Shawn

They're enjoying their cake. Prices are good enough for them to have it and eat it too. :party:

What Biden did was monumental towards the average worker in America, especially women. Are you happy about his New Deal and Infrastructure bill?

Everyone wants to believe there's something special about themselves, right? Liberals tend to think this way. Though, I don't want the topic to be too...

Poignant speech, upon which the American voter responded with Reagan. Yeah, the 80's were something else entirely.

What about that peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter? He was a cool guy that hasn't been respected at all. Had some really interesting ideas that oil shitted o...

Well, just off the top of my head, you guys were extremely concerned with the environment back in the 70's, which was suppressed ever since. Back then...

Well, that's relative, isn't it? I mean, I explicitly or implicitly wanted someone from an older generation to expound on that. I already stated that ...

Where did I criticize? I made no value judgements on my thoughts about other people. If you reeallly think about it you can even say I'm talking about...

Well, it's not really a caricature if you take under consideration how much work goes into maintaining the internet as we know it, although it seems l...

Hail to Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google for funding research into plant grown meat substitutes. I know I am disgusted with how we treat lif...

A pig eats, shits, and sleeps, and that's all the use it ought to perform with regards to us. Someone make some plant grown bacon to satisfy the pissa...

I must be lacking in very important and fundamental neurotransmitter levels, or should I say, experiences. Too bad we don't have relationships with re...

*Pig grows sad and depressed whilst looking at bacon*

Thank you brother. I've been trying to get @"unenlightened" to join a Masonic lodge. He says it's too 'psychological'.

@"Baden" , would you ban a freemason?

Eating a pig is atrocious.

Can we all agree that Me-who is the most beautiful pig in the world...? See her: https://i.imgur.com/HzzMkPx.jpg

Does it sound pragmatist or logical positivist as phrased in the OP?

Sartre never made sense to me when confronted with the discrepancy between the look of the other or what is called modernly in cognitive science as an...

@"Banno" is having fun with himself.

You could say that's how America felt about going it alone with Afghanistan after everyone pulled out.

Take care! :party:

Yep https://i.imgur.com/qPT68qL.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Psychotronics

I was under the impression that the CIA backed the mujahedeen to battle the Soviets that then became the Taliban. Is this true of Brzezinski's idea?

It's really faux pas that you mention this with respect to a war waged with the Taliban, who behead, execute, and punish due to tribalism and barbaris...

So, your argument is basically that Afghanistan should have never been invaded? Of course this is some fantasy argument, you realize?

I can't fathom what a civil war would have looked like. Was this chain of events preferable?

https://c.tenor.com/acU28-Gj1W0AAAAd/jack-nicholson-jack.gif

It's all a wallowing of sorts.

There are a lot of executions ongoing in Afghanistan...

So, the Taliban are going to be involved in meth trafficking apart from opium and weed. :death: :eyes:

On Vice? Link please.

There's no meth in Afghanistan; but, plenty of poppy and weed.

So, the question is, who's to blame? Well, here are the facts as far as I can tell: 1. Trump signed a deal with the Taliban. 2. Biden upheld it. 3. Ev...

I suppose you don't live in the US or watch CNN and Fox News... Benghazi was all you could hear during 2013 from Fox News and even CNN. Then there wer...

He was with Obama as VP for 8 years, so not much excuses. Luckily another Benghazi didn't happen which would have legitimized house investigations, te...

Baden didn't care to win... but could have. Drink in the belly of the day.

https://i.imgur.com/3dL1b9b.png Madness

The way the Afghan government fell with the inertial political mass, enables talk about the failure of America in Afghanistan. Obviously Biden will be...

Interesting. I wonder if the NA was weary of fighting themselves after seeing what the US was able to do with the Taleban.

Nothing in that speech includes the Taleban as the main threat. In fact you omitted to mention that since the US invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban ...

In your years of observing the issue, how else would you would have dealt with Afghanistan?

The reasons were valid at the time. Pakistan was funding training for the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Hasn't that been dealt with or has the Taleban ma...

I mean, I can't fathom Afghanistan turning out again to be a breeding ground for jihadism. Doesn't this all depend on Pakistan?

I'm not really following you here. If the objective was to take down Bin Laden, then that was done in Pakistan, not in Afghanistan, where the US was. ...

To be fair, what were the operational directives of Afghanistan. If we treat the issue as purely definitional, I think final conclusions can be made a...

It's a tie.

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