HalloweenSnarry
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The time to not get involved was generations ago, you must realize. There is little will to become uninvolved; therefore, one must either live with the current level of involvement (mild, but still causes issues here at home), or get more involved (painful and intense, but has the potential to end the issue for good).
I would contend that it actually does serve US interests because the status quo keeps causing issues for us. Downstream effects, the flap of a butterfly's wings, and so on. I made a similar point in response to 2rafa about the desire to just ignore Chinese aspirations to hegemony in favor of trying to focus on domestic issues: ignoring the outside world may actually make it harder to fix problems at home. If you let chaos fester far away, it will probably find you at home.
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4mo ago
If anything, WWI is probably the reason why liberal countries struggled at first in WWII, because they generally did not want to be forced into another mega-war at first, AIUI.
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4mo ago
The blackpill here is "the horrors must inevitably repeat, and nothing anyone does can change that," to borrow from Turchin's ideas.
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4mo ago
As per my ridiculous-fantasy-idea below, ideally, a US-run Israel-Palestine area would make both Israelis and Palestinians equal, even if in the "all are equally low before the emperor" sense.
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4mo ago
Link doesn't seem to work.
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4mo ago
I think the two or so concerned German posters here would actually contend that other parties working with the AfD instead of trying to shut them out would not, in fact, be the end of Germany or possibly even the end of the German state as it is currently understood. A collapse of one set of preferences does not have to mean a total collapse of a liberal system, in my estimation, and I think this is where you're getting tripped up: a correction/realignment of the political landscape can be very painful, as we've seen, but it may be necessary and even actually prevent the downfall of a liberal system.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Quick thoughts: AI text should at least be in quote format,
like this
and maybe said quotes should have a red line to distinguish them as such. Don't know how you'd enforce using a special markup format for that, though.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Are you referring to the post-WWII expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
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4mo ago
"Average Gold-Plated AK Fanboy vs. Average Gold-Plated Pager Enjoyer: a History of the Modern Middle-East"
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4mo ago
It would seem that Twitter has been ablaze with Blues chiding those who didn't vote for "Genocide Joe" in the wake of this news.
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4mo ago
What is this that you speak of?
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
...Damn. I have honestly pondered whether or not putting all of Israel-Palestine under American control so as to keep the Israelis and Palestinians from hating each other for long enough would actually be an improvement. Never thought anyone would actually even consider something in the ballpark of that idea, though.
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4mo ago
I think the perspective of many on this forum is that the bureaus are themselves staffed with wolves, so this is of no help, in their eyes.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Is gambling legal in DFW?
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4mo ago
Eh, here in Arizona, the news networks have a common saying: "watch your kids around water." Too many kids have drowned in backyard swimming pools here.
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4mo ago
Didn't the Depression kick off in the late 20's?
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4mo ago
Most likely not, I guess I just wanted to point out that your ideal world is even further away than you thought (sorry).
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Alas, that was presumably in reference to Zvi and not the Church.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
Unfortunately for you, you can still absolutely wring a "compentency crisis" headline from this, assuming the plane in question was a Boeing.
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4mo ago
I'm surprised they went ahead with such a measure. I visited Vietnam about a decade ago, and it was an accepted meme over there that traffic lights were a suggestion rather than a hard rule.
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4mo ago
I think someone brought it up in the last Transnational Thursday thread, that it was quite possible that the cordon sanitaire could well be broken.
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4mo ago
I got my start in this sphere thanks to being exposed to Rat Tumblr and Scott Alexander in the 2010's, I for one have never even freaking heard of Ziz until now.
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4mo ago
I feel like this goes back to the communist roots of the PRC, and it was a similar problem with the USSR in the olden days: tick the boxes, meet the quotas, who gives a damn if the end product is no good? The political officers only care about making things look productive and good.
HalloweenSnarry
4mo ago
TBH, it sounds to me like it may have been intended along the lines of the Pablo Escobar memorabilia that Hank was gifted in Breaking Bad: macabre, but "cool." So, yes, perhaps just an edgy joke.
I think this overstates things a little, we're barely into the first year of Trump's second term and it's not certain that the progressive moment of late has actually passed.
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