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Anastasis

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    I mean other than Burma Cuba Vietnam Cambodia Laos Chile Argentina Iran Nicaragua Bolivia Columbia Panama Iraq Afghanistan Somalia Yemen they’re only about keeping us safe right?

    I agree this isn’t the thread to debate it but give me a break

    Browns don’t count in the game of American hegemony. Greatest period of peace in Western Europe in centuries. 

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  2. 1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:
    32 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
    I wouldn’t pull the lever for either voluntarily, but out a gun to my head and could choke down a vote for Bernie even though I disagree with a good many of his positions. He at least believes what he says and has been a clear and consistent voice on a range of topics. I can respect that even if I don’t agree with all of the positions. 

    Lowell Galindo believes what he says too. That doesn't mean he's not an assclown who's terrible at his job.

    I don’t think I would vote for Lowell, but that seems like an exceeding unfair comparison for Bernie. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Because you see him as the lesser of two evils.  Your big normal brain is broked.

    I don’t ascribe to the lesser of two evils voting approach. It’s not my brain that is broke. 

  4. 4 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Nah. He’s gonna vote for Willie again. Because he cool like that.

    Have not made a final decision, but at this point Willie is not a bad default. 

  5. 6 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    This post is too good to be just left on the prior page of this fast moving thread. 

    The left falling into an uncritical lock step with the CIA has been one of the more unexpected alignments of the trump years from my perspective. 

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  6. I wouldn’t pull the lever for either voluntarily, but out a gun to my head and could choke down a vote for Bernie even though I disagree with a good many of his positions. He at least believes what he says and has been a clear and consistent voice on a range of topics. I can respect that even if I don’t agree with all of the positions. 

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  7. What point am I ignoring?  I've said that it should be investigated in an open and transparent setting.  If the intel is solid, and the President ignored his briefings on the matter, it should be brought out in very clear terms by people willing to stand with their name behind it, and heads should roll. But I don't really think that that is the objective here. Let's see how it plays out. 

  8. I know, anything less than uncritical acceptance of thinly sourced reports coincidentally timed for release as pivotal junctures related to withdrawal from Afghanistan is trolling.

     

    Cause I mean, this stuff could never influence political posturing related to troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, right?

     

    In a statement in response to questions, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said he had long warned about Russia’s work to undermine American interests in the Middle East and southwest Asia and noted that he wrote an amendment last year rebuking Mr. Trump’s withdrawal of forces from Syria and Afghanistan.

    “The United States needs to prioritize defense resources, maintain a sufficient regional military presence and continue to impose serious consequences on those who threaten us and our allies — like our strikes in Syria and Afghanistan against ISIS, the Taliban and Russian mercenary forces that threatened our partners,” Mr. McConnell said.

  9. 6 minutes ago, GW Hayduke said:

    Then you shouldn’t look past the current executive in charge when we’ve got public servants in the IC stepping up and letting you know the executive is currently shitting the bed

    I am not asking you to look past that either.  What I am suggesting is that you might want to consider the current context and timing of these thinly sourced reports and the potential that they are being used to influence certain aspects of American foreign policy. 

  10. Just now, GW Hayduke said:

    If we squint real hard and turn our head sideways, we can look past Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and can blame the IC for Iraq!!! 

    I am not asking you to look past any of them in fact. 

  11. 35 minutes ago, scottsins said:

    The usual line at my daily 7-11 stop in Belton on Friday. No masks and the concept of “6 feet” seems really difficult for them.
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    I went to a little market out here and this dumb bitch in her 20s just couldn’t help from standing right up on my ass. She was wearing a mask but I told her to give me some room. Some people are just completely oblivious to those around them. A failure of parenting, imo. 

  12. 19 minutes ago, G650 said:

    @Anastasisis part of that subset of the populace that is comprised almost wholly of IT guys and people who think Dilbert is funny, and harbor a wildly irrational view of what the IC is and what they do, with all sorts of half baked Libertarian theories. It's an unintentionally hilarious group that thinks they have cottoned on to some subtle truth that everyone else has just conveniently missed, even those of us who have studied this sort of thing in depth.

    There really isn't much subtlety in truth required.  You don't have to dig very deep to find all the examples of the CIA and other IC organizations acting as the tip of the spear in promoting American values and democracy worldwide. And if you disagree with that, I have a rag and a bottle of water right here to help convince you.  

  13. 5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    Anastasis’s response to every IC story is predictable and Pavlovian. He doesn’t put logical thought into it.

    If only the topic wasn’t so utterly predictable. 

  14. 4 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    How is that going to throw a wrench in peace talks?   You keep using that assumption as the bedrock of your theory, and it doesn’t even follow.   We’re not going to go to war with Russia, and we’re not going to stay in Afghanistan longer because of this story.   It’s a story about Trump bring a depraved, compromised monster.

    I’m happy to discuss this further in a new thread. 

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  15. 24 minutes ago, immamac said:

    Mistrust of the IC, while sometimes being warranted is definitely a huge deal with Trump and his supporters. I know the way you are saying to be wary of IC without blindly accepting it is good intentioned and rooted in logical decision making, but you have to understand the optics dude. 

    I don’t much care about the optics. I have been consistent in my skepticism since Iraq, through the patriot act, clapper lies, Snowden revelations, as well as recent events. 
     

    if this thread is not the place for critical questioning of anonymous source reporting that appears to coincidently be intended to throw a wrench in peace talks and amplify tensions in Syria and other places we are engaged with Russia so be. Orange man bad. Real bad. And we’ll leave it at that. I guess we will figure out the implications of all that other shit out after Biden is sworn in. 

  16. 14 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    Anastasis : IC sources report foreign government acts against American interests :: triplehorn : study shows HCQ doesn’t cure COVID

    Terrible analogy and exactly the opposite. We assume the null until decisive evidence based on sound methodology is presented to reject the null posture. Jumping whole whole hog on unsourced anonymous reporting is like data presented in a letter to the editor without any control or control for confounding factors. I think you have this one backwards. 

  17. “Maybe we should fully vet anonymous source reporting that is going to be used to justify scuttling peace talks related to a two decade war and stoke our involvement in Syria and other proxy battles with Russia. The IC has a long track record of being involved in putting us in extremely bad positions with compromised reporting.”

     

    Trumpkin! Gary Johnson! Carter page! fisa! Orange man!


    lol. You guys. 
     

     

     

  18. Trump really broke y’alls brain when it comes to accepting a critical posture wrt the IC warmongering and surveillance. I sincerely hope that you guys recover when he is gone in January. 

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