Recent content by forkup

Oh, just to make absolutely sure. You have a problem with married men cheating on their wives?

Only problem was that it wasn't "Democrats" who brought the charges

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/26/ken-paxton-plea-deal-securities-fraud-felony/

Dude Paxton was only able avoid going to jail by doing community service and pay over 300000 dollar in restitution. So lay of that tired "criminal illegal alien" thing. Neither you, Trump, the GOP, or Republican voters inTexas gives a rats ass about criminality. Unless you can use it as a...

To be fair, the problem is not keeping their word. ChristisKing didn't give a word. I think the problem is motivated reasoning or maybe simply wanting people to engage, and figuring that occasionally pretending they are honest interlocutors to garner the illusion of being reasonable...

Interesting. Didn't you play this game a few weeks ago? "I'm losing faith in Trump" , followed by people engaging in good faith, followed by you saying " I refuse to actually think about what is being said", followed by, "Good news, I'm firmly back on the Trump train." That was you right? So...

Can you state what metrics you use to asses standard of living?

If you want to argue that Stalin was absolutely ruthless you won't get an argument. If you want to argue he was stupid enough to purposefully degrade his combat power for no apparent reason, you'll get some serious blowback.

Not really, Stalin ordered the units to stand fast. The retreating part was well... more of a rout. A rout that cost more than a few generals their lives. This I doubt to. I personally think their deployment was more motivated by a desire to claim just conquered territory by the expediency of...

Maybe because they didn’t send anyone. That’s exactly the assumption I’m questioning. The term “FBI informant” gets thrown around as if it automatically means the FBI deployed operatives into the crowd with some coordinated purpose. An informant is just someone who provides information to...

My contention is that “FBI informant” is such a vague term it’s almost meaningless without context. It doesn’t tell you what they informed on, when, or how significant that relationship even was. Nor does being an informant magically make someone law enforcement or mean they were acting on...

Let me ask you a question. What is an FBI informant you think? And why do you presume that when someone has informed for the FBI they're somehow responsible for law enforcement? Or can't be firmly entrenched as part of the MAGA movement? I always wondered.

You seem to be arguing against a very specific claim: that Stalin completely collapsed, stopped governing, and withdrew from leadership in the opening days. Fine. The visitor logs and meetings suggest the reality was more complicated than Khrushchev's later account. I'll grant that. But...

I'm sorry, but the idea that Stalin deliberately engineered an elaborate trap to lure Germany deep into the Soviet Union is ridiculous. Not because leaders never trade territory or manpower for strategic advantage. They obviously do. The problem is that the historical record doesn't remotely...

It doesn't matter how many times you repeat it because you're switching between claims. You started by evaluating Lend-Lease. Then when people point out that evaluating 1941 is strange because the program barely existed, the claim becomes "Germany already lost in 1941 anyway." Fine, but that's...