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Ramrouser said:
23 better than 12 but it needs to be all 31 - in compliance.
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"Compliance" is probably reached by everyone based on the squishy language actually involved:

2014-2023: "... the guideline, created at a NATO summit in Wales in 2014, said members that had yet to reach 2% would “aim to move towards the 2% guideline within a decade with a view to meeting their NATO Capability Targets and filling NATO’s capability shortfalls.”

2024 this was updated to more of a commitment, albeit one with no deadline: "... NATO members agreed to firmer language related to the 2% target in 2023, formally declaring that “we make an enduring commitment to invest at least 2% of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually on defence.” Lagadec said that “arguably for the first time the Allies HAVE made a hard commitment to reaching 2% (indeed, to reaching at least 2%) rather than merely ‘trying to get there if possible.’” He noted, though, that even this stronger declaration “doesn’t provide a deadline” to hit 2%. ..."


I am confident that every NATO country could reasonably claim compliance (to the extent the concept is even applicable) with the "aim to move ... with a view to meet" standard. And now that there is an actual standard, I assume that the lack of a deadline will give plenty of "compliance" wiggle room to the nations who have yet to meet the target.
 
Ramrouser said:
He does and that's why the overwhelming majority of traditional Republicans voted for him (twice). Never Trumpers are a loud, but very small minority of Republicans. They're grossly overrepresented in legacy media.

Doesn't really matter if Art of the Deal was written with the help of a ghostwriter. Most celebrity books are written in such a manner.

I hate left wing fascism, i.e. Big Government liberals who enjoy ordering "little people" around and regulating all aspects of daily life. This revealed itself during COVID and Americans took notice.

As far as Greenlanders being "traumatized" by Trump's moves to acquire the Country, let's see how this plays out. You could be correct, if most Greenlanders don't want it to happen it won't happen. I don't think the US wants to be an occupying power over a hostile population. A quick Google search reveals that 99%+ of Greenland is white. However, I note there are 373 people living there from the Philippines and 208 from Thailand.
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1. The overwhelming majority of Republicans voted for him because of negative partisanship. And maybe his views are consonant with the awakened mobs. But the party platform of the GOP didn't change much from 1980-2000, and then only a little bit in 2000 and 2004. Trump's agenda has little in common with those platforms.

2. There is no such thing as left-wing fascism. How can you not know that? There can be left-wing authoritarianism (although many would say that authoritarianism is inherently anathema to the left because the left has been defined by anti-authoritarianism literally since the Enlightenment and the Soviets were not leftists but state capitalists), but not left-wing fascism. In basketball, being a "big man" isn't defined entirely by height. Sometimes guys who are 6'6" and strong can be better interior players than 6'10" and lean. But Muggsy Bogues could never be a big man. It doesn't even make sense.

3. 99% of Greenland is white? WTF are you even talking about? Google did not tell you that. Maybe what happened was that you googled to find out that 90%+ of Greenland is NON WHITE and you got confused?

4. The point wasn't that Art of The Deal was ghostwritten. It's that it was never about dealmaking at all. It wasn't even really about Trump. It's pretty much universally agreed that the character "Donald Trump" was an amalgam of business and political figures that mostly had only tenuous connections to Trump.
 
Ramrouser said:
I hate left wing fascism, i.e. Big Government liberals who enjoy ordering "little people" around and regulating all aspects of daily life. This revealed itself during COVID and Americans took notice.
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I would think that most patriotic Americans would have understood that we were in a once-in-a-century pandemic that was very lethal in the early stages. It ended up killing 1 million Americans. Is that not enough?. How bad would the death toll need be to get people to wake up? As a patriotic citizen, I donned a mask, and I got the vaccine. to try to protect not just myself, but my fellow American citizens as well. There are times, for example WWII, when American citizens have to forgo their need for individual freedom, just for a bit (the HORROR), to defend the public good. The COVID pandemic was one of those of times.
 
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Past oriented vs. future oriented. Two sides same coin.
ETA Just a totally different world view which I'm beginning to think is irreconcilable in our current culture. Hopefully we can at some point reset.
 
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Just like America rejected Maga in 2018 and 2020 and will again in 2026 and 2028. Mandate!
 
Ramrouser said:
You pick the label:

Left wing fascism
Left wing authoritarianism
Left wing statism
Left wing socialism.

It’s a THING and America rejects it.
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You're again revealing how little you know about . . . a shocking amount of things, actually.

Those four "labels" do not refer to the same "THING" and it's not even close. Fascism isn't exactly the opposite of socialism, but it's definitely not even the same sport. Authoritarianism is the exact opposite of what the left has ever done in the US. American leftism has, for the most part, been about freedom and equal rights. Ever since the 1960s, the left in America has been anti-institutionalist. There are no leftists down for authoritarianism, save possibly the now discredited Ibram Kendi. Socialist is an economic system that has nothing to do with fascism or authoritarianism, and statism isn't actually a thing at all.
 
Ramrouser said:
He does and that's why the overwhelming majority of traditional Republicans voted for him (twice). Never Trumpers are a loud, but very small minority of Republicans. They're grossly overrepresented in legacy media.

Doesn't really matter if Art of the Deal was written with the help of a ghostwriter. Most celebrity books are written in such a manner.

I hate left wing fascism, i.e. Big Government liberals who enjoy ordering "little people" around and regulating all aspects of daily life. This revealed itself during COVID and Americans took notice.

As far as Greenlanders being "traumatized" by Trump's moves to acquire the Country, let's see how this plays out. You could be correct, if most Greenlanders don't want it to happen it won't happen. I don't think the US wants to be an occupying power over a hostile population. A quick Google search reveals that 99%+ of Greenland is white. However, I note there are 373 people living there from the Philippines and 208 from Thailand.
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Just where did you get the figure that 99%+ of Greenland’s population is white?

Please link to the source.
nycfan said:


Shocking, I know.
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Fox News isn’t journalism; so, it’s no big deal.
 
Zoo_View said:
Just where did you get the figure that 99%+ of Greenland’s population is white?

Please link to the source.

Fox News isn’t journalism; so, it’s no big deal.
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I thought at first it was an attempt at wit, given that Greenland is mostly covered with ice. But apparently not.
 
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