bart-e-anderson.bsky.social
Retired journalist
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If the Dems go that route, I'm through
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You joke, but there's an element of truth!
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Gaza
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Agree
E-bikes are much better than a car.
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Many people don't need bikes to be electric. Problems:
Heavier, more expensive, become obsolete quickly, can be hard to repair.
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Good for you!
BTW there are many other ways to learn besides Duolingo that I think are more fun.
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I'm afraid it won't be the Democratic leadership
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A relative used to be a mechanical inspector for a US airline.
He was horrified by how standards had deteriorated.
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The Chinese EVs are probably good but they continue the destructive car habit.
Give us walkable cities, bicycles and mass transit!
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Great slogan!
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I always vote but I can see why ppl don't, when the choice is between
War+oligarchy Flavor A
vs
War+oligarchy Flavor B
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I was there the late 60s, early 70s. Complicated time.
Both Judt and Blackburn are right.
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First they came for the pro-Palestinian activists
.... and then they came for me
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If we're serious we need to constrain air travel
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Walk and ride bikes instead of cars. (EVs pollute and kill people just like ICE vehicles).
Make our cities walkable and cyclable as Paris has done.
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I always was skeptical about bike route suggestions from Google. Sometimes ok, sometimes not.
Our county has a wonderful paper map of bike routes which I find useful.
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It's already 1939 in Palestine
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Military budget is the most expensive and wasteful
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Young German voters went massively to the right (AfD) and to the left (Linke and BSW).
That's the future unless centrist parties wake up.
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How much money would be saved if there were no phone upgrades, no collectors, no fares?
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Self-correcting pathology
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What's going on in Gaza and the West Bank now?
Not just gestures but actual murders
Who is enabling this?
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Glad you like it!
I sold my e-bike. Although it was convenient, I didn't like the feel while riding.
Also it was heavy and I didn't really need it.
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Exactly.
It's been a self-destructive strategy
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I don't want to win!
I wish I were wrong.
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Background by prominent economist and advisor to governments Jeffrey Sachs www.commondreams.org/views/2022/0...
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To be taken seriously, people need to criticize behavior as well.
Such as invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and enabling genocide in Gaza.
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It's not a conspiracy. It's not hidden. Victoria Nuland has been working at this for years
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Look up the neocons, their documents, and politicians who echo their statements.
Can't understand US policy otherwise.
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Neocons have been running US foreign policy for decades.
Not just wars but color revolutions, propaganda and subversion.
Are you saying US didn't get its money worth with them in Ukraine?
All our $ to the CIA for nothing?
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(The neo-conservatives engineered the conflict.)
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Ukraine lost. That's reality, not neo-con wishful thinking. They engineered the conflict to weaken Russia and convinced an ignorant US to go along with it, as they did with their invasion of Iraq.
The argument that the US is acting out of idealism is laughable, given our history.
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I take a more extreme position: anything that reduces the use of cars is a plus for humanity
(climate change, pollution, land use, housing cost, accidents).
It's not easy I know for us to make the change.
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The issue is whether the US will
- accept multipolarity or
- continue the expensive and futile effort to maintain world dominance
We concoct justifications, but cannot hide the history of invasions, coups and bribery. Have US bombs in Vietnam, Iraq and Israel made the world a better place?
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Disagree but it's all moot.
The Q now is how to end conflict.
Trump has accepted that Russia has won.
More war = more dead, less territory for Ukraine
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Doesn't mean they aren't true.
Need evidence not ad hominem!
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See
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_mi...
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Mearsheimer makes the point that what is important is what *Russians* think, not what we think.
Does not inspire trust:
- 27 million+ dead because of NATO member Germany
- Lies about NATO expansion and Minsk Agreement
- Missile emplacements in neighboring countries
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Overthrew Libyan leader. Threw the country into chaos.
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Yes the issue was NATO not the EU.
Have you listened to John Mearsheimer, the Intl Relations expert, on Ukraine?
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I think it's complicated, with several E Europe states moving away from W influence - like Romania.
Ukraine was divided, some eager for EU, others not.
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My understanding is that Russia was ok with Ukraine joining the EU.
But they warned many times about NATO.
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Btw thank you for being courteous and reasonable
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Other commenter said NATO was purely defensive, didn't invade.Therefore Putin paranoid abt Ukraine joining NATO.
Libya is an example of why to not want NATO next door
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What is Libya like now?
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Uh huh
Tell that to the countries they invaded
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It's a game. Everybody shouts "Free speech" for themselves but ignores it for the other side
Currently the UK and Germany are using police power against pro-Palestinian voices.
Not a good look.
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NATO invaded Libya and Afghanistan
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I'm afraid I have the bad habit of being skeptical and wanting to dig deep for the story behind the official line. (I'm a journalist).
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It's important to understand history of US behavior b/c it probably is continuing. For ex exacerbating conflicts, enlisting proxies, invoking idealism to justify expanding its dominance.
In Ukraine it failed and led to tragedy