Tag: pragmatism
56% OF AMERICANS NOW BELIEVE COVID SHOTS CAUSED MASS DEATHS
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Public opinion matters. Public opinion stopped the monkeypox bs. The more the public knows, the more reliable its opinions are. Elections matter, but it is public opinion which fuels them. Public opinion strongly favors IDs for voters. Pragmatism enjoins us to support and encourage valid public opinions. The recent ‘rise in antisemitism’ is nothing more than rising public awareness of how crazy and violent Jewish Supremists are. It is because of them and them only that we are on the verge of WW3 and the use of nuclear weapons. ABN
Trump’s strategic realignment with Russia, viewed from the POV of energy supplies and costs
SUMMARY:
(1) Upon reelection President Trump told all U.S. energy providers to “drill baby drill” and maximize energy production. Trump then deregulated the industry for maximum efficiency: Secretaries Burgum (Interior), Wright (Energy) and Zeldin (EPA).
(2) Trump then meets with Putin in Alaska Aug 15, 2025. Three days later, Aug 18, 2025, Putin restarts Russia’s flagship Arctic project, the LNG export facility via the Northern Route to Asia.
(3) President Trump then signs contracts with Finland for the urgent start of Arctic icebreaking ship manufacturing in the USA and emphasizes the prior conversation about taking over Greenland which infuriates the Dutch and EU.
(4) President Trump then triggers the Venezuela operation, captures Nicholas Maduro and -in addition to other benefits- forms a new strategic oil development relationship with the interim Venezuela government. Russia stays silent.
(5) President Trump then triggers Operation Epic Fury against Iran; completely changing the geopolitical landscape that surrounds energy partnerships. Energy flows through the Gulf of Oman are impacted.
(6) President Trump then removes specific sanctions against Russia permitting Russian oil and LNG to be sold (in petrodollars) into the Asian market. Meanwhile, the European Union is forced to increase LNG purchases from the United States.
Sure, it could all be just coincidence… or not. One thing is certain, the FIVE-EYES opposition do not think all of this downstream benefit that flows to Russia and the USA is coincidental. The FIVE-EYES opposition see all of this as a strategic realignment between the USA and Russia, and they are going to do everything in their power to stop it.
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The author of the above appears to be in favor of USA/Israel attacking Iran, which I am not, but he otherwise makes a good point. From a pragmatic POV, his insight should be taken in; he’s probably largely right. From what I can see, good relations with Russia are of paramount importance for all northern—Top of the World—nations, including Europe, Japan, Korea, as much of Central Asia as wants in, Canada and the Western-derived nations NZ and OZ. Good can usually be found in all situations and this may be a good side of what is happening in Iran, something I personally find revolting and grossly laden with pseudo-Christian nonsense along with Jewish Supremacist madness. It’s basic Buddhism to recognize the human realm is characterized by craziness and delusion. Politically, we always have to work with what we have and no one ever gets everything they want or need. ABN
Truman on Israel – Palestine
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It has only gotten worse and worse and worse since then. USA and the entire West are infested with violent, implacable Jewish Supremists who are driven by lust for power and entirely organized around that lust. Our political elites are completely controlled by Jewish Supremists. Our only relief will come from widespread public acknowledgement and understanding of the root cause of our ongoing demise. Do not waste time on clickbait garbage like I am so done with Trump or only Christ can save us now or Imma gonna move to the woods; because all we have left is public understanding, the collective understanding and will of the public. It’s not much, but it’s all we have. Public understanding took down the Soviet Union. (Which slithered over and morphed into the EU and CIA, which is yet another angle on the infernal JS story). ABN
The Practical Teaching of the Buddha
This is the beauty of the Buddha’s teaching: It is so complete that nothing has to be added to it. If you just practice sīla, samādhi and paññā, that is enough. And it is so pure that nothing has to be taken out. Nobody can find anything wrong in sīla. Nobody can find anything wrong in samādhi. Nobody can find anything wrong in paññā. People are sure to accept it. And they are accepting it.
If we make a sect out of the Buddha’s teaching, a blind faith or a cult or philosophy, then difficulty arises. Every sect will have its own philosophy, cult, belief, dogma, rites, rituals, ceremonies, and they all differ.
But when you take the essence of the Buddha’s teaching—sīla, samādhi, paññā—everyone is bound to accept it because it is so scientific.
A Buddha teaches Dhamma. A Buddha does not establish a particular religion. A Buddha is not interested in establishing a sect.
