Yeah, I think religious explanations are often given when someone can't tell or can't face why something is happening. When people tell me they're doing something out of religious conviction, I usually wonder what the real reasons are.
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Did fox just offer him the friendliest possible venue for a massive media event, days before the election, and he turned it down?
I presumed the plan was to either let the harris campaign say no to fox so trump could call her a coward, or get a friendly venue to hammer whatever comey-esque hillary's emails nonsense russia cooks up this time.
Does trump turning this down seem like yet another own goal to anyone else? Or have I been underestimating how much the debate hurt him?
I'm a hard determinist, so I'd disagree with the "you choose" part, but basically I agree.
You are whoever you are in the moment, there's no fake self to hide behind and no real self lurking unrealized.
There's no core real you, no true deep down self.
We're social mammals and the immediate social situation were in is one of the many factors that determine our behavior from moment to moment.
Go running.
You know when you build something up in your head to be really awful, then you try it and it's exactly that awful?
This is the most appropriate response possible. The non-sequitor in the middle makes exactly as much sense as everything that happens in a church.
Apologies.
But if being a violent expansionist makes the axis bad (which it obviously does) then the allies are clearly just less bad in this particular situation rather than actually good, since all the allied powers have extensive histories of violent expansionism.
I don't think it's fair to characterize global colonialist powers like Britain, France, or the US as not violent expansionists.
I'm Jewish, I'm very aware that the side running brutal racist internment camps was meaningfully less bad than the side running brutal genocidal death camps. Neither qualify as good.
Sure, there are no good guys in any war, since the good guys are never the ones with guns killing each other.
But the more genocidal death camps you have, the bigger a baddy you are. It's not that difficult to understand.
White House has absolutely zero control over an immediate and permanent cease fire, or lifting the Gaza blockade, that's all on Israel
The white house has plenty of influence over israel, they've just chosen to green light the genocide and netanyahu's regional escalation against the advice of our own experts.
An arms embargo would empower anti-netanyahu voices in israel who could point to his mismanaging of israel's most important bilateral. It would reduce the rate and kind of weapons the idf could bring to bear against civilians, saving lives.
I hear so few people talking about this fact. The middle and upper class don't want to hear about any solution unless it involves buying status symbols.
Proving you're morally superior to the poors is definitely the most important part of combating climate change.