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How did the US defeat the Soviets and win the Cold War?
Yzermandius19 replied to August1991's topic in The Rest of the World
a monster created to win the Cold War and it worked only Nixon can go to China -
How did the US defeat the Soviets and win the Cold War?
Yzermandius19 replied to August1991's topic in The Rest of the World
America won the Cold War with a two punch combo 1) realizing that Communism is not a monolith aligned against America exploiting that by making a deals with some Communists whose interests more closely aligned with the Americans than the Soviets China being the prime example The Nixonian Punch 2) forcing the Soviets to overspend and overreach with their military in order to try to compete with America which they couldn't afford to sustain long term The Reaganite Punch Nixonian Punch + Reaganite Punch = Soviet Collapse -
under the onslaught of the information war the weak will perish Canada is weak it cannot be salvaged and even if it could that would be a bad thing there is no point in clinging to Canada's corpse it is time to move on Canada is dead wishing that were not so, will not save it nostalgia won't save it either
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it is not worth salvaging all the reasons that it is such a good place to live are undermined by Confederation you like living here now? think of how much better it would be if the provinces were free of this Confederation albatross you falsely attribute this being a good place to live, with the existence of Confederation a correlation equals causation fallacy if ever there was one salvaging it would be counter-productive af time to opt out of the silly shotgun marriage the sooner the better proximity and integration with America is the reason it's such a nice place to live, don't need Canada for that being British is the reason it's such a nice place to live, don't need Canada for that either Canada just gets in the way
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What part of, obvious lesser of two evils is obvious, don't you understand? Just because I point out that Hamas is worse, does not mean I believe Israel can do no wrong Me calling you out on your spurious attacks on Israel, does not mean I think that there aren't criticisms of Israel that can be made, it means you suck at making the case against Israel and just buy into the stupidest anti-israeli talking points
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Virtuous Canada will not allow more coal mines
Yzermandius19 replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
it ain't nothing though, so your point is moot -
yet a lot of highly religious people are highly educated and moral people and a lot of atheists are uneducated and immoral people your knee jerk blaming of religiousity for lack of education and morality makes no sense, it is not the high religiousity that drives these factors in Muslim nations
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Virtuous Canada will not allow more coal mines
Yzermandius19 replied to Argus's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
then comes oil and you don't need to cut down as much trees for farmland, because it's far more productive with proper fertilizer fossil fuel doubly whammy to save the trees when it comes to shipbuilding, innovations of the industrial revolution led to move away from wood ships to metal ships as well economic success is not bad for the environment, just the opposite, free market ftw the cleanest and least polluted cities and countryside reside in the most economically developed nations for a reason and the dirtiest and most polluted cities and countryside reside in the least economically developed nations for a reason if one is a real environmentalist they would stop blaming the free market for environmental problems and start leveraging it for environmental solutions being a Luddite is antithetical to being an environmentalist, this is what the historical record indicates -
reason can be abused to justify all sorts of bad things, as can faith faith can be used to justify all sorts of good things, as can reason they are what you make of them both have been responsible for good and bad throughout history including the mistreatment of women
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atheists are just as capable of treating women poorly singling out religion is silly
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Hamas fires rockets is worse than any provocation by Israel in that sequence by several orders of magnitude and that is what kicked off the actual war Palestinians had reason to be mad at Israel before they fired the rockets is not a good excuse Hamas started it they are the aggressor who broke the peace because they got butthurt, not Israel obvious lesser evil is obvious
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education does not eradicate bad ideas or actions or even come close to it wishful thinking is a helluva drug
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the only way to exterminate all the bad ideas or bad actions of human beings is to exterminate all those who think and act death solves all problems - no man, no problem Stalin knows not exactly a desirable outcome
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your godless heathen nations who try to stamp out religion like you support are the most genocidal nations in the history of the world by several orders of magnitude you pretending Christian's are somehow worse is asinine if you really believe in collective guilt you would not side with atheists over Christians they have far more blood on their hands
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people will act on bad ideas regardless of your desire to exterminate the bad actions you can reduce the problem, but it's not going to be exterminated
