Peers as in technological peers. Like having access to the logistical capacity (military transports) and weapon technology.
I see your point, but it really sounds like a useless parity measure to me. does access matter if you can't sustain it for a conflict of any reasonable duration?
Put it this way, if the UK turned it's armed forces on the third worlders currently invading it, they more than likely win.
are you sure about this? as you say, half the army would instantly defect to the opposition. what fraction of the others would immediately become pregnant? then theres reserves, how many fighting age non military Brits would actually want to fight this? Not just in some abstract sense but go actually get shot at. For the country and the leaders who created the problem in the first place(among the fuckton of other nasty things).
you'd be in a worse position than Israel today, because no victim trump card, rampant demoralization and no infinite ammo.
they caught that white car you see in the twitter thread 100km from the Ukrainian border.
cause that's just what islamists do when they're done shooting people. rush towards the nearest warzone. martyrdom, 72 virgins and stuff, is so 2010s.
I'm generally against "boardgame-style" rules in politics, like "You can do X, but only up to N times".
Life doesnt have to be "balanced" : either a "move" is "good", and should be used as often as the political situation necessitates, or it is bad and should be disallowed completely. If a rule seems "excessively used", it is usually a symptom of a design problem with the system. Thus restricting "overuse", is attacking a symptom, instead of dealing with the root cause. In other words, a cop-out. Breaking your thermometer at whatever temperature you're comfortable with, will not fix your heating/cooling issues.
As such, conversation about term limits should be viewed as a symptom of a dysfunctional system, where people are looking for a "cheat rule" to get those they don't like out of the power position. But rotating out corrupt stooges(in politics or administration) every X years will not solve the problem of having your system overrun with corrupt stooges. You solve that issue with education and active citizen involvment. Possibly with a touch of firing squads - in some situations(though, obviously, I can't think of any modern real-world country where that last part would apply).
Spending multiple millions on every single senate seat becomes a losing battle for the Uniparty when that seat is vacated every one or two terms.
senators will go for way cheaper without an established brand name.
All term limits do is push the people in power out of the limelight. You cant solve the lack of honest and intelligent decision-makers by rotating the corrupt morons faster in hope those run out. You're never running out or corrupt morons.
There was quite a funny incident earlier today. the police set up a barricade on the motorway to try to stop a farmers. the guys just drove through the fence and around the barricade.
Yes, some tactics genius decided to block a bunch of tractors by blocking the road. in an open field.
for anyone missing the context. "spez" is Reddit's ceo's username on Reddit. this username is probably an "accusatory username". I doubt the real spez would show up a) here b) under such a self-incriminatint username. though modern day degenerates never fail to surprise me.
to be fair, if you're in control of a three letter agency, having the reputation of being a bunch of bumbling baboons is very useful. because no one will see you coming. you just need to contain the baboons to a " baboon department", while the rest of the agency does the real work.
not saying it is the case here though
i assume consent from the people who voted for it