ArcticGong

Mastery is a common value in this forum. Consequently, the gift from god storyline is incomplete. He was schooled in La Masia , Barcelona, the Harvard of footballers where many great player have been shaped into their greatness. Not diminishing his greatness, but he is developed in a great environment through a lot of training.

Leo Football Messiah Messi! The craftsmanship he brings to the sport is beautiful! I don’t have a trained eye for art but in sports you don’t need any knowledge to spot his greatness.

Hail King Leo Messi❤️🫡

Hail king Leo Messi!🫡❤️

Iran reaching the final would be great! Imagine Trump in the ceremony handing the trophy to Iran 😅. Physical activity can raise consciousness. There are many lessons learned through sports if one pays attention.

Denied a referee entry to the country, the prices, commercials during waterbreaks, the mistreatment of Irans national team, no translators, the commute prices between the city and stadium.

Among the mega wealthy he’s the worst on multiple fronts. The other mega rich are more lowkey but Elon is everywhere doing damage and boasting about it with a chainsaw on stage.

Or because he interferes in many nations politics. He funded Donald into the White House, cuts essential government spending. He literally takes resources away from society”s most vulnerable, inseminates multiple women, fights with Swedish unions, spread hate online etc.

Maybe so. One video doesn’t do Jiang any justice. It would be like watching part 2 of Leo’s deconstructing rationality series and dismissing his entire case I meant to say that Jiangs game theory series made me reconsider Trumps intentions and capacity. Granted that it’s more difficult to build something than destroying stuff, Jiang credits Trump with a foresight ability to make a measured controlled demolishing act that would profit him massively.

I have assumed that Trump and his administration has been dumb for years, until lectures like this one and other from Jiangs previous videos on game theory. Jiangs argument is pretty solid: the previous world order is unraveling, so, Trump may just speed up the process so that his people can gain from the chaos. With the strait of Hormuz being closed that makes the world more dependent on America for energy, and a reset on the game might become profitable for the US. Furthermore, this is a blow to China which is a large importer of oil from the Middle East. My dislike for Trump have always biased my analysis of his actions, but Jiang made me reconsider. Trump seems stupid but he might not be that stupid. I would not go as far as calling him a genius as Jiang suggest in this video. All in all, this series have been insightful and interesting so I highly recommend it.

My mixed analysis: oil shortage is friendly and expensive reminder that the world is interconnected. People like to fool themselves into isolationist thinking that one part of the world does all heavy lifting for our living standard ,sloppy anti globalist talking points. Also, there might be a real risk of hunger and famine which would be a catastrophe.

Imagine if democracy was let to reign supreme in Iran instead of intervention to remove Mossadegh. The Islamic republic government model seems to be a survival response to its circumstances. Democracy was clearly not viable because of the foreign economic players interest. The monarchy was hated by its people.

Aren’t many comedian podcast doing this? Criticising all day. I like some good criticising done well, like George Carlin. Yet, there is something slightly toxic there.

The winter Olympic is going on and an old sport phenomena is repeating itself: home advantage. Italy seems to take home more medals. It just goes to show that home advantage does make a difference. The interesting question is to what extent this advantage is phycological or practical?

Right-wingers are busy trying to rationalise and sane-wash this behaviour. http://youtube.com/post/UgkxgnZMhB6mWC8O_qYkqPr7r0V5-kh1fF1v?si=OTsbY02I5149KfVI