It is an hypothesis that posits that civilizations are like animals - they are born, mature, age, die, and replaced by their children.

It’s an obvious metaphor with no predictive power, even if it were well-founded, which it’s not. To the extent they can be said to have lifecyces, civilizations have more states than what are listed, “mature” is ill-defined, and “children” makes no sense at all. And what constitutes a “civilization”? Are some forms of human organization civilizations while others are not? Because when I read scholarly works regarding civilizations, they’re almost always empires or imperially-structured religions. And there are countless people in world history who were fortunate enough not to have lived under the heel of such macroparasites.

Don’t assume that what you are observing government do has any connection with the developmental stages of the people involved. You’re not seeing their actual interactions, plans, or lines of authority. You’re seeing what they choose to show, which may or may not be real.

For all we know, it may all be a kabuki show to keep us underestimating them or to provide distraction from the crimes they’re committing.

Focus on actions, not words, and base accountability on that.

So all we have to do is boil the ocean. Thanks for your helpful advice.

That’s the weakest, laziest both-sides-ism. F for effort.

It’s Putin using the US’s home-grown idiots, and traitorous oligarchs.

At least, special.

Among his many other faults, he’s a Modi toady.

It’s more their view that anything that diminishes the profits of the fossil fuel industry is terrorism.

They do it because they need assurace. That’s right, Kevin, a real man suppresses those dirty feelings!

But really, the only way you’ll ever know is to find out.

I remember how grossed out I was when I first learned about it: “NO WAY did my mom and dad do that!”

Kids don’t understand much at that age.

But I doubt it’ll be done this way.

It almost certainly will be a hate fest. These are people who think they’re being persecuted because other people are allowed to live their lives.

Not even someone else’s pole.

Why won’t the muslim majority country provide aid?

They do.

And take in refugees?

Because that would require them to be complicit in the ethnic cleansing. And most Muslim-majority countries adjacent to Zionist-occupied Palestine already host refugees from 1948, 1967 or other previous waves of ethnic cleansing.

Why only US is blamed for it?

It’s not. But it’s incontrovertible that the US has been an enabler of Israeli crimes against humanity for decades, and it has never been as bad as it now is under Trump, who crows about the business opportunities that will be possible post-genocide.

Yeah, imagine if FARA (the Foreign Agents Registration Act) were uniformly and fairly implemented.

Because Trump is a sociopath who has probably been promised the opportunity to build hotels over the bones of starved Gaza children. And the Democrats are a pathetic joke, with few exceptions.

It’s interesting that the kind of criminality, exploitation and abuse committed by the wealthy and powerful can seldom be countered by “immediate self-defense” and yet we are just as fucked as we would be when robbed at gunpoint. Worse, in some cases.