jakee
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“How can you possibly KNOW that as a fact?”
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So he only allows for the possibility that anyone else might be right in private. Here he never presents his point of view with the words ‘maybe’ or ‘I think’ or even ‘probably’. He never takes a backward step from his original post, no matter how stupid, and he never acknowledges that anyone else might have a valid point. He is at least as definite and as dogmatic in what he writes as anyone else here. But he assumes that he is a special and unique flower, and while he is capable of re-thinking things and keeping it a secret, no one else could possibly be doing that, because they’re not as good as him. Sound about right?
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You asked if the invented, intentionally awful sounding conspiracy theory version of 15 minute cities should be real? Why would you do that? What purpose does it serve?
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That they accidentally restrict civil liberties on an industrial scale when they try to rewrite some zoning laws? Pretty low, honestly.
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You thought the 15 minute travel restriction conspiracy theory was real. That’s undeniable. Here’s the thing, right: the travel restriction conspiracy theory was invented by people who hate the 15 minute planning concept and want to poison it in the public consciousness by inventing a version that sounds as horrible, restrictive and authoritarian as possible. So the question you asked was ‘hey, do people think this intentionally horrible sounding thing is a good idea?’
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Baaaahahahaha! What have you reevaluated here? You parroted a known conspiracy theory and refuse to admit that it’s a conspiracy theory. You literally posted an article saying you were wrong as proof that you were right, because government sources are absolutely untrustworthy. You have not given one single millimetre of ground despite knowing that your position is completely untenable - just as you refuse to give a millimetre on your insistence that Trump had a secret plan to do things completely differently than he’d agreed to do - because you had a Trump government source telling you so after the fact, and government sources are really trustworthy! Come on dude, we both know you see it. If there’s a week of this place let why not just admit it for once - you’ll feel so much better.
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Why do you think that government personnel are reliable sources? BTW, are you looking forward to the Trump administration’s massive drive for deregulation and cutback on government interference?
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I read it the way you wrote it, which was based on the assumption that 15 minute cities means restricting people’s travel. It doesn’t - that’s just a conspiracy theory you were obviously suckered by. A conspiracy theory propagated by people who believe that any effort to build a better world for normal people is a liberal communist plot.
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I don’t think you understand that a conspiracy theory and reality are not equal sides. I also don’t think you understand that asking you to judge yourself by your own standards doesn’t mean I accept those standards - it’s just asking you to apply a little intellectual honesty. And yes, obviously I know that’s asking too much but you never know, a Christmas miracle might happen.
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And apart from the finer details, there's nothing in the report that wasn't already widely known. Trump knew Gaetz was a regular John when he nominated him. Trump knew he was a junkie. Trump knew he preyed on high school girls. Trump knew he bragged about it in the workplace.
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Ah yes, the old 'my behaviour is your fault' gambit. Exactly the kind of personal responsibilty the new right is known for.
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You asked this question "Should you be fined if you go outside the guidelines?" Dude - the guidelines you were talking about don't exist. You didn't ask if the conspiracy theory was real, your question presupposed that the conspiracy theory version of a 15 minute city is what a 15 minute city is.
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Uh, yeah. I failed to consider you weren't talking about what a 15 minute city actually is because you obviously weren't talking about what a 15 minute city actually is. Come on dude, it's a real failure of yours to highlight that I never even considered that you might be discussing reality when you have already clarified that you are indeed discussing the conspiracy theory version. Is that how naive you were in insisting that Trump cabinet members must be telling you the truth about what Trump was doing? How naive you were in not being able to think of a single reason why an administration insider would lie to you? Is that how naive we're talking?
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The government could fine you for any damn thing you could imagine. But here's the thing, and I want you to concentrate real hard because you might just be capable of understanding this one, just because you've imagined it doesn't mean it's a real plan that someone has. I mean damn dude, only you could post an article saying 'no that's not what a 15 minute city is' as evidence that you're right, that is what a 15 minute city is.
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Ask me how I knew you were talking about the 15 minute city conspiracy theory, not the actual 15 minute city planning concept? Ah you don't need to ask - because it's you. It's always going to be the stupidest possible option with you.
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No, I mean you literally couldn't conceive it. You couldn't think of a single reason why a political operative wouldn't be telling the absolute truth about his own team. You get how closed minded that is - right? You don't even think it's a possibility that Trump did what he actually did - halt military operations and and airstrikes against the Taliban a year ahead of the withdrawal. You're so closed minded you're blaming that on the Trump hating media
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MAGA didn't.
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You think Trump didn't give the Taliban a year to plan for the withdrawal, didn't stop engaging them with US troops and didn't halt airstrikes against them, giving them the time and space to rebuild their strength? Who the hell told you that? Sure as hell not you. You haven't said your theory is plausible, you've been saying it's absolutely definitely true. This whole 'open minded' thing is just your get out when you're unable to defend your position anymore.
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Dude, you couldn't even conceive that a former Trump cabinet member who works for the Heritage Foundation could have a reason to embellish Trump's record! That's how closed minded you are
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The fundamental problem with the Afghan withdrawal was that the Taliban were told it would happen 18 months in advance, and were left alone to plan for that day and rebuild their strength to immediately take advantage of it. This fantasy that you and Jay have that Trump was working all the angles behind the scenes with a new secret double bluff plan... ridiculous! Trump agreed to stop fighting the Taliban, and did it. Trump stopped sending troops to support anti-Taliban missions, he stopped sending airstrikes to suppress Taliban commmanders and training facilities, and he did it in exchange for a pinky-swear promise that the Taliban wouldn't do exactly what they eventually did. This is the insurmountable problem with your version of events. The plan you say was 'a ruse' was already implemented. It was full on happening, exactly as it had been agreed.
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Should who be fined?
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Exactly - you have no idea what the secret Trump plan was, no idea whether it would have worked, but you're so closed minded you can't imagine even the tinest possibility that they were actually doing what they said they were doing at the time, and the plan really was to follow the agreement as Biden did.
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I don’t think you know what ‘motives’ means. Why did you say the disaster was a result of Biden not following Trump’s plan then? Not only do you not know what his plan was, you don’t know if it would have been any better. Yet you are absolutely certain that Biden’a failure was not doing what Trump wanted to do.
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And yet you think he had a master plan for the whole thing. Just not the plan he said in public, and not the plan that his Sec Def said afterwards was secretly the real plan… but definitely some kind of master plan! But again Mr open minded - what is the possibility that Trump was simply planning to do what his own agreement said the US would do, and Biden did continue on with that same plan?
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And yet here you are saying the catastrophe was that Biden wasn’t following Trump’s secret plan of… not withdrawing. So how was that going to go for you? Right, the plan was for everything to be sunshine and roses and for the Taliban to behave like reasonable grown up politicians. Of course that wasn’t in the plan, but any plan that didn’t involve that and also didn’t involve not withdrawing was a fantasy. So again, is Trump ever responsible for anything?
