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@la_skalas @wolfgangwee Mener du den flokken som kan se den andres side av saken og ikke ønsker atomkrig?

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@ANorthernFella @wolfgangwee 🐑

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@la_skalas @wolfgangwee 🐑

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@DJSnM

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@michaelshermer @david_shane

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Finland's President Stubb argued: "Yes, it is time to start negotiations with Russia."
* I would like to know why it was not considered a good time to speak with Russia four years ago. Our political class boycotted diplomacy for all these years while hundreds of thousands of young men died, and put us on a path toward nuclear war that we are still on. Anyone who argued for diplomacy was smeared and censored by our radicalised political-media establishment. So why was it considered immoral to speak with the other side then, but not now?

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@michaelshermer I wonder how many of these are just insects crawling on a camera lense…

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@pmarca 99 bottles of beer on the wall…

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@RichardDawkins Pronouncing the "H" sound in "haitch" requires more effort than just saying "aitch".

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@paulg Brautiful. Hemingway-esque even.

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@peterboghossian @Grimezsz

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@michaelshermer Where is that edit button when you need it…

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@paulg Bad take :)

Hope this helps:

https://t.co/tGB6k2eRMQ

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@OleAsbjoernNess Begynner ordet på K?

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@xai i am getting "Sorry about that, something didn’t go as planned. Please try again, and if you’re still seeing this message, go ahead and restart the app.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"

Is @grok ok?

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@coldxman Shots fired 🔥

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@tetsuoai No human moves their mouth like that 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.

Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.

We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.

All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?

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@EmmanuelMacron