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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]

_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]

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]

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 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.

I also posted this elsewhere, but it’s worthy of being posted here as well. By quoting Napoleon’s  “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” he’s basically announcing that he’s prepared, has mentally justified to himself, moving into the full dictatorship phase where he obeys no one but himself. Not the courts, not the congress, and…[Read more]

Trump goes full dictator, posting Napoleon’s  “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” What it means is that he doesn’t feel bound by the courts, congress, or even the Constitution he swore to defend.

@ Reg and Strega

I don’t think a country can claim to be democratic unless it adopts a one person one vote system, allows all (adults anyway) to vote, and holds fair election unblemished by significant political interference.

The United States fails on all counts.

And now, with Trump all but coronating himself Emperor, we may never even have…[Read more]

@ Reg

You use the term “fully democratic.” How many “democracies” are “fully democratic”? Would you regard the United States to be fully democratic?

What is the basis for a Zionist state? It’s that God gave the general area of Palestine/Israel to the Jews. That is their only claim and it’s as relevant as one’s belief in God.

From Gemini AI (emphasis mine):

The belief that God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people is a common view among many religious Christians and some American Jews,…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Looking at some opinion reports, Trump can’t overtly use tax money for rebuilding Gaza or Americans will go ballistic. So, he needs other nations to get involved.

Not nations. Oligarchs.

jakelafort wrote:
More from zionist scientists. Debatable whether higher fertility rates is a boon or a bust though. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-841730

Are all Israeli scientists Zionists? Or are you saying that if someone’s a Jew, they are a Zionist? “If they nay be Zionist, they nay be Jewish!”

_Robert_ wrote:
Just wondering how tangerine Idi Amin’s Gaza takeover plan is supposed to work. He said they have to give up the hostages by Saturday 12 noon or it’s gonna be hell. Already is, but OK. Oh, and BTW we are still gonna take over Gaza no matter what. You all just need to walk to Jordan or Egypt or something.

Trump has mental pro…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
This guy destroys the lefty lies about Israel. <iframe title=”Pro-Palestinians Can’t Debunk this Israeli Video…” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/R-x-cRReI1A?feature=oembed” width=”670″ height=”377″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=””></iframe>

Yesterday, you agreed with me, I thought, that the question of whether the P…

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