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23d ago
We might actually need to bomb Tel Aviv to get Israel to stop. I’m rooting for this because I’m bored and Trump bombs Israel because they told Trump FU on his peace deal and kept bombing Iran would be entertaining. Potentially very good politically too for Trump
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23d ago
This is the most maga pope ever. Maybe not on explicit agreement, but culturally completely. The popes brother is literally the ranting Facebook maga type and if I get bored maybe I will edit and go find posts.
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23d ago
Catholics are not allowed to ignore the pope. A Catholic potus has an obligation to obey the pope or they are not Catholic. I’ve always said Jews have the same issue with Israel and their tribe.
The pre-eminent Catholic school in Americas motto is literal God-Country-Notre Dame.
That being said Catholic and Jews have already conquered this country and the Wasp are dead so the old evangelicals have already made their choice to back the Catholics.
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23d ago
Modern libertarianism has basically concluded the only people capable of living in a libertarian society are whites (some factions).
That is where up to the borders I assume comes from.
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23d ago
If the SOH toll funds yachts with Russian hookers then it’s probably fine. If it funds guns and funding foreign militias then bad.
Then Iran essentially just becomes 20 years behind the Saudis.
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23d ago
“They already failed and let in bad people” - is not a good argument for open borders. It’s actually a good argument for being even stricter which Europe is starting to do.
I don’t think you need to refute HBD every time you argue for open borders but I don’t think you should introduce partially open borders caused bad things as an argument for open borders.
I believe in open borders for Anglo and Anglo adjacent in Anglo and Anglo adjacent countries. I believe this has logical consistency.
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23d ago
A lot of countries do this. I got fingerprinted in Argentina. I can’t remember if Mexico does it.
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23d ago
Fair. But I feel like in those wars there was less a feeling we losts and found our way out. This war I believe regime change was the primary goal and we clearly did not achieve that. Libya I don’t know our goals. Gulf 1 was a win.
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23d ago
Agree. It means moving closer to the center. That is what I have been saying a centrists is. It’s defined as being between Democrats and Republicans and lacking core beliefs.
You specifically said you don’t view yourself on the Dem-GOP axis which has been my point.
You say centrists have political beliefs. What are they? The meaning of the word “centrists” is between the gop and Democrat positions. Today it would be a neoliberal like Bill Clinton in the ‘90s. But if the gop or Dems move right or left Bill Clinton would no longer be a centrists. This is why I say centrists have no core beliefs because the definition of centrists changes as the right or left move.
EA are obviously high IQ. They have some dumb beliefs but the average member is 1 standard deviation above average. Before EA got popular the average EA was probably 2.5-3 standard deviations above average.
For the record I don’t define myself as right or left. In America I am MAGA because I think it’s best for America. If the US was still an Anglo nation I would be a libertarian. In most of LATAM I would be a fascists because they have huge low IQ populations. In Russia a militaristic authoritarian because of how hard the country is to defend.
I say centrists isn’t a definition because you need actual beliefs - what’s the abortion position? The optimum tax rate etc. Centrists is only defined by what the others are doing.
You later updated to radical centrisms. I think that’s a Reddit term when I’ve come across it so it has very little meaning in the vernacular outside of Reddit. Your political beliefs should have actual definitions. If you lack that then yes I would call you just apolitical.
Most political beliefs don’t fit neatly in one party. Catholic libertarians always vote GOP like Paul Ryan but he’s not purely right. Bernie Sanders isn’t a true leftists in American context. He’s left of the neolibs on social spending but traditionally has been far right on immigration (changed lately).
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23d ago
It’s a lot of money to Iran to rebuild military and stabilize the regime. If the money was going to a neutral like say Panama it would be different.
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23d ago
As below. But also from what I can tell pipelines can be geopolitically contentious and in this case with Iran. If you build the pipeline you take away Irans close the straight gambit. And the entire time your building said pipeline they are looking for a new gambit which in this case it’s going nuclear. So when you make the prior nuclear deals the Iran side is saying no pipelines as a part of their negotiations. Provided they have the pipeline card then they don’t need the nuclear card.
This may be a reason why Iran won’t toll the straights. If they toll then we build the pipeline. If we build the pipeline they focus on the bomb. If they are trying to build the bomb we park aircraft carriers ready to blow up anything we think gets them nuclear.
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23d ago
The war opening with the killings of a huge amount of their top leadership. I think it’s tough to believe that regime change wasn’t a major goal of this operation.
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23d ago
Do we want to prevent this from happening again? We took a gamble and losts. Unlike every other American POTUS it’s not turning into a forever war. If we get out of this without a toll of the straits and still limiting Iran going nuclear it would seem ok. Fog of war still exists and we still don’t know if what remains of the Iranian regime can consolidate power.
If it’s an example of taking a gamble and taking a quick L it can be ok.
This isn’t turning into Vietnam or Putin’s 3 day war.
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23d ago
Jews I guess most big this time. When center-left pundits are full on support of dropping Israel it’s not a good political spot to be in. Basically all of America wants to blame Israel for this barro
I am basically a Holocaust denier at this point and I think I’m in the top 20% of America now in supporting Israel. Honestly most Jews are kind of funny and their IQ I still think is good to have in the maga coalition. But I don’t trust them.
