yes I agree there has to be a balancig act. no one deserves to be fucked in life just due to unfortunate birth circumstances.
i have no issues with things like a strong public education system that would raise the "minimum opportunity level for everyone". though that is emphatically not "equal opportunity", but "baseline opportunity". and we must be accepting of people refusing to take it. "here is a helping hand. ah you actually want to drown? well, suit yourself. kthxbai.". no point wasting resources on someone actively sabotaging the opportunity he is being given.
ultimately i'm a firm believer, that as long as someone is not being actively hampered by (lets be charitable) ill advised social engineering, people eventually reach the level in society their genetics permit.
sometimes all you need is dollar store junk, but specifically modeled to your needs... which effectively makes it not dollar store junk. also, you don't actually need to go to a dollar store, waste half an hour looking for the right thing in their pile of crap, and possibly interact with their less than mentally stable customers.
in my experience even basic pla or petg prints are way stronger than cheap chinesium crap. because you actually use your brain when you model them, unlike chinese crap designers.
got myself a printer several moths ago and that thing is never idle more than a couple days. either I need some custom crap around the house, or my wife needs some decorative thingy, or my daughter wants a toy(and would you look at that, there's a new pink pla spool to try out).
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.
Good. the germans should sing that to the EU anthem instead.