mostly just folks very resistant to learn some quite simple things due to their overly propagandized worldview

I’m talking about people that have trouble with basic understandings of political economy like:

leftism : anti-capitalist :: liberal : anti-communist

I can only imagine the shock they are experiencing

we’re mostly pretty chill if people can be chill with each other, unfortunately some folks are just uncomfortable with understanding the complexity of the world I guess

‘I Think The Best Road Ahead To Human Happiness Is To Expect Less’ … ‘safely operated trains’.

Why NATO intervention will not lead to World War 3?
Russia can not even win against Ukraine.
Why could Russian win a world war?
We are 20 times bigger economies and by far better armed. Russia can never win World War 3

I mostly use index trigger shifters, but I’m open to trying non-indexed friction shifters. Supposedly less maintenance due to cable stretch with them. I guess those are both considered manual though.

Oh you mean on automobiles?

I learned to drive stick in a very hilly and traffic congested city. It was pretty intense. Haven’t driven a stick vehicle in a while though.

for your own mental health, set some limits on how much you engage with this sort of thing

it’s fine to make an effort post/response on occasion, but do not assume you are going to convince anyone really, just write for the lurkers

do not get drawn into the shit, just make your points/refutations as clear and concise as possible

the internet traffic flows based on a ‘best effort’ protocol, so just make a best effort if you feel compelled, but don’t keep getting ‘baited’ by shit libs

made me think of this line from Dark Marxism blog:

Capital in a scientific, not a metaphorical sense, is a control system. And it is capital, as a control system, that ultimately creates and maintains the abstraction we call exchange-value. Capital is the abstractor.

taken from this post: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god-2/

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

3rd paragraph:

While the mood is gloomy, experts agree that the bursting of a '08 Lehman Brothers-style speculative bubble is unlikely.

A “median line” exists within the Taiwan ADIZ, an unofficial demarcation between People’s Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) airspace. The Taiwan ADIZ includes a large portion of the Chinese mainland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

“Pringle’s Lost Gold”

Coming Out 2024

here’s a helpful analogy

anti-Capitalism : leftist :: anti-Communism : liberal

conservatives are just a specific sub-type of liberals

You do not dispute the economics from the article or my comments.

it’s the same story of ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ too

There’s data available here if you want to see the numbers yourself:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/UKR/ukraine/gdp-gross-domestic-product

1992 was the start of CSTO.

Ukraine GDP per capita 1992 = $1418
Ukraine GDP per capita 2021 = $4828

Armenia GDP per capita 1992 = $356
Armenia GDP per capita 2021 = $4967

Belarus GDP per capita 1992 = $1668
Belarus GDP per capita 2021 = $7490

Care to elaborate on your comment in light of this data?

https://natoassociation.ca/why-yanukovych-was-right-to-exercise-caution-with-the-eu-ukraine-deal-part-2/

Canadian NATO-friendly website February 9, 2014

Ukraine was hit really hard by the 2008 economic crisis and is still struggling to recover. It has beenforecast that Ukraine will be cash-strapped in the near future and are scheduled to face approximately $ 8 billion in debt repayments next year alone. Considering all of this on the horizon, it is only sensible that Yanukovych and the Ukrainian government demand that the European Union put forward a solid plan – in the interest of its citizens- to help the soften the heavy blow that the Ukrainian economy will inevitably suffer as it is exposed to a new economic market. The EU has offered just $800 million in aid as a potential insulator against the immediate effects of joining the EU. When one considers that Ukraine thinks the immediate blow of an EU deal to its economy will be in the region of $20 billion, the EU’s proposal does not even begin to address any issues. Russia on the other hand, have offered $15 billion of economic aid to Ukraine to help mitigate any potential economic disasters in the near future. Although there are doubts as to the long term effects of the Russian offer on Ukraine’s economy, Yanukovych cannot be blamed for holding out for a better deal for his country. It is what he was elected to do. Throwing his country into a monumental deal without taking into proper consideration the immediate side effects would be amateurish.

This is supposedly the match that light the “Revolution of Dignity” that completely ignored the western Ukrainian (ethnic Russian) populace.

StarFleet is just a well organized polycule that takes consent very seriously.

Even the Ukraine Caucus in the US Congress are RedFashTankies now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Ukrainian_Caucus

without the US launching nukes

I was just talking about this today. China is leading towards a multi-polar world very effectively, but the US is the only nation to have used nukes in history. Really puts things in stark relief.