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@Robert

Yes, internally China has issues, but they haven’t prevented it from becoming the fastest growing economy in history and they are homing in on eventually being the world’s #1 military power as well with destroyers which are rated as more powerful than ours and hypersonic missiles which are making our aircraft carriers with their ability…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert You totally avoided my question. If you want to make friends, is it better to give them a helping hand or to play the role of the militaristic colonialist?

They don’t need help from anyone. I’d bet China is just gonna go in, talk a bunch of shit while behind the scenes it’ll be draining resources and creating warlords and…[Read more]

@Robert

You totally avoided my question. If you want to make friends, is it better to give them a helping hand or to play the role of the militaristic colonialist?

The world has plenty of grievances against the U.S., many of which are more serious than not respecting intellectual property rights.

@Robert

Perhaps we can agree on this: The UN is and always would be a ball-less disaster. If it actually took a stand on a controversial matter and went about enforcement, members would drop out and it’d collapse into a mutual admiration society of like-minded nations. As for the Security Counsel…what a joke.

@Robert

Where does “the right to be a country come from”? God? According to your thinking, that right apparently comes from us.

In that part of the world, borders have been fairly fluid for centuries. All of a sudden, they are written in granite? Where is Poland? Depends on when you are talking about? For that matter, where is Texas? How did it…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Don’t stand on your metaphorical head to paint me as pro-Russian. I’m pro-civilized human. Of course Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it’s Putin to blame for the inevitable (as you yourself pointed out) atrocities of war. That Ukraine has been far from perfect in its treatment of ethnic and linguistic Russians within its bor…

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@Robert

Don’t stand on your metaphorical head to paint me as pro-Russian. I’m pro-civilized human. Of course Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it’s Putin to blame for the inevitable (as you yourself pointed out) atrocities of war.  That Ukraine has been far from perfect in its treatment of ethnic and linguistic Russians within its borders isn’t…[Read more]

@Robert

And the other shooter was a pretty good shot as well.

@Robert

“I’d like that gallon of milk. Do you have change for this gold ingot?” More seriously, if things get really bad gold will become worthless. Having an AK-47 would be more useful.

As far as the American economy and the dollar, many feel it’s clear we’ve already gone past the economic event horizon. We got there by overspending on the…[Read more]

@Robert

Your argument—and Buffet’s—that Bitcoin prod9uces nothing could be applied to any of many sorts of nonfungible assets, could it not? A Rembrandt sketch, a Babe Ruth home run ball, diamonds, gold, etc.

People want to get away from fiat currencies, currencies published by governments. So far—except for the ones functioning now and produ…[Read more]

@Robert

Excellent example of the tu quoque fallacy. (That’s the one where you say essentially, “Ignore his arguments. He has special interests.”) I recognize you did examine some of his arguments but in the end you seem to be invoking tu quoque.

So, what about the other two videos on the Cochrane Library metastudy showing masks outside…[Read more]

@Robert

The bulk of your post is an ad hominem character assassination. You imply Dr. Makary unqualified to have an opinion on the matter because he’s a gastroenterologist. In fact, he “teaches public health policy as Professor of Surgery and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”

That he’s a sometime commentator…[Read more]

@Robert

Unless I grossly misunderstand the reasons Dr. Campbell has changed his mind (and also apologized for being a mask proponent till now), any difference a mask makes one way or the other would be within the margin for error anyway when it comes to virus-sized bugs, hardly worth the damage they have caused.

AND  considering the damage,…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Exactly WHEN do you expect people to stsrt wearing masks properly, anyway? I thought so. So I think we need to do our assessment of whether masks work from there.

I wear mine properly. That is what really matters to me. It’s not that hard. In fact, I test the fit with incense. I literally cannot smell a burning patchouli…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Exactly WHEN do you expect people to stsrt wearing masks properly, anyway? I thought so. So I think we need to do our assessment of whether masks work from there.

Unseen wrote:
It turns out that masks do diddly-squat.

That last statement is the kind that kills gullible people, and enables disease to spread. I want to cover…[Read more]

@Robert

Exactly WHEN do you expect people to stsrt wearing masks properly, anyway? I thought so. So I think we need to do our assessment of whether masks work from there.

_Robert_ wrote:
You made a statement that Everything I know about Covid is wrong and you have shown me that nothing that I know about covid is wrong.

My very first take on that topic title was “clickbait”, and not necessarily a true representation of Unseen’s fleshed out opinion. Superlative. But with possibly good data in the discussion, anyway.…[Read more]

@Robert

So, now I’m an agent of Qanon in addition to Moscow(?).

Well, if throwing Europe (not allies so much as useful pawns on America’s international chessboard) helps to block Putin and opens up a new market, so much the better, right.

Now, Hersh didn’t prove the U.S. did it, but Woodward and Bernstein didn’t prove that Nixon’s reelection…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@robert Regarding Sachs’s softness on China and Russia, he is a great believer in resolving conflicts through negotiation and compromise. However, it’s hard to bring someone to the table when you are tongue lashing them and engaging in unrelated accusations. WW3 defines the stakes. And, BTW, not to be too whataboutist about it, but…

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@Robert

Regarding Sachs’s softness on China and Russia, he is a great believer in resolving conflicts through negotiation and compromise. However, it’s hard to bring someone to the table when you are tongue lashing them and engaging in unrelated accusations. WW3 defines the stakes.

And, BTW, not to be too whataboutist about it, but are we,…[Read more]