Reply With QuoteThis is what happens when silly bullshit becomes confused with reality: Sri Lanka's Organic Farming Experiment Went Catastrophically Wrong
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This is important:
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio - YouTube
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This is what happens when silly bullshit becomes confused with reality: Sri Lanka's Organic Farming Experiment Went Catastrophically Wrong
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I was wondering who would reduce this to a helping Hitler hypothetical.Originally Posted by anticausal
Rather than contemplating all the possible things that aren’t happening, don’t you tell us how you think about what he is actually planning on doing? Are you capable of having an original opinion?
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Hitler? Instead of being cryptic, could you please explain what you don't like about anticausal's post?
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Ray Dalio has been doing decent work. I don’t agree with all of his points, but he seems to be on a good trail. He is a bad speaker though, his writing is much better.
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What I don’t like is that his response is a straw-man argument. Others , yourself included, expressed a clear opinion . We were not all in agreement, but we were discussing what the guy actually proposed to do.
Further, it is often a logical fallacy to invalidate an argument by using a different scenario as an example. When this line of arguing eventually gets to “therefore you support Hitler” it is known as reductio ad Hitlerum.
Reductio ad Hitlerum - Wikipedia
While anticasual did not get there, that was the direction he was going. In my opinion.
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Spain's solar energy crisis: 62,000 people bankrupt after investing in solar panels ? FRANCE 24 - YouTube
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Why renewables can?t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia - YouTube
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Environmentalists have long promoted renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind farms to save the climate. But What about when those technologies destroy the environment and it's wild life? In this provocative talk, Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment" and energy expert, Michael Shellenberger explains why solar and wind farms require so much land for mining and energy production, and an alternative path to saving both the climate and the natural environment. Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment and President of Environmental Progress, a research and policy organization. A lifelong environmentalist, Michael changed his mind about nuclear energy and has helped save enough nuclear reactors to prevent an increase in carbon emissions equivalent to adding more than 10 million cars to the road.
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I think this is a pretty accurate summary of the situation: He agrees with the Western propaganda, and he's going over there to fight for something he thinks is worth dying for. He's obviously not going just to help the poor schmuk next to him as you suggested. That's just stupid, which is what my reverse scenario was intended to illustrate.
I made no argument about whether what he was doing was right or wrong in that specific reply. My only target was the little nugget of "I fight for the guy next to me" propaganda which has been exploited so much since 9/11. It's basically an admission that what you're fighting for is bullshit, while still trying to maintain a fighting spirit in the soldier.
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You could be right.
"Geopolitically we live in what is called a multipolar world. EU Power politician Guy Verhofstadt coined it perfectly in 2009 when he called it an age of empires. On Sept 16, 2019, he stated again that “the world order of tomorrow is not a world based on nation states or countries. It’s a world order that is based on empires.” In his speech he references the US and Russia as empires and that the only way that Europe will be able to defend its interests is by doing it together, in other words within the EU empire." Erika Grey
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