Absoluto
3mo ago
Why do you think Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania weren’t bound to happen?
Absoluto
3mo ago
The independence movements of non-USSR Warsaw pact countries was written on the walls, no hardliner could have managed those. With those revolutions kicking off its impossible for me to imagine there SSR’s not following suit.
Absoluto
3mo ago
I completely disagree. I think many people can’t be charming while doing their favourite thing. Some people really don’t know how to be anything but self centred. People trying to fake warmth are usually very obvious, and if indeed Trump is faking here, it reveals a very sharp mind.
Strong agree. He comes off as the exact opposite of a mean spirited sociopathic bully, he’s downright warm, empathizing, understanding, if I only had this footage to judge from I would absolutely believe he is a very good grandfather.
I clicked randomly through the video and ended up at 18:50, which is a conversation where he is listening to his opponent talk about his own experience and Donald is intently listening, not interrupting, not changing the topic, and then expanding on what the other guy said. A lot of people who think of him as mean or abusive could learn a thing or two about how to socialize from him.
Absoluto
3mo ago
It does make it not weird, everyone else at the table was saying similar things. I mean it’s still kind of performative but it’s not as if she just said that out of imbecility
Absoluto
4mo ago
Fine, but why not? (Psychoanalysing, I didn’t do any genetic analysis, he revealed his ethnicity giddily more than once)
Absoluto
4mo ago
This comment (like many others of yours) seems motivated by a desire to guard your ego against the idea that indigenous Europeans don’t like your presence, and that you may not actually belong here.
There is no tantrum, there is just the usual democratic process, there is no punishment, merely Macron trying to retain power, again the usual democratic process.
And what maybe considered the most important part by people here is the law enforcement that while far from perfect for example both in Poland and in Russia(still much worse in the latter) does work at keeping streets safe, public transit clean and gangs non-existent.
This seems deeply incorrect to me. Warsaw (and also the rest of Poland for that matter) doesn’t have stricter policing than London, and I’ve never witnessed any police take action on litterers. The one possibility I can imagine to explain this is that maybe littering is contagious and we have few homeless who get the ball rolling. Otherwise my explanation is that Polish people are just more hightrust+ pro social than the British.
I want them to convert to the local religion(or be a quiet atheist), I want them to do everything they can to not be annoyingly different, I want them to completely abandon all loyalty to the country they came from, I want them to not comment about how strange things are to them here, I want them to not advocate for their own identitarian concerns and police the locals’ behaviour, I want them to introduce zero social divisions that will suck up previous collective mental energy, I want them to keep their heads down for at least a few generations, and for godsake I don’t want them seeking the pity of the sentimental half of the local population with a saviour complex. My country has one visible minority ethnic group which has done a very good job of this, and so they have been awarded with trust. Other ethnics groups have not been awarded this same trust, and until they have I would like to keep their immigration to sub 200/ year.
Absoluto
5mo ago
I think I just realized I had been mixing up Rashida Jones and Johannssons voice this whole time
Absoluto
6mo ago
Why would you think that? Do you think a mass conversion happened that was initially unopposed by their local brothers? Do you think that rates of intermarriage were as high as between Goy Slavs?
He took a lot of liberty with that here. He’s also being very emotional while saying this.
And yeah, maybe if Hitler did come up the Mao analogy would have been better.
Absoluto
7mo ago
Walt has a lot of patience with Tracing.
Tracing chill the fuck out dude
Just an example; “you’re like a communist who still praises Mao”. Walt doesn’t praise Hitler, does he? Nobody expects soft democratic socialists to feel shame about their prior opinions about the bourgeoisie.
Yes but it doesn’t make it a tautology. A corollary isn’t any less true because it trivially follows from something else, and yet given the truth value of what the corollary follows, you also have “no choice but to accept it”.
For example, just because you explain survivor bias and how the jets that actually return are the ones that survive, you don’t actually take an issue with the “tautological nature”. The explanation is pointing at a gap in your understanding of logical consequences, which aren’t by any means a tautology. The same thing is happening here, natural selection must occur given certain conditions, and Darwin’s gift is forcing you to see the logical necessity.
Absoluto
7mo ago
It’s not a tautology when viewed from a human scale perspective of time. It is hard for humans to imagine when wondering why organisms look the way they do all the potential descendants of the organisms that didn’t survive.
From gods eye perspective, I agree, it is obvious that natural selection happens. There is no logical alternative, you cannot not accept it.
Absoluto
7mo ago
But are we really supposed to be content by saying that those species who survive are alive and reproduce, while those that went extinct don't reproduce anymore?
Yes? When reality is so simple, just accept it. Why do you desire theoretical complexity when it’s unnecessary?
Absoluto
10mo ago
Ok sure, I’ll respect that, but for your consideration this was an invitation to gush out a motivation. I meant it less as an authentic idea and more as an explanation of the emotional motivation that I feel is at work here.
Absoluto
10mo ago
Dems haven’t gotten tired of screaming over nothing yet, ergo, there is still some screaming left for them to do.
You are saying that Russians do not consider Poland to be within the rightful Russian sphere of influence?
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