Putin withdraws Russian forces from Armenia

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T18:56:15+00:00

The USA are not morphing into some oppressive totalitarian shithole, naaah.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-12T09:21:08+00:00

The title includes, for some reason, the brand and model of the car?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-12T08:42:43+00:00

Excellent points all.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's story is fascinating.

She's evidence that decency and reason ~~will~~ might eventually prevail over the various forms of dogmatic (religious or other) nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-12T07:48:40+00:00

Yes.

And it's the media, but not just the media, of course.

It's control of all of what is sometimes termed 'The Commanding Heights'.

The situation that follows is a relationship, between certain industries (media, banks, etc.) and government, which looks like a kind of South/Central American situation:

A small group of greed-driven financial/business interests collude with a (sold-out/corrupt) government to help each other exploit the majority of citizens.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T23:06:19+00:00

America is a continent (sometimes separated into North and South).

America is not the USA, i.e. the United States of America.

Now, European-Americans are not essentially more American than Asian-Americans or African-Americans.

Only the American-Americans (Navaho, Comanche, etc.) are ethnic Americans, that is of a specifically American race/ethnicity,
which is not 'Indian' (i.e. from India) by the way, a misnomer.

In any case, they are the actual/real Americans.

America is their ancestral land.

And if you're not one of them, and are instead of European blood, then you're just a fucking immigrant.

Go back to your own country, back in Europe.

And leave America to the Americans.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T21:15:31+00:00

Riiight.

And this kind of PR is not there just to try and damage-control such 'America's Abrams Tanks Are Failing the Ukraine Test' news reports, naaah.

Incidentally, shills are scum, don't you agree?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T21:11:42+00:00

'... King Charles and Prince William became jealous of his and his wife's growing popularity' ?!?!

:D

That's just delusional.

Harry betrayed his father, his king, his family and his country.

He must now live with it and try to continue on that path of meaningless self-promotion, as a second-rate celebrity, which he's chosen.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T20:47:48+00:00

'European blood is [not] American blood', but ... duh ... European blood.

'American blood' is American-American (as in Navaho, Comanche, etc.) blood, not European-American blood.

So, of course that non-whites are American, since the American-American 'red-skins' were and are the actual Americans, as opposed to the European-Americans, who immigrated to America from Europe.

Just as 'African and Asian blood isn't American so is European blood not American.

This is not brainwashing.

It's simply and demonstrably true.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T18:52:43+00:00

Harry's a moron.

Imagine expecting of everyone close to the British Royal House to be trustworthy, to keep confidences, to remain loyal, no matter how much money they're offered by enemies, when you have the imbecile and his wife writing books and going on interviews trying to blacken the British Royal Family.

The idiot Harry has done more harm to king and country and his own family than he's able to understand. It may very well be that he has committed treason, against his father and king. It has been argued that he and his bitch should be stripped of all their titles, including Harry’s birthright as a prince.

But, of course, King Charles III being sentimental, he won't do that.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T18:44:24+00:00

Right, and that's 'news', not pro-war propaganda drivel, not at all. :/

In the meantime:

America's Abrams Tanks Are Failing the Ukraine Test

The U.S. is withdrawing its Abrams main tanks from Ukrainian battlefields after the platforms proved unable to deal with the threat of Russian drones, according to two unnamed U.S. military officials who spoke with the Associated Press.

Five of the 31 American Abrams sent to Ukraine since January 2023 have already been lost to Russian action, the AP said. Their delivery came after months of intense lobbying on Kyiv's part, but the armored platforms—along with others supplied by NATO allies—failed to make the decisive battlefield impact that Ukraine had hoped for.

The Abrams—the unit cost of which is around $10 million each—have fallen victim to the mass use of drones over Ukrainian battlefields, ...

https://www.newsweek.com/american-abrams-tanks-failing-ukraine-test-russia-drones-1894503

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T08:42:37+00:00

I'll grant that ethnicity is indeed real (even if there's an attempt to brainwash people into denying it), but as far as laws are concerned, everyone must nonetheless be treated equally, regardless of ethnicity:

Should e.g. the USA have different laws for ethnic-Europeans, ethnic-Asians, ethnic-Africans, ethnic-Americans, ethnic-Arabs/Hebrews, etc., depending on the ratio of what kind of blood each person has?

Should there also be different laws for Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Jews, Mohammedans, etc?

Perhaps you consider that only First Nation ethnic-Americans (Navaho, Chickasaw, Comanche, Delaware, Iroquois, etc.) are actual/real 'Americans'.

However, if you were born and raised in the USA, and even fought for their military, must you not also be considered 'American', even if you have European, Asian, African or some other foreign (non First Nation) blood in your veins?

