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TheEncogitationer wrote:
And the capital and most of the underlying ideas for all of it came from the West. Credit where credit is due indeed

Science grows based on what discoveries and developments came before.

The claim that Russia’s postwar successes were all (every single one, apparently) based on ideas that came from “the West” (as if…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
Regarding wishing we could all see each other as equals, that’s not how humans evolved. We are an instinctive tribal species, and there’s always “the enemy” somewhere to fight. If you’ve got no-one to fight, you’ll lose your fighting people.

You see it in football in Europe. Each team has a particular nemesis team. We love compet…

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Belle Rose,

Here’s what you and your family are up against. Your miles may vary, depending on your status and the papers to prove it.

One thing is for sure from the history of Mexican immigration law: The powers that be in Mexico owe Donald Trump and the rest of the world a serious apology.

Mexican Nationality…[Read more]

Strega,

Thank you for mackwowledging me.

Agreed, humans are hierarchical. Other than Kung Bushman not aware of any culture that does not have a hierarchy. On the other hand the Kung Bushman exhibit that lovely evolutionary survival advantage-neuroplasticity. And it is what we need to harness in a better direction.

As for the others/nonmembers…[Read more]

Firstly, “Jake spake” is possibly the coolest signoff line I’ve seen 😎.

Regarding wishing we could all see each other as equals, that’s not how humans evolved. We are an instinctive tribal species, and there’s always “the enemy” somewhere to fight. If you’ve got no-one to fight, you’ll lose your fighting people.

You see it in football in Europ…[Read more]

Belle Rose,

There’s no relief to be found south of the border. Not merely is there a drug war between the Mexican government and the Cartels, but Trump early on talked of sending U.S. troops into that mess. You and your son and anyone else would be worse off down there.

Pay attention to the iteneraries between the U.S. And Mexico. The traffic…[Read more]

If you contemplate the cynical/skeptical apolitical or at least nonideological individuals v those with the most ardent beliefs it is the difference between a ticking time bomb and an inert gas.

The communist. The fundamentalist fill in the blank. The Nazi. The hate group member. The former Christians of centuries ago and a few today. The…[Read more]

Dumb as a rock?

Which large group is exempt?

Seeing the world that way engenders hatred and polarization. When will we as a species come to recognize that there is absolutely nobody home? That is true for vast majority of humans. Whichever way the current goes they go. Unless and until we recognize how easily manipulated we are and how central…[Read more]

Unseen,

The questions you pose are very hypothetical and are thus unanswerable. They are also polluted by unstated and/or unsupported assumptions and presumptions.

Not hypothetical questions but all too real. And like the unstated assumptions and presumptions that AI requires capital to build, energy to run, and free minds to create it.

A…

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Robert,

Do Americans even have the credibility to condemn authoritarian dictatorships these days? Our new allies are North Korea and Russia. Our enemies are Europe, Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. Government has no credibility here, but U.S. Citizens have the credibility to condemn the human rights records of any regime at home or abroad. And as…[Read more]

As for me, I can’t wait to get the hell out of here…

@Robert

America is dumber than a box of hammers

Yes. I can’t wait to get the hell out of this country.

For years me and my ex-husband have been arguing about getting my son his dual citizenship to Mexico (I am for it, his dad is not). Now that things are going in this direction, I’m questioning whether it would be a good thing or not because I’m…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Do Americans even have the credibility to condemn authoritarian dictatorships these days? Our new allies are North Korea and Russia. Our enemies are Europe, Canada and Mexico.

Exactly. Trump is ignoring the “coequal branches” thing and is using his chief executive role to ruin America. Whatever America’s faults, he’s taking us…[Read more]

Do Americans even have the credibility to condemn authoritarian dictatorships these days? Our new allies are North Korea and Russia. Our enemies are Europe, Canada and Mexico.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
My concern is not with being “balanced” but being right.

If by “right” you mean “to the right”  then yeah, I get it.

The questions you pose are very hypothetical and are thus unanswerable. They are also polluted by unstated and/or unsupported assumptions and presumptions.

A lot of the criticism of Russia, yours incl…[Read more]

Ukraine was not “part of Russia” in the sense of always being a subordinate region—it had distinct periods of autonomy and foreign rule. Russia gradually annexed much of Ukraine in the 17th and 18th centuries, fully integrating it into the Russian Empire by the late 18th century. While it was a republic of the USSR, it had its own identity, c…[Read more]