There might be some reasons.Why would countries want to get involved in a long war?
For example if your prime minister is not jailed for corruption as long as the war emergency is going on.
There might be some reasons.Why would countries want to get involved in a long war?
But that requires organization, and for a problem like this organization outside of normal political channels.We make things happen via the government. We enforce anti-monopoly laws, we enforce media plurality laws; we break the corrupt and take their power from them.
I don't know if this will be short, I don't know if this will be long, but I can just about guarantee that the reason for saying the US can go as long as it takes is because if you put a deadline on it, you are telling people how long they have to hole up and survive before they win. If the message is as long as it takes, even if you will only be going for a few weeks, you might get a few more white flags waved in the process.Don't worry, looks like Gergar is getting his long war.
Are you saying that Trump learnt from his mistake in his first term?I don't know if this will be short, I don't know if this will be long, but I can just about guarantee that the reason for saying the US can go as long as it takes is because if you put a deadline on it, you are telling people how long they have to hole up and survive before they win. If the message is as long as it takes, even if you will only be going for a few weeks, you might get a few more white flags waved in the process.
When there's actual data that says otherwise, I will reconsider my preconceptions. What data points you and Silvanus have posted/said don't disprove my preconceptions. What you guys have posted is even weaker all those nonsense nutritional links that say stuff like eggs or dairy fat are bad for you. Humans are great at pattern recognition and until there is actual data disputing my observational pattern recognition, I will believe my pattern recognition.Once again: you are literally arguing that because something doesn't make intuitive sense to you (owing largely to your poor understanding of the topic) it has to be wrong. And rather than trying to improve your understanding of the topic you're just doubling down on your preconceptions.
I love scientists that actually do science, you know, the scientific method.I've just got point out that this is actually a winning strategy. Look at whose in the White House. If you are not smart enough, just double down on your wrongness. Its why Phoenix hates scientist
Literally what you said is wrong and you have no data to prove otherwise...For goodness' sake, Phoenix, you've just reverted to stuff that's already been addressed.
1. I have already explained at length that "proving" a likelihood of catching a cold from a visit to the shop is a fool's errand, and practically impossible. I have never been trying to prove any such thing.
2. I do not believe people should be concerned about getting the common cold from going to the shop, and have never been trying to convince anyone of this.
Every time you waffle on about this, you're not rebutting me; you're responding to arguments I never made. If you want to discuss what I've actually written, go back and actually read it.
Buddy, people transmit colds to one another by being in passing contact all the time.
I wrote essay after essay in college saying that is dumb, and that we should retrench go after China and Russia vs get tied down in the middle east, funny enough I also wrote the US was not going to decay, well I was right, and it's allies are declining that part I did not predict..
Don't worry, looks like Gergar is getting his long war.
Dude, we aren't spitballing our own hypotheses here. As I told you before: We are trying to explain foundational epidemiology to you. What we've been trying to explain to you is not novel, controversial, or inferred; it’s standard infectious disease modeling, and we have invoked the data to you.When there's actual data that says otherwise, I will reconsider my preconceptions. What data points you and Silvanus have posted/said don't disprove my preconceptions. What you guys have posted is even weaker all those nonsense nutritional links that say stuff like eggs or dairy fat are bad for you. Humans are great at pattern recognition and until there is actual data disputing my observational pattern recognition, I will believe my pattern recognition.
When there's actual data that says otherwise, I will reconsider my preconceptions.
As an aside, when Allenby got his troops into Jerusalem in WW1 he compared it to the crusades (wasn't alone in that), and had to seriously walk things back. I'm not holding my breath on the Trump admin doing that, though they still might panic and backpedal.Damn those muslim extremists!![]()
US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify warwww.theguardian.com
Maybe. But this is also an administration that says it bombed Iran because Iran was going to bomb US bases even though no intelligence said it would, that's it's not about regime change and yet it's to achieve regime change, that it had to bomb Iran because Israel was going to and also that it didn't have to bomb Iran because Israel was going to, as if it couldn't stop Israel bombing Iran (oh it definitely could!) and something occasionally about nuclear weapons despite they claim they utterly annihilated the nuclear facilities last year, and that it's not going to get bogged down but boots on the ground are an option, etc.I don't know if this will be short, I don't know if this will be long, but I can just about guarantee that the reason for saying the US can go as long as it takes is because if you put a deadline on it, you are telling people how long they have to hole up and survive before they win. If the message is as long as it takes, even if you will only be going for a few weeks, you might get a few more white flags waved in the process.
Well he learned that he could get away with everything. Not even a coup turned out to be a dealbreaker for either the law or the voters. He in faxt learned his mistakes were never going to cost him and thus weren't mistakes.Are you saying that Trump learnt from his mistake in his first term?
The American electorate doesn't have that much agency.Its the American electorate who haven't learned anything
Let’s not pretend they’re some helpless hostages. They had all information and opportunity to vote against Trump. They just refused to do it since over half of them are likely either malicious or just inbred.The American electorate doesn't have that much agency.
Yes and no.Let’s not pretend they’re some helpless hostages. They had all information and opportunity to vote against Trump.
While that is true, that Trump is a deeply terrible person and unfit to be in charge or anything isn't something that requires much analysis to recognise.On the other hand, nor can we pretend that a lot of information available to them isn't poor quality. There is a staggering quantity of total garbage out there, and even the more reputable organisations can have serious shortcomings. I think a reputable major media outlet tends to be broadly accurate on some specifics it reports on, and yet at the same time rarely will it effectively explain any sort of complex wider picture. An example of this is the way they will send two talking heads from opposing sides to debate against each other without meaningful intervention: this often serves ostensible neutrality more than it serves greater public comprehension.
Kinda funny how American evangelicals believe that the key to the Rapture is making Jesus happy by killing a whole bunch of people who don't look like American evangelicals.Damn those muslim extremists!![]()
US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges
Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify warwww.theguardian.com
Only a little less than for all the other Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates in recent memory; his major departure is that he's gauche.While that is true, that Trump is a deeply terrible person and unfit to be in charge or anything isn't something that requires much analysis to recognise.