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Just passing through, but this looked like a perfect segue into Her Opponent
[url]https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2017/march/trump-clinton-debates-gender-reversal.html[/url]
I understand that political tensions now blind people to the results of that performance, but I would suspect that the results of the election would have been the same if we played "Political Role Switching." (i.e. Trump as Democrat, Hillary as Republican)
There are plenty of people who just blindly vote democrat or republican... but elections tend to be decided on the "swing states" or those who vote because they like the character of the nominee (or dislike the opponent).
I encourage everyone to think about this psychologically, to understand what others are thinking rather than construct strawmen and knock them down (because it makes you feel better). Burning effigies may be fun, but hatred only begets more hatred which begets violent action and war.
Anyone who understands anything about psychology would not be amazed at the fact that people have segregated themselves into two extremist groups rather than look towards moderacy.
Just like I understand that people in those two groups will attempt to stereotype moderates into either a "for" group or "against" group rather than accept that people can be individuals.
It helps, when you're in a war, not to view the enemy as actual humans, but as "orc hole shit". This is because by dehumanizing the enemy you feel less moralistic responsibility for your actions.
This back and forth "I hate your president" "No I hate your president more" "I hate your president even more!" crap that we've been doing these past few decades is rather tedious and only seems to be getting worse. Instead of people learning to be tolerant of differences, we have two extremist groups that hate everyone who isn't in their group.
Now THAT, my friend, is what is scary. We're ready to start a whole new Civil war because people cannot act with basic civility to those who have different ideas than their own.
Spent a half hour just grabbing as much as I could from the so called "report"
"a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products" (Associated Press) "has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018" (Reuters)
"increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques" (Associated Press) "increased in scope, scale and sophistication" (Reuters)
"would have to immediately halt all such transfers" (Associated Press)
"prohibited military cooperation with the Syrian Arab Republic has continued unabated" (Reuters) "attempted to supply small arms and light weapons and other military equipment via foreign intermediaries" (Al Jazeera)
I hate that people are so lazy as to never read the references an article has rather than reading a partisan viewpoint... see what the report actually says, except the report does not seem to be anywhere. This makes me curious three different news agencies got access to a Confidential report (because their reporting of what the report contains is different, three different agencies had to have got this report.)
One thing I've noticed over the years is that what is reported that an academic article says or some government report says... is often not what it actually says but what the news agency wants it to say. The quotes tend to be accurate, but are taken out of context, finding something like
"There is no evidence to suggest that North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs" which becomes "North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs", other cases I've found other cute ways of omitting information like that.
I'd be interested in seeing the report itself, but I have doubts as to whether it exists at all. There is too much change between the news reports, people adding their own influence you see.
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