It does seem, does it not, that it's unjustifiable for a state to make ethnic/racial and/or religious distinctions in its laws, and, more importantly, it seems ... unjust.

PS) In this exchange with von Hindenburg, even Hitler seems more measured/reasonable than you.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-11T07:08:43+00:00

They could have been representing the Royal Family but, as it is, they're visiting as ... what?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T11:27:15+00:00

Better campaign finance laws might go a long way toward achieving this, and, you know, without all the hangings.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T08:55:31+00:00

Willkommen! :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T13:33:33+00:00

Not sure whether to categorise the death of Europe as a suicide ... or what exactly?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T16:39:37+00:00

Love that sentence:

“The theory should work,” said Sonia Bacca, a theoretical physicist at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and an author of the paper describing the discrepancy, which was published in Physical Review Letters. “We’re puzzled.”

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T16:30:59+00:00

That law's a joke though.

There almost can be no clearer case of treason than getting the country into a war under false-pretences.

And that's almost every US war/attack for the last seventy years.

How many of those responsible have been hanged?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T07:24:45+00:00

Right.

So, she also blackmails.

That's whom they found to try to take down the otherwise almost certain to win US Presidential candidate.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T07:05:17+00:00

Whores are now 'stars', so trust everything they say!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T16:07:08+00:00

It wasn't this guy, certainly.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T16:01:00+00:00

Yeah, ... in any case, it's worth seeking a civilised solution to this,
rather than be satisfied with a medieval ('we don't understand, so let's just lock them all up')
kind of ... 'solution'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T15:48:04+00:00

Yes.

What you're describing is why mental issues are such a challenge to deal with, even just in theory.

There has to be a right balance between not doing anything and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Of course, to actually help (those who can be helped)
without oppressing the merely odd
requires both benevolence and intelligence,
qualities that are becoming rarer and rarer.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T15:21:38+00:00

'... with their fingernails'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:53:17+00:00

Biden will likely do exactly what he's told
and neither understand nor question it
for 'Four more years! ... Pause ...'

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T11:02:51+00:00

Let's have the legal system, and society in general, engage in the pretence that the mentally ill are 'correct', and that sane people speaking the truth are criminals motivated by 'hate' ... what could possibly go wrong?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T10:51:00+00:00

So, if he and his gruesome accomplices had received medical qualifications, they could have done this legally, it seems.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:49:20+00:00

But then, in 1991, under pressure from the USA, the United Nations revoked Resolution 3379, with Resolution 46/86, which was personally introduced by George H. W. Bush.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-10T06:16:01+00:00

OK, so ...

many men, though Jews, lived all their life in Germany, and so did their ancestors, for many generations, ... and, in times of war, these men fought for Germany, risked their lives defending it, may even have died on the field of battle, sacrificing themselves in service to the nation

... and they STILL weren't German enough for you?

Right. You're not even trying. You're trolling, trying to be provocative.

This is not interesting.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:24:41+00:00

Stupid populations are only an issue for actual democracies, much less so for corrupt plutocratic oligarchies ruled/controlled by 'elites'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:34:55+00:00

Welcome!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:50:43+00:00

Yes, we basically agree ... Caveat Emptor.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:35:39+00:00

Well, Christianity tries to combine two mutually incompatible traditions into one.

It takes philosophical ideas and mixes them with the mythology surrounding the worship of Yahweh, a primitive Middle Eastern (and rather evil) tribal deity.

This was bound to and did lead to nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T21:16:12+00:00

Christianity may be silly, but it's in rapid decline, and so far from anywhere close to a pressing issue for me,
unlike e.g. Mohammedanism, which is even worse than Christianity, and growing to boot!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:59:36+00:00

There are, however, treatments, antipsychotics, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:35:03+00:00

Explain.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T20:00:03+00:00

Defending someone currently committing murder by confessing to your own past murders ... fascinating!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:33:27+00:00

Yeah, not sure what exactly, but something very weird is going on.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T19:01:07+00:00

Europe has a dysfunctional immune system.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:50:51+00:00

The key terms here are 'adults' and 'to themselves'.
It seems that a civilised state should not force an adult, who does not harm others, to be ... 'normal'.
All a state may do is to tell children to wait until they're adults before mutilating themselves.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:42:04+00:00

It's almost like many among the homeless suffer from untreated mental issues.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:38:10+00:00

Welcome,

but, if you're actually interested in 'the truth' as you claim (thrice!),
you may preferably seek to actually understand the world,
not to replace a new silly dogmatic ideology with an older silly dogmatic ideology.

Cheers!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T18:27:10+00:00

Riiight.

