Posts by Douglas Hayes2

George Robinson43 said:Here is some insight from Russian sources:
Poll: A whopping 71% of Russians believe they will win in Ukraine, with a massive majority backing the war.

Yesterday, Gallup released data from a study regarding the perception of the Russian "special military operation in Ukraine":
- The vast majority of Russians trust the Russian military (84%). In fact, one out of ten (10%) does not. Furthermore, 70% of Russian citizens surveyed believe there is a high probability that the military operation will be a success for the Russian troops.
- 71% of Russians support the decision to carry out the "special military operation" in Ukraine. One in five people (21%) quite strongly opposes the military action, while 8% remain unsure.

It is clear that the people stand behind the war. We need to push for even tougher sanctions.

Since they were the ones filling out the poll themselves, I’m not exactly surprised by those numbers. It seems pretty obvious that actual support is much lower in reality. This isn't Russia Mexico. 😁

What an absolute idiot. It’s honestly pathetic. You think you actually enjoy someone's music, and then you find out they’re out there supporting that kind of nonsense. I feel like that guy from Crying gama; I honestly feel like heading to the restroom just to throw up once I realize how much I was mistaken.

Then again, I suppose you can't entirely blame the kid. The media really does brainwash people. But at some point, he isn't a child anymore. I've been to plenty of their shows, but honestly, never again. I have zero tolerance for idiots like this.

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People are complaining about being suppressed and censored. If you want to call that a punishment, then fine, I guess that’s one way to look at it.

Robin Clark said:I have to say, this forum feels incredibly dated. We’re basically running on technology straight out of the early 2000s.

Would a more modern forum interface actually improve the quality of my posts here? I highly doubt a new layout would make me feel any less "suppressed" or "censored." Those issues aren't really about the server architecture or the specific app being used.

Bradley Nelson2 said:Why didn't you just phrase it like this: imagine being such a failure in life that you feel the need to sit on an American forum and spit venom at the actions of a president from a country you don't even live in.

So you actually live in America. My bad then. 😉

Bradley Nelson2 said:Over on the thread about the corona situation in the USA, people are posting political attacks against Trump that just aren't being deleted, archived, or censored.
And when you try to counter that political propaganda with actual facts, they just scrub you from the PDF with a partial ban, which is exactly what happened to me unfairly.
No insults, no trolling nothing like that.
They let some people get away with it, but not others.

Poor guy. So you're claiming they were targeting you heavily.

But how is it that you still have the most posts on this specific thread?! I guess you're not a troll after all.

Robert De Niro sends his regards

brightviper29 said:-Nazi Germany won WWII
-The USSR won the Cold War
-A massive Mexico was created
-Islamists spread across Europe

...and then we have people popping up out of nowhere just to spit on America and Trump... it's all over the place.

I don't think Trump is responsible for any of the things you're listing here.

God forbid anyone thinks America is just Trump.

Chris Williams said:Who exactly exists in a "normal" state within a single, unchanging emotional mood?

Even children, if we were to use their innocence as some kind of benchmark, aren't perpetually happy.

Moods are always in flux, I think.

Not to mention that the idea of a "normal" state seems questionable at best.

Obviously, nobody is happy all the time, just like nobody stays healthy indefinitely. Illness serves as an indicator of a physical (or spiritual) imbalance. In the same way, a lack of happiness indicates an underlying issue—some sort of misalignment with oneself, one's own needs, or the world at large.

It seems right that moods fluctuate, because happiness acts as a signal, showing whether you're on the right track during life's transitions. You can't pin happiness down, even if you tried to freeze a happy period of your life in place. Trying to fixate things isn't really the path to fulfillment. 🙂

Chris Williams said:Kant:

"The notion of happiness is so nebulous that although every man wishes to attain it, yet he can never convey accurately and distinctly what it is that he really wishes and wills "

Happiness is overrated, I suppose.

Because it is so overvalued, people tend to assume that happiness is the ultimate goal of life.

In its own right, happiness—much like any other fleeting emotional state—merely arrives and then departs.

I suspect that a life dedicated to the pursuit of being more or less happy at all times leads directly toward depression. Consumerist society is essentially built upon this infantile, self-indulgent need to bypass suffering and maintain a constant state of bliss through whatever we can buy and consume.

Most of our misery stems from that very impulse.

Furthermore, placing an emotion within a market context and attempting to quantify its worth—suggesting, for instance, that roughly $1667 per American household is sufficient to reach a ceiling of happiness beyond which nothing improves—seems highly questionable to me.

I suppose happiness is about as overrated as breathing. I don't see much point in philosophizing about respiration; you just breathe and move on with your life. However, if you happen to be living or working in an incredibly suffocating environment where you're actually gasping for air, then suddenly you start thinking quite a bit about breathing and fresh air.

It’s the same deal with happiness. It shouldn't be a goal; happiness is just a baseline state. But if you're lacking it, it tends to consume your focus. It's similar to health. You only really start obsessing over it when it's missing. I guess you can't really be "happier" than a standard level of contentment, just like you can't be "healthier" than simply being healthy.

The old-timers always used to say: if you aren't hungry and you aren't freezing, you're doing alright. It’s as simple as that.