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TerminalTryHard powiedział(a):
To be fair though nothing prevents them from going and learning these things on their own. You don't need a classroom or a teacher to learn if you care enough. Especially in the era of the internet, which is why every time I see that complaint that someone's knows some random science fact but doesn't know some bit of basic civics or finances it really bugs since they're posting it on the fucking internet.

And that's the real problem they don't really care, they just want validation and the next new shiny toy and ultimately they only have themselves to blame.
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I think his point is not that all of them know nothing but Harry Potter, but that Harry Potter is the only common reference pool. If everyone with an internet connection delved into the classics with Project Gutenberg &c. , they'd all come out with different sets of books read and when talking to each other it would remain most convenient to reference Star Wars and HP (unless you luck out and find someone who read the same classics you did). So it's because our literature is too diverse, and proto-SJWs eroded the mechanism that promote certain works (like Shakespeare plays) such that most people know them, so now all that's left for common reference is whichever book/movie became a mega-hit among your generation.
 
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heyitsmike powiedział(a):
Who the fuck is Tony Posnanski? That's a rhetorical question; I don't actually care.

Is a blue check mark really supposed to be a sign of legitimacy? Apparently Twitter gives them away like Democrats give away other people's money.
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Some fat guy turned fit guy who writes for the Huffington Post. Good on him for losing the weight, though. I always love a good weight-loss story. It's a shame he didn't pack on any brains with those gains.
 
TerminalTryHard powiedział(a):
I agree the pull back was 100% intentional, but not for the American public but for Iran. Trying to convince them he is a mad man who can't be predicted and is totally willing to escalate to military force on a whim.
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If so, that's a negotiation failure by Trump. You never give the appearance of backing down in middle-eastern politics for any reason. It makes you look weak.
 
TerminalTryHard powiedział(a):
I agree the pull back was 100% intentional, but not for the American public but for Iran. Trying to convince them he is a mad man who can't be predicted and is totally willing to escalate to military force on a whim.
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You may not be far off, there is a political theory that was developed under Nixon called "madman theory", it was also suggested by Machiavelli that it was a "very wise thing to simulate madness". The idea behind it for Nixon was to make Communist nations fearful that Nixon himself was irrational and volatile and if you fucked with the US he'd leave your nation in ruins. And some do speculate that Trump has been borrowing from this idea to keep other nations on their toes.
 
Exterminatus powiedział(a):
You may not be far off, there is a political theory that was developed under Nixon called "madman theory", it was also suggested by Machiavelli that it was a "very wise thing to simulate madness". The idea behind it for Nixon was to make Communist nations fearful that Nixon himself was irrational and volatile and if you fucked with the US he'd leave your nation in ruins. And some do speculate that Trump has been borrowing from this idea to keep other nations on their toes.
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It is a very wise thing to simulate madness.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1519

It is even wiser to actually be mad. Bigly!
-- Donald J. Trump, 2019
 
GeneralFriendliness powiedział(a):
I think I just stepped into a nexus of pure unfiltered TDS.
I also find it amusing that whenever the "cuddly satanist" argues with someone he disagrees with he calls them a fedora or a nazi. I can understand nazi being a typical tactic buzzword with them, but how does fedora fit into it? Wasn't fedora an insult used at obnoxious redditors like those on r/atheism and r/gaming because they always ended their smug posts with *tips fedora*? How does fedora's usage here work? And is it made more ironic by the guy looking like an old school redditor crossed with a hipster?
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Social Justice Warriors are still butt-hurt/bitter that they failed to co-opt the atheist movement in the late 00s/early 10s.

As such, they love to mock atheists via "fedora" insults because atheists were the first community to tell the SJW infiltration horde to fuck off and calling them lying whores when they tried to stage a hostile take-over by way of crying rape, in order to eliminate the top atheists in the movement and install themselves as the queens and kings of atheism.

Exterminatus powiedział(a):
You may not be far off, there is a political theory that was developed under Nixon called "madman theory", it was also suggested by Machiavelli that it was a "very wise thing to simulate madness". The idea behind it for Nixon was to make Communist nations fearful that Nixon himself was irrational and volatile and if you fucked with the US he'd leave your nation in ruins. And some do speculate that Trump has been borrowing from this idea to keep other nations on their toes.
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To be more exact: Nixon made his name as being EXTREMELY anti-Communist and his career in politics was born out of the Alger Hiss affair, which had Nixon exposing the spy activities of Hiss.

When he got elected President in 1968, he based his foreign policy agenda on said "Madman Theory"; which amounted to a Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. Nixon would play bad cop and Kissinger would play the good cop. Nixon would play the rabid madman and Kissinger would basically offer more moderate solutions to issues involving China and Russia, to "keep Nixon from going full retard".

This also helped Nixon when he publicly broke ranks from other anti-Communists in the GOP and did stuff like visit China. It helped him shore up his bona fides so that he could do shit (like said visit to China) that would get anyone else declared a traitor.
 
MirrorNoir powiedział(a):
To be more exact: Nixon made his name as being EXTREMELY anti-Communist and his career in politics was born out of the Alger Hiss affair, which had Nixon exposing the spy activities of Hiss.

When he got elected President in 1968, he based his foreign policy agenda on said "Madman Theory"; which amounted to a Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. Nixon would play bad cop and Kissinger would play the good cop. Nixon would play the rabid madman and Kissinger would basically offer more moderate solutions to issues involving China and Russia, to "keep Nixon from going full exceptional individual".

This also helped Nixon when he publicly broke ranks from other anti-Communists in the GOP and did stuff like visit China. It helped him shore up his bona fides so that he could do shit (like said visit to China) that would get anyone else declared a traitor.
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Trump is using a modified version for dealing with North Korea. While making it clear he's no fan of their shit publicly, he's willing to deal with Kim so long as Kim is willing to deal with him. Given how Trump is a businessman at heart, it squares perfectly with his hardball tactics of leaning on the other guy until he's willing to make a deal, then once progress is made on making a deal, the stick is substituted for the carrot.

Once the other side stops being willing to make a deal, he plays hardball again.

Nixon used Kissinger as his proxy for the carrot with him as the stick, but same logic holds.
 
It's HK-47 powiedział(a):
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"We're not banning Republicans, only people who voice support for the elected Republican president."

You are a knitting website. Sit your ass down.
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Come on man...how did you not throw in a Knitters please?

It's HK-47 powiedział(a):
Some fat guy turned fit guy who writes for the Huffington Post. Good on him for losing the weight, though. I always love a good weight-loss story. It's a shame he didn't pack on any brains with those gains.
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From fat manlet to somewhat muscular manlet.
 
MirrorNoir powiedział(a):
Social Justice Warriors are still butt-hurt/bitter that they failed to co-opt the atheist movement in the late 00s/early 10s.

As such, they love to mock atheists via "fedora" insults because atheists were the first community to tell the SJW infiltration horde to fuck off and calling them lying whores when they tried to stage a hostile take-over by way of crying rape, in order to eliminate the top atheists in the movement and install themselves as the queens and kings of atheism.
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Yeah, but in the context he's using it, it's for anyone who he might consider right wing, center-right or an "entitled nerd". So it feels more like how when people started calling SJWs "snowflakes", the SJWs started calling everyone who criticized them that in return. So while I don't doubt that there are SJW atheists who use fedora as an insult to non-sjw or conservative atheists, in the case of the cuddly satanist, I think he's trying to co-opt the word but in a way that doesn't make sense with the origin of the word itself.
 
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