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originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Outlier13
No, it's not a lame excuse.
Sure it is.
You are unable to decipher the drop and instead of putting aside your ego and admitting you have no clue what it means you instead call it nonsensical.
Multiple meanings are given for many Q drops which means it is nonsensical to many people.
You are saying just because you don't believe in Q it does not equate to you being obsessed with Q right?
No, and that didn't even need deciphering.
Multiple meanings are given for many Q drops which means it is nonsensical to many people.
originally posted by: CanadianMason
a reply to: liveandlearn
Wow, that's a really interesting observation!
originally posted by: queenofswords
a reply to: CanadianMason
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I thought it was super odd that President Trump stopped mid sentence and pointedly drew attention to that woman. I doubt we will ever know exactly what that was all about.
Students of international relations are con-
cerned with the description, prediction, and
control of the external behavior of states,
particularly of their more violent types of
behavior such as intervention, hostilities,
and war. It is clear that mere description
of a diplomatic or military event has little
meaning by itself and that such an event
can neither be predicted nor controlled un-
less account is taken of the circumstances
which preceded it within each of the states
involved.
—
–James T. Russell and Quincy Wright,
“National Attitudes on the Far Eastern
Controversy” (1933, 555)
Using developments in noncooperative game theory and political economy modeling, studies of war and peace increasingly look within states at how domestic interests and institutions help shape international affairs. This evolution seems like a natural progression from macro-level accounts that linked system structure to conflict outcomes to the specification of their micro-foundations, exposing new insights and contextualizing some earlier ones in unanticipated ways.
A game-theoretic focus on strategic interaction that assumes that states are rational unitary actors shows that war, being costly, is always ex post inefficient (Fearon 1995). Political economy, game-theoretic models agree but add that war, although ex post inefficient in terms of citizen welfare, can be beneficial for leaders (Chiozza and Goemans 2004). Just consider Margaret Thatcher’s poor prospects of reelection as Britain’s prime minister before the Falklands/Malvinas War. Her popularity soared following the UK’s victory, which may have been instrumental to her reelection in 1983. We can only conjecture on what the electoral consequences would have been for Thatcher had she –cost-effectively–bought off Argentina’s generals and the Falklands’ shepherds rather than fight to defend Britain’s territorial claims.
If they went after ALL the voter fraud simultaneously, that might have tipped the opposition off (and given them time to respond). All the white hats had to do to stop the election from being stolen was tap the biggest “pressure point” counties in these “purple” states, and prevent the fraud from occurring in them. That would tilt those states in Trump’s favor, giving him the win.
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
A Mason? Your a mason who cares about corruption in our government? Masons are the greatest! The brothers that is. But you already know my feelings lol
originally posted by: CanadianMason
a reply to: dashen
And, to add to the mystery, isn't it a little bit ironic that you have here in your midst a bona fide Freemason, not only lurking but also commenting? Who'd 'o' thunk?
originally posted by: XAnarchistX
a reply to: FlyingFox
Nice shirt that was based on the Nazi flag...
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: FlyingFox
Wow..that was a YUGE venue! What's the capacity? TV doesn't show the full size from the inside.
originally posted by: CanadianMason
a reply to: CanadianMason
Well, I stand corrected.