germany is doing the same. so i guess confidence isn’t being destroyed between those two. but is was talking about the american isolationist trump.

the worse political export the us has is the bi-party system. it does way more damage to any political system than the liberal capitalism. lobbying comes a close second.

it matters. one is an accelerationist the other is a conservative of the status quo. neither are going to improve anything but one will try his most to destroy any confidence.

unless you are a cockroach.

ships are huge and slow moving targets. with american intel and western weapons ukraine can deny the use of the crimea port to the russian navy.

a social science uses the scientific method, but experiments can’t really be replicated because of the moral and ethical implications of experimenting and deriving conclusions when studying humans and their interactions.

economy is the most egregious because theories are applied in real societies with, sometimes, disastrous results. economists are taken way to seriously for their scientific output. psychology comes a close second because of exactly the same problem. not because those “scientists” come up with theories or hypotheses but because they apply, and test, faulty and incomplete conclusions to the real world.

ps: i didn’t know about the formal sciences definition, but they do make sense.

edit: just to add my biggest pet peeve with economics is that economists derive conclusions from incomplete data and different schools of economy use different metrics for the same concept. one case is that a few years ago uk changed how they measured gdp so that the numbers looked better and nobody called them out, and that happened because everybody has different metrics for assessing gdp. its all made up and the numbers don’t matter.

its not a science. that is my point. all that comes from economists must be taken with a massive grain of salt. even if it confirms my biases.

economics can use the scientific method but is not nor will ever be a science.

“It wasn’t ruthlessly scientific.”

nothing about economics is scientific. economics is modern day astrology, it uses math but it all comes down to belief.

idf: we have investigated our actions and found no wrong doing. k, bye.

more like neutral conflicts. both russians and israeli are very emotionally involved in those conflicts, americans not so much…

can’t be radicalized if you are a dead body. those don’t fight back.

fr i’m a low thc enjoyer. i’ll take a few kilos off their hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes russia uses this as a justification for the attacks.

it will need a boycott and sanctions on the international level for israelis to change. netty is in power by a coalition of parties that gained voters after this. no consequences, and israelis won’t change their behaviour.

voting for a fascist is voting against future elections… just giving power to those who must never, ever, have it.

whoms’tsoever, pls.

yeah, the brigades were waiting for an opening. as they always are. that’s the only thing isreali gov. is correct about and the only way it failed israelis. the current political situation in israel is an opening created by bibi, so a terrible leader exposed israel flank to attack.

but you could be right. after all the last hot fifhting between hamas and israel was because a israeli politician forced is entry in the holy esplanade, surrounded by guards.

i hope they are, bourdains heaven could very well be hk hell.

hamas took the opportunity of israeli instability brought by bibi not wanting to go to jail. all of this is because of scum not wanting to go do a little jail time.