“Just for the record, I’m not a deep state plant from either Bill Gates or Palantir, Peter Thiel or Bill Clinton.”

Exactly what a deep state plant would say. Checkmate, liberal.

Frankly, if the goal of the administrations was to be helpful to Russia’s offensive, then halting shipments while muddying the waters with inconsistent messaging would be an excellent way to accomplish that.

Stop the shipments, but lie about it and say that you will ship more in the future. Then just never actually do that. This keeps them hoping for shipments that will never actually arrive.

edit: Another possibility here is that the Def Sec Hegseth does not want to help Ukraine, but Trump himself does not actually care one way or another, and thus could be convinced to overrule his Def Sec.

Tough to say.

She’s got this really in-character vibe here. I wonder if Cate actually is just staying in-character between all the cuts as part of her acting method, or if that suit is just too uncomfortable to be able to relax in.

Yes, let’s continue this. Do you have any other material?

You can pursue this cheap bait for as long as you want, but you’re not exactly “owning” anything. This is pretty weak stuff you know.

It doesn’t matter, still fully meets the requirements you laid out. It does illuminate the silliness and irrelevance of your “condition” though. It’s clearly just a shallow distraction.

Not all marine life, just the big stuff. We just added a ton of sugar, fat and protein to the ocean, so I think we’re going to see an explosion of microbial life.

Now, with milk being opaque, I think we are going to kill most of the phytoplankton and replace it with bacteria that produce CO2 as a byproduct of their metabolism, so I do think we’re going to drastically change the Earth’s atmosphere and more or less run out of oxygen eventually, so we are definitely all dead. It’s just a question of how long it takes.

The only way that would be possible is if I had never read a single book in my entire life. While a common hyperbolic claim, we both know that’s a little unrealistic, don’t you think? Would be very difficult to make it through schooling without doing at least some reading, after all.

This is a very silly argument to hang your hat on. Might want to think it through a little more.

Chaotic good is fine if you don’t launch it too hard. It’s enjoyable to put barely enough force in so that it just slides into the cart in front of it.

It’s like bowling.

Just don’t launch it from far away, otherwise it could veer into someone’s car. Which would be caught on camera, incidentally.

Of course I could answer if I wanted, I simply choose not to. They’re pointless distractions. I’m more interested in staying on topic, while you seem hell-bent on making this have nothing to do with history and only about me personally and how I’m not good enough for you.

I wonder why…?

Anyways, the purpose is in the love for history. Most of us are here for enjoyment, only you are here to sell something.

You really have no evidence for your insults, so they come across as very shallow. It’s pretty juvenile. All you really know is I’ve told you I won’t read your source, which I do understand upsets you.

Regardless of your holier-than-thou, elitist attitude, it doesn’t matter. Either people discuss or they don’t. You could discuss if you wished, but hiding behind this obvious cover of “you’re not good enough to bother with”, you won’t discuss history, while in a history community. This makes it very obvious you don’t really love history, you just want to use it as a tool for your own ends. It’s a political tool for you. This is extremely common, anyone who spends any time with it has encountered the phenomenon hundreds of times in both the present and a historical context.

I don’t use LLMs. Besides, I’m here because I enjoy discussing history with other people in history communities. You apparently are here for an entirely different reason, which I think is obvious to everyone.

Whatever you used to call it, we usually just call it discussion. Funny thing is, you’ve written pages and pages worth yourself in this thread, you could have easily saved yourself a ton of time with one brief paragraph yesterday.

Anyway, I just don’t believe you, I think you’re still just trolling. So, no, I’m uninterested in your conditions about me as a person or my habits. Either address the topic or do not.

Not exactly a showerthought, maybe better off in a TIL, mildly interesting or history sub. This community is not for real information, though, showerthought communities are for more light-hearted and silly stuff.

Okay, that’s one of the silliest ideas I’ve ever heard. We’re supposed to internalize and integrate information, not just parrot whatever our authorities feed us. This is why I ask for your words, not the words of your teachers.

That is a horrible idea that will dull your independent thinking in the long run. Perhaps this has happened to you already. We are supposed to always consider thoughts separately from our elders, our countries and our teachers. This is very important. Without this we cannot be independent from our own traditions, our own narratives, our habits, etc. It’s not without dangers, but it’s a very important skill. We usually press it very heavily once you reach the university level. It’s not for the young, obviously, but very important for adults. It’s key to being able to be flexible, innovate and solve new problems.

It’s like you don’t believe in personally discussing information, which I still think is a flimsy excuse to cover for your weakness. You’re not willing to simply discuss because you simply can’t. You haven’t internalized the information.

No, I just asked you for a brief summary in your own words. This is standard practice in conversation. You’re the one pretending like that’s too hard. This is just pretending, though, and much like your constant attempts to do personal attacks, it betrays your weakness.

Western countries are fully aware that we did not eradicate fascism, that’s covered in our schools. Like I said, libs are not big on extermination, even of fascist people. Or communist people for that matter, though I do worry for our future under the Christian Nationalists. They are not libs. I do wonder, though, how you feel about the AfD being so much stronger in former East Germany than West Germany. Why is modern fascism stronger in the former Soviet Bloc region of that single country?

There’s nothing for me to judge. Copy/pasting a couple book titles without giving an actual argument is a meaningless appeal to authority. Your opinion of me personally is ultimately irrelevant. It’s the position that matters.

Your “basic historical facts” are very conveniently dodging the USSR militarily seizing the land of Eastern Poland, killing many and not granting them any autonomy, as some strange way to “protect” Poles.

The USSR was marginally cleaner than the Reich. Pointing out that the West weren’t good either does not mean the USSR wasn’t heavy on conquest and war crimes.

If I’m wasting so much of your time, you are again, fully free to leave or block me or whatever makes you feel better.

Because we are not arguing about the article. This thread is about the Katyn Massacre, not British funding for Mussolini, which was what your first article was about. I am not the one that needs to reread anything here, I can apparently remember this much better than you.

Probably because I’m not nearly as involved in numerous different attempts to spread my country’s propaganda like you are your country’s, I only have to worry about this one conversation, instead of many.

Just pointing out one of your lies, that’s all. That specific year was mentioned in your article. Since I commented with it, I clearly read your first article. You saying you have no reason to believe I read your article is a blatant lie from you.

I think this is just an excuse for why you don’t want to defend your position with anything except book titles. Which is very convenient, by the way, but you’re not fooling anyone.