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- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid
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Re: Headlines that signal that the story will be misleading and/or stupid
"Woke stuff". Lol.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
I'm pretty confident I know what it means, and it is a very bad, evil thing that must be stopped. It's not, it's just profoundly unrealistic and relies on humans choosing to behave in ways that they have never behaved in their history. If humans could suddenly stop being human and become communist ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
Hitler, and most of the other conquerors, saw the people they killed as nuissances to be swept away. For Hitler, the deaths of the Poles was insignifican. Those people had something that Hitler wanted. i.e. Poland, "lebensraum"., and the deaths of the Jews were a positive boon. He did tha...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
If you're of the opinion that motivations don't matter, and the only relevant thing is the thing done in the end, that's fine, I can understand that. But I do think that motivation matters.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
I doubt that they say, "How can I be more evil today?"... True, objective "evil" doesn't exist outside of D&D. That's why using the word can be problematic. Even if someone does something for their own benefit, they do it because they truly believe that it's the best thing t...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
Yes. I'm sure he was convinced that fucking over the commies was in the best interest of his country at the time.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
The full meal deal on Kissinger can be found in Christopher Hitchens' book on him. Read up and weep. I know he was an awful person, but what I'm trying to get at is whether he was awful because he genuinely believed that he was doing good and what he was doing was necessary, or was he full knowing ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
Pres, that might have some impact if I had any idea who it was.
Edit: Ah, the URL tells me it's Kissinger. Are you implying that he had evil intentions?
Edit: Ah, the URL tells me it's Kissinger. Are you implying that he had evil intentions?
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:43 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 896
- Views: 236839
Re: Planet America
I think most politicians do try really hard to do what's good for their constituents - or at least, what they believe is good for their constituents. The constraints of politics and reliance on donors and their interests means that they can't always do all the things they want.