If it aids in predicting things, then it could help. For example, if he’s mentally ill, then people can stop holding their breath that he’s going to suddenly reveal that he’s actually superintelligent and has been driving trollies the republican party deliberately (a theory I heard someone trot out recently). And in the scope of his own life, if he or his loved ones ever want to help him, then knowing if he’s mentally ill can steer them towards therapies that are more likely to be effective than, say, trying to debate him out of his current state.
I see how one would be tempted to ascribe that to colonialist mindsets, but there’s nothing specifically Western about it. It’s pretty much universal. In almost all other languages Japan isn’t called “Nihon,” Germany isn’t called “Deutschland,” Russia isn’t called “Россия,” and so on.
And “Myanmar” is Burma goddammit.
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The two are not mutually exclusive. Look at John Nash.
Not that I think a superintelligent Trump would be a good thing, regardless of whether he is mentally ill or not.
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Trump’s “response”:
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Wow. Projection much? (not that it’s a surprise; the way he acts really makes much more sense if you take into account both his zero-sum worldview and his apparent belief that everyone else also views life as a zero-sum).
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I see how one would be tempted to ascribe that to colonialist mindsets, but there’s nothing specifically Western about it. It’s pretty much universal. In almost all other languages Japan isn’t called “Nihon,” Germany isn’t called “Deutschland,” Russia isn’t called “Россия,” and so on.[/quote]
Germany is kind of a special case, since like the country the term is a recent one; other European countries just went with whichever Germanic tribe was most annoying to them.
As far as I can tell, non-Western countries do tend to be much better about place names. For example, the Japanese use doitsu for Germany (apparently learned from Dutch traders).
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all of them?
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Deutsche Nation (German nation) as addition to Holy Roman Empire was commonly used since the 15th century.
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Of all of his many, many, many lies, the one about the NFL is the most telling. He actually had somewhat of point, though an uninformed one. There are two debates schedule against NFL games, though the debate scheduled was set 18 months ago, by a bipartisan committee. He could have just left it at that, and a lot of people would have agreed with him. But he just couldn’t do it. He had to make up a phony letter from the NFL, despite the fact that it would be so easily proven to be false. He could not help himself from lying to make himself seem more important.
People who are basically truthful don’t have to continually say “Believe me when I say…”. That’s what (bad) compulsive liars do.
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I didn’t know that. Was this used internally by the individual nation-states, or was it something mainly imposed by some outside entity, like the Pope? Hmm, 15th century - so before the Reformation. Was this something that happened at the Diet of Worms?
Totally agree (in regard to contemporary factions). Using ‘right’ and ‘left’ in general terms to denote places on a scale of political values still seems relevant to me though, i.e. the Overton Window.
And they are afraid he will destabilize the stock market.
Oh and that part where he also advocates torture and deliberate targeting of civilians. Dude has said we need to chop off people’s heads. Because Isis chops off heads. And head chopping is the only way to respond/win.
And yet I’ve repeatedly heard the argument from rightwingers and the sorts of progressives who like to excuse/posture support for Trump that Trump is better than Hillary. Because Hillary is a hawk/warmonger. How is carpet bombing civilians not at least a little warmongery?
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How’s that any different from us calling him crazy? We’re supposed to be better than him.
afaik (not a historian, though) it was added to emphasize the extent of the empire all over the German language area, the more or less only common element of the holy roman empire (not a real state but more a loose confederation)
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I’m not a historian either, but I appreciate the excuse you gave me to say “Diet of Worms.”
(I know this is not a pun in German, but a worm diet isn’t really a joke in English either:
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Bipartisanship is for chumps.
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The presidential candidate is supposed to seem presidential. The vice presidential candidate is supposed to be the attack dog.
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I would rather trust someone who speaks his mind and will learn not to than
trust a pathological liar and someone that is already complicit in the
deaths of many people.
You’re going to have to be more specific. To whose deaths are you referring?
Do you really want to know? It’s all Bigfoot-UFO-Nessie-level Clinton bullshit from the '90s.
This is a gentleman who thinks Trump has the right ideas; he just needs to stop telling us about them all right away.
Even Santorum can’t keep a straight face talking about Trump:
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It could be that Trump emits a stream of self-aggrandising though non-grammatical fabrications whenever he opens his face-hole because prions are eating his brain. Alternatively, it could be that this is an acquired skill that the enthusiastic responses from his audiences have conditioned him to use. But I do not feel too bad about diagnosing dementia.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I didn’t like the sneering headline on this article, and nothing meaningful was added. The linked article probably had a point, but I was put off of it immediately. This way of thinking is genuinely counter-productive.
I can see it as unproductive, but counter-productive? It is hard to imagine that many people are sitting on the fence about Trump, only to decide “Oh, a bunch of spit-balling geeks on a website are pointing and laughing at the guy, so now I support him.”
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That would barely be a snack.
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