Current Affairs Afghanistan

[dholliday]

America first and its bring the boys home are happy. One of Trumps most populist policies enacted few months later than Trump planned. Must be very disenfranchising.

Trump & Pompeo reduced the US military numbers from 10,000 to 2,500 with barely any trouble. As he had good comms with the Taliban chiefs it appears likely his administration would've managed the final 2500 without great incident.

Biden, and whoever was onside with him on this (not many, by all accounts), made an unholy mess out of getting this final 2500 out, including leaving an immense, sheer unbelievable amount of high-end military equipment behind for the Taliban (and by extension the Chinese) to plunder. Not to mention the tragic human cost of those chaotic airport scenes.

Let's at least give Trump some due: his foreign policy, while bullish, did not result in increased strife in the Middle-East. Biden's here for barely 6 months and we already potentially face a refugee crisis to match 2015/6's Syrian waves.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Not really sure what’s going on here but hazard a guess our resident YouTube academic has resurfaced, posting from dubious websites or sources then when pulled up on it is saying something like ‘play the man not the ball’ or ‘I’m just looking to provide a different point of view’
One of the problems with the internet is it has meant that individuals think they are privy to some sort of higher knowledge after watching a few YouTube vids instead of putting in the hard yards by actually reading a book or studying and critiquing information.
Lazy, self indulgent, faux intellectualism.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Not really sure what’s going on here but hazard a guess our resident YouTube academic has resurfaced, posting from dubious websites or sources then when pulled up on it is saying something like ‘play the man not the ball’ or ‘I’m just looking to provide a different point of view’
One of the problems with the internet is it has meant that individuals think they are privy to some sort of higher knowledge after watching a few YouTube vids instead of putting in the hard yards by actually reading a book or studying and critiquing information.
Lazy, self indulgent, faux intellectualism.

I am not sure if you are referring to the guy I quoted before, but if you are then I think your guesswork is very insightful.

 

[PhilM]

So you're saying @JimmyJeffers that Derek from the Dingle, with his sole D in Food Technology, isn't a reputable source with his YouTube video?

I shouldn't listen to his waffling comments about vaccines, immigration and economic (including crypto) over those of people with degrees and years of experience?

 

[dholliday]

Not really sure what’s going on here but hazard a guess our resident YouTube academic has resurfaced, posting from dubious websites or sources

spot-check of all the sources & links i've made in this thread:

The Guardian
MSNBC

...oh, just those two then. Highly dubious!

By the way, have you seen my thread about how mass psychosis affects perception? You might find it illuminating, tho' I wouldn't bet money on it:

Current Affairs - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

The best video of 2021 so far, smartly explains the senseless inflexibility of many people's views today, especially after a year+ of enduring the pandemic (or rather, enduring society's reaction to it): MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL A mass psychosis is an...

www.grandoldteam.com

 

[tsubaki]

spot-check of all the sources & links i've made in this thread:

The Guardian
MSNBC

...oh, just those two then. Highly dubious!

By the way, have you seen my thread about how mass psychosis affects perception? You might find it illuminating, tho' I wouldn't bet money on it:

Current Affairs - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

The best video of 2021 so far, smartly explains the senseless inflexibility of many people's views today, especially after a year+ of enduring the pandemic (or rather, enduring society's reaction to it): MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL A mass psychosis is an...

www.grandoldteam.com

you were quoting from the Washington Examiner last night

 

[Shevin Keedy]

you were quoting from the Washington Examiner last night

He quoted me as well before and I am hardly a reputable source.

 

[dholliday]

you were quoting from the Washington Examiner last night

not in this thread.

don't recall linking anything from WE anyway, what was the post?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

spot-check of all the sources & links i've made in this thread:

The Guardian
MSNBC

...oh, just those two then. Highly dubious!

By the way, have you seen my thread about how mass psychosis affects perception? You might find it illuminating, tho' I wouldn't bet money on it:

Current Affairs - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

The best video of 2021 so far, smartly explains the senseless inflexibility of many people's views today, especially after a year+ of enduring the pandemic (or rather, enduring society's reaction to it): MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL A mass psychosis is an...

www.grandoldteam.com

 

[dholliday]

As ever, in the absence of counter-arguments, use the fallacy method.

 

[dead_soft]

As ever, in the absence of counter-arguments, use the fallacy method.

Nice to see you went away and brushed up on Basic Fallacies 101 For Very Smart Boys during your break

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Because he is looking desparately for ways to draw equivalence between Biden and his misunderstood, 4 dimensional chess-playing hero Donald Trump

Of course any talk of an impeachment is sheer stupidity, his own party rule both houses and wouldn't no matter how abhorrent his actions anyway.

He's been an extremely bad president in his own right and any comparisons to a former imbecilic president aren't any comfort.

 

[tsubaki]

not in this thread.

don't recall linking anything from WE anyway, what was the post?

here you go: https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...-that-right-soon.92716/page-2741#post-8985441

 

[dholliday]

here you go: https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/...-that-right-soon.92716/page-2741#post-8985441

A Yahoo News link on a piece from Rasmussen and WE reporting on polls which indicate Trump would beat Biden if the election was held now.

Ok. And?

 

[tsubaki]

A Yahoo News link on a piece from Rasmussen and WE reporting on polls which indicate Trump would beat Biden if the election was held now.

Ok. And?

no, its a Washington Examiner piece - you can tell this by the Washington Examiner logo at the top left of the article, Yahoo News just re-posted it