Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:04 am

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2023 11:57 pm Someone else can do it, but the results would be very much skewed by Russian shills.

Let's do it non-anonymously then, to spot the fakies.
Technically doable ?

The odd thing about “strongman” leaders is that they are often quite weak in terms of their personal attributes and political ideas. Vladimir Putin, in power longer than most, comes across as an insecure, embittered little man, strangely marooned in a cultural time warp, whose vision of Russia’s future is propelled by a backward-looking, sentimental nostalgia for the Soviet era.

Donald Trump, by instinct a fellow authoritarian and avid Putin admirer, is notoriously thin-skinned, seemingly incapable of tolerating the slightest criticism and disproportionately vindictive towards those who challenge him. Xi Jinping, China’s ostensibly all-powerful president, exhibits similar chronic fear of dissent, as seen in his ruthless purges of the ruling Communist party and crackdowns on Hong Kong’spro-democracy activists.

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:40 am Imagine trying to explain ourselves as a race to an alien third party. Seriously, how do we explain ourselves without sounding like complete, utter idiots?

The USA have recently been a lot more open about UAP's (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon- the new name for UFO's, because using the phrase UFO has too much loony connotation attached with it) which means that there is a tiny, tiny possibility that we might, might, possibly be being observed by something of extra-terrestrial origin.

Perhaps they do exist and perhaps they have come here, but are trying to work out why a species would spend so much time and effort building technologies that could only ever result in it's own destruction, a fact that the species itself is aware of, yet continues to develop but won't ever use because it's aware that to do so would result in its own destruction. Yet it continues to.....

We must be absolutely intriguing to anything with more intelligence than us in the universe.

xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:40 am What a bizarre situation.

Billions, billions more and and yet more billions of dollars have been ploughed into developing the most advanced nuclear technology, mainly by the USA and Russia, but they aren't the only ones, and yet time and again, we, as the human race, find that we can't or won't actually use them in times of conflict. Despite the fact that they are specifically developed only for times of conflict.

Clearly, I'm not advocating that we should, but let's just take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

Imagine trying to explain ourselves as a race to an alien third party. Seriously, how do we explain ourselves without sounding like complete, utter idiots?

The USA have recently been a lot more open about UAP's (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon- the new name for UFO's, because using the phrase UFO has too much loony connotation attached with it) which means that there is a tiny, tiny possibility that we might, might, possibly be being observed by something of extra-terrestrial origin.

Perhaps they do exist and perhaps they have come here, but are trying to work out why a species would spend so much time and effort building technologies that could only ever result in it's own destruction, a fact that the species itself is aware of, yet continues to develop but won't ever use because it's aware that to do so would result in its own destruction. Yet it continues to.....

We must be absolutely intriguing to anything with more intelligence than us in the universe.