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I don't think anyone is saying that, least of all O'Reilly. Hard to think he would even have an opinion on iPhones. More importantly, people who think things are better today than before also don't agree that there have been decades of declining economic indicators.

That's good self-awareness from him.

That's not true at all. All of his opinions were subjective, so any modulation in his subjective evaluation is relevant to every other previously held. Your attempted claim is that he was objective at one point and then became subjective, but that has to be demonstrated. You seem to follow the...

Carl Sagan comes to mind.

Yes, China is an authoritarian regime. Flagrant human rights abuses and no political freedom for its citizens. If you want examples where China interfered, check out (North) Korea, Taiwan, Tibet, The Philippines. No, I don't have to agree that China's economic progress is beyond middling...

It could be subconscious on your part. We're also talking about present day. China is an authoritarian regime today, so any comment about how well they're doing should be done with that in mind. I don't see how you can give them credit for anything better than middling results in terms of how...

I did. The insistence on the absolute quantity of people isn't relevant in terms of assessing that China has done well. You just glossed over that. Feeling good about China also requires glossing over the regime's authoritarian nature, which is what's creepy. The US, or any other Western...

I have no idea what you're getting at.

Very creepy drooling over China. As if having a greater population than almost anyone is supposed to be a hindrance, and as if achieving similar results to the West 40 years behind is an achievement.

The war actually started when Russia invaded and took Crimea in 2014, and the new stage of the war in 2022 when they invaded again. The war consists of Russia invading, which is a criminal act that violates international laws. The only one to blame is Putin.

Tell that to Putin. The invasion is on his command, and the end of it would be as well.

If you want to criticize someone for making lives worse, you should point at Russia. They started the war, which is the root cause of the ensuing problems. Giving them a pass is stupid and sociopathic.

Sound like great ideas. Actually it's Russia who's intending to topple the Ukrainian government and would need an exit strategy or a way to operate a puppet regime continuously. Everyone supporting Ukraine just need the Russian offensive to collapse, no exit strategy required.

So incredibly limited that they went straight for the capital but failed. What does it even matter? An attack on part of a country is an attack on the entire country. It's a criminal war regardless, and should be punished.

So the second usage means that "I was nonplussed by statement X" and "I thought statement X was irrelevant and meaningless" are synonymous?

I don't get the "nonplussed" thing. I understand it to mean a slight flinch of confusion.

It's like the words "manipulation" and "deceit" stopped existing. I hate language fads.

I think that's completely wrong. There's a natural tension between "few resources" and "lots of people", because what enables lots of people in the first place are resources.

Much of the infrastructure and the "city hygiene" of Japan is very impressive, yet in spite of it there doesn't seem to be much evidence that life there is any better than any number of Western countries. It's like they have an incredible entrepreneurial spirit and engineering held back by very...