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Old 12-12-2022, 12:20 AM   #59 (permalink)
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...all his premises are sound, and his predictions about the future are wrong like everyone...
Those who can accurately describe objective reality are exceptional. I think of Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and Arthur M. Young's Reflexive Universe.

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Like most things, I didn't know about the US invading Russia. Was it Russia then, or USSR? More things I don't know. So Red Dawn already happened for them. That was my boyhood fantasy, before I knew about the movie.
After Czarist Russia there was a struggle between the White Russians and the Red Russians. At the time in question, the Red Russians were being ridden by the Bolsheviks like a pony.

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Here's a tangent to ... really annoy folks, ... there's a limited set of ways one could make our healthcare perform less optimally.
You might be a minarchist if....
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