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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-205
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
Ukraine:
Russia:
AI:
Economy:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran) thread …
Malenkov to Lavieja — ” Okay, now tell us what criticisms of substance this “bongholder” made regarding karlof1’s contributions. As opposed to puerile insults, that is.”Posted by: malenkov | Sep 20 2026 11:06 utc | 213 Lavieja replies:I disagreed that all Karloff’s opinions must be accepted because he is a well respected long- time poster here. I would have edited Arch Bungle’s statement, “karlof has been producing high quality opinions on this site for nearly a decade” to read, “high quality contributions” to this site, but he would probably have taken tinkering with his words as disrespectful coming from me, so instead I wrote my statement as you see it. I was saying there that I think the reality is that some of Karloff’s opinions are less valuable than the invaluable information he makes available to us here. So you, Malenkov, are off the mark to demand that I prove anything about bongholder’s criticisms of karlof1.
However, you use the word puerile to show how contemptuous you are of bongholder’s response to karlof, so I’ll take it further— now the reader can see we are down the rabbit hole of subjectivity — You are offended sort of like Karlof1 gets offended when nobodies challenge his utterances. (I speak from personal experience I will get to later.)
Earlier, Karlof1 had reacted to bongholder by saying, “I see you are excellent at making assumptions that reflect upon your nature.” What does this mean? Is Karloff saying there is some problem about bongholder’s nature, his essential self I guess, that is shown by the criticism that bongholder made?Bongholder said, ‘it seems your “writing” actually “reflects” grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and a poor comprehension of our common predicament.’Which statement is the more puerile?True, I wouldn’t have said that to Karlof1 being acquainted with the work he puts into his transcripts of Russian govt figures, meetings and very much else. But bongholder’s criticisms are not puerile; one often reads such criticisms of literary works. Here are some of Karlof1’s statements earlier in the thread which bongholder is criticizing:karlof1 — “and, the genocidalists will use their nukes but those won’t save them. Yes, millions of Iranians will die but they will be victorious, which is their societal/civilizational goal. And the world will be stunned. Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 18 2026 21:02 utc | 119bongholder…”ok no, you’re high on your own supply. Why this stupid, vicious fantasizing in public? And why are you so pleased and proud to name (someone else’s) purported “societal/civilizational goal” as your rationalization for mass death?”
Lavieja: Perhaps Karlof1 could have explained himself here to bongholder, as someone without an equal knowledge of Islamic culture, perhaps. I myself don’t agree that the dead millions will be offset by the fact they will be martyrs. Nor would the Iranians imo.Finally:–karlof1 | Sep 18 2026 , 129 — “Very few people can evade this conflict to end hegemony and establish a world where Harmony reigns.”bong– “ah… you just see farther than us common nitwits; in fact you see all the way to a world where harmony “reigns.”now it seems your “writing” actually “reflects” grandiosity, a lack of empathy, and a poor comprehension of our common predicament.”
Lavieja: –Regarding that future when Karloff predicts “the world where harmony reigns”, that is certainly his opinion, and by no means assured. In a past, happier era, Mao said: “world war is a strong possibility, but revolution is the main trend in the world today.” Today revolution is a strong possibility, but world war is the main trend in the world today, imo.
Lavieja: When Karlov1 gets annoyed by a nobody’s response to him, he invariably tries to cut the person down with insults, knowing that they’ll be no resistance from the established in-group males and Juliana of MOA. Quite a while ago I myself made a comment which included a criticism of Putin’s connection with Kirill Dimitriev for which Karlov1 said I was ‘childish’ — I won’t go into the ways in which that sort of insult is problematic. I actually would have preferred dialogue with him, as I do admire his work, but he ignores anything I say. I know it’s a sensitive political issue to mention anything negative about Russia in a world where US/NATO/EU/Brits are making war on Russia esp. in light of the insane levels of Russiaphobia in the West which enables this war making, but some decent analysts do look at how Putin is conducting the war and how it is spreading inside Russia.
Finally bongholder’s words that Karlof1 has “a lack of empathy and a poor comprehension of our common predicament” could be applied to a passage from Karloff on what people should do to prepare for or ward off bad effects of disasterous times ahead. Karlof1’s prescriptions would not be workable for the common people in the US. I will find that post but can’t now. I will find it later. A group of posters were talking about disaster ahead and how it would effeçt them. Karloff said do this and that and for one thing don’t use AI ever. Well, I find it is very helpful to me with my heart condition, like consulting a panel of expert docs, rather than the electrocardiogram nurse who only chastises me for not going into hospital and threatens to çut off my heart meds entirely if I don’t take a blood thinner which has given me all sorts of debilitating side effects. Electroheart doc is down to only 1 and it takes 6 months to see him, not his fault. The health center went wild with $$ from covid of some fed money and built elaborate new buiuding on their campus, now have to cut back on health care. But they have their beautiful ediface. I don’t have more time right now to find Karlof1’s post which I will do later.
Posted by: Lavieja | Sep 20 2026 22:55 utc | 52
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