Message from @Eccles
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And why are you posting 4yr old livestreams?
Why, is there a rule here that says streams over a certain time period are not allowed? LMao
Because they're typically current affairs, so it could be considered misleading or fake news to post without context
"This is a retroactive look"
Its just not relevent
Its a fun video of Sargon getting owned
I understand why you wont like it
There are plenty of videos of Sargon getting owned
He's no good at confrontational discussions
And let's face it, most leftists aren't any good at any other kind
When I talk to people about a subject, I want to leave that conversation having learned something - typically an understanding of the other person's position is, where it comes from, and what motivated it. This allows you to contrast how it differs from their own, whether it has/what the flaws are, and whether your own position has flaws that could be addressed and the position needs to change
Owen coming at you with another hot take
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1242186414349078531
No Eccles you don't. You just double down on your stupidity like how yesterday when we were talking about Cuba and US foreign policy and it's sanctions through UN and it's institutions.
When I asked you guys yesterday if the US can do whatever it wants, are other countries allowed to take the same action, you response was that the US is not a moral state, and the other moron responded with well the US is a hegemon so it validates their actions. So you don't learn jackshit from your stupid arguments you just double down on your dumb assumptions because the overwhelming evidence against your positions destroy your premise time and again.
U-turn is such a buzzword
the discussion didn't start about US foreign policy, and nobody involved intended talking about it
Yes but the simple fact that you don't understand how the US foreign policy works is proof of how little you know of geopolitics and world economy. The US uses sanctions through its foreign policy to cripple countries and bully them through economic sanctions
and if you don't even know that, it makes sense to go with morality and hegemon to defend your desperate premise
You don't know what I know about it, or what my views on it were
I've had perfectly reasonable discussions here about public vs private healthcare, taxation, welfare, even ethnonationalism
From what I understand, economic sabotage and sanctions are considered a continuation of war by other means. USA and Russia, just like many other state actors, have, do, and will likely continue to pull shady underhanded shit to disrupt their opponents and gain advantage.
From what I understand, Korea was a continuation of WW2. Viet-Nam seemed wholly inappropriate and unnecessary. USA's lack of appropriate assistance with Falklands is a stain on their reputation. Gulf War 1 was entirely justifiable. Afghanistan and Gulf War 2 were unjustified and utterly retarded decisions that have cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of deaths
It's also an area I have very little interest in
Your feelings don't reflect the reality of how the US works buddy, you can be all for whatever it is you believe in but how the US operates is far from how you want them to operate and that is the evidence we need to take into account
not your stupid feelings about it
Evidence or your "Truth"
why does this debate always steer back toward the US?
Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Yet how it operates change with time as the people in charge does, and other actors also behave in similarly poor ways
Which is why I steer towards domestic issues for which my own government have control over, which by extension gives some degree of influence to people like myself
Besides Faultfiction argues from bad faith.
Probably becauses he's a lefty pol neet.
Or acts like one.
Britain has basically supported the US in majority of wars and sanctions
it wasn't even a u turn
Yes, it has, and I - like many- supported GW1, but not Afghanistan or GW2
the guidance and limitations have been steadily getting stronger
wasn't GW1 a success>
What was your reason for supporting the gulf war
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