Judi S.

Enco the Chinese were way ahead of Europe until they were strangled by Confusionism. Is that a word? You know the guy. It was another sleep of reason and the masses going along with the current. I think it was known as the star fleet. And it was well before Magellan and Vasco de Gama et al. They knew about scurvy. They had a ship in the fleet that…[Read more]

Back in the mid 80’s I designed a searchable database* for the Dept. of Health in Westminster. It was used to pull info on the number of reported AIDS cases submitted by all the British Embassies around the world. The report from China read (I hope the official secrets act I took has expired!!) that there were 2 cases in China (out of a population…[Read more]

Jake,

Chiang Kai Shek was no hero just because he opposed Mao and U.S. support of Chiang was pretty cynical. They were both mass murderers of different scales and China hasn’t had really good ideas on government since Lao Tzu. Even the followers of Taoism have surrounded those ideas with Woo.

It is a horrible way to be conflicted. Are you, the queer for Palestine, going to be faithful to your religion of Jew hatred or are you going to be real about what they would do to you?

Sick fucking world. Sleep of reason and all of that jazz.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Reg, YouTube is filled with street interviewers asking Palestinians and Pro-Palestinian activists their thoughts on “Queers for Palestine”, as well as asking “Queers for Palestine” their thoughts on homophobia in the Islamic world. The cognitive dissonance and suicidal ideation are amazing to behold.

I have seen some of…[Read more]

Reg,

YouTube is filled with street interviewers asking Palestinians and Pro-Palestinian activists their thoughts on “Queers for Palestine”, as well as asking “Queers for Palestine” their thoughts on homophobia in the Islamic world.

The cognitive dissonance and suicidal ideation are amazing to behold.

Enco,

I read about the history of China a long time ago. So i am more than a little shaky. But Chiang Kai Shek who we supported of course but many Chinese did not because they got shit from the communists and Mao’s forces had a bloody war killing some 2 million Chinese. And you have to examine antecedents before jumping to conclusions.

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Just a few things.

The notion of Palestinians as an ancient people is false. Ancestry is from all over the Levant. Some who are known as Palestinians lived in and around Israel for centuries. Same for Jews. Others came there during British Mandate to work. There was a newspaper founded in 1932 in what was to become Israel. The Palestine Post. In…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco, i was not thinking of the communist rev. in China. Could be any place. But your take is a gross oversimplification. I oppose doctinaire thinking. Unfortunately we see the overwhelming numbers married to their ideology and incapable of analyzing their betrothed. Regurgitation of political rhetoric is the outer limit for the masses.…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Agreed. I must say having lived in NYC and South Florida, I found many Jewish folks to be some of the most interesting, intelligent, funny, creative, pragmatic, attractive, open-minded, and irreverent people ever. They roll with the punches. Most were atheists. Many travelled back and forth to Israel, in support.

All of my…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
America supports Israel, warts and all, because it needs those bases in the Middle East.

Yup, it exists not because “the Jews deserve the homeland God gave them” or even “because they have been so widely persecuted,” but due to the power interests of The West generally and The U.S. in particular.

But Americans themselves have what…

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Strega,

Agreed. I must say having lived in NYC and South Florida, I found many Jewish folks to be some of the most interesting, intelligent, funny, creative, pragmatic, attractive, open-minded, and irreverent people ever. They roll with the punches. Most were atheists. Many travelled back and forth to Israel, in support.

I have little doubt that…[Read more]

Re the ‘starting point’ comment. This seems absurd to me, having been born and brought up in Europe, in a country that has thousands of years of history both good and bad.  History moves in waves, each ‘starting point’ having been triggered by earlier event crescendoes. You can’t just pick a reference point in history and call it the ‘starting…[Read more]

Unseen,

You are wrong on so many counts it is incredible. But you are not baiting me into it. No way. Honest brokers of opinions only. But you just keep reading and listening to garbage sources. Make sure you never have a thought of your own.

jakelafort wrote:
What a beautiful little girl and what a tragic life. Horror in living color. I just read accounts of Thai workers who were murdered by Hamas. Fucking horrifying how they cut their heads off with knives. So you are young and naive. You were never taught critical thinking and you have classical liberal sentiments. (I do as well)…

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What a beautiful little girl and what a tragic life. Horror in living color. I just read accounts of Thai workers who were murdered by Hamas. Fucking horrifying how they cut their heads off with knives.

So you are young and naive. You were never taught critical thinking and you have classical liberal sentiments. (I do as well) Those professors…[Read more]

Can we all agree that violent revolutions are generally a serious hardship for the average person who just wants to get on with their life, it mattering little if it’s a leftist or right-wing revolution?

The revolutionaries—in words recently heard from President Musk and his wingman Donald Trump—convince themselves that average citizens not onl…[Read more]

I think the Kibbutz is a great idea. Many Irish people worked on one for the summer back in the 70’s and 80’s. I have never met anyone who had a bad experience there.

I am sick of hearing from ignorant lefties who think that social media educates them and that their ill-informed opinions are of equal value to freethinkers who study the facts…[Read more]

Enco, i was not thinking of the communist rev. in China. Could be any place. But your take is a gross oversimplification. I oppose doctinaire thinking. Unfortunately we see the overwhelming numbers married to their ideology and incapable of analyzing their betrothed. Regurgitation of political rhetoric is the outer limit for the masses.…[Read more]

Reg,

…and the idea for a sovereign wealth fund is not a very good one…

This is a terrible Universal Basic Income idea of Trump’s. Alaska already has a form of this, where State citizens get a share of oil revenues. It doesn’t change the fact that everything there is more expensive than in the contiguous 48 States due to having to ship eve…[Read more]