hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
11hr ago
The ARVN was capable of defending Vietnam, they defeated the first invasion following US withdrawal. But the Republic of Vietnam was an corrupt dictatorship which removed their competent generals for political reasons, leading to the army collapsing in a subsequent invasion.
hydroacetylene
11hr ago
And with the US withdrawal from the conflict, we left with 90-100% of our war goals accomplished- South Vietnam remained an independent state for several years following American withdrawal, and North Vietnam promising to respect its territorial integrity was a key promise to obtain that withdrawal. That North Vietnam reneged on that promise was perhaps predictable, but when the US agreed to withdraw all of American war aims were met at the time of withdrawal.
hydroacetylene
12hr ago
There wouldn't be specific laws against "propagandizing the LGBT community" if no one really wanted to propagandize the LGBT community.
LGBT is almost always unpopular among the common people because smarmy effeminate weirdos tend to be their public face. Banning 'LGBT propaganda' doesn't mean that there's lots of people eager to spread LGBT; it means that the government wants to show that it listens to the common people more than it wants to show it cares about tolerance/expanding human rights.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
We left the job done in Vietnam, though- the war goals never included the destruction of the north Vietnamese commie regime.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
The USA did not lose Vietnam, although the public thinks we did. America concluded(wrongly) that south Vietnam was capable of fending of a north Vietnamese invasion, and declined to bail them out when this turned out not to be the case- the republic of Vietnam was independent for several years without US troops or support, and the commies had promised not to invade in exchange for American withdrawal. Nixon and Kissinger surely knew that they would go back on this promise, but the ARVN fended off a full scale invasion without US support before reshuffling their general staff due to political turmoil and then losing the next round.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Being opposed to the war is not treason. Treason would be something like assisting Iran. It's conceivably possible that a congressman might do this, but it probably looks more like Bob Menendez-type behavior than a political stunt.
As far as democrats' political behavior, this is pretty normal for late-stage republics. Iran can't really hurt us that much; obviously attacking them was dumb, but we're kind of committed now. The real question is 'is the local allies part of the plan going to work'. I don't have the highest hopes, but Iran is kind of falling apart right now.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Entirely possible, but the context is certainly suspicious given the rest of the article taking pains to try to paint it as an attack by white supremacist islamophobes.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
The ayatollah was tweeting about it before he got got.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Who said anything about someone else's vision? If your vision isn't shared, then it's not going to happen. End of story. And someone has to be in charge of a group. Mathematically, that's probably not going to be you(see: definition of a group).
You'd really rather have the future look like... nothing you're a part of than have someone else call the shots?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You mean a follower? Again, what's wrong with that?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So? What's wrong with having a leader setting the field?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You will need to conform yourself to a group- what did you think ‘community’ meant, thoughts, presentations, essays? Band together.
Of course, you could also simply be out of luck. An unwillingness to abandon individualism won’t get you anywhere. But civilization defining ideas shared with other families might, because the future belongs to those who show up. You can as part of a group influence the next generation. You cannot do it on your own. Yes this entails making compromises on your preferences. But the alternative is to forfeit the field.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
As if the rest of that comment isn’t?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No? The loopy ideologies involved in the conflict are misinterpretations of messianic prophecies which do not involve human sacrifice.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, does it? Lots of people use woo-woo crap despite being more than scientifically literate enough to know better; I would expect the correlation between alternative medicine and scientific literacy to be near 0(or even, as in the case of creationism, running the opposite way you'd expect).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Trump's success is probably more due to unshackling the GOP from their more unpopular policies, especially economic ones, than due to immigration restriction. People forget Trump's actual policies are surprisingly moderate.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Needs more continental philosophy.
Joseph de Maistre wrote 'La contre-revolucion n'est pas une revolucion contraire, mais sur le contraire de la revolucion'. An important line, but incomplete by itself- de Maistre left his philosophy on reacting to the French revolution incomplete, because the reactionary impulse, by itself, is simply a leg of a Hegelian dialectic which will synthesize into a less extreme version of the revolution. Which is exactly what happened in France.
By itself, opposition to revolution is merely driving the speed limit. What is needed is a paradigm shift to escape the revolutionary paradigm. And central planning does not have a good historical record for constructing a paradigm.
I notice you talking about guarding your family and weathering the storm. What you don't talk about is forming a community with likeminded families. You must network, man is a social animal. Your children will defect if they don't have friends. They will defect if your subculture does not offer a pathway to becoming an adult. You need other families for this. And out of that group a paradigm will arise organically, a very similar paradigm to the pre-revolution, but not exactly the same because it's a different world. And a different paradigm will naturally tend to form independent institutions, which grow slowly, over generations, until you eat the revolution itself.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
She's Irish.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Almost every construction trade organization will mouth some BS about wanting to increase the percentage of female -whatever- into the high rather than low single digits. It's simply something they're expected to say.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Horse doctors are still heavily male.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Mobile homes are much cheaper than equivalent stick build, so at some level prefab has to pay off.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, it seems obvious that China may be pro-Russia, but is unwilling to eat Russia's war bill because it's a big bill.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean you know workers in the workforce also work fewer hours, right? We're a wealthier society and people don't work as long.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Housewives, especially with children, are doing valuable and productive work which simply doesn't contribute to corporate bottom lines. They're doing less of it than they did in the past, but men also work fewer hours(six twelves was literally considered a desirable schedule at one point!).
Vietnam was a strategic loss, that’s true. But also the ARVN did stand on its own until political turmoil in the Republic of Vietnam caused coup-proofing shakeup in the army’s leadership post-US withdrawal, leading to a collapse of the front in the face of the north Vietnamese 1975 offensive- the ARVN had been highly successful with 0 direct US assistance for three years at that point. It would be like if Ukraine suddenly fired all its generals and put a rando in charge who proceeded to lose the war in a matter of weeks.
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