Lumich

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by Lumich 2mo ago
« Ukrainians have the right to decide » – Well, they did decide, but the U.S. didn't appreciate, so overthrew their government back in 2014, remember? “The most blatant coup in history”, see Nuland/Pyatt intercept. Instead, the U.
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« getting nuked » – If that were a real possibility it would have happened in March '22 when the (not very sharp) Russian leadership understood they'd entered a bear trap and couldn't see a way to get out. This idea has alway
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« the point is not clear » – Yes it is. And it was, and had been before. I understand exactly what you're saying. I simply don't agree to such mechanistic, rigid “rules” for conversation.
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by Lumich 2mo ago
Thanks for that YPM sketch. Incidentally, I think the “nuclear deterrant” story is total bogus from the get-go. But has worked great for decades as a framework to frighten people, or at least provide justifications and impose “global order”
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« right in the face » — It's mainly Germany that's hit right in the face and where the Stockholm syndrome applies most closely. If we look at our dear neighbours, then we can see that some of them stand to profit from the Nord Str
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« When people mention 'third world', they are assumed to mean Sauvy's frame » Well, that's what you're assuming. I had never heard of Sauvy and was totally unaware of his definition that had lost all meaning by the
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by Lumich 2mo ago
Spot on. Also, in 2003, the war on Iraq, still occupied. And the proxy war on Syria (stifling an unwelcome pipeline project). European “leaders” pretend to not comprehend how they're being screwed. Stockholm syndrome. Populations don&#
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« You cannot attribute to the speaker unproven intentions … explicitly forbidden » As I said, I didn't intend to diss either Sauvy or you, first time I heard about this guy, and also asked some French contacts about whether he's s
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« Why … omitting » – There was no ill intent. I saw you provided a third explanation for the term, but didn't want to analyze any deeper, so I focused on the part where Sauvy fit the notion I grew up with, the only one I was familiar w
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by Lumich 2mo ago
This video is by graphics artist Neal Adams (who I just learnt passed away in 2022). He had a whole series of these videos on his Youtube. I was fascinated when I discovered them ~2008. He was passionate about Earth Expansion. But despite t
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« how science works » – It's a human activity and as such it not only bears all the hallmarks of human behaviour (certainly filtered/tempered, yes) but is also subject to overarching "ideological" issues that govern soci
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« probably not what they meant » – Right, he implied Earth is a “living organism”, which is an additional proposition on top of expansion. (Who knows, maybe it is.) The bit about “increased gravity” could mean that Earth may have gained mas
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« Highly recommend The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs » (by Steve Brusatte) This book fails to mention both Gideon Mantell (1790–1852) and Richard Owen (1804–92). It's through them that dinosaurs entered our modern, scientific world.
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by Lumich 2mo ago
What he means is probably the idea of Earth Expansion . See Ott Christoph Hilgenberg, a disciple of Alfred Wegener, and more recently (but still a couple decades ago) Australian geologist Samuel Warren Carey. Here's a 1982 video featu
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« the countries not directly aligned to the "two blocks" are akin to the social "third state" as a worldwide class » — That's the economic (rather than political) definition right there in 1952. Les pays sous-dévelo
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« quite literally » – Not what I remember, but okay, that may have been the original meaning before I "entered the chat". Then, it was associated with hunger, poverty, misery. I remember distinctly. « Do you think the Soviets » –
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« what you want to read into it » I wanted to provide a counter point, or rather, a more balanced and self-conscious vision. As to your definition of what "third world" meant, that's not how I remember it (but I grew up in We
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« used the word "colonizer" for Jews living in Germany » I didn't. Rather, "Germans" (Suebians, Saxons, etc) settled in ("colonized") Eastern Europe, beyond the Empire, typically at the invitation of the l
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by Lumich 2mo ago
No. How did you arrive at that conclusion? The equivalent for Italian would be colonization of some area (say, somewhere around the Mediterranean or Black Sea) by Venetians and other Adriatic or Northern Italic peoples, founding new urban c
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by Lumich 2mo ago
« earned its own spot » Linguistically, this chart doesn't have much value. Not sure what criteria were used for inclusion of this or that item, perhaps just presence in some ISO standard. “German” per se doesn't mean much, so-cal