Watching events on unfold on X is heart wrenching. Considering what is a psyop and propaganda and what is real is also mind bending.
So many people involved, or not, are choosing sides. Neighboring countries ready to join. Turkish PM wants to help negotiate peace.
The issues between Israel and Palestine are layered, long standing, convoluted and have atrocities by both parties being committed over the past decades.
There are NO winners of a war especially like this.
I do not know a solution to such a complex issue that includes religion, land, atrocities etc. And gently suggest most of us don't either. Taking a firm stance on one side of the entire conflict is foolhardy. Here, it seems like Israel is the defensive party. But how they ended up here is complicated.
All I can do is pray for peace and cease fire so the atrocities against civilians stops and life is saved. I support any effort to negotiate this.
May God, if there is one, have mercy and kindness. 🙏
Thoughts and prayers are usually cringy... but not now. Humanity needs to rise above this. So hard to see this happening. 🙏 Calls for cease fire and peace are what's needed. ✌️
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Yeah. Ugh. Brutal to watch
What a naive post. A group of armed men take your wife and children from the supermarket, ferry them across the border in zip-ties as hostages, and a "firm" stance on either side shouldn't be taken. Is that something you'd tell the gunmen spitting on your child's naked corpse in the back of a pickup truck? "Look guys, I understand this is a complicated issue, and because of the past, this war crime is justified, maybe we can shake hands and negotiate. In the meantime, can you lower my daughter's bloody corpse? We're going to wanna bury her before the rot sets in. Thanks guys—careful don't let her fall. Alright that should do it. Thoughts and prayers. Good luck."
What a naive opinion.
How much about this geopolitical conflict are you referencing? Go back a few years and it's the opposite. Then a few years back and it's opposite of that. And the pattern continues.
Anyone thinking one party is innocent in the conflict as a whole is either ignorantly or willfully blind.
Atrocities on both sides that swings back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth.
I don't give a damn what happened last year, last decade, last century, or when your last whataboutism argument carried the full-backing of twitter. You haven't got a clue what you're trying to say, you just have a desire to be liked.
Exactly because action and reaction has no impact on human history. Keep drinking the coolaid regard
When you see evil, call it out. You don't need to do gymnastics, overthink, or try getting intellectual. There's no nuance to war crime, because war crime violates fundamental human rights. There's no justification for murdering a German family, shooting a rave of dancing kids, gunning down Thai tourists, running over American citizens, or kidnapping children because of what Israelis did at some point in the past. Complete pyrrhic victory by Hamas. and now what? What's the plan now? They had their terrorist fun, destroyed innocent lives while invoking god—"Allah Akbar"—and what now? Mohammad comes down on a cloud from Jannah? What idiots convinced them this attack would have any longterm benefit?
meh, what we watched was pure evil & videotaped war crimes. mom with the 2 twins was too heartbreaking to watch. u tryna justify any of that for any historical reason is some real bs. sick dude. war crimes don't justify war crimes. bunch of these people killed and kidnapped were not even Israeli lol! what ru talking about back and forth dude?
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My Twitter feed is curated and pretty eclectic. What's notable to me is that, from reading the feed, I really have no idea wtf is going on and who the villains are. All the major current events feel this way now. Or at least, they do on Twitter.
Note: I used a shorthand ("villains") which I normally hate, bc it papers over decades or even millennia of human action. It's useful to recognize the human condition is a mess. But in this case, when a bunch of people were slaughtered at a concert, there was a pretty direct act of villainy, and yet it's somehow possible to miss that in my feed. Surreal.
Great observation. Misinformation, disinformation, psy ops, propaganda, embellishment etc.
Dystopian.
Seconded
Prays will never stop wars.
Stop funding them. Stop supporting govs, stop paying taxes.
And use Bitcoin. That is how you stop wars.
We're trying Darth...
btw... that is not a war... is a false flag. Stop watching TV, is all lies.
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If we all understood this fully, we would all be in peace in an instant.
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I pray for the citizens
Godspeed
Same. 😥 Civilians caught in the middle.
Bitcoin fix this, send signal buying bitcoin...
Do tell how btc fixes this.
One short answer could be that wars are really fucking expensive. And if a government who wants to go to war has the ability to print money via FIAT, they will never run out of funds, thus long wars are able to exist.
If you have a finite bitcoin reserve though, it'll be a short war. And who wants to deplete their whole stash for a short war?
Wars are certainly expensive. An open question is what happens to a country that's on a hard money standard in a contest with a country that's not.
A country with the ability to borrow from its populace en masse and without consent will undoubtedly win in attrition against a country on a hard money standard...holding everything else constant.
That seems to me how it would play out, too. The counter-argument I can imagine is that the only way that a country in the modern world could get on a btc / hard money standard again would be if all the other countries also were. Put differently, maybe "all else equal" is not a reasonable axiom to assume, even for a thought experiment.
But the burden of proof -- or of really convincing argumentation -- needs to be on the people talking about a reality other than the one we're in now.
Good questions here. Saying "bitcoin fixes this" without any context or insight is moot.
Bitcoin fixes this because the funding of these conflicts would not be possible without fiat money from the government. https://www.ft.com/content/1a9f7e7e-7c43-11e7-9108-edda0bcbc928
the first example of this was ww1 and all wars since then have been a result of fake money
The Roman republic, in a time of health and outside of the periods of monetary debasement that bitcoiners talk endlessly about, was at war for more than a hundred years straight, vs different enemies in and out of the Italian peninsula.
In a later Imperial period, one of the prominent ways that sound money manifested in the world was that the armies conquered the Mediterranean and looted all the sound money they could get, which was most of it. The accounts of the later triumphs make good reading.
Bitcoin might achieve countervailing force against some social ills, but the idea that bitcoin fixes war is so trivially absurd that I'm not sure why I still care about pointing it out. Bitcoin hasn't fixed that, either.
unlike gold, bitcoin cannot be forcibly seized.
if you dont believe or dont get it, I dont have time to try to convince you. sorry
Bitcoin might only help prevent long big wars, which will not be affordable. Also rational people will have less reason to got to war.
But things like Hamas going into music festival and murder hudreds of unarmed innocent people, no, Bitcoin does not solve this. As these radicals aren't rational thinking.
you only see the news when 1 side dies
Yes, I haven't seen other side doing something like this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%27im_music_festival_massacre.
But they have good teachers - Russians do similar stuff in almost all wars.
lmfao go sign up for the military
I can't have opinion on wars without being in military? Or what? Or are you just stupid?
I'm afraid this is more of the beginning of increasing global conflict ... it certainly is if Dalio is right.
Oh no. Can you ELI5 the books main point(s)?
Dalio made an animated video summary of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8. I highly recommend the animated video summaries of all his books. I wrote the below summary before remembering the videos existed.
According to Dalio, who based this on a study of thousands of years of world orders and reserve currencies ...
We are somewhere around 4 & 5 based on world events I'd guess.
😮😮💨😰 thanks. If this is based on a pattern then we're in for some trouble.
Yeah. It's all happening
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Unfortunatelly, praying will not help with anything.
Spreading message of peace and hope is all I can do. And do it I shall.
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💗 Wish there was more we could do.
This prayers are very much needed
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Praying does not work.
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Yep. This is all I can do in this case.
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