Recent content by CatB

According to Heather Cox Richardson, ... but that's out of all the aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

I wouldn't have posted this if I thought any of these were scams. Prof Snyder has extensive connections in Ukraine and I don't believe he would have recommended any scams either. 501(c)3 status requires a certain amount of paperwork to verify/qualify (although that's not foolproof) Razom was...

Thanks to all of you who recommended Timothy Snyder's History of Ukraine class and substack. If you haven't seen it yet and want to be a force for good, this post has some excellent recommendations, four of which are US 501(c)3 so, great place to donate any TSLA profits you can spare through...

Richard Haass explained a different point of view on Ezra Klein podcast recently. He was of the opinion that Ukraine would not be able to win its objectives (going back to the 2014 boundaries prior to the illegal annexation of Crimea) militarily. He thought it would make more sense to hold...

IIRC, someone (or some aggregation of people) posted something to the effect of "do the math, if he gets paid, every share you have will be worth x times what it is now." Without diving into the details of his compensation package (which, tbh could have predicted Elon would only achieve those...

Or old man with a full diaper (runs for cover)

Yeah, that made my eyes roll back in my head too. But at least they attributed the data to the source. Brookings lost a few credibility points by not at least qualifying that with "alleged"

I hope this gift link works https://wapo.st/3wmKjfc Tl;dr some good charts and cautious optimism

I did explain what I meant. Putin removing his troops might end the fighting but unless Russia returns POWs and the civilians they stole, the war will not be over. Ukraine might stop at the border (and I would hope they would), but Russia will have to return POWs, stolen children and turn over...

But then the war crime trials would start. And the demands to repatriate the stolen children. Ending the fighting isn’t going to finish the war, imo.

Agree. Also consistent with Timothy Snyder's Lessons from "On Tyranny" (thanks to whoever in this thread reco'd his class): Do Not Obey in Advance I would think this advice should apply to nations who terrorize other nations, as well as to citizens who want to fight tyranny of their own...

https://www.camera.org/article/the-washington-post-ignores-the-facts-on-pappe/ https://newrepublic.com/article/85344/ilan-pappe-sloppy-dishonest-historian

I agree that no organization has impunity and is responsible for the actions of the individuals who belong to it. To what degree you push that limit is apparently where we disagree. You can make the same argument that investors shouldn't punish TSLA stock because they disagree with Elon...

So if you're getting stabbed in the hospital by the nurses, you wouldn't check out? I even looked up your video of the "Israeli children singing about genocide" and again, you cherrypick stuff out of context and miss the scale difference between "this is a fringe minority" (hence why the video...

If a hospital was hurting you, you would check out of the hospital. Organization is hurting the Gazans by supporting terrorism. Therefore stop funding them until they fix their problem.