I'm honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.
I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I'm actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.
Okay, I feel like anyone that thought that they had a chance of winning was drinking the Kool aid anyway, it's obvious they can't win, not even a war of attrition.
I'm someone who loves history, and global politics, and although not literally recognized as an expert or anything, it's super obvious that without the constant flow of aid Ukraine would've fallen in less than 8 months.
What we have now is a proxy war where the EU and US are propping up a losing nation, but soon they will either surrender or be conquered unless the US or Europe directly intervene.
There is this strange idea that atheists are just rebellious against God because they don't want to be responsible for being moral, kinda like disobeying your parents and sneaking out to party.
Also, lots of theists assume atheists used to be religious, they don't really consider that people are raised without religion sometimes.
I was shot at once, and in the moment, you're not sure that you haven't been shot. Sometimes you can be in shock and not know because of adrenaline, it's a real thing. It's hard to explain how things happen in the moment.
I was once on a second story and watched the trees jump into the air, only understanding after a few seconds that what happened was the floor collapsed and I fell to the ground. Life doesn't afford the ability to process things well when they happen quickly.
I think some of y'all have never had a nut or anything drop on top of your car before, but it absolutely can sound alarming enough to, in the context of a high stress situation, be interpreted by your brain as a potential shot in the same way a busted engine can.
To be clear, I think this is far more likely than most people are willing to understand, and this gets lost in the 'all cops bad' narrative.
Yes but also no if you want to be realistic. They don't have the manpower, and without the copious amounts of weapons and aid from the West they would have lost within a few months. I've never expected long term victory, and the fact that many people have is a testament to Western propaganda.
I make the exact argument all the time and it gets ignored. I think people fundamentally don't understand the tech and can't conceptualize that AI models train the same way we get ideas and schemas from our own observations.
I've recently fallen in love with the PSWii60 generation of gaming and playing a lot of PS3 games. It might be the best console ever made.