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Just VENTING about Corona-HYSTERIA

cranialrectosis

cranialrectosis

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How do you create the need for more police?
How do you continue to keep the economy down so you can hold it against the incumbent in an election year?
How do you test an enemy's will to fight?
How do you distract your enemy from what you are doing in Hong Kong and plan to do on June 4th?
 
cranialrectosis

cranialrectosis

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The Hangar said:
Not really the point I was trying to make, but yes - I agree with your post.
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Sorry. Sometimes I talk funny.

In 1989, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled stop at a Randall's Super Market and they gave him a free cheese sample. It was a struggle for the Politburo to get foreign cheeses but here it was regular Americans being offered a sample of cheese so that one cheese vendor could convince people to buy his brand out of a selection of hundreds of available cheeses.

He realized then that Soviet propaganda was all lies. The things he had believed in all his life were false and there was indeed a better way.

The Soviet Union collapsed when the leaders lost faith. They had put their hopes in a fantasy and deluded themselves into thinking that they had courage when all they really had was obedience. That ended the Soviet Union and the Cold War.

The formula for courage is simple.

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." -Thucydides

A free market throws out un-disciplined people. It rewards those who have self respect and courage. Socialism does the opposite.

The Cold War was not won by escalating arms as much as it was won by the loss of faith in an ideology.

If someone is afraid, the solution is not to disarm. The solution is to teach them how to fight so they are no longer afraid. Because in learning how to fight, you must overcome your own fear, control your own anger and master your own mind. This eliminates the ideology of failure and fear. Indeed. There is a better way.

It's about weapons as much as it was about a grocery store.
 
The Hangar

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cranialrectosis said:
Sorry. Sometimes I talk funny.

In 1989, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled stop at a Randall's Super Market and they gave him a free cheese sample. It was a struggle for the Politburo to get foreign cheeses but here it was regular Americans being offered a sample of cheese so that one cheese vendor could convince people to buy his brand out of a selection of hundreds of available cheeses.

He realized then that Soviet propaganda was all lies. The things he had believed in all his life were false and there was indeed a better way.

The Soviet Union collapsed when the leaders lost faith. They had put their hopes in a fantasy and deluded themselves into thinking that they had courage when all they really had was obedience. That ended the Soviet Union and the Cold War.

The formula for courage is simple.

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." -Thucydides

A free market throws out un-disciplined people. It rewards those who have self respect and courage. Socialism does the opposite.

The Cold War was not won by escalating arms as much as it was won by the loss of faith in an ideology.

If someone is afraid, the solution is not to disarm. The solution is to teach them how to fight so they are no longer afraid. Because in learning how to fight, you must overcome your own fear, control your own anger and master your own mind. This eliminates the ideology of failure and fear. Indeed. There is a better way.

It's about weapons as much as it was about a grocery store.
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Again, I agree with what you say, but it wasn't really the point I made in my first post. I was trying to say that neither superpower felt safe if they didn't have as many weapons as the other. This led to both sides building up their arsenal of weapons. They were doing this because if they didn't, they would feel threatened by the other superpower that had more weapons than they did, and thus a military advantage. So in essence they were both safe from each other, but were they really? A nuclear war would be, as one president put it, unthinkable with the weapons we have now. But on the flip side, if only the outlaws had weapons, the citizens would be at risk. Is there a good solution? Only time will tell, and in several hundred years we'll look back on this troubled section of history and be able to analyze the actions taken, the consequences of those actions, and come up with conclusions of what the ideal solution would have been. As of right not, we don't have those answers, and we won't because only time can tell.
 
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cranialrectosis said:
Sorry. Sometimes I talk funny.

In 1989, Boris Yeltsin made an unscheduled stop at a Randall's Super Market and they gave him a free cheese sample. It was a struggle for the Politburo to get foreign cheeses but here it was regular Americans being offered a sample of cheese so that one cheese vendor could convince people to buy his brand out of a selection of hundreds of available cheeses.

He realized then that Soviet propaganda was all lies. The things he had believed in all his life were false and there was indeed a better way.

The Soviet Union collapsed when the leaders lost faith. They had put their hopes in a fantasy and deluded themselves into thinking that they had courage when all they really had was obedience. That ended the Soviet Union and the Cold War.

The formula for courage is simple.

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." -Thucydides

A free market throws out un-disciplined people. It rewards those who have self respect and courage. Socialism does the opposite.

The Cold War was not won by escalating arms as much as it was won by the loss of faith in an ideology.

If someone is afraid, the solution is not to disarm. The solution is to teach them how to fight so they are no longer afraid. Because in learning how to fight, you must overcome your own fear, control your own anger and master your own mind. This eliminates the ideology of failure and fear. Indeed. There is a better way.

It's about weapons as much as it was about a grocery store.
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As far as I remember, the Cold War wasn't won. That's what made it what it was. It ended up just causing several other wars which killed a lot of people. I agree that socialism was the death of the USSR. However, I disagree with you on the point that the solution is "to teach them how to fight". This does eliminate fear in that respect, but along the lines of what @The Hangar said earlier, there is a point when you begin to be afraid of all the people who know how to fight. Or, using the analogy of the Cold War, you can eliminate fear by building up an arsenal of nuclear weapons but as other countries begin their own stockpiles, you begin to be afraid of them. This is why the Cold War wasn't effective in any way: in a struggle to be less afraid of the USSR, the US built up more weapons, but so did the USSR. That's a little confusing, but I think you get the gist of what I'm saying. @The Hangar hit the nail on the head when he used the Cold War analogy. I'm afraid it doesn't prove your point as well as you think it does. As always, just my opinion.
 
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