hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5d 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
5d ago
The ayatollah was tweeting about it before he got got.
hydroacetylene
6d 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
6d ago
You mean a follower? Again, what's wrong with that?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
So? What's wrong with having a leader setting the field?
hydroacetylene
6d 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
6d ago
As if the rest of that comment isn’t?
hydroacetylene
6d ago
No? The loopy ideologies involved in the conflict are misinterpretations of messianic prophecies which do not involve human sacrifice.
hydroacetylene
6d 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).
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.
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