The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Understanding your opponent

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"My words are easy to understand
And my actions are easy to perform
Yet no other can understand or perform them.
My words have meaning; my actions have reason;
Yet these cannot be known and I cannot be known."

"Understanding" is a pretty complicated process. Hofstadter had a pretty good definition: Understanding is a homomorphy between two symbolic systems.

You can write a few 100s pages just on this topic.

Obama is an evil man

For evil to succeed, good men should do nothing.

Thanks, but no thanks. We won't give him a chance to ruin capitalism and democracy.

Obama is an evil man. Or at least his agenda is evil. Remember, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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