ArcticGong

he is playing the game of politics in a mask off mode . Previous leaders had more finess. If they wanted to change a foreign leader or some territory, they would at least give some plausible excuse. Not anymore. What purpose did the rule based order serve? That purpose is expiring, I guess.

Stealing land is an old thing. The unique thing about what trump is doing is that he consider to steal from allies. People are chocked but this is not a surprise. Stealing and acquiring property goes way back.

Let’s see how other countries respond after this. If “allies”call out violations or if they spin it to support their buddy’s action. It will take balls for smaller countries to call out this behaviour, but some pressure is better than none.

Most types of conformity that supports survival is worth maintaining like using cutlery, hygiene.

Grammar seems like a reasonable type of conformity; otherwise, people will only speak and write unintelligibly to one another. Furthermore, clarity seems like a reasonable principle to strive toward. I remember Leo suggesting that people need to put more effort into their grammar, yet he included it in his list of acts of conformity. Obviously, you don’t need to be overly pedantic—there’s a balance to be found.

Liking wine is partly conformity. 95 % of all wine tastes nasty, according to me. Few people from winemaking countries will admit this readily because of survival. Before Leo mentioned this I was under the impression that it was only I who thought this. Nope.

The practice of stealing wife’s on their wedding seems to go back to the epic of Gilgamesh, through prima nocte (first right to surfs women) seen in Braveheart.

This psychological framework of how to counter identify bullying tactics. It was developed by Norwegian Ingjald Nissen and later Berit Ås. Very practical common sense stuff.

More conflicts😢.

The actualised quotes are thought provoking and are worth contemplating, however, I see this mistake over and over. Words like “because” and “which”are used for subordinate clauses- to add information about the main subject, and should not be used for main clauses. I felt it was worth pointing out. A more correct way would look like this. “No one will bullshit you as effectively as you bullshit yourself, because you automatically believe yourself.

Drawing a harsh conclusion, comparing this interview with the one Joe did with the Donald, this one was much more interrogative. The one with 45-47 Joe was a lot more careful less questioning.

Not entirely accurate, the Haitian were not completely racist. They spared some Poles that Napoleon sent whom defected and joined the Haitians and they received the title honorary blacks for their service in helping to liberate Haiti. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians

Hahaha, so true.