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Jake,

Are posing from a streaming service? YouTube URLs, except for Shorts usually work for me.

Unseen,

The average American Jew is far safer than the average Israeli Jew. You danced around that fact. And not all that deftly to boot.

If Jews are not safe in Ivy League Academia in America, the most educated and intellectual in society, that says something very telling about how much safety there is among the hoi-polloi. That’s no…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unseen,

Can anyone rationally maintain that we’d be in a worse position had meddlesome outsider politicians not decided to redraw the Middle Eastern map? On what basis?

We’d be in a different position, but not better. Christianity and Islam would still be at holy war, even without the presence of Crusaders. Both of the…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Jews aren’t safe anywhere and Jew-haters still regarded them as vermin, but at least with Israel, they are the mouse that roars.

The average American Jew is far safer than the average Israeli Jew. You danced around that fact. And not all that deftly to boot.

Unseen,

Can anyone rationally maintain that we’d be in a worse position had meddlesome outsider politicians not decided to redraw the Middle Eastern map? On what basis?

We’d be in a different position, but not better. Christianity and Islam would still be at holy war, even without the presence of Crusaders. Both of them would still be a war w…[Read more]

Can anyone rationally maintain that we’d be in a worse position had meddlesome outsider politicians not decided to redraw the Middle Eastern map? On what basis?

Late edit: Has Israel even served its purpose? Which Jew is actually safer, one in Israel or one in the United States?

Unseen,

What we need is a state for every disliked or hated minority. Nor just one for Jews, but one each for Roma (gypsies), LGBTQ, liberals, conservatives, females, etc. In other words, a complete partitioning of the world. And who better to take on the assignment than Donald Trump?

Alternatively, we could work harder on getting along with…

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Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,

How the “woke right” mirrors the tactics and mindset of the postmodern left with its disregard for objective truth. Both sides prioritize narrative and performative transgression over honest persuasion or reasoned debate.

If there’s one thing that’s as irrational and nonsensical as “Woke Right,” it has to be the “Ba…[Read more]

What we need is a state for every disliked or hated minority. Nor just one for Jews, but one each for Roma (gypsies), LGBTQ, liberals, conservatives, females, etc. In other words, a complete partitioning of the world. And who better to take on the assignment than Donald Trump?

Alternatively, we could work harder on getting along with each other.

Reg:

One big problem with both Mearsheimer and Putin is they have a concept of rationality that is totally unmoored by human nature or by evidence of either history or the present.

If Man is a Aristotlean “Rational Animal” who survives by exercising rationality, then if he is doing an act that ends up self-damaging, rationality requires that he…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
each state must ensure its own survival.

They also need to work together to ensure their own and each other’s survival.

We can argue about how Putin’s perception of this ‘threat’ being irrational or morally wrong but from Moscow’s standpoint, ignoring such a development would be irrational.

What is irrational about P…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

There are some things that need adding to this video below:

For one thing, Jeffrey could have said: “Oh, I meant to mention, John Mearsheimer and myself both hate Israel with a passion, so just forget all that Adam Smith rot about the benefits of trade and global…[Read more]