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Category Archives: Politics and Society
Articles about society, people, and politics.
Planning to fail
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”
—Benjamin Franklin
Now you know why so many American politicians with “great” plans makes asses of themselves.
Shocker: Military strategists (worth their salt) does in fact have failures included in their planning.
“No plan survives the first contact with the enemy.”
—von Moltke the Elder (paraphrased)
Executive Crayon
Why is Trump signing his orders with a Sharpie?
Because they felt the crayon wasn’t presidential enough…
The US attacking NATO
Wonder what USA attacking NATO over Greenland would look like? Pretty much like this:
The rest of the world likely gets to play the role of the boss…
Trump, the Father of Lies?
So, you feel Trump is like one of the characters in the Bible? I agree. He does lie a lot. And isn’t there a passage about the Devil being charming as hell and leading many astray? Yeah, the charm was before the election. Now you’re in the domain of the Father of Lies…..
NATO Expansion
NATO Expansion According to Russian Propaganda
American: It was a while ago we expanded… let’s expand into… what country is that? Atlantis? Africa?
European: It’s Poland.
American: Yeah! Let’s expand there!
NATO Expansion According to the Rest of the World
Russia has Georgia for breakfast.
Poland*: HELP!
* Poland here represents any country sharing maritime or land borders with Russia from Turkey to Sweden, or for that matter countries sharing history with Russia….
American World View?
Judging from certain comments from certain citizens of the US, one might start wondering if this is how they think:
Misreading
“The White Bros”?
(Oh, ok “The White HOUSE”…)
Needs head examined
Wants the Nobel Peace Prize.
Charges Ukraine for the weapons needed to defend against Russian terror.
Needs head examined.
Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use
Guns are used millions of times every year by law-abiding citizens in the US to prevent crime, right?
Wrong!
The above list of sources proves the following in regard to gun threats and self-defense gun use:
- Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
- Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
- Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
- Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
- Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
- Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
- Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
- Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions
Talkwards 