Ok I was a day off, DLX already - 5% in pre-trading. The meltdown begins! The Ponzi scheme can no longer support their share price and it's going to z...
Well I'm out 3 florbose, but the day is young. Considering Deluxe Corporation doesn't even have a functioning website since 2 months, I'm pretty sure ...
Well as for me, I'm pretty risk averse, so I'm only putting 3 florbose down that DLX doesn't trade when the New York Stock exchange opens in 15 minute...
Events have resolved all the key issues of disagreement. It was bleak since rejecting negotiations and committing to a long war. Trump hasn't even sai...
Maybe there is some subtlety I missed in your position, but the core of the disagreement seemed to me that you were arguing this Israeli escalation in...
Yes, this is definitely a good explanation for all the escalation that happened during his presidency. However, "when shit hits the fan" as it were an...
The fundamental driver of this corruption being that US elite interests diverge from any plausible objective imperial interests as soon as imperial ex...
I don't disagree but Trump viewed assassinating Soleimani as anyways a good thing that he's super proud of and believes, possibly correctly, people ar...
My basic point is that he's free to criticize Biden for not being "tough enough" as red meat to his base without having any actual intention to attack...
I think the better explanation is that Israel / US simply have no practical way to defeat Iran. They've been in a delusional driven genocide with cons...
There's really only one way to get into philosophy in a serious way and that is a university library and following your interest through as many philo...
Agreed. No qualms from me on that one. Definitely, why I stressed genocide is not something American imperial custodians are against per se, just that...
In this case, we are pretty close in overall position. However, my view is simply "there is a plan" is too strong wording. I think more accurate termi...
Also just a quick note that if my analysis is correct and Zelensky's days as a Western magical money faucet is in fact over, as it seems to be (certai...
Well that's exactly my point, genocide against the Palestinians is an Zionist-Israeli interest, not a US imperial interest (not to say US imperial cus...
But then you'd want to negotiate with the ultranationalists to delay their genocide the time to attack whoever needs to be attacked. There is no strat...
But again, Israel committing a genocide isn't needed for this. There's plenty of ultra-violent groups in the Middle East already completely willing an...
Power to do what though? Defend their own borders? Nuke the world? Bomb a few weaker states into a internal chaos. Sure. The US has no where near the ...
Not sure where you're getting this from, but nowhere did I say the process imperial expansion is an accident. What I explained is that empires tend to...
Unfortunately I don't have the time right now to go through the long list of reasons why the genocide being some cryptic US plan is extremely unlikely...
Agreed, the US is driving towards more escalation, but the strategy is not coherent. As the RAND document recently discussed mentions: escalation in U...
Obviously you could use Israel for such a purpose as well as plenty other purposes which the US has and does. However, the US has plenty of other ways...
I honestly think this modern, essentially commercial, version of Stoicism is pretty much simply due to the fact "stoic" remained a word with a at leas...
First of all, Stoicism makes no such promise. Stoicism is not a self-help philosophy. These ancient (and for the most part a lot better) versions of s...
Yes, we're definitely in agreement, and as you point out the language being used is as part of a signalling exercise. I just add clarification that th...
This simply doesn't really matter. Giving one party a weapon to then use on another party anyways makes you a party to how those weapons are used. The...
If by "most everyone" you mean just common Westerners that believe what they're told on television, then yes they believed what the television told th...
Hand wringing is how the copium is purified and refined from the raw hopium flowers that blossom after cultivators carefully plant the seeds of magica...
The first sentence is ambiguous in that the negative is meant to apply both to being not deterred and the placing of constraints. I have edited the po...
Why would this happen? How exactly would Russian troops be flattened in Ukraine? Even if we ignore the fact that nuclear use would make NATO conventio...
Then maybe you're becoming self aware. Just more very dumb trying to move the goalposts. These are your central claims on this issue: I then cite wher...
If you're interested in the actual situation you should start with: 1. Ukraine is in the collapse phase on the losing end of a war of attrition, which...
So, I'm trying to "fool" people by pointing out this common sense thing? The conversation is just dumb, and it's also not common sense that the paper ...
For those interested, the authors even make a power-point style summary document of their 324 page (not counting the introduction and other pages outs...
I'll only respond to the stupidest part of your comments: First you claim the paper is not an analysis of US foreign policy: I then explain why it def...
I'm not sure what you mean by "historical reasoning", but both geopolitical analysis and humanitarian concerns can be as informed or then blind to the...
That's literally what the expression "buying time" means. It doesn't mean "coercive pressure as one component in a diplomatic strategy to establish a ...
Then you're obviously not really following events and are just wasting time and space. When the Western media believed Ukraine was "winning" the conve...
I wouldn't necessarily agree, as Israel officially adopting mass terrorism is going to motivate similar attacks on both Israel and the US as well as n...
Consider the possibility that you are simply being too polite in your analysis and that death is a vulgar business. What exactly is the difference bet...
From a rational enlightenment humanist position, we're in complete agreement. Israel is not, however, such an actor. From the perspective of people wh...
I think you're being a bit naive here. Israel is the side constantly escalating: genocide in Gaza, blowing up the embassy, assassinating leaders, rapi...
It's difficult to take your delusions seriously, but let's give it a go. Israel already completely depends on the US for arms supply, significantly gr...
Yes, we agree on the main points. Now, if by "victory plan" you mean a rational course of action, then definitely there is no victory plan. However, n...
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