hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3d ago
The USA did not lose Vietnam, although the public thinks we did. America concluded(wrongly) that south Vietnam was capable of fending of a north Vietnamese invasion, and declined to bail them out when this turned out not to be the case- the republic of Vietnam was independent for several years without US troops or support, and the commies had promised not to invade in exchange for American withdrawal. Nixon and Kissinger surely knew that they would go back on this promise, but the ARVN fended off a full scale invasion without US support before reshuffling their general staff due to political turmoil and then losing the next round.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Being opposed to the war is not treason. Treason would be something like assisting Iran. It's conceivably possible that a congressman might do this, but it probably looks more like Bob Menendez-type behavior than a political stunt.
As far as democrats' political behavior, this is pretty normal for late-stage republics. Iran can't really hurt us that much; obviously attacking them was dumb, but we're kind of committed now. The real question is 'is the local allies part of the plan going to work'. I don't have the highest hopes, but Iran is kind of falling apart right now.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Entirely possible, but the context is certainly suspicious given the rest of the article taking pains to try to paint it as an attack by white supremacist islamophobes.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The ayatollah was tweeting about it before he got got.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Who said anything about someone else's vision? If your vision isn't shared, then it's not going to happen. End of story. And someone has to be in charge of a group. Mathematically, that's probably not going to be you(see: definition of a group).
You'd really rather have the future look like... nothing you're a part of than have someone else call the shots?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
You mean a follower? Again, what's wrong with that?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
So? What's wrong with having a leader setting the field?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
You will need to conform yourself to a group- what did you think ‘community’ meant, thoughts, presentations, essays? Band together.
Of course, you could also simply be out of luck. An unwillingness to abandon individualism won’t get you anywhere. But civilization defining ideas shared with other families might, because the future belongs to those who show up. You can as part of a group influence the next generation. You cannot do it on your own. Yes this entails making compromises on your preferences. But the alternative is to forfeit the field.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
As if the rest of that comment isn’t?
hydroacetylene
4d ago
No? The loopy ideologies involved in the conflict are misinterpretations of messianic prophecies which do not involve human sacrifice.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Uh, does it? Lots of people use woo-woo crap despite being more than scientifically literate enough to know better; I would expect the correlation between alternative medicine and scientific literacy to be near 0(or even, as in the case of creationism, running the opposite way you'd expect).
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Trump's success is probably more due to unshackling the GOP from their more unpopular policies, especially economic ones, than due to immigration restriction. People forget Trump's actual policies are surprisingly moderate.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Needs more continental philosophy.
Joseph de Maistre wrote 'La contre-revolucion n'est pas une revolucion contraire, mais sur le contraire de la revolucion'. An important line, but incomplete by itself- de Maistre left his philosophy on reacting to the French revolution incomplete, because the reactionary impulse, by itself, is simply a leg of a Hegelian dialectic which will synthesize into a less extreme version of the revolution. Which is exactly what happened in France.
By itself, opposition to revolution is merely driving the speed limit. What is needed is a paradigm shift to escape the revolutionary paradigm. And central planning does not have a good historical record for constructing a paradigm.
I notice you talking about guarding your family and weathering the storm. What you don't talk about is forming a community with likeminded families. You must network, man is a social animal. Your children will defect if they don't have friends. They will defect if your subculture does not offer a pathway to becoming an adult. You need other families for this. And out of that group a paradigm will arise organically, a very similar paradigm to the pre-revolution, but not exactly the same because it's a different world. And a different paradigm will naturally tend to form independent institutions, which grow slowly, over generations, until you eat the revolution itself.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
She's Irish.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Almost every construction trade organization will mouth some BS about wanting to increase the percentage of female -whatever- into the high rather than low single digits. It's simply something they're expected to say.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Horse doctors are still heavily male.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Mobile homes are much cheaper than equivalent stick build, so at some level prefab has to pay off.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean, it seems obvious that China may be pro-Russia, but is unwilling to eat Russia's war bill because it's a big bill.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean you know workers in the workforce also work fewer hours, right? We're a wealthier society and people don't work as long.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Housewives, especially with children, are doing valuable and productive work which simply doesn't contribute to corporate bottom lines. They're doing less of it than they did in the past, but men also work fewer hours(six twelves was literally considered a desirable schedule at one point!).
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You could live in a trailer- much cheaper than a single family house. Or you could live in not California or the NYC metro area. Kansas City isn't the end of the world. The majority of the country doesn't have $2 million dollar starter homes by any metric.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
It's called the CLEP exam. You can take a CLEP test at any community college to test out of the course and then transfer it to a public university(which the majority of students attend).
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Uh, this is senoritas just not eating enough when they're still trying to land a husband. Not 'healthy' food, which isn't going to be a big selling point for a potential husband anyways(no, your tradwife fantasy doesn't entail coming home to a nice kale salad either). Of course they stop the crash dieting when the mission is accomplished- nobody likes it.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Fair, but also women care less about men's looks than men do about women's. Might I suggest 'funny' would be a better adjective?
We left the job done in Vietnam, though- the war goals never included the destruction of the north Vietnamese commie regime.
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