The Amazing Human Ladle
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Or how about we don’t do the war at all?
Mark Dubowitz spent his adult life agitating to make this happen.
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz
Next time, let’s wait until Iran has nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions to harden its economy. Then we’ll fight to reopen Hormuz.
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@mdubowitz Seems like such a scenario would imply the US had been backing the wrong deity all along.
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Next time, let’s wait until Iran has nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions to harden its economy. Then we’ll fight to reopen Hormuz.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN I call it magic.
Sue me.
I think this discussion has run its course.
I have already conceded "Goddidit" explains anything and everything, so be happy.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN Invoking the word “magic” is a bad analogy for God and miracles because it implies manipulation, deception, and a human-centered source… whereas “miracles” signify divine power, authenticity, and love.
So you still don’t know what’s at stake.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN In any case, you find "magic" a satisfying answer.
I admit, invisible pink unicorns could have created everything with pixie dust. It explains everything and is unfalsifiable.
It works for smooth brains.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN Illustrators are not part of the illustration.
But deities, if they exist *are* part of the universe.
Your analogy doesn't work.
Endlessly repeating the analogy doesn't magically make it work.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN It's a pretty dumb analogy TBH.
I mean you even have to think a pencil mark is the actual artist themselves.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN It’s the perfect analogy and you’re fighting so hard against it.
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@KLBertiger @profstonge @jeffreytucker Later on, Friedman clarified that he was referring specifically to persistent, long-term inflation, not short-term price fluctuations caused by supply shocks.
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Good grief.
**Milton Friedman defined inflation as "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon," meaning it is primarily caused by an increase in the money supply.** He argued that inflation occurs when too much money is chasing too few goods, leading to a general rise in prices.
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The Fed printed trillions of dollars in Covid, used them to buy trillions of bonds, but apparently that had absolutely nothing to do with double digit inflation that immediately followed 🤡
zerohedge@zerohedge
*POWELL: NO SIGN PAST FED BOND BUYING WAS INFLATIONARY oh
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN "Magic sky fairies did it with magic" explains anything and everything.
If that satisfies you intellectually, go for it.
There is no law against lacking intellectual curiosity.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN Don’t be so stuck in your ways when the truth is right in front of you, brother!
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN The cartoon does not include the illustrator.
Drawn lines are not the illustrator. They are drawn lines.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN Yes, it does include the illustrator! Who do you think created the lines and the two dimension?
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN An illustrator is not by definition part of the cartoon.
But all things that exist are definitionally part of everything that exists.
That is why your analogy fails.
(as for dimensions: string theory proposes 10, 11 or even 26 dimensions, all part of the universe though)
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN That’s exactly what the two dimensional cartoon thinks.
A two dimensional cartoon cannot picture a three-dimensional or four dimensional space that could create it. A 2-D cartoon thinks that the only thing that exists must exist in a 2-D world.
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Joe Rogan was part of the problem.
Even Joe Rogan knows that.
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Marco Rubio: "Iranians are insane and religious zealots."
Also Marco Rubio:
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN The universe comprises all that exists, which would include deities, if they existed.
Your analogy fails because a cartoon does not include its illustrator, but the universe must include all that exists, definitionally.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN They can move throughout the universe, but they are not limited to only existing in our universe.
Do you not understand the analogy? An animator can draw two dimensional cartoons, but the cartoons would never be able to comprehend living in a three day world.
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Lindsey Graham and Rob Schneider are going to win this war, you’ll see.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN If deities exist, they are included in the universe, which comprises all that exists. Obviously.
It gets you nowhere.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN How do you know there’s not something outside of the universe?
And if God is God, why couldn’t He exist both inside and outside of our universe? Omnipresence is part of His definition.
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@Davism_Soupism @JenResistedAGN If they exist in other dimensions, they and those other dimensions are part of the universe, of course.
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@TheHumanSpoon @JenResistedAGN How do you know they can’t operate outside of the universe in another dimension that we don’t know about? Like a Disney animator who creates a 2D “world” cartoon.
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@ProjectLincoln I read
pay for Trump's ear.
(Which also makes sense.)
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Republicans are planning to cut healthcare to pay for Trump's war.
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Hey just circling back on this.
Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec
6 weeks from today we find out if we get affordable groceries or WW3
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DOJ dropped cases against four accused drug dealers in MN for apparent resource issues, then told Don Lemon they can't comply with discovery deadlines bc they don't have enough paralegals, and now @PamBondi thinks she has time to sniff genitalia.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi@AGPamBondi
Today @TheJusticeDept sued the state of Minnesota for allowing boys to play in girls’ sports and use girls’ locker rooms. This DOJ acknowledges biological reality and we refuse to let high school girls be subjected to this treatment. It’s not only unfair — it’s deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Proud to partner with @SecKennedy and @EdSecMcMahon on this important litigation.
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I hope the Good and Pretti families are paying attention to this.
And their lawyers, too.
Because I’m not sure there’s not some civil exposure here for Miller.
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check@emptywheel
The Daily Mail says that @StephenM ordered DHS to cause confrontations with protestors in advance of the Alex Pretti murder.
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