I've actually been thinking of digging up my own copy of Sun Tzu for a new read. The last time I read it was because I learned a lot of corporate types read it. Now I want to know how to handle our virtue-signalling, scientifically illiterate adversaries.
I've actually been thinking of digging up my own copy of Sun Tzu for a new read. The last time I read it was because I learned a lot of corporate types read it. Now I want to know how to handle our virtue-signalling, scientifically illiterate adversaries.
scientifically illiterate - yes. But they are very linguistically gifted - which is the problem. They are glib and know how to spin language and confuse people.
No, William F. Buckley was linguistically gifted. So was Rudolf Nabokov. So is Barack Obama. The wokies are good at obfuscation and smokescreening - and manipulation. We've been too permissive allowing them to erase the edges and boundaries around words. I intend to drag them kicking and screaming back to the Enlightenment - with facts, evidence, and original intentions of words, particularly critically important ones like violence, white supremacy, rape culture, and of course their favourite word victims, man & woman. What our adversaries are especially gifted at is spouting academic jargonbabble to sound more educated and intelligent than thou, when I'm convinced they don't even themselves know what they're saying - nor do they care. "That's just the sort of stochastic reductive hegemonic polemic I would expect from Jordan Peterson. His socio-political liminal praxis empowers the heteronormative metacognition, ontologically speaking, which plays right into the hands of dynamically cartesian prevarications wielded solely by phallocentric right-wing constructivists hell-bent on genociding the infant non-binaries equivocating their interdisciplinary queered false dichotomous perspectives!"
Same title, different book, and the original figures highly in the story. Australian SF writer Peter Cawdron, and a friend, I am one of his beta readers and you'll see my name in the credits at the end. I found quite a few corrections in this one.
This is maybe his 30th book about first contact between humans and aliens, and he keeps getting better. This one is a real page-turner.
"Wherever Seeds May Fall" is another really good one, and his only book with a sequel.
I suspect that the payback will be a huge effort to make the Palestinians in Gaza wish that Hamas didn't exist. The suffering will be horrific for people who didn't ask for that shit.
Yeah, there's plenty of blame on the Palestinians as well. What no one remembers is how their ancestors invaded 1300 years ago and pushed out a lot of the Jews. Their religion has a hate-on for Judaism as well as Christianity in their holy book. It's a religious community that clearly accepts terrorism to some degree although I know #NotAllMuslims. Hamas has sworn to destroy the Jewish state and so far, a fuckuva lot of Palies are cheering the attack on Israel. So they shouldn't be surprised that many of their own will die, and I'm sure plenty of war crimes will be committed against them too. I hope they enjoy it, they asked for it.
It's a centuries-long tit-for-tat that will go on long after we're dead. Hamas knew what would happen when they did what they did, and they're backed by israel-hating Iran. I imagine the carnage against the Palies won't be so bad that they'll rethink their love affair with violence and anti-Semitism.
I'm no fan of Israel either, BTW. I know how brutal they've been to the Palies. I have to hold my nose whenever I say anything supportive of either side, because frankly I wish they'd ALL fuck off to another planet. They're both brutal shits.
As a Marine I learned that in war there are no good guys and bad guys, just our guys and their guys. I also saw the suffering of the non-combatants who wanted no part of any of it. Not everyone in Palestine supports Hamas.
I knew a Palestinian who moved to the US at the age of 18. He said that as a child he wondered why the Israelis frequently shut off the water and/or electricity. The children now must be wondering why they are being bombed.
I've actually been thinking of digging up my own copy of Sun Tzu for a new read. The last time I read it was because I learned a lot of corporate types read it. Now I want to know how to handle our virtue-signalling, scientifically illiterate adversaries.
scientifically illiterate - yes. But they are very linguistically gifted - which is the problem. They are glib and know how to spin language and confuse people.
"They are glib and know how to spin language and confuse people."
Absolutely. They have that in common with Trump actually.
