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    14 hours ago

    A liberal making measurable predictions? That’s new.

    I don’t care about free markets.

    How do we measure this? Reduction in military spending? Countries leaving NATO?

    The US potentially leaves, and / or NATO members won’t actually uphold their promise to defend something like the Baltics, or only through token measures, moving the red line from Russia’s side further and further.

    Predicting a train that’s going off a cliff will continue to go off that cliff.

    Oh please. Even now you’re unsure on whether you want to call me a doomer or agree with my points. A bit earlier and it would’ve been the former.

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      Oh please. Even now you’re unsure on whether you want to call me a doomer or agree with my points.

      The US continuing to do nothing about climate change, continuing to take a fascist approach to refugees, and Europe maintaining the conditions for the far right to continue to rise isn’t agreeable or doomer, it’s just obvious.

      You’ve got a bunch of things that are so absurdly off base I can only hope you go back and critically examine how you were lead to believe them, two things that might happen if the US forces it, and then “and the sky will remain blue”.

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        You’ve got a bunch of things that are so absurdly off base I can only hope you go back and critically examine how you were lead to believe them

        That’s absolutely hysterical to hear from a Ruscist / Tankie.

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          OK, so do we have any timeframes where you’ll go back and say “Huh, so Russia didn’t genocide Ukraine and then invade the baltics and Moldova, and NATO still exists, what did I misunderstand before and what can I do so I don’t get fooled again?”

          Ruscist

          The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest non-war-related humanitarian disasters of the 20th century by life-expectancy, infant mortality, alcoholism, really any metric except oil exports, do you really think I have any positive feelings towards the guys who orchestrated it and are wearing its corpse?

          Tankie

          Learning history and dialectical materialism is like having a crystal ball compared to an idealist understanding of history.

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            13 hours ago

            Thanks for proving my point oh so wonderfully.

            (Tankies: AcKcHyUaLlY… ☝🏻🤡)

            This is you.