@rythur @frlan @schnedan @littlealex @drwho
The trouble with that approach is that normalising the idea of rounding up undesirables and isolating them from the population never seems to end well for the non sociopathic. Probably because the nasty bastards are just better at that sort of thing.

@littlealex
Absolutely the best news, then we can be independent of the US and Trump's "friendly" comments about being about to turn off the fighter's abilities if they choose.

In spite of "defence pacts" or treaties we never know who will be our enemy in the next war...

We fought alongside the yanks in 1917/18 then they left us high and dry in 1939/41. We looked at our "friends" through rose tinted glasses of the second half of the war BUT we must never forget they are our friends only as long as it suits them and currently they are NOT led by a friendly regimen who only make ANY friendly noises because of the inertia within their voters, (and will abandon us if they cannot rule us! So we need to be looking for folk with similar outlooks and beliefs and align ourselves there.

That sadly is not the US, it is a European Culture of ex=imperialism, and social support not found in the US even in the best of times and not currently.

@pmc @drwho in my experience it is just a few of them. And without a hierarchy and all the machinations of power, those few don't have the power to make the rest follow. In a social structure that is like a village or a group not bound to hierarchy, they have no clout That is why those few have such a need to build those opaque power structures. I don't want to convince you of anything. It's just my experience. Yours may be different.

@frlan @schnedan @littlealex

Well, drones are what's most relevant these days.