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  • Kinsella replied to the thread The New Official Republic of Ireland Football Thread.
    Oh I know that, I just didn’t know that he actually came close to declaring.
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The New Official Republic of Ireland Football Thread.
    :(
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    I’d say it is. It’s over now anyway. :+1:
  • Kinsella replied to the thread New Stadium | 100k Stadium to be built - design visualisation released.
    Here’s the opinion we all needed to hear…
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    No problem. It's for the best. :+1:
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    That's a good point, and an interesting one. Whilst domestically he isn't a Hitler, on the face of it a geopolitical parallel could be drawn for the reasons you've mentioned. The question I'd ask then is to what extent this feeling is latent in...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    No, he was a singular extremist compared to the other tyrants I mentioned; Stalin or Mussolini, and perhaps another other tyrant in modern history for that matter. I mentioned the Treaty because you brought up Hitler, and the point of mentioning...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    Hitler was a very singular extremist with a Messianic like hold on the German population. He very very different to a Stalin or a Mussolini. And when you say that the Treaty was not a factor in how he chose to wield his power…I’m not sure what...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    I’m going by what George Keenan and others have said, not Putin. ‘We’ can’t control Putin or any other Russian leader for that matter, the only thing we’re in control of (or should be in control of) is what we do.
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    The context can’t be removed from the analysis either as it fostered the extremism, and Hitler was voted in. And the Allies made sure not to repeat the mistake after WW2.
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    Yes, and the context of the discussion was what again before you brought him up? Yes, sometimes the protagonist can’t be overlooked. Even Hitler didn’t come to power in a vacuum though - he was voted in. Putin is a sinister tyrant but is he a...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    Ahh ok, you’re referring to AlfonsoAlves then? Well I’ll clarify what I meant to avoid any confusion. I’m referring the vast majority of people in contributing to the thread; where AlfonsoAlves is very much an anomaly and does have some...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    Perhaps you can provide examples of this shifting of the goalposts? This’ll sound arrogant but your syntax isn’t good there. Perhaps you can rephrase it? I mentioned the Treaty of Versailles because you brought up Hitler, and drew a parallel...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    Ahh…so you think I’m putting myself across a some sort of ‘enlightened scholar of history’? Ok :rolleyes: By contrast, your response to the whole notion of ‘Western’ contribution to the current situation seems to be that Putin has agency. As if...
  • Kinsella replied to the thread The Trump Presidency - Part 2.
    I compared them with the vast majority of people in this thread, not with the vast majority of the population in Ukraine. Did I ever claim such a thing? You’re attributing things to me which I’ve never said. It’s George Keenan and Jeffrey Sachs...
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