Communist party leader with a wakizashi on stage.

There have not been many high profile assassinations of politicians in Japan, and they might make an exception, but only because it's Abe, they wouldn't for any other politician. For example he was the first to receive a state funeral.

That said, I don't actually see them handing down the death penalty because there have been much more violent killings that avoided it. They're pretty strict about having to have killed multiple people.

In order to receive death penalty in Japan you need to kill multiple people, this guy won't be eligible unless they set precedent.

Yes, I didn't deny any of that. I said what is worse is that they won't get replaced because we've stopped the processes of natural evolution in most species larger than bugs. Evolution has become an anthropogenic process. Worse still, you could probably say it's a capitalistic process where the survival of species is determined by worth and productivity.

On one hand, we have to accept that species go extinct naturally, even if climate change is human induced this time. On the other, humans have all but stopped natural evolution in larger lifeforms. There will be no animals evolving to replace those that die off this time.

"Democratically elected leader" is always an interesting way to describe Mossadegh, the guy who cancelled the elections halfway through to prevent opposition gains, who allowed wealthy elites to dominate those elections, who banned the Communists from gaining a single seat despite being #2 in total votes, and who annulled the results that saw a KDPI member elected. It wouldn't be a longshot to say a good number of Iranian people were disaffected by their government even before the U.S. coup'd the government.

The elections were incredibly corrupt. Khomenei published his first pro-theocratic work in 1942, though the Shah's regime was almost certainly one of the main reasons he became marja in 1962. I don't think Mossadegh's policies would have been complimentary to Khomenei's line of thinking anyways, or that if the elections hadn't been overturned that radical Islamism wouldn't have taken hold. The Islamic Brotherhood had been active in the middle east advocating for theocratic government in opposition to the cultural decline caused by rampant Westernization for decades before the Iranian revolution.