No, William F. Buckley was linguistically gifted. So was Rudolf Nabokov. So is Barack Obama. The wokies are good at obfuscation and smokescreening - and manipulation. We've been too permissive allowing them to erase the edges and boundaries around words. I intend to drag them kicking and screaming back to the Enlightenment - with facts, evidence, and original intentions of words, particularly critically important ones like violence, white supremacy, rape culture, and of course their favourite word victims, man & woman. What our adversaries are especially gifted at is spouting academic jargonbabble to sound more educated and intelligent than thou, when I'm convinced they don't even themselves know what they're saying - nor do they care. "That's just the sort of stochastic reductive hegemonic polemic I would expect from Jordan Peterson. His socio-political liminal praxis empowers the heteronormative metacognition, ontologically speaking, which plays right into the hands of dynamically cartesian prevarications wielded solely by phallocentric right-wing constructivists hell-bent on genociding the infant non-binaries equivocating their interdisciplinary queered false dichotomous perspectives!"
See? Now I'm so much smarter than you! ;)
It took just a moment to see what you did there ;0)
You had me at тАЬphallocentric right-wing constructivists.тАЭ ЁЯдгЁЯдг
https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-First-Contact-ebook/dp/B0C47ZT9QM/ref=sr_1_1
Same title, different book, and the original figures highly in the story. Australian SF writer Peter Cawdron, and a friend, I am one of his beta readers and you'll see my name in the credits at the end. I found quite a few corrections in this one.
This is maybe his 30th book about first contact between humans and aliens, and he keeps getting better. This one is a real page-turner.
"Wherever Seeds May Fall" is another really good one, and his only book with a sequel.
This one isn't my thing, but thanks for the rec.
Interesting.
He's a very good writer. You would love the military detail.
"All warfare is based on deception" is the most foundational idea.
Well it sure worked for Hamas.
I suspect that the payback will be a huge effort to make the Palestinians in Gaza wish that Hamas didn't exist. The suffering will be horrific for people who didn't ask for that shit.
And Israel is again bombing hospitals.
тАЬWe do not target civilians,тАЭ they always say.
As they continue their slow-motion Holocaust in the West Bank.
And the settlers do a Hamas every few weeks. EVERY few weeks.
Yeah, there's plenty of blame on the Palestinians as well. What no one remembers is how their ancestors invaded 1300 years ago and pushed out a lot of the Jews. Their religion has a hate-on for Judaism as well as Christianity in their holy book. It's a religious community that clearly accepts terrorism to some degree although I know #NotAllMuslims. Hamas has sworn to destroy the Jewish state and so far, a fuckuva lot of Palies are cheering the attack on Israel. So they shouldn't be surprised that many of their own will die, and I'm sure plenty of war crimes will be committed against them too. I hope they enjoy it, they asked for it.
It's a centuries-long tit-for-tat that will go on long after we're dead. Hamas knew what would happen when they did what they did, and they're backed by israel-hating Iran. I imagine the carnage against the Palies won't be so bad that they'll rethink their love affair with violence and anti-Semitism.
I'm no fan of Israel either, BTW. I know how brutal they've been to the Palies. I have to hold my nose whenever I say anything supportive of either side, because frankly I wish they'd ALL fuck off to another planet. They're both brutal shits.
As a Marine I learned that in war there are no good guys and bad guys, just our guys and their guys. I also saw the suffering of the non-combatants who wanted no part of any of it. Not everyone in Palestine supports Hamas.
I knew a Palestinian who moved to the US at the age of 18. He said that as a child he wondered why the Israelis frequently shut off the water and/or electricity. The children now must be wondering why they are being bombed.
Today I wonder whether Israeli children are wondering why they got kidnapped, or their brothers and sisters slaughtered in a kibbutz.
Or why their uncle was blown up at a Sbarro's years ago.
Israeli schoolchildren must wonder why the Palestinians vowed many decades ago to 'drive all the Jews into the sea'.
Tit-for-tat is a very ugly game in which everyone loses, every single time.
https://youtu.be/5y2FuDY6Q4M?si=6Qmb0wiHJ4PUwM_m