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by Goodspeed
26 Jan 2024, 08:31
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

The reason why Trump says the USA will not defend Europe is to force Europe to start investing in its own militaries, which he hopes will lead to more sales for the USA defence industry. With Trump it's all about "whats in it for me" and "how can I extract an advantage out of you&quo...
by Goodspeed
26 Jan 2024, 08:24
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Of course, that doesn't mean Ukraine should be abandonned, that we should resign ourselves that it's a lost cause already. But I think there could be a more realistic approach of freezing the conflict and waiting for better times for Ukraine to recover its lost counties. The main problem, as everyo...
by Goodspeed
25 Jan 2024, 18:05
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

fightinfrenchman wrote:
25 Jan 2024, 17:56
They might stop at Ukraine but if I lived next to Ukraine I would not be convinced of that lol
I'm not convinced either, but harcha seemed confident that they wouldn't stop at Ukraine.

@Dolan Are you at all worried? I seem to recall you saying you aren't, but don't remember why.
by Goodspeed
25 Jan 2024, 18:02
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Do you see the ridiculousness of running this campaign like that? It's like Democrats have given up on bragging about economic results or other "serious" talking points because they know the polls say that doesn't impress many. It's stirring up emotions that will gain you points, they're ...
by Goodspeed
25 Jan 2024, 17:47
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

trump seems more popular idk. just aggregation of the various media i consume about the topic What kind of media do you consume about the topic? Trump isn't president at the moment and he hasn't participated in any of the debates so it makes sense that you're missing out on how much people absolute...
by Goodspeed
25 Jan 2024, 17:42
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

It just seems that Democrats are only running the campaign on one single idea: o no, not my hecking democracy. It seems this way because you don't live in the US and are not being targeted by any campaigns I don't live in the US and it doesn't seem that way to me. It would be a very strange strateg...
by Goodspeed
24 Jan 2024, 13:49
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Why?
by Goodspeed
23 Jan 2024, 21:49
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

So what's the common idea of US citizens nowadays? Here's what I've got from local news: - Trump is likely to win in 2024 election; - Trump will immediately abandon any support to Ukraine, forcing zelensky to surrender; he'll ally with putin to destroy European economy; he'll make US quit NATO, and...
by Goodspeed
17 Jan 2024, 10:52
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: Freetalk Friday 1
Replies: 3949
Views: 72721
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Re: Freetalk Friday 1

People have this masochistic tendency to keep up with things that offend them
by Goodspeed
17 Jan 2024, 09:19
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Replies: 554
Views: 14949
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Re: Israeli-Palestinian conflict

It's reasonable that everyone has sympathy for the weak: but it may not be right sometimes. The Arabs are weak and are invaded by Israel, but imagine what will happen if Hamas have tanks, fighters and even atomic bombs, while Israel only have rockets and tunnels? Then we would have sympathy for Isr...
by Goodspeed
04 Jan 2024, 23:42
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: happy new year
Replies: 7
Views: 443
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Re: HNY Esoc

Yeah you're on autopilot here
by Goodspeed
04 Jan 2024, 22:33
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: Territorial.io
Replies: 27
Views: 13575
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Re: Territorial.io

Played a few games, it seems similar to Risk but real time and without dice. Seems fun strategically but I wasn't a huge fan of the gameplay. Seemed to require some APM. When I'm in that kind of mood I tend to just boot up sc2. I then found out Risk has a pretty good online client and started playin...
by Goodspeed
01 Jan 2024, 00:10
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: happy new year
Replies: 7
Views: 443
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Re: HNY Esoc

... of nice things?
by Goodspeed
31 Dec 2023, 14:55
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

I think he meant going to school out of interest, not necessarily switching careers
by Goodspeed
31 Dec 2023, 13:21
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Saving up some of those sweet $$ and then moving back to Europe could be a play. I would also study mostly out of interest. And if that interest somehow survives school, I'd pursue a career in it too because it would make work more bearable, perhaps. For a while. If I were a company I'd totally hire...
by Goodspeed
31 Dec 2023, 09:18
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

School is where passion goes to die. and then you come back to your studies years later and start getting interested again. why? because it's on your own terms and not school. it's almost like school should be open to anyone without an age requirement There's an age requirement? I seem to doubt tha...
by Goodspeed
30 Dec 2023, 17:12
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

You can argue that being objective means you have the only right point of view which makes it not really a point of view because a point of view is necessarily biased. But that's still not the same as being neutral. Being neutral means not picking a side, being objective is picking the side of the t...
by Goodspeed
30 Dec 2023, 10:52
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

[mention]u93[/mention] Most of the boredom about debating politics is that it's always couched in the same exhausted terms: party X vs party Y, mah set of based values vs your set of despicable values, my moral guys vs your immoral guys, my based positive well-intended optimal vision for the future...
by Goodspeed
30 Dec 2023, 10:48
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

iNcog wrote:
30 Dec 2023, 00:41
Goodspeed wrote:
29 Dec 2023, 08:39
School is where passion goes to die.
and then you come back to your studies years later and start getting interested again. why? because it's on your own terms and not school.

it's almost like school should be open to anyone without an age requirement
There's an age requirement?
by Goodspeed
29 Dec 2023, 08:39
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Letting Trump get away with trying to illegally overturn an election could prove problematic in the future. What made you so concerned he'd be getting away with that, since he's buried in tens of lawsuits right now. One of the two political parties being behind him, half the country being spoonfed ...
by Goodspeed
28 Dec 2023, 14:53
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Then why invest so much energy into keeping up with that guy's legal issues. Mostly because I'm interested both in politics and in law, and of course drama, so it's all highly entertaining for me. But yeah, it matters. Letting Trump get away with trying to illegally overturn an election could prove...
by Goodspeed
28 Dec 2023, 09:56
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Yeah whose hopes? I don't think anyone here is optimistic about US politics, with or without Trump
by Goodspeed
27 Dec 2023, 22:44
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

That's convenient for your boy but I think he'll find the justice system less generous. As it should be.
by Goodspeed
27 Dec 2023, 13:56
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

Why do you want that loophole to exist? It doesn't btw. Trump's social media posts will be evidence in the trial
by Goodspeed
27 Dec 2023, 12:36
Forum: Real-life Discussion
Topic: US Politics Megathread
Replies: 31381
Views: 393621
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Re: US Politics Megathread

So a zoom call would be incriminating but telling people to do things on social media is fine. What a weird, arbitrary, and easy to abuse line to draw

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