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Sīla, samādhi, and paññā represent the threefold training in Theravāda Buddhism, forming the core framework for spiritual development and the path to liberation (nibbāna). These three elements—moral virtue, concentration, and wisdom—are not isolated practices but deeply interconnected aspects of a unified path. Together, they guide practitioners in purifying the mind, overcoming defilements (kilesas), and realizing the true nature of reality.
‘…born into a system that changes your country without your consent…’ — Amelia offers the purple pill
Trump is a fast-moving ACTIVE pragmatist
In hoc signo vinces
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Translation from Latin: In this sign you will win. As a semiotician I like the use of Latin and the word sign. As a Buddhist I can support this ethos if it is reasonable and wholesomely unites the traditional West against those who are destroying it. As an American of Baltic extraction, gotta admit I cringe at knights in armor bearing crosses. Even still, I support Christian unity and wise resistance against the enemies of the West, many of whom are recent invaders and many of whom are ancient infiltrators. I believe a good many Eastern Europeans think the way I do. Both recent and ancient experience has taught us you have to be practical and work every angle to defeat a powerful pathocracy. ABN
Shared subjectivity
- FIML practice can be described as shared subjectivity.
- The coinage, or units, of basic FIML sharing are microanalyses of communication ambiguities done in real-time, as they happen.
- This kind of sharing prevents FIML partners from forming subjective views of each other that are based on mistaken interpretations.
- Mistaken interpretations between partners always lead to subjective separation, unshared and unsharable subjectivity.
- Mistaken interpersonal interpretations are the source of most, if not all, neurotic thinking and behavior.
- It is difficult (I believe impossible) to correct neurotic thinking and behavior through generalized analyses.
- Generalized here indicates analyses that are based on general theories that are applied to individuals, often by professional therapists.
- FIML is not a generalized analysis. FIML is a communication technique.
- It has great therapeutic value because it is a technique that will help partners share their unique subjectivities.
- By sharing their subjectivities, partners will extirpate or extinguish their neuroses, their mistaken subjective misinterpretations of each other and of other people.
- Neuroses are painful because they cause us to use our minds badly and wrongly.
- Neurotic communication is painful because at some level we all know that we are communicating badly and wrongly.
- We persist in neurotic behavior only because we do not know another way to be.
- FIML shows us another way to be.
- By slowly chipping away at neurotic (i.e. mistaken) interpretations the moment they arise, FIML frees us from neurosis itself (i.e. long-standing mistaken interpretations).
The people that run the left are already under investigation — Trump
Trump says the people that run the left are already under investigation at ~6:50 min. His other answers are also interesting. ABN
Goddek on Robinson
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Simon makes a decent point, but don’t throw the crowd out with the bathwater. Nothing is perfect. Millions of Brits needed a reason to show their mettle. Who organized it is not the main feature. We have to work with percentages. A huge crowd like this inspires tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions. Don’t make perfect be the enemy of pragmatics. ABN
‘We are defending the Polish borders. Anyone who enters will get their ass kicked! So to all you pseudo-engineers, enter at your own risk!”
Conditional support for Marco Rubio
He has been surprisingly good as Secretary of State. He is a good talker, straight to the point, does not pull punches. He appears to be doing what Trump wants him to do and doing it well. He is on-track for a strong presidential campaign in 2028. He also has this rope around his neck:
How he handles his handlers is a major sign of how he will govern USA. So far, he has walked the line reasonably well. He has removed student visa-holders for anti-Israeli and anti-Gaza massacre activities. BUT he has also repeatedly championed American free speech rights.
Free speech is our most important right. If all if us can agree on that, we have some chance of surviving technological totalitarianism.
In the real world where Rubio is a real player today and a real presidential candidate in future, these aspects of American politics and law must be kept in mind.
It wasn’t Joe, ‘It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired and took over the Autopen. TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country’ — Trump
Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will. It wasn’t his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country, and go through the process we are going through now. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen. They stole the Presidency of the United States, and put us in Great Danger. This is TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country. The Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our Country totally unchecked and unvetted. All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn’t, because I came along. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
It was treason and the people who managed, led, paid for, abetted, and planned the invasion should be named and prosecuted. There is nothing petty or personal or partisan about holding them accountable for their acts of war against USA and USA citizens. Harris, Mayorkas, and Garland should be at or near the top of that list because not only did they do the deed, they also repeatedly lied about it, loudly claiming in public ‘there is nothing we can do. Congress must act’. Most of SCOTUS is not far behind as an injudicious majority of discourteous anti-intellectual bench-warmers have repeatedly ruled in favor of the invasion and in disfavor of ousting the invaders. The disproportionality of their rulings is a blatant insult to reason itself, let alone the grand tradition of American law. ABN
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