Generational Dynamics World View News

[Guest]

I think karma is sorting out the Americans for backing this so enthusiastically, mate. So don't you worry. You'll get yours.

P.S. I don't think you have any Moslem friends either.

Yes, I did back the War on Terror when I was younger. Because I was less informed.

But I'm gonna be sorted out by karma for backing the War on Terror in the past despite seeing the error of my ways now? That's nice to hear. Karma doesn't seem to be very forgiving, then. I don't like that.

And once again, believe what you may about who my friends are and who they aren't. I don't care at this point.

Karma is not about forgiveness. It's punishment.

[DaKardii]

Karma is not about forgiveness. It's punishment.

Not true. Karma is about deeds and consequences. Good deeds produce good karma and bad deeds produce bad karma.

But Kanga apparently believes I will still be struck by bad karma even though I have seen the error of my ways and am trying to atone. Again, not very forgiving on karma's part.

[DaKardii]

So, there's been a successful coup in Mali, the third in the past decade.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57239805

We're not even half-way through 2021, and it's already proving to be a particularly eventful year when it comes to coups. Since January, we've also had successful coups in Myanmar and Chad, and failed coup attempts in Niger and Jordan. Additionally, there was what is called a "self-coup" in El Salvador.

[Huh]

Karma is not about forgiveness. It's punishment.

Not true. Karma is about deeds and consequences. Good deeds produce good karma and bad deeds produce bad karma.

But Kanga apparently believes I will still be struck by bad karma even though I have seen the error of my ways and am trying to atone. Again, not very forgiving on karma's part.

You don't seem like you are trying to atone for anything. President Trump criticized G.W. Bush for his warmongering. he inherited G.W. Bush's mess and he did the best he could to withdraw without sacrificing the entire Middle East. In the end, Bush and his Neocon destroyers had left the ME in shambles. Trump did the best he could. After the collapse of the US, historians will record that Trump was America's last hope to survive.

[Guest]

Islamists believe in republics, not kingdoms. Iran had never been a republic until the revolution. The Taliban didn't want the king back. Bin Laden wanted to set up a republic.

I had to do a double take when I read this. But then I remembered that North Korea is also a "Republic". Of course, this is all in name only.

Islamists and Iranians are for theocratic dictatorships where they get to mistreat, torture, and kill anyone they don't like. In the name of God no less.

I am fine with anyone practicing any religion they want to, so long as they are not forcing anyone else into their beliefs or inflicting harm on others. No "honor killings" would be part of this. There is, unfortunately, a big problem with a lot of Islamists today, just as there was a big problem with a lot of "Christians" during the Dark Ages (and later).

And the Shah of Iran had a "parliament" of sorts, but he still raped, tortured, and murdered is opponents. Israel does a lot of terrible things in the name of God, it doesn't make them right or good.

Americans did a lot of terrible things during their "crusade" against Muslims that opened the gates of Hell and destroyed the large parts of the Muslim world. It was the Americans that destoyed Iraq, killed a million Iraqis, left them homeless, destitute, and starving. Iraqi women had to sell themselves to survive. I hold Americans personally responsible for all of the suffering that followed the invsion of 2003. Couldn't you have just gone home? Iraq would have been better off without the brutal and illegal occupation. Without American brutality, there would have been no ISIS. Do Americans ever wonder why their captives were forced to wear orange jumpsuits? Does anyone in America really understand what they have done? They don't care. And everyone in the Muslim world knows that. Please, spare me your moralizing. It was the Americans under G.W. Bush that ushered in the new dark Age, not Muslims.

When you destroyed Iraq, you destabilized the region and Arabs refugees started pouring into Europe. When you destroyed Libya, the Africans started to flood into Europe. Now they occupy every city, town, and hamlet.

Are you happy now?

[Tom Mazanec]

DaKardii:
What is a “self-coup”?

[Guest]

Aren't you the guy that felt Trump betrayed you? Clueless Americans like you have wrecked the country. Enjoy Zimbabwe.

Yes I am. And why shouldn't I?

He failed to deliver on many of his promises, and he came up with dumb excuses for it.

Example A: Obamacare. Why didn't he continue fighting for its repeal past August 2017? Yes, the initial efforts to repeal failed because the Freedom Caucus opposed the replacement plan, and then McCain voted down a simple repeal. That's not an excuse to NOT continue pushing for it, and then not mention it at all come election time.

Example B: The debt. He repeatedly signed spending bills filled to the brim with pork garbage, despite repeatedly promising not to. "This will be the last time," he kept saying. And the final time he did it, he decided to REALLY insult our intelligence by claiming that Congress would grant his requests to "rescind" parts of the bill per the Impoundment Control Act. Yeah. Right. At the end of the day, Trump threw fiscal responsibility out the window. And considering that the issue of fiscal responsibility was one of the MAIN issues that attracted me to the GOP, how could I be okay with that?

Example C: Bad appointments. There were a lot of them. "But don't you dare call them out for stealth undermining the agenda Trump pushed in 2016, or else you're a Democrat who hates America!" And whenever Trump fired any of them, he did it far too late and almost always for reasons that were benign compared to the actual worst things they did.

Orange Man Bad gone now; mommie needs to find a new bogeyman for you.

[Higgenbotham]

It's a judgement call as to how meaningful it is when people like Reid cross lines that have never been crossed before. I posted something years ago: "I can't remember the exact quote, but in the 1930's the US Central Bank was quoted as saying to the effect that, "We did all we could to stop the deflation." Now I need to add to that, "We did all we could to stop the deflation within the moral precepts that confined activity at that time."" To me, what Reid did and what the Fed has done now versus the 1930s are both meaningful in that in both cases lines like those are being crossed that should not be crossed if our civilization is to be preserved intact. And the fact that Reid, the Fed, and many others, particularly others who have the power to change that, don't agree with me is, I believe, problematic.

This morning I happened to run across an interview with Barbara Tuchman from 1979 which addresses this topic. If I have time, I'll provide some quotes.

"A Distant Mirror" The 14th Century and Today
https://archive.org/details/openmind_ep ... ep1405.mpg

[DaKardii]

You don't seem like you are trying to atone for anything. President Trump criticized G.W. Bush for his warmongering. he inherited G.W. Bush's mess and he did the best he could to withdraw without sacrificing the entire Middle East. In the end, Bush and his Neocon destroyers had left the ME in shambles. Trump did the best he could. After the collapse of the US, historians will record that Trump was America's last hope to survive.

I'm trying to atone for supporting Bush.

And no, Trump didn't do the best he could. No Syria withdrawal, and more troops in Saudi Arabia? Please.

Orange Man Bad gone now; mommie needs to find a new bogeyman for you.

Actually, it's "Establishment Bad." And for a guy who's supposedly anti-establishment, Trump sure seemed to be friendly to it on the issues that matter the most.

[DaKardii]

DaKardii:
What is a “self-coup”?

A "self-coup" is when a leader, having come to power through legal means, gains additional powers through unlawful means and renders other branches of government powerless.

The most notable example a self-coup is Hitler, who became Chancellor through legal means and then turned Germany into a totalitarian dictatorship by severely abusing a law that gave him extra powers in times of emergency.