World Politics

Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.

pacifist

Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.

dictator

a ruler who is unconstrained by law; a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner -- vocabulary.com.

T/F: China is on the verge of an economic collapse

By request.

T/F: Europe is on the verge of an economic collapse

Priority request.

Nelson Mandela

Calibrated social impact of 505 (Truth vs. Falsehood, 2005).

apartheid

Priority request. Institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. An "authoritarian political culture... ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population" -- wikipedia.

rioting, agitating, protesting

News media and more than a few politicians don't seem to know the difference.

world peace

By request.

Great Replacement conspiracy theory (accuracy of)

"conspiracy theorists attribute recent demographic changes in Europe to intentional policies advanced by global and liberal elites (the 'replacists') from within the Government of France, the European Union, or the United Nations; they describe it as a 'genocide by substitution''' -- wikipedia.

What is the ideal calibration for a Head of State?

Spoiler alert: our nations' leaders are nowhere close to the ideal.

it is the destiny of tyranny to fall

Government oppression is ultimately unsustainable...

US pullout from Afghanistan

By request [August 2021]: "Many people are questioning the Biden administration's recent handling of the Afghanistan situation. It seems that the pullout was poorly executed."

"rules for thee but not for me"

A signature conceit of Marxism and radical political activism for "change." The narcissistic core of the ego assumes immunity from the rules, behavior, and consequences it imposes on others while projecting its own authoritarian posture on that which it would change.

addicted to politics

Request: Being addicted to politics is a recognized behavioral pattern where individuals become obsessively engaged with political news and partisan conflicts, driven by neurochemical rewards rather than civic duty -- Brave AI.

NATO

An intergovernmental military alliance between 28 European countries and 2 North American countries. Established in the aftermath of World War II, the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 -- wikipedia.