TheLurker

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TheLurker,

You are an idiot if you really think that in three days the dog went from a healthy weight to overweight.

TheLurker,

Yeah I’m sure he fled his country at 16 then chose to fight against the Nazis 4 years later because he was focused on “political power”. That’s fucking ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated

And again, IamRight links are bullshit. Show me published papers or edu links.

I have links that say the world leaders are Reptile Aliens. researchgate.net/…/240595423_The_Reptoid_Hypothes…

TheLurker, (edited )

Yes they can, hence why this unabashed vitriol is clearly just Lemmy group think.

Because while you may not agree with the fact he is closely associated with the Republicans. He did get a Nobel Peace Prize.

And while I never praised the man, the fact I called out people for bandwagoning, only for the responses to be more bandwagoning and the attempt to frame what I posted as support for the man clearly shows the level of blind indoctrination of “this bad, this good” group think going on here.

Also he was a staunch anti communist. Probably the real reason for the outpouring of hatred.

TheLurker,

Unlike yourself I don’t need to take other people’s words and regurgitate them. Nor do I need cheap parlour tricks like inserting what I wish to argue against as the premise of my argument.

That was kind of the point. Sorry it was too nuanced for you.

Let me simply.

You are adding no value to this discussion because your comments are irrelevant and superficial.

TheLurker, (edited )

Wow you listened to someone else’s opinion for 6 hours and provided an IamRight weblink.

You are clearly an expert.

I bet your “research” doesn’t mention his Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end America’s involvement in the Vietnam war.

See I can cherry pick facts as well.

But let me guess, your counter argument is “hurr durr globalisation propaganda”, right?

TheLurker,

You are correct there. They were big words wasted on a small mind.

My apologies.

TheLurker,

Most of you in this thread have no idea what he did in his career, what his achievements were or what his critics levelled against him.

You are just engaging in the exact type of cliche group think which you all claim to stand against.

Try thinking for yourself and stop with the Hollywood two dimensional heroes and villains trope.

TheLurker,

I mean really? How many unsubstantiated claims do you want to make, and must I really call them out?

A “mass murderer”, really, can you provide evidence other than IamRight weblinks? No you cannot, a legitimate criticism would be that he turned a blind eye to war crimes, he was not a mass murderer. That’s nothing more than hyperbola.

He was “A Jew but hated his own people”. Wow okay, yeah sure, that’s so egregious it doesn’t require rebuttal.

In any case, where did I state that I rejected criticism? I simply pointed out that Lemmy got a hardon today for dogpiling on this subject and there is no discourse, there is only group think.

TheLurker, (edited )

Well then please elaborate. No need to be coy about it, you seem rather confident. Unless of course you are not.

So to reiterate, name the country.

TheLurker, (edited )

Well he was instrumental in ending the Vietnam War. He and his family fled the Nazis in 1938, then he joined the us army to fight them in 1943.

His views on defeating communism meant he also advocated for some fucked up shit. And most of his work in policy is why I’m not a fan of him.

But it’s not a binary thing. He is not the devil. Not even close to some of the people in power today.

My point has and continues to be that there is no discourse going on right now. There is just a dogpile.

I didn’t want to argue about the virtues of Kissenger, or lack. I wanted to point out the large amount of group think people are going into on THE SUBJECT.

TheLurker,

So you didn’t rebuff my point. Only continued your line that the Nobel Peace Prize is irrelevant.

But I noticed you didn’t comment on the irrelevancy of those examples I gave you.

So tell me, why are these awards to Narges Mohammadi irrelevant? Why is it irrelevant to Nelson Mandela?

Don’t post more IamRight links about Kissenger. We established that this was a controversial award. We established that he is controversial.

I agreed.

Tell me why the award is irrelevant? Because your position is now hinging on the fact it is. This was your point was it not?

TheLurker, (edited )

I never claimed that discourse doesn’t require rebuttal, in fact invite it. Honest debate is important.

Now I’m not saying this directly to you, but most of the replies I’m getting are not that. And most of the posts and threads about this subject are not that. It’s an echo chamber.

I just don’t want more irrelevant “lol you stupid” responses because they are pointless.

Now I’m probably going to piss you off here. But I don’t put a lot of stock in random .com and .net type links.

If they are .edu or at least well reviewed wiki article then I’ll consider them. Because I can also find links that support any argument and claim any “truth”.

As an example, the world is run by Reptile Aliens. researchgate.net/…/240595423_The_Reptoid_Hypothes…

TheLurker,

Here is a question for the mind readers out there.

Why do I have a face of post-nut clarity when I’m only standing here looking at you?

Trick question. 😉

TheLurker,

It’s the leopard’s ate my face business strategy. 😆

TheLurker,

I mean he has all but announced the fact Twitter will go into administration soon.

He literally said this latest move by advertisers will tank the company. He then blamed them for this.

My guess is he wants to get the narrative going that other companies killed twitter and not his mismanagement of it.

TheLurker,

That’s possible. You will still need to have the generation somewhere, and if you are going solar then the Northern Territory is an ideal location as it has very little rain and abundance of sunshine.

I’m not suggesting your idea is invalidated by the example I give. I’m simply pointing out that in this example, transoceanic electrical transmission isn’t a bad idea.

When all things are considered in this specific example. The infrastructure cost is outweighed by the impracticality of Singapore generating solar energy.

TheLurker,

I was referring to the comment that transoceanic electrical transmission is too expensive and impractical.

In the case of the NT - Singapore project, it is probably the most practical and cost effective option IF solar is the way they want to go.

TheLurker, (edited )

I’ll assume you are unfamiliar with the size of Singapore and the geography of the Northern Territory.

Singapore lacks the space for pumped storage. Singapore’s density is 8592 per square kilometre. Compare this to India at only 481 or the US at 37.

The Northern Territory in Australia is extremely flat and extremely arid, as such it lacks the topography to build water storage and the water required for it.

TheLurker,

Oh great, now we need to take it down from Big Ben and de-magnetise it. 🤦‍♂️

TheLurker, (edited )

Poor Elon trying to tech-bro his way into social dominance by buying a social media platform.

And to think that only ~6 years ago people saw him as a progressive visionary.

There is the lesson people. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt.

TheLurker, (edited )

I only despise academia for their insistence to gauge value on the number of published papers. Not because I needed my thesis to be published before obtaining my PhD.

My thesis had more value than the next 7 papers I published before I left academia.

TheLurker,

That comment says more about you than it does about the origins of the word barbarian.

The word barbarian has its earliest known origin in ancient Greece and was used to refer to anyone who wasn’t Greek, and sometimes for other Greeks, who were “different”.

So who do YOU think the “ethnic group” this word refers to is?

TheLurker,

At the rate they are going, 404 is the next thing you will see when going to their shit site.

TheLurker,

I have one for you.

“You gotta pay your bills and it can get worse.”

TheLurker,

Yes there is a reason to run a part of your business at a loss. It is well known market strategy and it is called a Loss Leader.

You offer a product or services at a loss because it helps you generate more revenue in another part of your business.

And plenty of companies keep products that don’t make money, because they are Loss Leaders into products that do make money.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

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