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Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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No I dont see what you mean. You are trying to Harris sound the same as Trump. That is extremely dishonest framing. There is a reason why Israel and pro-Israel Americans went with Trump - because he was giving them a lot more of what they wanted. Trumps military/war track record so far is a.) Iran war b.) Venezuela kidnapping c.) pro-Russia stance in Ukraine d.) board of peace composed of dictators and murderers e.)…

We're talking about before his election. What made it predictable that Trump would bomb Iran but Harris wouldn't? Whoever the president is, the forces that make America fight wars seem to keep on successfully pushing them to do it. Both their parties started a lot of wars in the middle east with their previous presidents (Obama and Bush II).

Trump avoided briefings like they were his uglier children, famously first term rumours claimed the intelligence crowd had to dumb down two hour compact briefings to 5 minute cartoon animated toilet reading fodder.

Harris has a background as a prosecutor and has a track record of being literate and processing stacked feet thick piles of paper.

The force pushing to bomb Iran has always been Israel, the counter force has always been detailed backlogs of military exercises that relentlessly conclude that to be a bloody stupid idea.

It was predictable that Harris would take good advice (and perhaps follow that), and equally predictable that Trump would bluster his way forward and ignore the existing weight of experience and prior exercises.

FWiW I would not have predicted that Trump would stick himself into Iran ... I honestly thought he was stupid, just not that stupid. Although the Obama deal was famously one of his weird tic like bugaboos .. correctly factoring in how much room the former POTUS occupied in the Trumple cranium was likely where I failed.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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We're talking about before his election. What made it predictable that Trump would bomb Iran but Harris wouldn't? Whoever the president is, the forces that make America fight wars seem to keep on successfully pushing them to do it. Both their parties started a lot of wars in the middle east with their previous presidents (Obama and Bush II).

Trump avoided briefings like they were his uglier children, famously first term rumours claimed the intelligence crowd had to dumb down two hour compact briefings to 5 minute cartoon animated toilet reading fodder. Harris has a background as a prosecutor and has a track record of being literate and processing stacked feet thick piles of paper. The force pushing to bomb Iran has always been Israel, the counter force h…

> conclude that to be a bloody stupid idea.

You say that as if all the other presidents' wars in the middle east were shown to be good ideas and they were smart to follow that advice and kill all those people their generals wanted to kill. Iran seems to have not been nearly as terrible as Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, or Syria. The death toll is only around 10000. What's the problem? Don't say oil prices increased because that's a good thing.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Trump avoided briefings like they were his uglier children, famously first term rumours claimed the intelligence crowd had to dumb down two hour compact briefings to 5 minute cartoon animated toilet reading fodder. Harris has a background as a prosecutor and has a track record of being literate and processing stacked feet thick piles of paper. The force pushing to bomb Iran has always been Israel, the counter force h…

> conclude that to be a bloody stupid idea. You say that as if all the other presidents' wars in the middle east were shown to be good ideas and they were smart to follow that advice and kill all those people their generals wanted to kill. Iran seems to have not been nearly as terrible as Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, or Syria. The death toll is only around 10000. What's the problem? Don't say oil prices increased bec…

> You say that as if all the other presidents' wars ...

That would be entirely your take on things I did not mention.

> The death toll is only around 10000.

What's the population of the suburb you live in? About that?

> What's the problem?

\1 Trump started by destroying an agreement hard fought for by multiple countries that actually contained enrichment.

\2 The US has lost the bulk of post WWII soft power built up over decades as a result.

\3 Iran has splintered into independent smaller groups any one of which can go rogue with nuclear weapons / dirty bombs.

\4 Other states (eg: North Korea) are now fully emboldened and have ramped up their actual nuclear weapon production.

... etc.

There's a long long list of problems here - all could have been circumvented by a competent POTUS with a full experienced diplomatic cadre.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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> conclude that to be a bloody stupid idea. You say that as if all the other presidents' wars in the middle east were shown to be good ideas and they were smart to follow that advice and kill all those people their generals wanted to kill. Iran seems to have not been nearly as terrible as Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, or Syria. The death toll is only around 10000. What's the problem? Don't say oil prices increased bec…

> You say that as if all the other presidents' wars ... That would be entirely your take on things I did not mention. > The death toll is only around 10000. What's the population of the suburb you live in? About that? > What's the problem? \1 Trump started by destroying an agreement hard fought for by multiple countries that actually contained enrichment. \2 The US has lost the bulk of post WWII soft power built up o…

>What's the population of the suburb you live in? About that?

This comment shows you're being disingenuous. If a war killed 4 people, you'd be asking how big my family was. You can obviously understand the significance of that figure and it's nothing to do with suburbs.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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ie null finding versus negative finding Neither are a positive finding.

So you don't know whether America is fascist or not? Because you clearly presented it as if you believe America is not fascist.

You replied to the wrong person.

Re: The brain was not designed for this much bad news

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Practically, focusing on the things you can change (mostly small scale evils in your community) will have the highest degree of positive effect, rather than focusing on stuff you are bombarded with online that is out of your control (mostly large scale evils). However, don't think you get vindicated from duty just because the task is impossible. You are as just as much responsible for yourself, your family, your frie…

Righteous judgment according to which set of beliefs? Only the delusional are certain about anything that happens in the afterlife.

> Righteous judgment according to which set of beliefs?

Right is right; Belief doesn't effect truth.

Such as in physics, there are differing theories, but the underlying truth doesn't change.

> Only the delusional are certain about anything that happens in the afterlife.

Just because you are blind doesn't mean others can't see.

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