I most certainly was not.

“world police” means doing police work at a global level.

Police fundamentally exist so that individuals can outsource their security to the state. Police disincentivize coercion by maintaining the ability to do violence and doing violence on those who use violence. It allows individuals to not have to think about physical in order to move freely.

“world police” means one country’s military defending other countries so that those countries don’t have to maintain a military or handle their own security.

The meaning of the phrase is inherent to the phrase’s word: it just means playing a police role (punishing aggression between third parties to maintain a peaceful atmosphere) for the world (planet Earth).

from that link:

Did Obama succeed?

Can individuals also support Ukraine? What about corporations? Does Ukraine accept donations from private entities?

I like your fighting spirit. I look forward to calling you my countryman.

lumosity.com or the app

Yes that game

There’s a game on Lumosity about remembering names.

I played that game for like ten minutes one day in 2017 and it permanently upgraded my name remembering.

Highly recommended.

Now I have to pretend to forget names sometimes just so it doesn’t freak people out.

That’s actually really insightful. You see hatred as primarily having an effect on the target. I see hatred as primarily having an effect on the hater.

Any day now, Elon Musk’s failures will catch up with him and then we can dance on his grave of failure.

Stupid nerd who never accomplished anything!

That’s not how I see it. I used to see it that way, but as I switched sides that coincided with me daring to hope again, and seeing the good in people.

I’m sorry all you see when you look at your country is shit. That’s a terrible place to be. I hope you can at least intellectually understand, even if you don’t feel it in your gut, that such a worldview is highly dependent on the filters in your own perception.

I think you probably know that, but my hunch is you only think of that self-deception as operating toward the positive: that goodness can be an illusion but badness must be reality because why would a person project badness onto the world.

I will propose that a person can be motivated to hallucinate badness, because a world with some good in it can hurt a lot more than a world with no good in it, because hope is painful.

It’s like trying to light a fire when you’re freezing in the middle of the woods. Moving your frozen fingers around, trying to light a match, uncurling your body to stack up the wood, it all hurts far more than just curling up in a ball and going to sleep.

Obviously there’s always going to be evil in everything, including you and me and including the entire country. But the existence of evil doesn’t make the world dark; it makes it a place of contrast.

Of the things you mentioned — freedom, happiness, well-being — which would you say is the highest one? If you had to pick one to put at the top of your own hierarchy, and have the country stand for it above all else, which of those three would be the highest ideal?

What do you think the US should stand for?

Doing an aikido roll at the last moment?

You mean when it was great?

How many assassination attempts did presidential candidates have back then?

Nope. It can only melt them.

You made an analogy with talking to a robber

So you think it was not childish at all to refuse to communicate with Russia? That blows my mind.

It’s a simple question. Are you gonna answer it or not?