... x are doing the world a favour by exterminating y ...

Why does this seem déjà-vu-ish?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:45:22+00:00

There may indeed be many types of intelligence that IQ tests might miss.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T08:31:51+00:00

The only thing that matters is truth.

'Antisemitism!', 'Racism!', 'Islamophobia!', 'Transphobia', or more generally, 'Hate!', etc., are essentailly meaningless
and seem to function in the same way that 'That's Heresy!!!' did in the (fast returning) Medieval Dark Ages.

They appear to be used to shut some argument/conclusion down (there's even a vague threat implied) before it can be examined/understood,
almost always in order to safeguard some lie and/or prevent some truth from being revealed.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:08:00+00:00

Hunger strikes are meant to be a (non-violent) means
to show how serious you are about an issue,
but it's incredibly hard to bear (which is the point),
and not everyone can do it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:12:32+00:00

Suicide and violence is what's understood by 'a threat to themselves or others', not insane tattoos, body modification, elective plastic surgery, etc.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T17:09:41+00:00

There's a difference in scale.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T14:56:57+00:00

~~SETI~~ STI (Search for Terrestrial Intelligence) :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:29:54+00:00

Nothing is enough to get Washington to criticise Israel, not even genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T12:06:02+00:00

Granting all of that, we're talking about an adult,
who's only harming herself, not others.
People do all kinds of weird (body-modification) shit to their own bodies.
That's their right.
A state may indeed decide to intervene and protect children
from their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) selves
or their (possibly immature/mentally-ill/brainwashed/stupid) parents.
But a civilised (not oppressive) state may not infringe on the rights/freedoms
of an adult who's not harming others.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:56:30+00:00

For most Germans, yes, unless communists,
but, obviously, that did not apply to Jewish Germans,
even those who had fought for Germany in WWI,
even those who had been awarded the Iron Cross
for gallantry under fire,
nor their children, who wanted to be German
and thought they were,
until they were told they were not
and were to be despised no matter what,
just for being who they were,
with nothing they could do about it.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T11:35:18+00:00

That's a question for Fermi, isn't it?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T09:26:16+00:00

I'm also surprised that neither the USA nor France nor the UK nor Italy are among them, but that ... North Korea is!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-09T07:37:00+00:00

Are Jesus and Yahweh the same deity?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T14:42:11+00:00

It's shocking that a whole greed-driven industry (a wide scale criminal enterprise?) is being built on exploiting those poor people,
who are never told that their delusional disorders might be problematic.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T09:58:23+00:00

'Yay, foreign money (stolen American taxpayer dollars) bought another American politician a seat to act on behalf of a foreign nation.'

'Let’s all celebrate.'

'No?'

'No one?'

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:30:34+00:00

Once upon a time, you couldn't imagine the truth again being criminalised,
not in the 'civilised' countries,
but here we are.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T10:25:01+00:00

So, no father would feel ashamed if his daughter became a whore
... unless he was religious.

Nonsense.

And, incidentally, you can't possibly believe that.

You're being disingenuous, i.e. lying/shilling(?)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:06:41+00:00

She needs to get on board The World According To Hollywood.
Engineers, doctors and scientists are mostly ethnic Africans.
Wakanda forever!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:39:15+00:00

Because whores sell their bodies for money,
they're (rightly?) considered to be more easily compromised ...
But, apparently, if they can be used as a political weapon, then ...
How dare you insinuate that the whore might be untrustworthy!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:29:27+00:00

Yes, very sexy also!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:08:32+00:00

Well ...
the English Palestine derives
from the Latin Palaestina,
itself from the Greek Palaistine (Παλαιστίνη).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:21:11+00:00

Trust every word coming from the paid whore, people!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T17:01:33+00:00

I thought it was a joke.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T07:19:21+00:00

How long before Rutgers awards honorary doctorates to 'pioneering transpecies U.S. officials'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-08T06:28:02+00:00

No real beheadings, of course,
but this kind of 'news' makes
the supremacists perpetrating the genocide,
that for real mass murder children,
seem like they're the victims here,
... aww!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T15:52:57+00:00

Over the years, many idealists have tried to establish utopian societies but none have been able to make them work.

Well ...

For example,
the United Sates of America,
the first modern Democracy, was,
until it proved successful,
considered Utopic.

Imagine the vision required to,
before the creation of the USA,
actually seek to set up a government
by the people for the people,
based neither on oppression
nor on lies (e.g. elaborate religious bullshit)
but, rather, on reason and consent, ...

... this in a world where
only monarchies/dictatorships, oligarchies,
and/or assorted priesthoods
had been ruling over people ...

