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by jeanluc_discard 4y ago
Generals who oversaw Abu Ghraib are no different. Pax Americana is definitely crumbling before our eyes.
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by jeanluc_discard 4y ago
The narrative that it's interested in an end to the conflict. It's still entertaining Ukraine's application to NATO which would mean World War 3. Everything I see is NATO escalating, rather than de-escalating. Columbia profes
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by jeanluc_discard 4y ago
It's not. It's calling the bluff on NATO's narrative.
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by jeanluc_discard 4y ago
Seeking peace also lines up with what every sane person should want
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
This is the crux of what we're seeing play out. Next, rubles will be backed by gold/silver -- and then we officially mark the start of a new world order.
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
What's strange to me is the intensity of it all. It's like the entire media industry is willing to die on this hill. They're losing all credibility, inch by inch, day by day, and they won't get that back. They're
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
> Recently ... in PR, media, and other popularity-based professions, there seems to be a very different arrangement of perspectives and emotions It was never this bad. The "Freedom Fries" thing was a small subset and not ta
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
Yes, yes, yes. Please.
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
I don't think we're "crushing Russia's economy" at all, actually. We're separating from it. And soon we will from China as well. What we're witnessing is the end of an era. As Lenin said, "There ar
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
This is Ad Hominem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem I've been on HN since 2007 but only recently have I been afraid to voice some opinions on my main account.
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
This is hypocrisy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy This isn't, "We did this bad and so we can't condemn you now." This is, "We did this over decades, constantly, everywhere, and it was
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
That's just the first step. The next step is to listen. Have all parties, not just Putin's, condemned the expansion of NATO? Did NATO clarify that they wanted to expand into the Ukraine and the Ukraine invited that expansion, ev
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
I think a great first step for this community would be to stop consuming media uncritically. There are a lot of people in my country, America, who are morally outraged and it confuses me because our country doesn't seem to have any pro
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by jeanluc_discard 5y ago
Zero. It makes no sense to risk an adverse side-effect of a vaccine if one already has natural immunity.