On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 3:12:37 PM UTC+10, T wrote:
> On 9/11/23 06:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> > On 11/09/2023 12:13, Colin Bignell wrote:
> >> On 11/09/2023 03:36, rbowman wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:59:56 -0700, T wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 9/10/23 15:45, Commander Kinsey wrote:
> >>>>> They can fight to the end for all I care, as long
> >>>>> as they stop taking our taxes without our permission
> >>>>> to arm them.
> >>>>
> >>>> And the next time you Brits want us to send our children to die to
> >>>> protect you from the repercussions of some stupid thing you pull,
> >>>> I remember your words.
> >>>
> >>> Had the US sat out WWI arguably WWII would not have happened. Britain took a dog in the manger approach as the united Germany threatened to become an economic competitor. France joined in because they were still butt hurt after trying to put on their big boy pants in 1870 and getting their asses kicked.
> >>>
> >>> Had the US sat out WWII
> >>
> >> That might have been difficult to do, given that Germany declared war on the USA after their allies, Japan, attacked Pearl Harbour.
> >>
> > R Bowman is geopolitically and historically beyond ignorant.
>
> Oh give me a break.

You don't deserve one.

R. is probably the best source of historical information and analysis on this group. And he is damned well educated (classical sense). Plus he writes very well.

He's been well educated in a school system that is designed to inculcate the idea that the USA is always right.
Most people call that brain-washed. If you are recycling other peoples texts you do tend to produce prose that has been polished by repeated use,
> Because someone disagrees with you, does not make them ignorant.

Most of the people who disagree with me are ignorant. People who know less meet more well-informed disagreement

> But is does make those that do that particular form of name calling, closed minded and intolerant.

Being well-informed does make you look that way to the ill-informed, particularly to the ill-informed who are too ignorant to realise how ill-informed they are.
> Open discussions and information is necessary for a republic to survive. It is the antithesis of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

And you are objecting to a crucial ingredient of open discussion - pointing out when one of the debaters has got stuff wrong.

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Bill Sloman. Sydney