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keirgiles.bsky.social • 15 days ago

I contributed to this Foreign Policy piece. Nobody warned me I was going to be described as a “thinker”.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/21/russia-urkaine-war-anniversary-trump-putin-deal-peace-zelensky-nato-europe-negotiations/

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bade-morten.bsky.social•15 days ago

If you’re thinking, you’re already falling for the woke left’s brainwashing! Real patriots don´t think!🤔 It´s bad for you! Stop it!

drtobiaswiren.bsky.social•15 days ago

Are you sure you want to be associated with that weird habit...you know it was a slippery slope for Socrates...?!

jpmfhc.bsky.social•15 days ago

Mate, of all thinkers out there, you are one of the top ones I hope is wrong.

But the evidence is mounting the other way...

keirgiles.bsky.social•15 days ago

To be fair I have thunk about this for quite some time now.

jannekoskela.bsky.social•15 days ago

Thinking is undervalued these days. Many have outsourced it to algorithms.

ifilipau.bsky.social•15 days ago

... They described @ulrichspeck.bsky.social as a "columnist". ...

natchav.bsky.social•15 days ago

You think therefore you are

techunitedukraine.bsky.social•15 days ago

A well earned accolade usually reserved for philosophers.
The question is which one of you, is which equivalent philosopher ?
1. Anaximander
2. Socrates
3. Plato
4. Aristotle
5. Heraclitus
6. Epicurus
7. Diogenes
8. Pythagoras
9. Democritus

keirgiles.bsky.social•15 days ago

That menu reminds me of all the endless discussions people had about the vulnerability of the Souvlaki Gap.

techunitedukraine.bsky.social•15 days ago

hahaha, yes too many philosophers can be a bad thing in some cases, all talk no results! 🤣
I think Putin has far too much on his plate to worry about joining Kaliningrad to his glorious empire again.

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