Steve Dustcircle

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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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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]

_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]

Some more info on the Presidio Trust.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
PopeBeanie, Bernie Sanders supported the Soviet Union that created Vladamir Putin and the Putineers, and Bernie still wants their saw-bones health care system for Americans. And lest we forget, Elon Musk was embraced by the Left when the Eco Wackos thought that cars powered by Lead, acid, and Heavy Metal batteries but…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Bernie Sanders supported the Soviet Union that created Vladamir Putin and the Putineers, and Bernie still wants their saw-bones health care system for Americans. Here’s an assessment I got from the Brave browser’s built-in AI (the italics):

As I expected, your characterization of Bernie’s views is brimming over with a…[Read more]

Well, it’s time for everyone to write and tell their GOP legislators at every level plus their governors that Trump is making a widespread turn toward the Democrats a near certainty if he continues down the road he’s on, starting with the writer’s vote.

I really thought that the Veterans would be spared from the cuts (as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins claimed). But it seems like they won’t be. I am friendly with a few who are working or living in Ireland and they are not happy!

One of my best friend’s housing is suddenly at stake now, as he’s a veteran living in the Presidio in San Francisco.

I’m sure everyone’s seen Ezra Klein’s video by now about this administration’s strategy to hit all American’s hard, daily, with news about this or that disruption of government services and entitlement funding. What’s stuck in my…[Read more]

I decided sometime during Trump’s campaign that he couldn’t possibly not understand that his proposed tariff policy combined with his intended mass deportation of a large proportion of our farm workers would devastate the economy.

So, yeah, it’s intentional. Thom Hartmann is stating what was obvious to me.