A lot of the supposedly smarter Dems have wanted to turn on Israel/Jews for politics but I think they are just reading public opinion polls and want to win elections.
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24d ago
Feels like an L. But details will matter. I doubt the tolling goes into effect or released funds with the funds being more of a question mark.
Longer term I expect more pipeline capacity to bypass the straight. Not sure why that wasn’t done before.
Terms of the ceasefire would seem to be no toll for now. Iran can’t be doing ceasefire and blowing up tankers.
In the common usage of the word center or centrists it’s not used in the sense of “get weirder”. When politicians talk about going left or right in primaries but move to the center for the election it doesn’t mean become more “libertarian” or “weirder”. It means soften support for leftist ideas like socialism, trans-right, closed borders or for the right things like don’t talk about mass deportations and only say Criminal Illegals or leave abortion to the states.
In general people like to describe themselves as not “GOP” and not “Dem” because then you get labeled with all the low IQ parts of a party. It’s a big reason for the rise of EA. It gave leftist a high IQ party to call themselves which voted 99% of the time with Dems.
Words have to have meaning. And I do think you are using “centrists” in a way that is outside of the general understanding of the word. Centrist isn’t having weird beliefs. It’s mostly being apolitical and a label people take when they don’t want to have to associate with weird people on either side.
Then why don’t you use a word to describe yourself that actually describes yourself. Words have meaning. Centrists has meaning within the American 2-Party system.
It sounds like you are some sort of anarchists libertarian. Like you could use that name and it wouldn’t describe anything within the American 2-party system or be confused with other people who call themselves centrists who tend to have weak political beliefs an sort of just vote based on vibes and whether it feels like America is getting better.
Also initially described yourself as a “centrists” and I said I hate “centrists”. I don’t see how what I said was wrong since you said you were a centrists and I said I hate centrists. But now your a radical libertarian centrists which I guess is something different which maybe I don’t hate but I also don’t know what that entirely means.
The point of describing yourself as a “X” person is so the other person can quickly identify standard point of views you would make. I feel like I accurately described what a “centrists” is.
Why would I be tired of winning with Trump. America wants Europe to spend more on defense. Twitter is telling me today France now spending more on defense. Prior UniParty - Europe please spend more on defense. Trump - I will end NATO.
Sure he makes sausage a little strange. But it gets us W’s.
Leftist have claimed for years that Trump miscalculated and now he will go to jail or something. Then he wins again.
I am mixed on Iran right now. Hopefully he finds his W again.
I don’t quite want to say Trump is smarter than me. Like his hardware is probably slower, but he has different software with better instincts than me.
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24d ago
The imperfect is not the opposite of the good. It’s the imperfect of good. You do not choose evil (which children like Buttigieg is evil) because the world is imperfect.
And it’s the same thing with gay marriage. Because you can find bad marriages does not mean you just get rid of marriage which gay marriage essentially did. You work to improve marriage.
I feel like your arguments boil down to some people starve therefore all people should starve.
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24d ago
I guess there are tops and bottoms. Of my gay friends I would assume two are tops and the third not sure on. The tops definitely act more masculine and why I find it easier to be friends.
Bottoms probably are a little bit more of a nurturer personality but I would still doubt they come close to the average female nurturing personality trait.
I would be curious what % of gay men would find my comment offensive. It’s sort of taking away a right many think they should have today. But they also don’t find females attractive and I am confirming that men and women are different. And confirming their masculinity. You can be my bro and drink beers together but obviously because we are men neither of us should design a life to be primary care givers to a child.
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24d ago
That’s one example. Every girl in my family I can think of has that skill set. For the vast majority it’s instinctual. And for most men it’s not instinctual. My mom had the skill set. My father did not. My sisters have the skill set. My aunts have the skill set. I don’t know your gf or if you have kids but I would still with a great probability assume if you put her child in her hands the instincts come out.
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25d ago
Gay couples having kids really is a bad thing. It’s obvious girls are just different. I see it every time my gf does little baby talk with her cat. Men just don’t have that silliness where they can actually have fun doing dumb kid stuff for hours every day. Mothers are different.
We actually did have a technology that let gay guys have kids. They just picked a wife and had sex. Then occasionally went out with the boys and did gay stuff. It worked fine for gay guys who wanted kids.
Instead modern society places sexual identity at the top of a hierarchy of needs. But not having a mother (by design) seems far worse to me than having to hide some sexual attraction.
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25d ago
I hate the centrists label because fundamentally it means you have no beliefs. If the left pushes the left Overton farther left then a centrists moves left, if the right is winning the pushing of the Overton window then you move right.
I feel confident say Trump political core is a ‘90s finance bro in NYC which would be mostly left then. Of course he has some eccentricities but he’s mostly that. A centrists political position over a life time would be like a pinball bouncing around as a npc.
It also strongly encourages Overton window pushing, if 30-40% of voters are just centrists then the best thing you can do as a political operative is push hard on boundaries. If you move the boundaries then a bunch of centrists slide in as your voters.
You are correct it needs to be taken only when he’s speaking “infallible”. When he’s speaking like on Iran then it’s just under advisement. My point stands though at “certain” times a Catholic POTUS obligation would be to what Rome says over domestic popular opinion. On his Iran speaking it would need to be taken under advisement and their own moral judgement.
My opinion is military target strikes are mostly fine. Targeting the electric grid probably not ok.
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