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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
The diplomat was commenting on accusations made by NATO earlier this week that Russia was allegedly carrying out "hybrid activities" on the member...
The odds that the world will end with the words "Hey look, it worked!" are always increasing. (Can't locate a source...)
''As reported by the outlet, Trump's team is discussing penalties against both allies and adversaries who seek to divert their trade from the...
That fear mongerer lives in an imaginary world.
Masonic dialectic Reductio ad absurdum - Garbage in - Garbage out ~ One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter 🤡💩🎪 How about some salty...
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IMO, Assange deserves something like the Nobel Peace Prize (although that hasn't been credible for many years) and Snowden deserves at least something like the American Medal of Freedom (which also has lost a lot of credibility).
So which is it, Trump supporters? Time to make your decision! Is Trump the savior of all that is (putatively) holy about American politics, or not? If your answer is still 'yes', then get on board the election clown car - here we go again! If your answer is 'no', it's time for some serious civil disobedience, wouldn't you say?
Trump acts like a typical old-style politician in that he says the right things (most of the time) but he always finds a way to not deliver on his promises, or at best, only delivers on them in a watered-down, half-assed manner that is more symbolic than effective.
He has no intention of actually "draining the swamp", but only replacing some of the long-time denizens thereof with creatures more to his liking. Contrary to his pre-election boasting, he seems to be a piss-poor judge of people, as he has allowed himself to be influenced by some of the most idiotic, corrupt, and/or incompetent advisors DC has seen in many years. He actively works for Israel's interests, even to the detriment of those of the US, more effectively than those politicians who are bought-and-paid-for by AIPAC and related orgs - however, he has some level of integrity in that his motivation seems to be based on actual belief rather than political bribery like the others. He fully supports the nation's corrupt economic model of the big business-big gov't cabal, but again, more on the basis of personal belief and misunderstanding than political bribery. Given his incessant idiotic tweeting, he frequently seems to have the intellect and self-control of a teen-ager living in his mom's basement.
Nevertheless, in spite of his many, many shortcomings, I find Trump to be orders of magnitude more preferable than the available alternatives, both in the last election and in the one upcoming. He, at least, has not fully succumbed to the sheer idiocy of the lib/prog/SJW/post-modern/marxist ideology that has swept up his opposition. I like very much that he pisses off all the right people.
Civil (or un-civil) disobedience against Trump would be highly counter-productive at this time, as it would empower the crazies of the left even more. Trump has at the very least slowed-down our nation's headlong rush to hell in a hand basket that his opposition is actively pursuing. Our current situation is somewhat equivalent to where we found ourselves during WWII - as despicable as Joe Stalin was, we allied with him because many felt that he was much better than the only other available alternative. Opposing Joe while also opposing Adolf at the same time would likely have had catastrophic consequences.
Civil disobedience is not against Trump. If it happens (and if it doesn't, things aren't getting better from here), it will be against an anti-human way of life which is working to make money and power the inescapable dual bottom line for every social, creative, and intellectual activity on the planet. Trump is NOTHING. Biden is NOTHING. They're puppets. Get over this political circus, lift up your head, and look around! What you see will be very frightening if you care at all for the future of humanity.