penningtron wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:55 am
Frankie99 wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:25 am
The foe list is your friend. There are some
super misinformed and disingenuous people out there with whom an argument does nothing but give your doc a reason to prescribe BP meds.
It only takes one or two on your foe list to make this a much more rational and functional discussion.
It's funny that FM AttackChimp 3 pages ago was like "there's no way leftists believe any of that right!?" and then here we are.
Or maybe it's not a leftist position at all. Seems closer to Ron Paul or Tulsi Gabbard in some ways.
There is definitely a strain of leftism stuck in the battles of the 1960s and 1970s when nationalist leftist like the IRA and PLO were all the vogue. There's scene in the film Munich - I know - that has the characters all in a safe house with the IRA, PLO etc... it was a Hollywood, attempt to show some equivalence.
From my experience with these people it's My Enemy's Enemy stuff, anti-Imperialism, forgetting that it isn't only the US and its proxies that "do imperialism". But we are not in the world of the Cold War and we're not dealing with giant ideological power blocks anymore. I'm not sure Trump and Putin believe in anything other than power. For all the flaws of the US and USSR, at the heart there was a battle of ideas. I actually find this drift into vibes and power more worrying than the Cold War.
clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.
