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he doesnt just exaggerate, he brings up everything under the sun that happened last week, last month, last year, his last term, some random thought that occurred to him last night while he was watching Everybody Loves Raymond... Hell with Merz...

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If that is so I'm sure he'll let us know. However, when a politician proclaims to know what "the American people want" they are engaging in just the behavior I've alluded to. We just need to remind ourselves of that periodically to avoid going...

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Because Trump exaggerates almost everything. He boasts. I've said this several times in similar threads. I trust Rubio's words on things like this. Why do you all of a sudden take Trump at his word? You think Trump is giving you the truth...

obviously he is talking about the people in power to make those decisions. That's like suggesting that when people say things like "Iran kills its own people by the thousands", they mean the people being killed are approving of themselves being...

Because Trump exaggerates almost everything. He boasts. I've said this several times in similar threads. I trust Rubio's words on things like this. Why do you all of a sudden take Trump at his word? You think Trump is giving you the truth...

Ascribing emotional states to entire countries is problematic at best. Doing so for societies as politically polarized as Israel or the US is particularly fraught. The fact that barely half of registered Republicans support the war in the most...

The issue may be the term 'geodesic' which is not widely used in general discourse. The issue here is that 'drone' covers devices weighing 10 kg and travelling at 40kph and those weighing a few hundred kg and travelling over 200kph. Only the...

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What if the US wanted to strike Iran and blaming it on Israel is the best way to justify it (to the rest of the world)? Both countries have been longing for reasons to take out the current regime. This seemed like the best opportunity to do that.

What do you doubt? That bullets follow ballistic courses, and lasers follow geodesic courses? For a laser beam, there would be a certain amount of atmospheric lensing, but that would be the same in both directions so should cancel out. The...

Members have touched on a number of the points covered in this article but the authors here pull the important ones together under a psychological framework that provides a more generalized explanation for people who shout, "Drone!" before...

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what NASA really isn't telling us