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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.
I suspected the cease on the part of Israel is was ruse... USA border patrol used on campuses when they cannot even secure the southern US border....
Age of consent is pretty low in some countries in the world.
Zero freedom of the press, so one can assume a lot of what goes on crime-wise is ssurpressed. Regimes like this treat their own (and others) like...
Comment: Since China isn't considered to be suffering from weaponised mass migration nor the collapse in living standards seen in the West, and...
In the last two weeks, the Russians had put about a dozen Ukrainian politicians and officials on the "Wanted" list. You bet this is related to...
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"I don't think passing an ordinance requiring all residents to own an AK-47 is the type of attention Craig wants."
Note that he didn't say "AR-15", the civilian version of the US military M16 or M4 5.56mm (.223) caliber standard issue infantry rifle. The US Army got seduced by that stupid design during the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, back when US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had his cadre of MBAs running the Pentagon. The only advantage of the M16 was that it fired the small and light 5.56mm round instead of the larger, heavier 7.62mm (.30) caliber NATO round, so troops could carry more ammunition into the field. The only trouble is, the round is not effective.
The Russian designed AK-47 rifle, on the other hand, fires a 7.62mm round that is just as effective as the .30 cal ammunition of the US M14 rifle that the US military used previously, the update to the M1 Garand that was the US military infantry rifle during WWII and the Korean War.
The .223 is a varmint round, useful only for range pests like prairie dogs and jackrabbits. If you ever have to shoot a man who intends to kill you, you'll want to have a .30 caliber rifle like an AK-47 or M14 to do the job.