I believe some call it 'Earth 1'.spottybrowncow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:33 pmWhere do you get "91 felonies?" Trump has exactly 0 criminal convictions. What planet are you on?Bob Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:28 pmThe comparison is still 91 felonies to nothing. A truly smart person looks at every potential angle and draws conclusions based on ALL evidence...
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spottybrowncow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:33 pmWhere do you get "91 felonies?" Trump has exactly 0 criminal convictions. What planet are you on?Bob Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:28 pmThe comparison is still 91 felonies to nothing. A truly smart person looks at every potential angle and draws conclusions based on ALL evidence...
Or try Google with 'Trump 91 felonies'.Business Insider wrote:Donald Trump is now facing 91 criminal charges across five indictments — a whopping total for the first ex-president to face criminal prosecution.
The massive number of charges stems from four criminal indictments filed against Trump this year by both state and federal authorities.
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This contradicts another statement in your post:Bob Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 6:45 pmAt a wild guess they see Trump 's authoritarian side. They might want to make Trump look good? It's a guess though. I won't pretend to understand XI's decisions.Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:24 pmIt is interesting that they have picked up/attempted to pick up territory under Obama and Biden (and GWB), but not Trump. What is a reasonable explanation for this?Bob Butler wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:57 pmI do have problems with people like Putin and Xi, attempting or talking about picking up territory in Ukraine, Formosa and the South China Sea.
“The recent attempts by the Republicans to quash containment are a manifestation of Trump’s authoritarianism.”
If the republicans are manifesting Trump’s authoritarianism by quashing containment (allowing Russia to take territory), then Trump would have done the same but that did not happen during his term. It did, however, happen under Biden and Obama. They either allowed it or are not as savvy as Trump to have prevented it.
Also, I can appreciate your point about not being able to understand Xi’s decisions. Would it be safe to say you can’t read his mind? Are you able to read anyone’s mind?
Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/jay ... -of-india/The Structure—Or Lack Thereof—of India
By Jayant Bhandari
Civilization does not exist in nature. You have to fight and work towards it. And the process is messy, as Europe experienced over three millennia. The necessary ingredients—honor, work ethic, integrity, fairness, respect for the individual, gratitude, empathy, and rationality—are conspicuous by their absence in India, even in the middle class, which is supposed to be the moral spine of any society. Alas, without civilizational values, one is left with the base, animalistic values, and might-is-right paradigm of resource acquisition and sensual pleasures. All you can have in this milieu is unbridled envy, hate, and covetousness.
This “underpins” an Indian’s behavior, social relationships, and India’s economy, and understanding this is the key to connecting what would otherwise be disparate, confusing, bewildering experiences of India.
And these 3rd world migrants have been flooding into the west for decades and inflicting hell on everyone.I have been to a hundred countries and lived in several. What I say about India is primarily true for today’s Third World, all regressing to their pre-European savagery and barbarism. They represent the vast majority of the human population. Thus far, if they haven’t descended into the kind of chaos witnessed in Rwanda, it isn’t due to their democracies but because of the institutional inertia left by the colonizers and the apprehension of the USA—Pax Americana. Unfortunately, the USA is becoming weaker, and the Third World is poised to become extremely dangerous and chaotic.
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You just go easy on other authoritarians.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:09 amThis contradicts another statement in your post:
“The recent attempts by the Republicans to quash containment are a manifestation of Trump’s authoritarianism.”
If the republicans are manifesting Trump’s authoritarianism by quashing containment (allowing Russia to take territory), then Trump would have done the same but that did not happen during his term. It did, however, happen under Biden and Obama. They either allowed it or are not as savvy as Trump to have prevented it.
My own. Also, to a great extent many people can be described by words with well understood meanings. For example you could call Trump criminal, insurrectionist, authorization or rapist and it would be well understood what you were referring to. Xi? Authoritarian, sure, but his economic tangents are weird.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:09 amAlso, I can appreciate your point about not being able to understand Xi’s decisions. Would it be safe to say you can’t read his mind? Are you able to read anyone’s mind?
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The best medicine Bish will ever get is Trump becoming president again. Stop talking to him. He's a communist. That's what DEI is, advancing the incompetent and degenerates to control society and have "equity".
It doesn't even matter at this point, the US is done and we're just waving our hands in the final days - whether that's 10 more or 30 more years.
It doesn't even matter at this point, the US is done and we're just waving our hands in the final days - whether that's 10 more or 30 more years.
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It isn't the United States that is collapsing. It is the prejudiced, superstitious, criminal conservatives. While there is definitely much of the United States that is worth preserving, there are also flaws that are clung to and new problems the culture has not had to handle in the past. These are what crises are about, fixing what has to be fixed. If we have a culture superior to others, it is because we have dealt with problems in the past. We're just confronting a few more.Cool Breeze wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:09 pmThe best medicine Bish will ever get is Trump becoming president again. Stop talking to him. He's a communist. That's what DEI is, advancing the incompetent and degenerates to control society and have "equity".
It doesn't even matter at this point, the US is done and we're just waving our hands in the final days - whether that's 10 more or 30 more years.
I'm just happy that two crises ago they banned insurrectionists from office.
Re: Authoritarian Expansionism
Thanks for the response. I can appreciate that you form opinions on what you've read about Trump, rather than trying to read his mind. Unfortunately, most of what can be read is the result of deceptive editing by the media trying to portray him as a dictator, rapist, racist. Either that or mind reading on the part of the media. Curious, what has Trump said that indicates he's a rapist?Bob Butler wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:39 amYou just go easy on other authoritarians.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:09 amThis contradicts another statement in your post:
“The recent attempts by the Republicans to quash containment are a manifestation of Trump’s authoritarianism.”
If the republicans are manifesting Trump’s authoritarianism by quashing containment (allowing Russia to take territory), then Trump would have done the same but that did not happen during his term. It did, however, happen under Biden and Obama. They either allowed it or are not as savvy as Trump to have prevented it.
I have no influence on authoritarians, but it's a fact that authoritarians have moved aggressively in Obama's and Biden's terms and did not while Trump was president. In fact, Putin tried when Trump was commander in chief, and in retaliation they suffered their largest casualty event ever between Russia and the US (Deir al-Zor, Syria Feb 2018). That's not going easy on authoritarians.
My own. Also, to a great extent many people can be described by words with well understood meanings. For example you could call Trump criminal, insurrectionist, authorization or rapist and it would be well understood what you were referring to. Xi? Authoritarian, sure, but his economic tangents are weird.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:09 amAlso, I can appreciate your point about not being able to understand Xi’s decisions. Would it be safe to say you can’t read his mind? Are you able to read anyone’s mind?
Apologies if my responses are in strange places, I rarely comment.
Re: Authoritarian Expansionism
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:48 pmMy response should have been separated:Bob Butler wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:39 amYou just go easy on other authoritarians.Guest wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:09 amThis contradicts another statement in your post:
“The recent attempts by the Republicans to quash containment are a manifestation of Trump’s authoritarianism.”
If the republicans are manifesting Trump’s authoritarianism by quashing containment (allowing Russia to take territory), then Trump would have done the same but that did not happen during his term. It did, however, happen under Biden and Obama. They either allowed it or are not as savvy as Trump to have prevented it.
I have no influence on authoritarians, but it's a fact that authoritarians have moved aggressively in Obama's and Biden's terms and did not while Trump was president. In fact, Putin tried when Trump was commander in chief, and in retaliation they suffered their largest casualty event ever between Russia and the US (Deir al-Zor, Syria Feb 2018). That's not going easy on authoritarians.
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