Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘CAS’

The ruin caused by political orthodoxy

August 8, 2015

I’m completely apolitical. The bug in the system is humans. Voters and politicians make it impossible for me to care about politics. Although I vote, I do so with the same excitement that I feel when I take my cats to the vet to be treated for fleas. Some political philosophies are magnificent on paper,…

 

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Greatest deception operation confirmed?

July 29, 2015

Earlier I posted “The greatest deception operation in human history?” It asked if the Iranian nuclear deal was actually a plan by the P5+1 nations to trigger a war in the Middle East that would eliminate the world’s main sponsor of international terrorism. My reasoning is twofold: 1) the deal is utterly indefensible, stupid, dishonest,…

 

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It’s about controlling your fear

July 27, 2015

Denial and self-delusion fascinate me. I just read an article I can’t recommend enough: “Captured ISIS Fighter: Joining Extremists in Syria Ruined My Life.” It confirms everything I thought about the caliber of people who join the Islamic State. This idiotic twenty-four-year-old Turk believed all the propaganda he saw, so he didn’t know that being…

 

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Without resolve, all is lost

May 18, 2015

I’m reading the reports on the fall of the key Iraqi city of Ramadi. If true, they’re absolutely horrifying. Not because this means the end of everything; the Islamic State will be defeated in time. What’s so awful is the apparent lack of resolve among even the best of Iraq’s armed forces. People think that…

 

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Now I’m “truther pondlife”!

July 26, 2014

My posts on Pallywood are making lots of people angry. Today an angry Irishman told me I’m “truther pondlife.” I’ve never actually heard the term “pondlife” used as an insult, and it’s funny to hear the “truther” being used to denigrate those who actually are telling the truth. The word originated in the “9/11 truth…

 

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