(02-25-2026, 09:57 PM)ANNEE Wrote: I am so over the “US vs THEM”.
Doesn’t even matter what it’s about — just same old same old.
Imagine having actual conversations.
I agree.
We can never reach a consensus, or agreement (God forbid!), or even understanding of one another when we are all just shouting at each other just to move the goddamned air around!
Furthermore, just shouting one's opponent down only drives them underground, where one can never again see what they are thinking, or about to get up to. In government circles, they call that "an intelligence failure", and I'd suggest that by "intelligence", they may mean more than one thing, more than one sense of the word "intelligence"...
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake