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Sen. Chris Van Hollen says White House has a "very low bar for what's acceptable" from Israel
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland tells "Face the Nation" that the Biden administration has set a "very low bar for what's acceptable" from Israel in a report on that country's use of U.S. weapons in the war against Hamas. "With respect to the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and the total restriction of delivery of humanitarian assistance since the beginning of the war - by not calling that out flatly and saying that there have been arbitrary restrictions put on it, I fear that...
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I'd say my highest 'value' is bargaining.
I am one of these people who even in the most dire circumstance would barter to give you my toe to save myself a finger or the other way around depending on whatever I think I need most.
There are not always winning strategies in life, sometimes it's about losing the better loss... Choosing the lesser evil.
This is so important to me and I believe that societies that constantly negotiate and bargain about policies and rights and operate on lesser evil basis are the better places to live in. The places in the world that operate on absolutes of any kind or even worse that bargain for the worse outcome are the least pleasant places to live on Earth.
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I'd say my highest 'value' is bargaining.
I am one of these people who even in the most dire circumstance would barter to give you my toe to save myself a finger or the other way around depending on whatever I think I need most.
There are not always winning strategies in life, sometimes it's about losing the better loss... Choosing the lesser evil.
This is so important to me and I believe that societies that constantly negotiate and bargain about policies and rights and operate on lesser evil basis are the better places to live in. The places in the world that operate on absolutes of any kind or even worse that bargain for the worse outcome are the least pleasant places to live on Earth.
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Scientific progress in social systems.
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It would likely take form as a technocracy, or form of governmental consensus.
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1. Free prosperous societies.
2. Non-free prosperous societies.
3. Free non-prosperous societies.
4. Non-free non-prosperous societies.
The focus on freedom is a result of my chaotic and individualistic nature: I've always hold a lot of views that the societies I've lived in didn't support; I'm simply not created for conformism. And the quality of life is what lets me live a long and healthy life, with a lot of comfortable tools at my disposal.
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I think the focus on individual freedoms would provide a sufficient protection from people trying to find loopholes in a libertarian system to perform malicious deeds. Regardless, my highest values are mostly used for evaluation and general recommendation; in the practical implementation of the system of governing, there will of course be exceptions and clarifications.
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