That would be more interesting coming from someone who wasn't so overconfident in his own rationalised knowledge.
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That would be more interesting coming from someone who wasn't so overconfident in his own rationalised knowledge.
They can't solve this. They are in a shity situation and utterly powerless. There is no "oh, if only the Palestinians did this or that it would stop the genozide, land stealing and give them a chance for a state". There is no such option. When they try to oppose, they get killed like in Gaza. When they don't, they get killed like in the West Bank. They tried their best to find allies for decades, they can't look even more for allies.
They basically can only wait and hope something changes for the better.
On the contrary, I am aware of my own limitations. I am better at academics than anyone else you will ever interact with. I'm the guy with the perfect score on the math SAT. I once chose a 300 level literature class as my random freshman year elective, and for a paper where the prompt was to compare the use of metaphors in some of the works we discussed, I explicitly chose works of non-fiction and got an A. Twice in my time in college, I stumbled into the classroom late not realizing there was a test (once in organic chemistry, once in fluid dynamics), in both cases open note exams of which I brought none, and in both cases I beat the curve handily. This sort of thing is my most natural talent, and that lets me tell you with confidence that it is a useless talent that does not deserve any of the respect or honors it receives.
That would be more interesting coming from someone who wasn't so overconfident in his own rationalised knowledge.
You clearly aren't aware of your limitations, because you don't seem to realise that acing a maths exam, getting a good mark at a low-level university English essay and above average scores in tests you didn't revise for means that the only thing you're probably very good at is maths.
You seem to have a very limited view of how the field actually works.
Most importantly sources aren’t static. New ones often emerge and advances in technology gives us better ways to verify sources.
Historians compiling already existing sources also isn’t particularly frowned upon. A historian lying through his teeth that Buchanan was secretly a capable president just to get noticed(as you allege they’d do) would be frowned upon though.
And sometimes the passage of time simply calls for a reevaluation. Without the bitter memories of the depression and without Roosevelts charisma the view of Hoover is bound to get a bit more positive. I recall you yourself very much being a revisionist in this regard(and with LJB in the opposite direction). Was this just you “trying to be noticed”?
One can concede that history is a very human domain and that this comes with limitations but that’s not what you said. You seemed to argue the limitations stem from ignorance or even bad faith. Kinda offensive actually
No, I'm very good at all of it. Friends in totally unrelated majors would ask me for help and opinions. Two of my siblings have doctorates, they would tell you (unhappily) that I'm better at these things, and also (much more happily) inform you that it doesn't matter.
All of that is fair, none of it leads to "MLK would have failed without Malcolm X". That's fanfiction.
Where's the evidence? The actual evidence we have to go on here, what you write on this forum, broadly suggests that you are unremarkable. You may well be good at maths, but given recent statements I don't think you understand psychology, and numerous other subjects. Your logic is frequently leaky. And much more.
Thing is, intelligence (if we assume a narrow sense of information processing, as intelligence is poorly defined) only goes so far. Much of what determines output is knowledge, research, application, memory, clarity, dedication, perception, insight, creativity, etc. Mere intelligence can be outperformed by hard work, or practice, or originality, etc. The world is full of blandly clever people spouting banality, because for all their intelligence, they're talking about stuff they don't really know much about and so inherently ill-equipped to offer great insights.
That's what it is to be aware of one's limitations.
Contemplated putting this in funny events in anti-woke world, but I suppose it belongs here.
mondoweiss.net
Mike Huckabee is interfering with the work and witness of churches in the Holy Land with a goal of silencing Palestinian Christians
A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking to silence Palestinian Christians.
mondoweiss.net
I like the part where a Biden state dept goon posted on main that they went out of their way to violate the law to keep the genocide going.
This is not new, but widely established media reporting on it is kind of new.
Minor quibble, but I don't think that thermobaric weapons are prohibited. Murdering civilians is prohibited, and those weapons are good at that, but the IDF has been murdering people with bullets as well. Possibly prohibitions on using them in areas where there are civilians, but that's much the same.
They arguably count as incendiary weapons, which would make them subject to Protocol III of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Article 2 Section 2 of which states: "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons."
So this would make it explicitly unacceptable to use in Gaza even if someone argues that there is a tunnel somewhere in the vicinity.
israel, once again, seems to be engaging in the public relations strategy of resembling an antisemitic trope.