... how Great was that!?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:43:26+00:00

Yes, the very people who invented Democracy
did wonder if it was any good.

Plato, famously, didn't like it.

Now, I'm not saying that the author is arguing for totalitarianism,
which would be rather unusual for a Libertarian! :D

I'm saying that if/as we descend into totalitarianism
(which does seem to be happening), we'll start noticing that
Democracy as a system starts getting attacked more and more,
from all sides, both the right and the left, wittingly and unwittingly,
with both good and bad arguments.

And this guy does make good arguments, for example:

A major paradox of government is that
if the demos has all the de jure power,
an oligarchy of financial interests has all the de facto power,
which is the unfortunate situation in which we find ourselves.

This is perfectly put.

But, that having been said, it is also interesting that,
as the author sought to frame the issues
from his Libertarian perspective,
somehow(!), an attack on Democracy
seemed promising.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T05:54:14+00:00

I, among others I'm sure, predicted that in the descent into totalitarianism,
Democracy would at some point start getting attacked as a problem.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:26:20+00:00

Well, there you go!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T07:09:29+00:00

Astroturf

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T06:51:17+00:00

You are being sarcastic, aren't you?

Well, yes, of course, but I'm also making a point:

Worshipping Mbombo/Bumba, the creator God
of the Central African Kuba people, must seem silly to you,
ostensibly because you're not Kuba.

But, worshipping Jesus and/or Yahweh,
a rather distasteful MiddleEastern tribal deity,
that seems perfectly reasonable to you.

It's not though.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-07T04:32:35+00:00

Knowing there is one God, how does this challenge you?

Well, there's the antagonist ~~god~~ person(?),
then the saints and then the armies of angels and demons, etc.

There does seem to be lots of magical and invisible beings around that 'lone' dictator-deity.

In another religion, these might be called major or minor 'deities'.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:46:26+00:00

To be tautological, it will either be observed, in which case it'll be recognised as real, or the data will rule out its existence. :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:50:56+00:00

You Keep Using That Word ('truth'),
I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means,
Which seems to be ... 'Imaginary Deities and Magical Beings'.

And, by the way, why are you rejecting Mbombo, the Lord? :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:34:25+00:00

Wait, the deity has an adversary in a monotheism?

And let's just have a look at how it all works:

Jesus (who is God) sacrificed himself on the cross,
to appease ... well ... Himself (since monotheism),
so that He, Himself, would forgive us shitty humans for our sins.

And you're OK with that story.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:55:31+00:00

No biological processes, ancestors, DNA, evolution, etc?

Either I created myself or ... deities?

Oh, right, only one deity.

OK, which one?

Mbombo?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:20:23+00:00

It all seemed reasonable ... and then ... deities!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:33:12+00:00

Intellectuals often think of themselves as secular priests/monks,
who eschew commercial concerns.

They may thus feel contempt for
both dogmatic materialist Capitalism
and dogmatic materialist Marxism ('Communism').

They imagine that they're here to do the work
of understanding what the human adventure is all about.

This is actually an essential societal function,
providing ethical direction, etc.

It's something that used to be thought of
as trying to figure out the Mind of the Gods, as it were.

Unfortunately, today, the intelligentsia may have been
infiltrated and corrupted by bad actors
manipulating the gullible into undermining/discrediting
(actual) thought/episteme/science
in order to return humanity to the dark ages of
top-down dogma-based authority, where sociopaths can thrive.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T17:56:18+00:00

What does that mean?

Let's, for the sake of argument,
grant you the (weird/masochistic) claim
that 'we are all shitty'.

Does that the Christ 'atones for EVERYONE'
suddenly make everyone ... 'not shitty'?

How does it all work?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:54:49+00:00

... holding a chainsaw and screaming 'A la Snackbar'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:29:31+00:00

So, let me get this straight:

The policy of the USA is to do everything
to aid and abet a criminal supremacist regime,
giving it money (lots!), 'intelligence' and weaponry,
helping it mass murder the legitimate inhabitants
of Palestine, and steal their ancestral land,
thus fully colluding in the ethnic-cleansing.

But that's ok ... cause the USA also build a pier for the victims.

Is this a joke?

How about simply not funding, arming and helping the perpetrators?

Did that ever occur to anyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T12:17:39+00:00

I'm reading along, not really disagreeing,
curious to where this is going,
and then this:

'And because America has rejected God, America will fall...' :/

Great! :/

You'd think that the medieval dark ages were a long time ago,
but nooo!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T07:25:23+00:00

Why?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T16:58:37+00:00

Right, by witnessing and reporting on the ongoing genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:49:33+00:00

He was preceded by many, including Albert II, who, on June 14, 1949, survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure).

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